Refusing to buy certain cereals for my DC?

[Ricekrispie22]

Does anyone else refuse to buy Coco Pops, Krave, Cookie Crisp and such like for their DC on the principle that 11g of sugar (more than a Freddo) for breakfast is just wrong?

Meh. We’ve a cupboard full of shite cereal. Weekend cereal options can be Coco Pops if that’s what they fancy at 7.30 am when I’m having a lie in and they’re watching rubbish on TV. When they’re inevitably hungry an hour later I’ll be awake and ready to provide “proper” breakfast. And it gives them the illusion of choice and a sense of balance - weekends involve TV and sugary cereal, weekdays are for work and school and proper nutrition.

@MicroManaged the kids love them, and yes they are very simple just egg, oats spinach and some milk/almond milk into the blender, the kids think they're 'hulk' pancakes! 😂

They're really quick to do. 5 mins

I refused Krave for years and years but last week my DD said she would stop having pancakes and Nutella if I would let her try Krave. I couldn’t really argue with that so gave in. She has now found out she prefers cornflakes so it has been a win win really!

My DC are obsessed with Weetabix, so they ask for that every day, no matter what else there is in the cupboard! I offer yoghurt / toast etc but no, Weetabix is the one true love. We also have Aldi knock offs of Shreddies, Rice Crispies, Cheerios and Cornflakes in. Plus porridge oats as DH & I like to have porridge in the autumn / winter.

I do buy the multipacks of coco pops etc in the summer holidays and they can have what they like from the breakfast buffet on holiday. DC1 usually goes for Coco Pops every day and DC2 defaults to sausage, bacon and beans, but doesn't want them if offered at home!!

I told mine many years ago they could have the cereals but as they had more sugar than the cakes we would have to give those a miss - they choose the cake 🍰

Afternoon tea with cereal obviously didn’t appeal to them 😉

Give them choices you know they will pick the choice you want them to

We alternate between rice krispies, the mutligrain rice krispie shapes or cheerios
Or breakfast cake! (Porridge with honey)...it does look like cake mix while you are making it.

DS thinks chocolate is disgusting which us super handy in the healthy eating stakes!

As an adult I pretty much only eat Krave, Coco Pops or Weetabix with a tablespoon of sugar. In response to people who "don't understand why" it's because they taste nice and I like sugar. I don't particularly care that it's unhealthy and I grew up eating sugary cereal. I really can't get worked up about it.

As someone said it’s basically sweets for breakfast. I think breakfast choices have a lot to answer for when it comes to childhood obesity. Letting a kid have their whole recommended daily allowance of sugar in just their bowl of cereal (because many kids have way more than 30g of cereal) is frankly very bad nutrition and negligence.

The only cereals DS has are porridge, weetabix or cornflakes. He's only 2 though so doesn't know what the other cereals are.
My mum always refused to buy anything like that ditto fizzy drinks, crisps, sweets etc for the house. We could have these things if we were out or at parties but didn't routinely have them at home.

My children have been given cereal 5 days s week at nursery, where they are in full time childcare, so I have to give up control of that. It’s not a big deal

What do your children/you have for breakfast if they don’t have cereal

Most of the time DS has a bit of toast with fruit or sometimes I make banana pancakes (just made with banana, eggs & flour).

Only porridge weetabix or granola in the house.
Anything he wants if we’re away on holiday or visiting. He’ll inevitably be starving mid morning though if he does have sugary shit.

I don’t refuse to buy in on principle, I just don’t buy it because I wouldn’t really think to. I don’t eat cereal so doesn’t really occur to me to buy it for the DC. Not sure if they’d like it or not (I imagine they probably would like coco pops!).
We have eggs on toast, porridge or Greek yoghurt and fruit for breakfast usually.

Or pancakes.

Yes. Always.
But then my kids prefer fruit over chocolate and crisps, so I don't police the cereal.

We currently have coco pops in the house amongst about 5 other cereals etc. Kids have been choosing porridge with cinnamon or weetabix with banana. They will probably have coco pops about once a week so I can’t get worked up about it.
DD age 10 made herself avocado on toast with poached egg and bacon for breakfast this morning.
They love cakes and sweets and crisps but they also love fruit and olives and cheese. They seem to be able to self regulate and will often opt for the healthy options hence the reason we don’t restrict unhealthy foods as I feel that just makes them more irristable.

I on the other hand don’t seem to have such self restraint which is why I am fat!

I agree that they are rubbish and certainly not suitable for schooldays but we have had the variety packs on holiday and occasionally coco pops on same basis

We don't really buy it in my house either. I've not had cereal for breakfast for years (except porridge or readybrek).
I used to find I'd get a really Sharkey sugar low mid morning whenever I had any there's diabetes on both sides of my family so took that as a sign my body doesn't really react well to the carbs and sugar combination.
I've then never really bought it for my kids....even though they are allowed every other kind of sugar🤫 ( although try not to have sugary drinks in the house).
For breakfast mine have fruit and yoghurt, fruit and toast, dippy egg, pancakes or porridge. Sometimes a handful of almonds as well.
So in answer UANBU any your house and your kids so your rules.

Is all very well and true to say that sugary cereals are a bad idea, bad nutritionally etc, but what do you do if you have a child that hardly likes anything for breakfast. My 11 year old Son is like this and we have been round the houses with breakfast for the past 9 years. He doesn't like dairy, doesn't like toast and doesn't like cereal. The only thing that he will eat are Lidl chocolate muesli bars, a bacon sandwich or a blueberry muffin. We tend to go with the muesli bars, yes I know they are full of sugar but none of the options he will are really healthy. I know bacon and eggs would be good nutritionally but who wants all that mess in the morning. Also, we have less time now he is at High School so have to go with what will fit in as he needs to eat.

It's amazing they still make coco pops seeing as nobody seems to buy them . Having said that I don't but we do have wheetos (dc didn't like the cocopops). A pp mentioned everything in moderation and we are the same here so no banned food. Have dc from 6-18 and all healthy weights, no dental issues etc

For those who like Cheerios but worry about the sugar, let me share my trick. Find a huge mixing bowl. Tip one pack of ordinary Cheerios and one pack of the oat Cheerios (that taste of absolutely nothing) into the bowl and mix together thoroughly. Refill the Cheerios box with the mix. Reduces sugar by about half and they don’t seem to notice.... mine eat eggy bread or omelette most days, but also porridge, cornflakes, rice pops, weetabix (who doesn’t love making a weetabuddy...) and my sneakily reduced sugar Cheerios. Coco pops are for camping trips...

I don't know how old the DC of posters above are, but many healthy years of weetabix, porridge and banana all went to pieces when at 12 DS became a highly anxious food refusing teenager and Kraze is on the very small list of foods he now eats. Hopefully he will hate it in later life.

It's crap but in life sometimes you have to priorise your crap. And sometimes just want to share a treat.

Seriously, Kellogs/nestle et Al have Public Health England in their pockets. No cereal except minimal processed oats/muesli is at all healthy.

Dd is 17, she's been allowed to choose her own breakfast since she was about 5.
It's cereal, it's not harmful, coco pops might not be the best thing but so what.
Do you honestly only ever let your kids have the best foods ever at every meal?
Doubtful.

I don't think my kids have ever asked for sugary stuff because they don't really come grocery shopping with me. They get weetabix which they love, porridge which DS2 loves and Love Grown "Chocolate Cheerios" which are basically Cheerios made with beans instead of grain. 8/10 times DS2 will choose porridge but I still put sugar in it

I don't buy cereals generally because I don't eat them, so it doesn't really occur to me to. That being said, other than no soda (again because I don't drink it, not because of some moral stand against sugar), they help themselves to cereal bars, croissants etc. but surprisingly both of them self-regulate.

I buy them now and again. We always have a range of cereals on the go, sometimes the DC eat porridge, sometimes they eat sugary shite. No big deal.