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. I buy them as a weekend cereal. Happy to admit it. I put enough shit in my own body (although trying to stop) that it's taking the piss when your fat, forty year mother bangs on about it being too unhealthy to eat. I'd rather teach moderation than avoidance of food- then encourage good choices versus restriction hopefully means she doesn't end up in the same scenario.

@Pebblespony. My child defecates in the garden. On the recyclable cardboard. And the seeds plant a tree, which is nourished by the box. You buy your seeds? Pfft. Amateur

Father Christmas brings coco pops although I've had an early order for chocolate weetabix instead this year.

Oh dear, I think I'd run away if Father Christmas brought me that

As for 'negligence' for giving your child a bowl of Coco pops, don't be ridiculous

They can have whatever kind of cereal they want. Sometimes it’s Krave, sometimes it’s Bran Flakes.

I’m actually amazed at the “cereal for a Christmas present” idea.

I like the sounds of those spinach pancakes.

We don’t really have cereal because we as adults don’t really eat them so no reason to buy it for them. I do think it’s mostly crap in a box.

We do overnight oats as it’s quick in the morning and mine recently started to refuse porridge which was my staple. Eggs, yoghurt and fruit, brown toast, home made oat and nut bars. Their ‘treats’ are eggy bread, pancakes, Nutella on toast or honey on toast. I’m fine with those from time to time - I just tell them not every day. Baked porridge is another god one.

I have just avoided cereal although I grew up in weetabix more or less!

Mine always ate them. I don’t care about people judging lol.

I still have coco pops in the cupboard. I love them and so do my grandkids.

I usually do omelette, porridge, eggy bread, bacon muffins etc. Not for any concern about sugar but for the fact cereal is rubbish to fill them up and they’d be snacking by 10am. I was shown how to make scrambled egg in a cup in 2 minutes and I’ve never looked back

Cornflakes, Shreddies or Weetabix here...but I see those as nutritionally deficient too to be honest. Much prefer them to have porridge with quark, nuts, fruit.

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

But when they have the 2nd box, of 50/50, it all ends up the same fact that they ate 1 box of sugar cheerios & 1 box of oat cheerios. Its just been split in half.

You may as well do a week of sugar ones & a week of oat ones.

You may as well do a week of sugar ones & a week of oat ones

Yeah but I think the point is the oat ones don’t taste as nice as Cheerios - so mixing half and half keeps the sweet taste but is only half as bad for you, sugar wise.

We have overnight oats every day before school, with a tiny bit of chopped up 81% dark chocolate on top. I don't know when I became so middle class.

Shreddies, crispies, cornflakes or multigrain hoops here.
Own brands if we can.

Sometimes he has a little pot of raisins or blueberries he can put on top.

I do sneak a little sugar on to my weetabix

He has toast/brioche/croissant most days too.

But damn, I've just remembered it's Sunday and we sometimes have 'Sunday pancakes'

Hmm
Might see if he wants another breakfast in a bit .

Weetabix, rice crispies, shreddies here. But DD mostly asks for porridge - she's recently converted to "grown-up" porridge and, hurrah, she loves it! So I can make one pan for both of us. We save sugary cereals (and yoghurts etc) for holidays or illness.

There's nearly as much sugar in orange juice as there is in coke so breakfast foods generally are sugar mad. I justify the odd box of sugar puffs as no worse than orange juice or jam and my fussy kids often reject their evening meal so probably need a high calorie breakfast

Here the breakfast menu is either toast, yoghurt or porridge. Dh might Russell himself up a fry up at weekends or if I'm in a good mood I might do a fruit salad but no cereal here. And yes the high sugar content of those Chocolate cereals isn't good.

The trouble with child targeted breakfast cereals is that they advertise with a portion size of 35/45g which is often unrealistic, with most children and adults filling the bowl to 70-100g.

Frosties ‘portion size’ has 11g of sugar but in 100g it’s 37g. Which for comparison is more sugar than in a creme egg (26g).

Even cereals that are deemed healthier, you need to work out the sugar content based on the amount of cereal being eaten rather than the misleading portion size.

Lol people don’t half get their knickers in a twist over random things!

We buy a lot of cereals on the advice of the dietician my son was seeing. She told us that while some can have high amounts of sugar, they’re not actually that bad as they tend to add lots of extra vitamins and can be a good source of fibre.

I don’t buy the high sugar ones as they’re ridiculous but my son is a nightmare eater- no fish, veg, pasta, rice, very little meat, potatoes, salad. Its so hard but when she analysed his a diet she actually said he is probably getting a lot of what he needs from cereal.

My children love the low sugar (less than 5%) oat Cheerios, they’ve never had “normal” ones so to them these ARE Cheerios - always have them in the house, as well as porridge, cornflakes, Weetabix and Rice Krispies. I also refuse to buy any chocolatey / high in sugar cereals although I was brought up on the stuff when I was a kid.
They are allowed the odd bowl of crap on holidays though!

"Meh I tend to find banning anything makes it more desirable.

Everything in moderation is the rule in our house. Food wise obviously, I’m not talking about drugs or anything ridiculous."

I agree with this. I have both Cheerios and Crunchy Nut cornflakes in the cupboard - going stale as the little buggers hardly ever want them. DS usually wants Weetabix, and DD likes a boiled egg. But they could have them if they wanted to. Overall their diet is good, so I'm not going to worry too much about the occasional bowl of sugary cereal.

“We buy a lot of cereals on the advice of the dietician my son was seeing. She told us that while some can have high amounts of sugar, they’re not actually that bad as they tend to add lots of extra vitamins and can be a good source of fibre.”

It’s funny you should say that, I’ve previously tried to calculate how to get your full component of vits and minerals without supplementing anfbits actually pretty hard without using fortified cereal and one meal. Not surprised the dietician said that. Sugar isn’t the only thing that matters

As a child (older primary- some of secondary)
I had coco pops, occasionally lucky charms or ready break with a substantial as I insisted on doing the sprinkling helping of chocolate chips

Now I'm on more fruity based cereals (fruit shredded wheats anyone ?)

My daughter has Cheerios/ fruit / toast (not all at the same time)

She's not shown an inclination to the chocolaty brands yet but I'm liking the idea of holiday treats :)

Would never flame any one else's breakfast choices!

homemade porridge

What the hell is non homemade porridge? It’s just oats.

I love how everyone buys coco pops for holidays, I do this too.

We have rice crispies, porridge, cornflakes, weetabix, shreddies, Cheerios and bran flakes in our house. Sometimes eggs at a weekend.

Porridge and weetabix and mueslis are the only cereals we have. They eat eggs, toast, fruit, salmon etc too for brekkie. Our kids don’t even try to get anything else cos it’s a big fat no. And actually now don’t like anything too ‘sweet’ like coco pops anyway.
Stand firm, filling your kids with sugar stuffed crap is not the way forward...

OP I don't allow sugar packed cereals in our house.
Very occasionally as a treat I relent.

We have a mixture of cereals in the cupboard. Cornflakes, weetabix, cheerios and coco pops. Also toast or eggs are also available for breakfast. If he has coco pops I just make sure he has something else aswell to fill him up but he only has coco pops once a week he mainly chooses weetabix.

People that say they only buying coco pops for christmas are seriously unhinged and need to unclench a little lol