To think that 30g (or even 50g) cereal is not enough? (Lighthearted)

[Minttea2]

Suggested serving size of most cereals is 30g/50g. If I ate that little for breakfast I would be hungry again an hour later.

I normally have 100g! Am I just a pig??

I agree, but I am also overweight 😟

I have 30g or 40g if I’m quite hungry.

DH says that looks meagre but he can eat a whole box in one sitting.

YANBU. If that was coco pops i'd pretty much inhale it just from fumes escaping the packet.

This is why we have an obesity problem, lack of portion control. Top up with fruit.

YANBU. It's never enough.

I don’t consider this to be a lighthearted matter. I need about half a box or my stomach would be auto-digesting by 10am...

Yes fruit, the most unfilling item there is

Oh I see the lighthearted comment was directed towards unicorn et al

Cereal is rank
It never fills you up ,thats the point.

I'm having all bran: 40g is plenty!!!

I have weetabix or oatso simple. Anything else that needs weighing looks too little.

I've limited myself to this before when taking a healthy breakfast to work and it's crap. I could fit it into a small tupperwear box, it could never be called "a bowl of cereal"

This is Mumsnet. You're going to get plenty of people coming on to say "30g?! That's loads! I only have 20g then couldn't face another thing until my evening meal"

Agree. It’s hardly worth soiling crockery for 30g.

I have one weetabix at 8am. I them drink a cup of tea every hour until 12pm when I have lunch. No snack in between. Fills me up just fine.

@ShrinkWrap talking for everyone else.

This is why we have an obesity problem, lack of portion control

Well you have to look at this the other way round if 30g is not what most people would find filling for breakfast should manufacturers be allowed to use this as their suggested portion? Giving a false view of how healthy the cereal is.

It's not enough. Or enough calories. I am not overweight but eat 2 x proper bowlfuls of cereal in the morning. It is one of your 3 meals a day and you have all day to use the energy. So you should have lots!

Meh, they 'have' to say 30g because it's generally full of sugar & crap.

Life is pain.

If I eat cereal I feel hungrier by mid-morning than if I miss breakfast.

It wouldn't be enough for my children. My 6yr old can eat four weetabix.

Maybe their adverts shout have to show a 30g portion rather than a bowl

No it’s not I think they say that size to make the amount of calories seem acceptable.

It’s also not a particularly filling breakfast and due to the amount of sugar not particularly healthy.

I have half a weetabix at 7 and that lasts me until the next day. On the odd occasion it doesn’t I’d have a quarter of a grape. Never more. There’s SO much sugar in fruit you may as well inject donuts into your eyes than eat a full grape.

Most cereal is just sugar and should be classified as junk food. It's the food manufacturers' greatest triumph to convince people they need special ultra processed crap from a box for a particular meal.

Breakfast is just another meal. Treat it that way. I have whatever I like for breakfast. Often eggs in stock from but also bolognese, chicken or steak.