AIBU to give children cereal with no milk?!

[Janus]

All but one of my children hates milk (I do too so maybe it’s my fault?!).
So the eldest 2 fix their own breakfast - toast/fruit/fry up etc. The youngest generally has some sort of toast and fruit. My girl likes cereal (a multi grain type) but just wants to eat it from the bowl with no milk. For some reason this just feels wrong so we generally get something else. The odd time i just let her but somehow it doesn’t feel like she’s eating a proper breakfast! Should I just let it go or stick to just once in a while or just stop all together?!

do you non milkers able to have it in tea or coffee?

I don't like milk or anything else dairy, so no cheese, no yogurts, no cream, no butter, no creamy sauces.

I've always eaten cereal dry, people think I'm weird but it doesn't matter what they think, I get told I'm strange too for eating sandwiches without butter

kateandme

No, I drink my coffee black, don't drink tea at all, but if If I did I'd take it without milk.

Just cannot stand milk!

Of all the unreasonable things a parent can do, this sits pretty low down. My kids don't like milk with their cereal, never thought to question my reasonableness over it

I have a bowl of dry cornflakes most nights before I go to bed!

Will she eat yoghurt?

My DH loves cereal and yoghurt

Perfectly reasonable to eat dry cereal.

Yoghurt also an option she might like to try (I vastly prefer yoghurt with cereal to milk with cereal), but dry is fine. Honestly!

DS always had cereal without milk.

Even Weetabix.

Soggy cereal activates my gag reaction. Not a nice way to start the day.

I always hated milk anyway... it turns out I have a low tolerance so can manage some restricted dairy, but milk will get me scuttling off to the toilet.

Oat milk is nice and I can cope with a small splash of it and scoffing the cereal very quickly before it goes soggy.

(Can't stand tea or coffee anyway, so that's a non-issue)

I let DS eat his cereal dry. He had CMPA in infancy and has never developed a taste for cows milk and is very sensory about his food anyway.

Soggy cereal is horrible. DD prefers her cereal dry and that's fine with me!

Milk is gross but cereal with ice cream is delicious (I guess not for breakfast though).

Weetbix (weetabix in England) is nice with butter and honey and eaten as a slice.

If they don't like it with milk yanbu!

My son sometimes likes sometimes not. If you were denying them milk that would be another matter!

Yoghurt on cereal is nice (but not of intolerant clearly!)

Yes it’s fine, my kids both have cereal with no milk as one has a milk allergy and the other likes to copy!

Yoghurt is even more evil than milk!
I can manage a small amount of milky or creamy food. I can not stand yoghurt. It turns my stomach.

And I dont drink tea or coffee (or hot chocolate).

My husband ate cereal with no milk, just dry and my son had a friend who ate it with orange juice on it!

I’d let it go. It’s her preference, and she’s having breakfast. No big deal IMO

I always ate cereal with no milk - dry

One of my kids also eats cereal with no milk, another one drowns his cereal in milk

I don't get why having toast for breakfast would be considered any more nutritious than dry cereal, surely they're both just carb based breakfasts?

I hate milk, my dad isn't too keen either. My DDis younger than yours and she has cereal every morning without milk, she won't eat it if it has milk on it.

DD has cereal with yoghurt because it doesn't go soggy so easily. She hates milk.

I eat cereal without milk because I think it tastes better

Oh thank you all so much! I don’t know why but I assumed it was not really a great start to the day but I feel much better now. She hates yogurt as well so can’t put that on but I am happy to let her just have dry cereal now if that’s how she likes it! It is no different from toast I suppose except I give fruit with that but I’ll put fruit next to the cereal too.
Many thanks!

I think cereal is a pretty rubbish breakfast anyway, tbh, so I'd be encouraging them to eat something with more protein in it. If she must have cereal, full fat natural yoghurt might be good with it.

Haven’t RTFT so apologies if further details have been given.

My situation was slightly different as my youngest did like milk but she didn’t like wet cereal. So I used to let her eat the cereal dry and drink her milk instead. In your situation I’d be perfectly fine with it as long as there was another way to ensure she was getting some calcium every day. Does she like yogurt? If so I’d let her have a yogurt and the cereal separately.