AIBU to worry what else I am getting wrong?

[Meatbadger]

On another thread regarding food intake for a child, quite a few posters were certain that cornflakes are not breakfast. Porridge or eggs: acceptable. Bowl of cornflakes: not on your nelly! Poor little mite will be starving by lunchtime!

My children regularly have cornflakes or Rice Krispies for breakfast....am I wrong in letting them continue to do so? Does anyone else think it’s a bit bonkers to declare breakfast cereal isn’t a proper breakfast?!

I think it's important to keep these things in perspective. Firstly, there is a massive variation in the amount of sugar and salt found in different cereals so it's not simply a question of "cereal is fine" or "cereal is evil". My DD (5) has Weetabix/shredded wheat with milk and half a sliced banana or a handful of blueberries on top, followed by a slice of toast with low sugar peanut butter before school and while it may not be the most nutritious breakfast in the world I don't think she's neglected either. I wish I had time to fanny about cooking eggs etc on a weekday morning but I have to leave for work by 7.30am so it's not going to happen.

OMG not the dreaded cereal.
It's shit in a box dontcha know

I could murder a bowl of Rice Krispies with gold top milk right now

MN makes me laugh about this. There's always someone who says 'cereal is not food!' It is food, as a PP pointed out it is fortified and usually accompanied by milk/fruit/whatever and it's a perfectly ok breakfast.

I could murder a bowl of Rice Krispies with gold top milk right now

Absolutely this^

That reminded me how my brother and I would fight over “the top of the milk” for our morning cereal.....

All cereals are not created equally though. Although I prefer porridge, Weetabix and plain Shreddies are fine and fairly filling. Compared to Rice Krispies which I find to be puffs of air. I could honestly eat a box and not feel full (and nope, I don't just mean one of the kiddies boxes).

Just to add, my mum spent all my teenage years trying to get me to eat breakfast, telling me it's the most important meal of the day. But I have never been able to eat in the morning and still can't. I feed my kids (cereal) for breakfast but never eat myself and happily go to work on an empty stomach. I can easily go to lunch without touching food and actually the nature of my job means lunch can be late. I also run marathons and I find it so hard to make myself eat in the morning before a long training run. I try and force a piece of toast down me but can run up to 20 miles on that.
That isn't braggy, it's just to say, we're all different. I don't need breakfast and my children, although I give them cereal, certainly don't seem to need a big breakfast. In fact, at a weekend if we're not out they often don't eat until 10am and do you know what? They're fine!

I saw white chocolate Coco Pops in Asda yesterday. I very nearly bought a box but they were £2.99.

Oooh, white chocolate coco pops, I'm having me some of those

Cornflakes and Rice Krispies don’t contain much sugar or salt and they’re fortified with a lot of vitamins. It’s all my child has eaten for 4 years, she won’t have anything else. She’s never starving and she’s thriving!

To clarify I mean all she’s eaten for breakfast...it’s not her only foodstuff.....

I think most of my generation grew up with a bowl of cornflakes, weetabix, shredded wheat or Rice Krispies for breakfast. If you were really, really lucky you occasionally had coco pops or sugar puffs.
There were fewer fat children and we all seemed to get through to lunchtime without endless ‘healthy’ snacks. I don’t recall anyone having snacks when we were at primary school. We didn’t have after school snacks as well as an evening meal either.

My ds eats dinner leftovers for breakfast. Lasagne, cottage pie, curry, you name it, he has it. Tomorrow his choices are soup or moussaka. Heck only knows how much pearl clutching that would cause on here but he will not eat traditional breakfast foods.

My dd hates having breakfast. I try to make her, even though I don't eat it myself! It's not worth it as she just doesn't like it, and only seems to want it when she's having a growth spurt.

Growing up I could not tell you what I had for breakfast but I am guessing it was cereal of some sort. Nothing then til packed lunch at lunchtime.
1 biscuit with a glass of milk when I got home from school then dinner around 5.30pm. Nothing after that at all.

My kids would eat 2/3 bowls of cereal before being full. Now I cap it at 1 and offer toast or fruit afterwards.

I love cornflakes. I'm sad that I've brushed my teeth already otherwise I'd be getting a bowl out.
Perfectly acceptable at any time of day or night.

In the 80s it was cornflakes and white toast every day for me.
I don't give my kids boxed breakfast cereals because they're starving again an hour later. They have porridge, eggs, sugar free muesli etc.
But they also eat a lot of other stuff which is crap by MN standards, so .

I eat crunchy nut cornflakes with non dairy yoghurt for breakfast five days a week and they fill me up. They taste really delicious too! My DD will pick at a few shreddies and an apple in the morning but hates breakfast and would rather go without.

I like porridge but it makes me really hungry a couple of hours after eating-much worse than if I’d had cereal or toast.

I think they're fine. Bowl of cornflakes with full fat milk keeps mine going for a while.

I find cereal fills me up more than porridge. With porridge I'm always starving again by 10 or so.