Not to let my DD eat cereal?

[Peridotty]

My 16 month old goes to nursery 5 days a week. We pay for her breakfast, lunch and snack (included in the fee). However, I don’t like the thought of her eating cereal so we provide the breakfast and the snack. I don’t think it’s very healthy, even though it’s a wholewheat type cereal. I give her porridge made of steel cut oats instead with some applesauce. Would you be ok with feeding your kids cereal?

Don't be that mum.
If you're worried about sugar content why are you giving her apple sauce?
Your DD having cereal isn't a big deal. Try to let it go.

@Pigeonpocket
I think you're missing the point?

You do realise you can attend a 'top university' vastly overweight, with rotten teeth and an unhealthy relationship with food?

[quote brittleheadgirl]@Pigeonpocket
I think you're missing the point?

You do realise you can attend a 'top university' vastly overweight, with rotten teeth and an unhealthy relationship with food?

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That was my point.

Ah, I change my vote to YANBU now I know you live in the US - their cereals are bonkers, and even their bread has a ton of sugar in it! Really weird. I'd be shopping in Wholefoods too if I lived over there, and I'd certainly not be giving a 16-month-old American muffins (basically cake) for breakfast.

Apple puree with no added sugar is fine and a healthy thing to feed your DD, ignore the weird zero-sugar-even-in-fruit types. This kind of thread on MN always brings out those who are either competitive anti-sugar folk or who have genuinely disordered eating.

Corn Flakes are an ultra processed food. That said a 30g portion contains 2.5g of sugar which is 2% of our daily recommended consumption. Ironically in the UK and Ireland breakfast cereals are fortified with vitamins D, B complex and iron by law.

As part of a balanced and varied diet they have their place if you choose to eat them.

@Embroidery

Cereal, bread and carbs should be a major part of a balanced diet. Esp for a growing child. Cereal has no more salt and sugar than bread.

Other fashionable foods are full of sugar and salt eg maple syrup pancakes, hummous.

Huh? Since when did hummous have sugar in it? It is in no way comparable to maple syrup pancakes!!

Hang on, Boston? Are you the poster who was wondering about her child staying in a nursery where staff were being physically abusive to other children and filmed outside in public doing so?

Did you move her? And this is a concern about the new nursery?

Bread needs the sugar for the yeast to be activated. The yeast feeds on the sugar to rise the bread.

Also please stop being so easily influenced, by this thread, in real life I assume, and on other forums. Your opinions are valid and constantly following others this way and that, you'll make yourself mad.

Eat cereal. Eat applesauce. Eat bread. Be mentally well. 💐

First child?

My DD loves cocopops. She has marmite toast and some strawberries or a banana most days, but on the days she has cereal, it's cocopops

Her teeth are fine and she is actually at the lower end of the healthy weight for her age range. There are so many kids bigger than her in her class.

Mine has cereal pretty much every day and has done since about 15m old, we let her eat pretty much anything in moderation and as a result she's a super eater, no fussiness, no wanting something more because we've denied it.
As long as they have their teeth brushed and don't over do sweet stuff i don't see the big deal.
She's 5 now, today she had low sugar coco pops at home, at breakfast club she'll no doubt have some shredded wheat or whole grain cheerios.
Because she had coco pops today tomorrow it'll be cornflakes. She's fed and happy.

At 16 months old, she probably nicking the cereal off the other kids.

I'm sure the nursery love having to sort out an alternative breakfast for your precious child.

Dietician has advised me to eat weetabix daily so I think yabu

@SpareBread

My DD loves cocopops. She has marmite toast and some strawberries or a banana most days, but on the days she has cereal, it's cocopops

Her teeth are fine and she is actually at the lower end of the healthy weight for her age range. There are so many kids bigger than her in her class.

American food on the whole contains a whole load of others ingredients to stuff over here, cereal isn't like for like.

ah, totally thought YABU, then I saw where you are and totally agree with you. I've been shocked to discover just how different food standards are over there. Stick to your guns.

The steelcut oats and applesauce are healthier, if you have time in the mornings I can understand giving her that instead of cereal.

@Embroidery

Bread needs the sugar for the yeast to be activated. The yeast feeds on the sugar to rise the bread.

Also please stop being so easily influenced, by this thread, in real life I assume, and on other forums. Your opinions are valid and constantly following others this way and that, you'll make yourself mad.

Eat cereal. Eat applesauce. Eat bread. Be mentally well. 💐

No it doesn't. Processed, sliced bread sometimes needs added sugar but other bread doesn't. Flour is starch which breaks down into sugar to feed the yeast.

Look at the difference in ingredients between supermarket pitta bread in the UK and the US, for example, it's unnecessary.

@Shallwegoforawalk yes we moved her! she has been going since the start of the month. They use the same catering company so this is not a new concern.

@Anycolourwilldo I think it stems from me being a dentist and trying to protect the teeth and health of my DD. I also grew up below the bread line, ate lots of processed foods as a kid (apple pie for breakfast? Cocopops, weetos, sausage rolls), sometimes not even have money for breakfast and lunch. So maybe I am subconsciously trying to give my DD a better start in life.
I’m trying to avoid giving her cake, biscuits, chocolates and ice cream for as long as I can! She is just one, she doesn’t have to know yet.

@Maryann1975 I think applesauce in the US is different to apple sauce in the U.K.
The one here is made of only apples and is a purée. As far as I know people don’t use it as a topping for roast pork but they do eat it with a spoon as a healthy snack.

yes we moved her! she has been going since the start of the month

I see now where you are coming from OP. But it's not clear, are nursery refusing to give your DD the food you provide or not?

Sugar can be omitted from home made bread, as the flour when broken down will feed the yeast, but it takes it longer up get started than having the sugar as an extra food. Most of the sugar is consumed by the yeast so isn't there at the end (unless too much is added). Basically, if baking without it, then either you need to accept less rise or wait longer.

@mustlovegin They have no problems with serving her home food.
At the old nursery, we chose to start at 9.30am so we had more time in the mornings to prep the food and clean up but now we choose to start at 9am so a bit less time in the mornings.

@GTAlogic I have NO time to bake my own bread!! lol. It probably wouldn't even turn out well. I tried it myself in a bread maker, it was so dense.

They have no problems with serving her home food

That's great

I agree with OP. Even stuff like shreddies is ultra processed and spikes blood sugar fast. I wouldn't give it to my kids every day.

I'd prefer to see something like scrambled egg, porridge, that sort of thing. I imagine that is quite difficult to scale up to a childcare setting scenario without full on catering facilities though.