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?

contain 5g of sugar per 30g serving but they also contain over 80% of your RDA of B1, B2, B6, Niacin, folic acid, B12, iron, vitamin D, and around 12% of a child's RDA of fibre

But those vitamins aren't part of the "food" they are fortified with vitamins so you may as well take a multivitamin and not have the sugar.

I give my DS4 shredders, weetabix, multigrain shapes as well as whole grain toasts or wraps

I would ask what the cereals are and then decide

[quote ElizabethBoland]@Peridotty and where do you buy these snacks that you bribe her with that don’t come in a box? Oh and stroller????!!! This is so try hard and fake it’s unreal[/quote]
What a nasty post. The OP is in the US where it’s usual to say “stroller”

On the apple sauce OP though it’s definitely better, easier and cheaper to make your own.

Haven’t read the full thread but got to the update that you’re in the US.

Cereal in the U.K. and cereal in the US are very different. I did not give my toddler US cereals - they generally had at least a third more sugar than they do in the U.K. (even if the same brand, like Cheerios) sometimes twice as much. Same with salt. My son was born there and we left when he was nearly 2, (so never had to deal with it with an older child or with more than one child) and he didn’t go to nursery, but I made my own pancakes and porridge for his breakfast. I would bring back snacks (Organix, Ella’s Kitchen, etc. for when I needed convenience) from the U.K. when visiting and family members would arrive with suitcases full of kid food (and McVitie’s and Cadbury’s!!) Even baby food often has sugar and salt added!

But those vitamins aren't part of the "food" they are fortified with vitamins so you may as well take a multivitamin and not have the sugar.

Multivitamins aren't quite as filling as food is though and don't contain the same amount of calories. As I explained in the rest of that post, if you have a child who isn't a good eater or who is limited in what they eat then the sugar content isn't great (although hardly horrific as part of a balanced diet seeing as up to 19g is fine) but at least they're also getting those vitamins alongside.

But those vitamins aren't part of the "food" they are fortified with vitamins so you may as well take a multivitamin and not have the sugar.

People need to actually eat though

How do people have time for these worries in real life? Everybody fed, nobody dead, that's my rule. Three kids and a full time job, there just isn't the headspace!

Well the difference between PFB treatment and everything else is notoriously big 😆

@JudesBiggestFan

How do people have time for these worries in real life? Everybody fed, nobody dead, that's my rule. Three kids and a full time job, there just isn't the headspace!

Same. Mind you my third child basically eats nothing, so I'd be delighted if she would even entertain shit-in-a-box cereal...

How do people have time for these worries in real life? Everybody fed, nobody dead, that's my rule. Three kids and a full time job, there just isn't the headspace!

Very similar to me and with a child with is a very restrictive eater I'm just glad if they eat.

@JudesBiggestFan

How do people have time for these worries in real life? Everybody fed, nobody dead, that's my rule. Three kids and a full time job, there just isn't the headspace!

Couldn’t agree more. Don’t sweat the small stuff.

how do you turn these post notifications off? we are all just talking to ourselves now as th OP hasnt been back since she started this

WTF are steel cut oats and why are they significant?

@bringincrazyback

WTF are steel cut oats and why are they significant?

They’re ordinary oats that cost more.

Haha, I figured.
Think that belongs in the 'pretentious things' thread that's running today 😄

And yet people who say they haven’t the headspace for these worries have time to post on mumsnet to say so.

Yeah saying someone is posting a fake thread is soooo nasty, except you would still call it a pushchair as your posting on a British forum and you are British. My comment was more towards the fact OP says nothing out of a box but “bribes her with snacks” it’s blatantly trying to post goady stuff, the disappearing OP act is a bit of a giveaway. Ticks all the boxes of a “posted for attention” post.

@ElizabethBoland I live in the USA therefore call it both a stroller. I never call it a pushchair though because my American husband would not understand! I just got used to calling it a stroller. Why can’t I use the word stroller anyway? I had my baby in the USA and stroller is the only word I’ve used here. I also say diaper and nappy interchangeably but more often say diaper.
And the snacks do come out of a packet. But they are organic and sugar free. They cost a lot though. £3 per bag. 0g sugar.

@ElizabethBoland
I’m a busy person I’m not always on my phone… I posted enough replies already. I have to look after my toddler and have a demanding line of work.

@TheKeatingFive I never started a crusade against weetabix. I don’t even have access to weetabix in the US. I was talking about American cereals like ‘wheat chex’

92% YABU. Loads of posts saying it, and you pick on the few saying you must be making it up… interesting

You need to get the titles changed to American cereal