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?

You're worried about the sugar in shreddies but you put apple sauce on porridge. Not buying it OP

If you are worried about the sugar content of cereal, why are you adding apple sauce to the porridge?

We have weetabix every morning for breakfast. My children's nursery either did porridge or shreddedies / weetabix.

Such cereals are perfectly fine for breakfast.

This post is a bit PFB.

[quote Peridotty]@Betsyboo87 the hidden sugar and salt[/quote]
Ah ok I was just assuming they were going for plain cereals - Weetabix being the classic. I wouldn’t give mine anything with sugar or salt added either. We do breakfast at home so I’m not actually sure what ours have. If you’re happy to provide it then just continue.

@legalseagull- cross post!

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Good luck, OP.

Yes. I'm happy with my son having cereal at nursery. They offer a selection of cereals and he usually has something different each day of the week. Yesterday he had cornflakes, today he had porridge. Last week he had Weetabix and rice crispies.

I dont really understand your problem.

Youre happy.
Kid is happy.
Nursery is happy.

Noone on mumsnet feels shamed.

So....what?

I don't have an issue with cereal but I am intrigued about steel cut oats. What's the difference between these and regular oats?

All four of my DC have cereal most mornings, weekdays it's Weetabix/Shreddies/Rice Crispies but on weekends they're allowed Cookie Crisp, Frosties, and even Krave. It's just cereal and as part of an overall balanced diet its fine.

I wouldn't be ok with sugary cereals.
We have porridge, weetabix, bran flakes or toast with berries for breakfast. Bran flakes do have some sugar but on the whole I think they're healthy.
I'm not hugely fussy about sugar and ds1 eats chocolate or biscuits a couple of times a week, ds2 has tried little licks of ice cream etc. But I just think a sugary breakfast is crap.

We do porridge (with honey/cinnamon/squished frozen fruit) there are some brands (kallo I think, rude health is another) which are literally puffed rice/oats/spelt nothing added whatsoever. It's just personal choice imo,each to their own but I don't give the dc cereal because we only have porridge in the house (allergies). I also make breakfast oat cups at weekends (basically baked overnight oats in a muffin shape for little hands)

Nurseries will have to adhere to strict guidelines about what they feed children so I wouldn't be worried about what they give.

But yanbu to WNN to provide your own stuff and be in control of your own child's diet.

1st child.Steel cut oats.
2nd child.Rice krispies.
3rd child.Coco pops.
4th child.Biffa Bin surprise.

Porridge falls under the cereal umbrella to me.
None of my babies could tolerate whole grain foods daily at that age, DS3 9 still can't. So no I wouldn't be happy with daily cereal.

Mind you, this is MN where cereal is the equivalent of shit in a box and if you give your DC a ham sandwich with grapes for lunch you'll have someone tell you grapes are basically sugar-filled diabetes timebombs and their lunch would be healthier without them.

Well I'm 50 and I grew up on cereal for breakfast most days and I'm perfectly healthy.

[quote Peridotty]@Betsyboo87 the hidden sugar and salt[/quote]
I don't know how to break it to you about apple sauce 😁

Fortified cereals are great. Many have added calcium, iron etc. Just ensure they're feeding a sugar free one.

Cereal is absolute junk. It's just empty simple carbohydrates. Multigrain hoops etc are just dressed up junk where parents with no idea about nutrition think it's whole grain so must be healthy.

Porridge, eggs, wholewheat toast, whole nut butters are much better options.

Apple sauce is absolutely full of sugar. Natural sugar but still the tooth rotting type of sugar you think you're cleverly avoiding in cereal

@MintyGreenDream

1st child.Steel cut oats. 2nd child.Rice krispies. 3rd child.Coco pops. 4th child.Biffa Bin surprise.

😂

Shreddies are not too bad. We have Weetabix, shredded wheat, oats, plain museli and an own brand corn flakes that are no added sugar.

I wouldn't like things like Cheerios or bran flakes on a regular basis. Coco pops to me are like a desert not a breakfast.

@Brieandcamembert

Cereal is absolute junk. It's just empty simple carbohydrates. Multigrain hoops etc are just dressed up junk where parents with no idea about nutrition think it's whole grain so must be healthy.

Porridge, eggs, wholewheat toast, whole nut butters are much better options.

Nurseries are unlikely to be able to offer any but butters though

I agree OP. I don’t eat highly processed food myself, and would certainly not therefore serve it to my DD either. And this isn’t PFB talk, but basic healthy eating