DH thinks rice crispies are a suitable breakfast

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That's it really, DH would happily send children (3&6) off to school/childminder on one bowl of rice crispies and a bit of fruit in the morning. I feel very strongly about filling kids tummies properly before school, and while i have no problem with a bowl of rice crispies now and then, that they are ultimately just puffs of air, and the children need something more nutritionally dense.

We argued about it properly this morning, and now he's in a huff about me undermining him. I just want to guage what others think - is a bowl of rice crispies and a bit of fruit enough to keep a child's energy levels up all morning?

That's more than I have most mornings and I'm breastfeeding a 6 month old! I normally just have cereal or toast and I manage to get through to lunch without anything else absolutely fine. There's a fine line between filling a child's tummy, and making them so full they're sluggish all morning

They should stop calling rice crispies cereal and market it as 'bowls of sugar and air', sales will go through the roof!

I'm craving bloody rice krispies now ffs!

I'll add granola and porridge to my approved list

Oooh, I wouldn't be so sure about granola. Quite highly processed, usually high fat sugar and salt. tsk, tsk.

Why do you think they put sugar in cereal if you actually can't taste it at all?

It's a preservative (so is salt) plus cooked sugar adds crunch. Hence granola.

The thing is (whisper it loud!) no food is perfect. Dried fruit is high in fibre, some vitamins and sugar, and very bad for teeth. You can eat high fibre cereals but then you need more sugar and salt to make them palatable. And no diet is perfect. Human beings evolved to survive and thrive on many different diets mostly with quite a lot of crap in them. That's why there are so many of us.

Trying to teach my step kids milk volume lol.

Ah, the lost art of stretching the cereal so you get the last spoon of both together...

It's better than nothing but personally I'd need to pair it with something like whole milk

So what do your children eat cereal with? Skimmed milk? Highly processed nut/grain liquids?

(This thread is so much fun!)

Ideally there should be no 'breakfast' as people should still be full from the night before.

And people are wondering why so many adults are going above the Holy Grail weight of 8 stone nowadays? Tsk.

Yes to be fair you're not wrong about the granola

also, why does anyone children included need a FULL belly?

It doesn’t have to be full to the top, it just to be satiated.

Why do people keep banging on about eggs for breakfast as though they are the holy grail? Some people can't eat eggs, some don't like them. They come out of a hen's hole. What has the hen been eating, that's what I want to know.

Proper lol'd at "portal to sin". I'm only ever referring to my duvet as that from now on.

only one of them needs to be satiated, and they can then describe the sensation to the other. that's more than enough.

Yes I like a bowl of rice crispies (well the much cheaper Lidl version) preferably with something like a peach chopped up on top or some berries, a banana or an apple. It's got me to 70 and still going so I don't think it is the devil's food.

On a different food thread yesterday oats were deemed not a great choice for breakfast! That was for an adult I think, not sure if they are acceptable for children.
(The op had overnight oats iirc and they apparently weren't the right thing to have for breakfast in MN land)

I never eat a large breakfast and didn’t as a child as too much food makes me sluggish and exhausted. Maybe the kids are the same?

@Fizbosshoes how bizarre! It’s one of the healthiest choices unless you have issues with grains.

The only acceptable MN breakfast is the steam wafting off the pan of eggs you're cooking for your DC. There should be more than enough nutrition from a good inhale of eggy steam and anyone who wants more than that is just a greedy pig who is singlehandedly crippling the NHS with their lack of control.

Rice Krispies and fruit is fine. Yes they're processed but assuming it's with full fat milk so that'll reduce the GI. Bit of protien wouldn't go a miss. If it's convenience he's looking for peanut butter on toast? Nuts n raisins?

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Rice crispies are rice. That's fine.
The Chinese and Japanese eat a lot of rice, and are notably clever energetic nations.

@Iam4eels - this is excellent advice - not only will you receive a great nutrition this way, you can also fully cleanse your pores at the same time

What grown adult would eat Rice Crispies for breakfast??

The same nutritionally informed grown adult who would eat Weetabix, Shreddies, porridge, Cornflakes, or any other CEREAL for breakfast.

I find visible pores denote a general lack of character. They don't have visible pores on The Continent.

It's not "intolerances" it's serious, hospital-confirmed milk, egg and nut allergies. And ASD can significantly impact a person's tolerance for food textures, smells and temperatures and while I hope we can help him with this over time, it will take some longer term work.

The (sort of) plus side of these twin issues is that at 4 years old DS has never tried chocolate, crisps, fruit juice or carbonated drinks because he's either allergic to them or doesn't like the smell or look of them. He's also ended up, quite by accident, stumbling into what is in effect a vegan diet made up primarily of fresh fruit, beans, bread, fortified soya milk, a few fresh/raw vegetables and yes, fortified cereal. I'm not so ignorant as to think processed food is just fine and dandy, nor too ignorant to read a food label and piece together a diet with as many of the required vitamins and minerals as possible with the limited options we have - hence we've got a bit of fortified cereal in his daily routine.

Rice Krispies aren't ideal but they're not poison either when you're in a pinch. Certainly not enough to be starting fights with your spouse over. Surely a large part of parenting is pragmatism and flexibility?????????

It's a breakfast ... Your husband has given them something from the cupboard that was presumably bought for the household?! My dad always did my breakfast ... no complaints. Some children don't even get breakfast. You are very lucky.

Wow I would not like to be your DH. My standards are way lower I would actually be happy if mine are something like that they have way worse and sometimes not even anything if they won’t eat it!