My DH gave our two year old breakfast this morning and

[Teegan89]

it was an assortment of random unhealthy snacks… 🤔 Yes, I appreciate he was in a rush but aibu to think is pretty bad? I mean how long does it take to throw some fruit and yogurt in a bowl. Give me strength 🙄

This. It's entirely different when the parent who always tries hard to make sure the kids have a balanced diet gives them chocolate pancakes or ice cream for breakfast once in a blue moon. My mother always used to give us any leftover cakes/biscuits/ice cream for breakfast on the last day of our holiday if we were staying somewhere, as it had to be eaten up or put away. Giving your kids treat food for breakfast 1 time out of 100 is fine. What's not fine is to give it to them 1 time out of 1 because you're lazy and you don't think feeding your kids is your job.

Yeah, but toast. Not biscuits and mini rolls.

To all the posters suggesting yogurt for breakfast please do a little research. Most yogurt is full of sugar with a tiny percentage of protein and lots of cows milk which humans shouldn't drink anyway. If you want protein for breakfast you're better off with a couple of boiled eggs and some bacon.

A lot of us eat greek yogurt

Nowhere did I say that biscuits are a decent breakfast.

What's wrong with rice krispies?

I hope he was looking after him while you worked, as he would would have had the demon child with a sugar overload.

Maybe: put what you want her to eat in the fridge the night before?
Put milk or yogurt in a plastic container in the fridge, put cereal in a plastic bowl in the fridge, or put fruit in a plastic bowl in the fridge.

Also, Set the table for her the night before with plastic utensils.

• That way he can just open the fridge, take it out & put it on the table.

I agree with justplodding.
It's bad but it's not the end of the world.

Wtaf. How on earth is this sane advice in any way?

infantilising in the extreme

It’s really difficult to detect the sarcasm on here. I came here from Facebook and all the comments there were very sympathetic and one of them was ‘a fed child is best’ or something like that. Something that you apply to babies and is more for bottle vs breast. The amount of comments saying it’s fine and at least he fed them is crazy.

This. Fruit isn't a suitable breakfast for a child either.

why dont you make an appointment with a nutritionist? Get a two week meal plan devised.

Most yogurt is full of sugar with a tiny percentage of protein and lots of cows milk which humans shouldn't drink anyway.

I don't think people need to 'do a bit of research' to know that flavoured yoghurts have lots of sugar in them. There are also plenty of natural yoghurts which don't. And humans have been drinking cows' milk for thousands of years, which is fine unless you are intolerant.

And Greek yoghurt is pretty high in protein and calcium.

Was this some sort of weird joke on his part? If not, he is deliberately making a bad job of it. Putting cereal (I know a lot of cereals aren't great but at least it's better than cake and biscuits) in a bowl and pouring milk on it isn't particularly arduous.

love he he’s not only fed a 2 year old a load of sugary processed crap, he’s piled the bowl high with a variety of crap. Double the quantity a tiny person needs

Did your husbands parents give him these sorts of foods for breakfast as a child? A lot of posters are coming across as judgemental without knowing this man's background.
I volunteered as a befriender for a child and her dad thought it was ok to give her 2 x syrup sponges for breakfast 😩. Maybe this is sadly more common than sone posters realise 😩.
I definitely agree having a meal plan would be helpful for him.

That's a terribly unhealthy & lazy breakfast, all it takes is a little organisations if you know you'll ne rushed in the morning, just pop some yogurt & fruit in a bowl, or overnight oats in the fridge ready for the morning. But even doing a little scrambled eg in the morning would take less than 5 mins to make. Its just pure laziness.

You must be joking 😂😂

Unfortunately they’re probably not. So many women on here think men are fine as long as you do all the planning and most of the work on their behalf. They genuinely think it makes for an equal partnership household. It’s quite scary how low the level is to have an ‘acceptable’ husband involved in household chores…

And if he cannot read, how will op making him a meal plan help?

if he can read, what’s stopping him from reading any of the many, many parenting books on feeding children?

@ConnieTucker

If he hasn't had the education/ upbringing to understand why making healthy food choices is important/ what food children need nutritionally, then I think it would be unlikely that he will suddenly have the drive to pick up a parenting cook book out of the blue as he will not understand why it is necessary.

I know that my local Home Start provide healthy eating /cooking support on a 1-1 basis to families who struggle for whatever reason with providing a nutritionally balanced diet for their children. Another local charity actually offers group classes for families in this situation. There may be something like in this in OPs local area, I would advise asking HV. I am actually a social worker and have worked with many families who have benefited from this support. Like I say, this really isn't as uncommon as Mumsnet mums seem to think. Which is sad, but it's reality.

Oh and if he can't read - menu plans can be made using symbols/ photos of meals. I have done this with adults that have learning/intellectual disabilities in my previous role as a support worker.

You're a great mum! How in the hell are you saying you're struggling with your weight 😆. You mostly feed C a lovely healthy vegan diet. J is just a bit of a lazy arse IMO. But C won't suffer from a one off unhealthy breakfast. Don't worry about it!

Do you know the OP?

Yep.