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AIBU?

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Please answer a serious question.

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ShittingPeugeot · 21/12/2023 23:36

Saw a friend tonight who came over, and when she did we both got a bit peckish but it was after dinner time. So I suggested a bowl of cereal (cereal is so much better in the evening) and our cereal of choice was weetabix.

She was nothing short of horrified at the amount of weetabix I placed in my bowl.
I had 4.. 4 weetabix. She had 2. IMO there's 3 mouthfuls to a whole individual weetabic..

I have been known to polish off 6, one time, but that was to replace an evening meal.
My toddler DD has 2 and she's more less than half the size of me! I've always had a pretty good metabolism and a very healthy weight etc.

Anyway, AIBU in having 4 weetabix. How many do you have?

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IncompleteSenten · 21/12/2023 23:37

I used to eat about 8.

Which is why I'm so fat, to be fair.

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 21/12/2023 23:37

I don’t eat weetabix but I think the suggested serving sizes for cereal are absurdly small.

Goldwakeme · 21/12/2023 23:38

I have 3 for breakfast but 2 for supper/ evening snack.

ChannelyourinnerElsa · 21/12/2023 23:38

2 is a portion here…. Maybe 3 if super hungry.

but weetabix and cereal in general is never ever eaten in the evening. Heathens!

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 21/12/2023 23:38

Yanbu. My bowls just take two and plenty of milk and I’m too lazy to get up for more. So I guess I’m a twozy. But I might Uber come the inertia. …

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 21/12/2023 23:39

@IncompleteSenten I was also going to write, then decided against it, that I once knew a man who ate literally a pound of muesli every morning. He had a strenuous physical job and couldn’t gain weight!

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ShittingPeugeot · 21/12/2023 23:39

IncompleteSenten · 21/12/2023 23:37

I used to eat about 8.

Which is why I'm so fat, to be fair.

I can totally see how eating 8 of the sodding things is doable. They're the best!

Now.. milk, warm or cold? I have to have as cold as can be milk to stop it going sloppy.

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Mumof2NDers · 21/12/2023 23:39

4 is fine. Your friend is a lightweight 😀

DrivingonIce · 21/12/2023 23:40

I get bored after 2. But I'm not much of a cereal fan.

theduchessofspork · 21/12/2023 23:40

I just had some and talked myself down to two

And then added some pecan granola pure sugar because I thought it looked a bit sad. You were right to have the extra OP

Mumof2NDers · 21/12/2023 23:40

ShittingPeugeot · 21/12/2023 23:39

I can totally see how eating 8 of the sodding things is doable. They're the best!

Now.. milk, warm or cold? I have to have as cold as can be milk to stop it going sloppy.

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Ice cold. Warm milk is vile

FacingTheWall · 21/12/2023 23:40
  1. And I’m not shy about eating huge portions of many things. Except salad, tiny portions only of salad.
Popquizzer · 21/12/2023 23:40

I eat one for breakfast. Plus a banana.

Rollonfriday22 · 21/12/2023 23:41

I’d assume two to be a portion.

But I cannot picture a situation where I’d offer and adult guest an evening snack of cereal!

Probably why I don’t often have guests.

StBrides · 21/12/2023 23:41

She was very rude to express such shock

Nottogetapenny · 21/12/2023 23:41

I have one Weetabix most times, very occasionally I will have two.

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ShittingPeugeot · 21/12/2023 23:42

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 21/12/2023 23:38

Yanbu. My bowls just take two and plenty of milk and I’m too lazy to get up for more. So I guess I’m a twozy. But I might Uber come the inertia. …

Just bring the box in with you where you settle to have your weetabix! And milk. Don't forget more milk.

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IfIHadAHeart · 21/12/2023 23:42

One.

IncompleteSenten · 21/12/2023 23:43

Ice cold.
And I used to put one Weetabix at a time into the milk so I'd eat it while it was crunchy. Then put another one in.

Or I'd crumble a couple into some lemon curd yoghurt and add some blueberries.

Aaaaand... that is why my left buttock has a different postcode to my right.

Babyroobs · 21/12/2023 23:43

Two would be a normal portion size for me or dh.

TulipTuesday · 21/12/2023 23:43

4?! I find them sooo filling, I like to just grate a small amount in to an egg cup, I might add a splash of oat milk if I’m feeling naughty.

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ShittingPeugeot · 21/12/2023 23:44

Rollonfriday22 · 21/12/2023 23:41

I’d assume two to be a portion.

But I cannot picture a situation where I’d offer and adult guest an evening snack of cereal!

Probably why I don’t often have guests.

She's actually my best friend and it was a very informal natter after a long day at work, very informal. She has a key to my place etc, which is why I didn't offer her anything posher. Grin

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IncompleteSenten · 21/12/2023 23:45

TulipTuesday · 21/12/2023 23:43

4?! I find them sooo filling, I like to just grate a small amount in to an egg cup, I might add a splash of oat milk if I’m feeling naughty.

🤣🤣🤣 teeny tiny. 👋

Flamingogirl08 · 21/12/2023 23:46

In general recommended portion sizes for cereal are tiny however if I was in somebody's house and we got peckish and they recommended weetabix I would be gutted. So YABU 😂

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ShittingPeugeot · 21/12/2023 23:46

TulipTuesday · 21/12/2023 23:43

4?! I find them sooo filling, I like to just grate a small amount in to an egg cup, I might add a splash of oat milk if I’m feeling naughty.

Don't hold back! 😂

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