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AIBU?

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Please answer a serious question.

153 replies

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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HunterBidensBurnerPhone · 22/12/2023 00:10

grumpycow1 · 21/12/2023 23:51

Sorry OP but it’s 2 here! But mainly because I only eat them in a bowl where they can lie flat and I don’t like them to overlap (so the milk makes them all soft) And I heat them up. So I’m the weirdo here really, not you… 😂

Exactly the same here. But with a massive salad.

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 22/12/2023 00:10

Wait, what? Weetabix with SALAD?

kittybiscuits · 22/12/2023 00:11

I'll have half a weetabix for my Christmas dinner and that will see me through to new year. I'll be full as an egg.

SkySecret · 22/12/2023 00:13

2, hot milk, sugar

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/12/2023 00:13

kittybiscuits · 22/12/2023 00:11

I'll have half a weetabix for my Christmas dinner and that will see me through to new year. I'll be full as an egg.

Do say you'll push the boat out and have half a thimble of low fat brandy cream with it instead of milk. It is Christmas after all! 🎅

PossumintheHouse · 22/12/2023 00:14

kittybiscuits · 22/12/2023 00:11

I'll have half a weetabix for my Christmas dinner and that will see me through to new year. I'll be full as an egg.

Fucking greed.

Cryingbutstilltrying · 22/12/2023 00:14

I remember a patient I was talking to about constipation. He ate 20 weetabix a day because he had been told they were good for him. Didn’t eat much else, it was a complicated sheltered living situation and he had learning difficulties, not much contact with other people. Don’t eat 20. I still feel sad for him 5 years on.
if you aren’t constipated, crack on!

Pyramintdreamer · 22/12/2023 00:15

Am I the only one who can't get past the idea of offering cereal to a visitor? Sounds so weird to me

pizzaHeart · 22/12/2023 00:16

ShittingPeugeot · 22/12/2023 00:07

Mixing cereals Sad

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Yes, he adds Kellogg’s special k because it’s what we usually have in the house. His reasoning: 2 Weetabix are not enough but more than 2 is too much and a bit boring so Kellogs go in.
I do 1.5 weetabix sometimes so another half goes to him.

Flamingogirl08 · 22/12/2023 00:16

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/12/2023 00:13

Do say you'll push the boat out and have half a thimble of low fat brandy cream with it instead of milk. It is Christmas after all! 🎅

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Alcohol?! No I can enjoy my Christmas without that poison and in all honesty maybe you should seek help for your addiction 😉

Tiamaria86 · 22/12/2023 00:17

Pyramintdreamer · 22/12/2023 00:15

Am I the only one who can't get past the idea of offering cereal to a visitor? Sounds so weird to me

Nope, madness!

LoisWilkersonslastnerve · 22/12/2023 00:17

Yanbu. I have two, but add half a sliced banana on top. I love weetabix.

justjuggling · 22/12/2023 00:18

3 with cold milk

MeinKraft · 22/12/2023 00:18

YABU for eating weetabix in the evening. Everyone knows cornflakes with ice cold milk is the discerning cereal connoisseurs choice for evening dining.

user65977 · 22/12/2023 00:23

2 here I thought that was the standard!

ChateauDuMont · 22/12/2023 00:25

I would only eat two at a push but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if you ate four or four hundred.

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 22/12/2023 00:26

I went through a very pleasant period of eating berries (strawberries or blueberries) in Greek yoghurt when I was living alone as a student - morning and evening. Breakfast food is fun and delicious and I’m always surprised eg that cafes stop serving it at midday or something. They’d get a lot of custom for me if they didn’t. Can you imagine waffles for dinner?

DietrichandDiMaggio · 22/12/2023 00:28

None, because Weetabix are disgusting, unless you put vast amounts of sugar on them to make them palatable.

SemperIdem · 22/12/2023 00:42

I’d have 2. The milk has to be warm as well. Cold weetabix is vomit inducing!!

Lilacanemone · 22/12/2023 00:52

Two. I’m a pig but It’s never occurred to me to have more than two.

Teapot13 · 22/12/2023 00:59

I’ve never tried Weetabix. Maybe someday.

mondaytosunday · 22/12/2023 01:01

Two - I'm greedy but more than two of those and just too much of the same thing!

Ohthatsfabulousdarling · 22/12/2023 02:43

You're definitely U.
Now I want ice cold milk with weetabix..and I don't have any weetabix in the house.
...and three for me. Four for any of the other grown ups in the house. I'm a tiny eater though. Weetabix are one of those slidy foods though that I can eat a fairly big portion of.

StarlightLady · 22/12/2023 02:47

l’ve always gone for 2.

Cheese and crackers for an evening snack for me though.

Fancycheese · 22/12/2023 04:48

zero is only acceptable portion size seeing as Weetabix are utterly vile.

Only psychopaths eat the recommended portion size of cereal surely..

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