To wonder who is buying chocolate cereal

[Blueyseviltwin]

Who om each is buying Lion bar and Oreo cereal? See also lucky charms, nesquick and coco pops
These aren't breakfast foods (or any sort of food). I literally cannot imagine anyone thinking it is a reasonable way of feeding children?

Bore off. Plenty of people here have said they give them for an occasional treat, i.e. Their kids eat healthily most of the time but just occasionally eg school breaks, christmas etc their parents like to see a wee smile on the face.
Would you be the misery guts doesn't let a kid ever have an occasional treat 🙄

My kids are allowed stuff like that on the once-a-year holiday for a week (so that's 7 of the 365 days) and their birthday. Someone call the diet police as obviously I'm killing them 🙄

You really can't imagine it?

I used to like having co co pops in the middle of the night when I was breastfeeding my first, as I was always starving and energy deprived, it gave me the boost I needed plus the milk for hydration! I was up multiple times a night for months on end, so when I think about my nightly co co pops back then it brings me a little smile at my little treat!

My children are allowed chocolate cereal on a weekend only - and they look forward to it all week!

Everything has its place - in moderation it's fine IMO. We all eat otherwise very healthily, and majority home cooked meals from scratch.

FYI my youngest gets coco pops once a week. His usual breakfast is pop tarts so it makes a nice wee change for him.

I was shocked to learn that most granola contains sugar and a lot of it. But there is a a “bio” brand that doesn’t

My favourite. I could take three bowls in one go.

What do you feed your children to start their day @Blueyseviltwin

can you still get them?

You can buy the Sainsbury’s chocolate cereal squares for 85 p . DS 23 likes them and so do I if I have ran out of ready oat mix . Also good for a quick chocolate fix if there is none!

Shift workers.
Good for a midnight sugar boost.

Yes in Sainsbury’s and Lidl.

Ugh didn’t even know they existed but spent a lot of time weening my daughter off Krave after she had some as an Easter treat one year at her aunts then refused to eat anything else! 🤦‍♀️

Cobblers.

No one thought coco pops were healthy in the 80s or 90s either.

You’re a gp so obviously bright and well educated so I’m really struggling to comprehend why you don’t understand why the majority of the population are not feeding their kids whole foods, nut butter & pulled pork in favour of quick cheap convenience foods.

I'm actually with you @BlueyseviltwinI can't believe the crap that people are happy to feed their kids. The worst thing I've seen is toddlers with pepperami snacks, probably one of the the worst, saltiest, most processed thing you can eat. Frankly feeding your kids chocolate cereal regularly is neglect.

Cocoa shreddies are amazing! We all love them, even shock horror, sometimes my 4 year old. For breakfast and everything.

I'll message my parents my parents and tell them they failed as parents because they gave me Coco pops for breakfast occasionally as a child.

Me! I buy all sorts of cereal. I buy chocolate, peanut butter, cinnamon, s’mores, Oreo’s the lot.
I buy it for my kids. They eat it, they enjoy it. They don’t have it every day but they can have it for breakfast whenever they want to. They are happy healthy, active kids.

What a judgy, snobby original post!

Me. It’s like fucking crack in our house.
we eat it like crisps or popcorn. Not cereal.

Neglect 🤣 You must have led a charmed life if you genuinely class this as neglect. If you spent a week working as a children's social worker you might just understand what neglect actually is.

Healthy adults I also judge a bit but if you have a normal bmi and an otherwise good diet then it's up to you.

And what about if you don't? What if, like me, you are an ENORMOUS FAT PERSON. Who else is it 'up to'? Do we lardarses have to apply for a special licence? I never eat cereal, but now I quite fancy pushing some handfuls of Coco Pops into my offensively obese cake hole just to piss off the skinny fascists.

DS gets one box of lucky charms for his birthday every year.

He's not loving them this time around. I'm hoping his palate is changing as he gets older (although he's still happy to eat his weight in Haribo and Oreos).

bloody love lucky charms, I do buy these every now and again for a treat and hide them from my kids 😂

Clearly plenty of people or they wouldn’t be on sale.