To wonder who is buying chocolate cereal

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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?

To answer the OP, it’ll be the rough, the obese, the pre-diabetics, the lazy, but mainly the poorly educated who think it’s normal to eat that kind of god awful ultra processed garbage.

I think there is a difference in having these cereals as an occasional treat, and never ever allowing your child to have any breakfast cereals at all, ever, as the OP has said.

Who are "the rough"?

The types who vape in shops and hospitals 🤗

Some of the granolas and mueslis have more sugar than you expect

In fact Italian children are some of the fattest in Europe. The diet they for breakfast is particularly bad having lived there for a bit!

'The rough' 🙄

DS has coco pops on a Friday as treat. No big deal 🤷🏼‍♀️

Leave me and my chocolate shells alone.

I’m not a breakfast person at all, but i love these 🤣

I do give my kids chocolate cereal too.. why not?! They will happily eat a bowl of weetabix too though and aren’t fussy eaters, both have a very balanced diet so I’m not worried about a few coco pops turning them into broccoli hating beige fanatics.

Who is buying? Transwomen, men, the woke, the poor, Lidil shoppers.

Italy has the second highest rate of childhood obesity in Europe.

some of my best memories as a child were staying over my grandmas house, and she would put on a lil buffet for breakfast; toast with all sorts of condiments.. but the main event was always the coco pops.. and she would always have a sugar shaker.. and sprinkle sugar on top of our coco pops!😆😆 never hurt us..

Lidl ?? I shop at Lidl and I've never seen any of those breakfast cereals there. Although I did notice their own brand cereals aren't even fortified 😔 so even worse nutritionally

Lots of people otherwise they wouldn’t still make them. Pull your judgy nose back out of your arse. Even more so by saying that people are uneducated here. So you’re a gp we should bow down to you because we’re all below you, how dare we feed our kids sugar sometimes! Oh no

So you regularly have conversations about children/health/development, you have 3 children with a range of needs, you're a GP, your wife's a teacher and you're judging people instead of really thinking about what might be lacking or have gone wrong in their lives, or what special needs their kids might have, that they're regularly feeding their children these cereals? You're just now noticing these cereals are being sold and making a rock solid link to childhood obesity? You see patients, day in and day out, presumably some obese and you've never had a good hard think about the factors that might be going into it?

I'd say if that's your approach, you must not be great at your jobs. If you think lack of understanding of diet is a problem, you're uniquely in a position to do something about it. Why don't you, as a GP, set up a programme in your surgery to educate your patients, give them the tools to make better choices, assuming they can afford to turn on their hobs to make porridge, keep fresh eggs, afford healthy whole grain bread, etc.

And I'm not coming from the perspective of someone who gave my kids that for breakfast, although they do occasionally like a bowl for dessert, among the many and varied home cooked and healthy foods they like and regularly consume as part of their balanced diets. I'm coming from the perspective of someone who understands that not everyone has the education, time, money or resources that I do, that I'm very fortunate in not having kids with special needs or dietary requirements, and also that moderation is possible in all things.

I'm not sure if I've said this before, but seriously, give your head a wobble.

Best answer! The same people who have net curtains I wonder.

Curious to know about your healthy options. My experience is that children who are deprived at home become a nightmare away from their parents trying to ask other people for sweets

When your children are old enough, they will binge on sugary treats and all the things they weren’t allowed as a child. I’ve seen it with friends of mine who had restricted diets growing up.

Not as bad as the kids who are taken to Greggs before school where I live. A cousin is a classroom assistant and sees the same (overweight) kids eating a pasty from a Greggs' bag most days.

Plus what the parents spend on a single day at Greggs - one parent has 3 kids, is more expensive than a box of cereal and some milk.

That's me.

Yep, same with anything else that is restricted! I remember at my DS's first birthday party, I put on YouTube on my TV for music. Could immediately tell which children had very restricted screen time at home (confirmed by their mother telling me). The others carried on playing together and enjoying the party, whereas those kids were glued to the screen.

Editing to add.. my son was the only 1 year old! All the other children ranged from 4 - 10.

It's not always the case.

Some kids are just drawn to it, matter how much time they have. My nephew would just be sat mesmerised, his sister would ignore it and crack on playing. My other niece has a more "obsessive" nature, when she was given unrestricted iPad time, she got more and more addicted.. sister had to remove it. Niece is the same with anything really, it's her personality.

This is me. My parents were meticulous about it. I’m now fat as fuck

I use traditional. 50g oats 225ml water. Micro 3 min. (I don't salt)
Mind you it's the eating that takes too long. I have to wait ages for it to cool

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Op is very judgy but I do agree that there's been a deterioration in general knowledge about nutrition and diet. I don't care at all about a few chocolate cereals for my children, because I know that overall DS' diet is excellent and DD's is good - but needs work (intolerances have led to fussiness and it's a bit more challenging with her). But, in fact, as she doesn't eat dairy, i'm currently researching what breakfast cereals are best in terms of calcium as part of the fortification process and will be encouraging her to have a post-school snack of cereal a few times a week. I ALSO add chia and flaxseeds to smoothies and, having just discovered that dried figs are an excellent source of calcium (thanks Chat GBT), I've put some on my shopping list to casually add to smoothies too!

But in chat with other people, I realie that there is a lack of knowledge about this and my slight obsession due to DD's issues is unusual.

Having said that, most of my DC's friends all appear to be very healthy, mostly a good weight (my DD is probably one of the few who tends towards being a bit overweight) and very active. I assume they all mostly eat healthily - DS tells me that my food is better than what he gets at friends houses... but that's because apparently a lot o fthem eat from the slow cooker which they all hate. But as an adult, I appreciate the value of a good slow cooker meal and suspect it's a good, easy, convenient way to make healthy and nutritious food for their families!