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?

Seems a bit of an odd point - why are ALL cereals/granolas a shite breakfast?

Having said that, I make my own granola. It's delicious, extremely nutritious (current batch has oats, chia seeds, linseeds, peanuts, almonds, walnuts, pecans and sesame seeds) and UPF free. But I'm not kidding myself that it's super low calorie. I don't add sugar but I do add honey so there is also sugar in some form.

My Kids have not yet discovered chocolate cereal but I do buy them Aldi's dinosaur shapes haha!
Although we eat cereal in a "Combinations" kind of way in this house, so this morning my son had weetabix topped with dinos!

Yes - I used to let DS "flavour" his weetabix with coco pops. I figured it had to be at least a bit more nutritious than the way we did when we were children - with a heaped spoon of sugar!

Well - in the 90s they were a standard breakfast for me (with a pop tart on the side!) I definitely wouldnt let my children eat them daily - maybe a weekend treat. Same as pancakes/ pastries!

I am really into nutrition and healthy eating but still buy them for my children and myself : p

As a breakfast treat or a snack why not?

What I want to know is who the frig has the time to complain about how other parents choose to feed their kids. At least they're having breakfast whatever it happens to be. Don't be so judgemental

PS...off to Lidl to buy chocolate cereal...judge me 🤣🤣

Look at the ingredients. Supermarket granola has a shocking amount of sugar to make it palatable.

So unbelievably wasteful. Why not mix just a few with plainer cereal instead to use them up?

perfect parent brigade 🚨

Would starve to death under the OP I think.

My son who is 12 and does a lot of sport has a bowl of fruit and yogurt in the morning followed by a small portion of coco pops or chocolate shreddies. He then has healthy meals for the rest of the day. I see nothing wrong with this, he is healthy and a healthy weight, no problems with his teeth either. No complaints from school, he concentrates and gets good marks.

And what exactly is wrong with trying to be a good parent, and not feed your kids crap for breakfast?! Sounds like you're projecting.

You do you, and the rest of us will do us. Not your business!

Nothing. But there is something wrong with judging what someone else feeds their children, especially without having walked a mile in their shoes.

Particularly someone who claims to be a GP. What else would you want your GP judging you for?

Because they were insanely sweet and I didn't want to eat them. No one else wanted to eat them (I didn't offer them to my toddler because I considered them an inappropriate food since we are in the fortunate position of being able to afford something healthier). It was during COVID so I could hardly have passed them on. Referring to chucking out a box of cereal that I didn't buy, couldn't give away, and didn't want to eat as 'so unbelievably wasteful' is so unbelievably ridiculous.

Ffs it’s me… have 5 kids. I work full time and I’m not on benefits before you get uppity about that too 😂

You're deluded if you think a GP won't judge people for feeding sugary crap to their children for breakfast. Of course they will! They care about peoples health. It's literally their job. Of course they will judge. And so they should. They wouldn't be doing their job very well if they didn't.

Coco pops....just bought a packet for Easter...my daughter loves them. We be returning to rice krispies when the packet is empty. You find most people buy a packet every so often if they got children

I'm not remotely deluded.

My mum is a GP, my DD is in her last year of medical school. Neither would judge the occasional bowl of chocopops or whatever, in fact, they would find it pretty normal. Of course they would have concerns about children with overall poor diets, but come onto a website to shame parents? Absolutely not. The fact is that people who routinely feed that to their kids for breakfast, as opposed to once in a while, generally have larger issues in their lives, whether the issues are financial, time-management or children with arfid or other special needs.

Again, GPs are in the rare position of being able to make a positive impact. Shaming and judging and pearl clutching (I've just noticed supermarkets sell sugared cereal!!!) is not the way to do it.

Obesity, diabetes and related issues are public health problems that affect everyone negatively. There should be stigma associated with starting a child's day by pumping them full of empty calories and sugar.

It's not that difficult to provide porridge and unsweetened yoghurt.

Was that for me or the person I quoted?

Well you should spend a few days working with the population that I work with, juggling insecure housing, crippling financial circumstances, caring for (very often undiagnosed so untreated) kids with special needs, and then come back and tell me how they need another stigma in their lives. FFS.

Whenever your name comes up, I know it will be followed by something judgemental, unempathetic and po faced.

When I was pregnant with my second, one of my urine tests came up high in sugar. The midwife asked me what I'd had for breakfast and when I said coco pops, she said they do cause that effect. Meant I had to fast before another test a few days later. I was gutted about the fasting bit, especially as it was very rare that I'd eat them

Moderation in all things
what’s the problem with chocolate cereal?
Some DC would go without breakfast rather than eat porridge
shock horror I often had a mars bar for breakfast as a kid, as I didn’t want, and still don’t eat it