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?

This ⬆️. It's very important to develop a healthy relationship with food and not get too prohibitive.

And if an adult doesnt have a healthy bmi and an otherwise good diet, who is it up to then?

Me, throughout my 20s, for me. I then gave up when I had a child so as not to set a poor example. :-)

I buy sweet cereal for me! Kids have left home. Prefer honey nut cornflakes though

Even kids are allowed a treat now and again... It won't kill them

Maybe because creating taboo foods just makes them more attractive to kids who will gorge themselves senseless as soon as they get chance? Same with takeaways like McDonald’s. My kids love a crappy breakfast cereal, but they get that once or twice a week tops - with a side of fruit and glass of water. Other breakfasts might be flaxseed muffins (homemade, wholemeal, banana), grilled cheese muffins, omelette, porridge, fruit & yoghurt with seeds. A couple of bowls of sugary cereal a week - combined with plenty of fresh fruit & veg and 95% home cooked meals - absolutely can be part of a healthy diet!

I bought Oreo cereal for my child because he wanted it, had it as a snack a few times, three months in, it’s still not gone yet. If you don’t limit foods, you don’t have an issue.

Stop walking down the cereal aisle. Limit yourself to the fruit and veg section only. Is there an aisle with gruel?

Porridge and fruit? Scrambled eggs? Wholemeal toast and pure nut butters?

I've never once fed my kids a breakfast cereal. I understand now why childhood obesity is so rife.

My kids have the odd ice cream, chocolate etc. I'm not a fun sponge but I just can't get over serving that as a meal before expecting concentration at school for example.

As for cost of living, porridge is much cheaper.

I am too but I buy it as a very occasional treat, maybe for the Christmas holidays or to take away as if we have a holiday these days it's a cheap UK caravan and I reckon we'd eat worse if we had access to even the nicest of hotel buffets. I've also been known to buy a box and keep them out of sight, for my own consumption only. Don't tell DC!

Thsi stuff is known as weekend cereal in my house. My kids have a bowl of it once every week or two. They also have porridge, weetabix, homemade granola etc so I am happy with the balance they get. Judge away,

It’s cereal Karen, not crack cocain.

As a child we put sugar on porridge, weetabix, shredded wheat, cornflakes etc. So not that different

My kids. I’m not neurotic and don’t have a complex about food or an eating disorder that I rub off into my kids so food isn’t demonised in this house, it’s enjoyed. Both lean and very sporty and eat like a scabby horse, and very happy too.

I feel bad for the odd growing up in households where food is demonised. What a horrible complex to pass on to your kids.

I love coco pops. You sound like the fun police

I still do

If a product has been sold nationally and internationally in such quantities that it is stocked in every supermarket in the country and you can't even begin to imagine why anyone would buy it, maybe your powers of thinking or imagination are lacking.

How do you know OP's name?
Or are you peddling misogynism?

My teen asks for Coco Pops now and again. She absolutely wouldn’t eat any of the breakfasts you suggest.

I do. For my son, who is on medication which suppresses his appetite and he needs high calorie food first thing in the morning, because until the meds wear off mid afternoon, he won’t eat. A bowl
of sugary cereal, with full fat milk means he gets the calories he needs quickly before the meds kick in each morning, you judgemental fool.

Although I haven’t tried the Lion cereal, Oreo’s tastes rank IMO but the kids love it. LOVE Lucky Charms but I only ever seem to see it in the American money laundering sweet shops for about £8 a box so don’t bother

I really hate that they normalise eating chocolate for breakfast. I remember my mum being very anti sugary cereal in the 80s and feeling totally miffed that I was eating Weetabix or porridge while my friends were having coco pops and lucky charms. Now I'm tbe parent, I'm the one doing the vetoing

I think most cereals are bloody awful, though. I'm not sure that no breakfast is worse than a bowl full of that shite first thing.

Lol. Porridge IS a breakfast cereal...

In the 90’s, early 2000’s these were a staple with my young DC - anything to get them to eat breakfast. Even in the 70’s when Rice Crispies and cornflakes were the norm, they still needed a tonne of sugar on them to make them enjoyable.

Of course now we only eat steel cut oats, Greek Yog and rye bread but give me a bowl of sweet, chocolate cereal any day!

Why is it all or nothing? Mine eat scrambled eggs and porridge as well as coco pops.

Nut butter? No thanks. Hate it, as do my DC.