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?

Because birthday parties are fun and include treats such as party food and birthday cake? It wouldn't be as fun if it was just eating the food you'd usually eat every day.

It’s breathtaking the garbage people eat. No wonder the NHS is near collapse.

My kids love vegetables, curries, stews, steak, lentils etc. They eat those things every day. That’s why we don’t serve them at parties… they want the foods they don’t eat every day at their parties. Like pizza and chips.

Same with my DC!
They’re both sporty and active, super healthy bmi’s, great teeth! They have good portions of fruit and veg and equally have good portions of treats as they’re just as important. Healthy relationships with all foods is so underestimated. I’d absolutely hate my dc to have ‘fear foods’ which leads on to distorted eating.

Like someone has said, it’s a cereal not crack cocaine

For those writing about how they want their kids to grow up with a healthy approach to food, and without a sense of foods as 'good' or 'bad', can I ask if you talk about why some foods are treats and some aren't? I mean, maybe you're lucky enough that your kids wolf down all their carrots and lentils or whatever with relish and only then choose to move on to chocolate cake. But mine frequently resist eating much of anything healthy. If I want my daughter to eat fruit I have to give it to her during her pre-dinner screen time so she eats it without thinking about it (which I know isn't great either). If permitted, they would live on chocolate and whipped cream, honestly. So I explain to them that the chicken I've given them for supper is important for them to grow, or the carrots help with healthy skin and eyes and also keep the little bugs in their tummies happy and their poos softer, whilst chocolate tastes good but doesn't really do anything to help our bodies. Is that teaching them that some foods are good and some bad? I honestly don't know!

I used to buy Reese's peanut butter and chocolate cereal for DS when we were on holiday in the states. Lush. It's over six quid a box here.
Now I have bran flakes with milk and sliced banana, they are really quite sweet.
But they are also "tasty, tasty, very very tasty" according to the 1980s advert... Quite a fail by the advertising firm - except for the fact that I can still remember it.

My grandchildren had chocolate hoops for breakfast today. There’s always a box in the cupboard, so it’s bought regularly by their household!

Gawd…this reminds me of a jolly chum years ago - ‘and they stock TINNED VEGETABLES! I didn’t know they even existed!’

Don’t worry love, your fake middle class is oozing out.

Coco pops used to be delish, now they taste of chemicals. I prefer the kellogs chocolate cluster granola now

To all the posters who say feed their children chocolate cereals and state their children are supposedly healthy by means of weight/BMI/ oral health: How do you know the accumulative damage these foods are doing to their young bodies and crucially the unknown long term impact it may have on future health?

And for those who think restricting foods is a poor choice… children develop their taste preferences in childhood. I was never allowed sugary cereals, fizzy drinks or McDonald’s and now I don’t eat them in adulthood, not because I can’t but because I find them rancid. I’m thankful for the hard choices my parents made despite judgements from others.

We bought the Oreo pack for the child for Easter Holiday. Why not?
Our diet is great so it won't do any harm.

I used to buy Coco Pops when we had a long car journey and the kids could eat them dry with cheerios or whatever cereal they chose from the mini packs. They’d have a sippy cup with milk. But otherwise we don’t have any cereal.

@Blueyseviltwin is it chocolate cereals you have an issue with or ALL cereals as your posts seem anti any type of cereal. Weetabix? Multigrain Cheerios? Shredded wheat? All on the banned list for you?

Things .don't work the same for everybody. I didn't buy chocolate cereals for mine but they did have fizzy drinks and McDonalds, much to the disgust of a friend whose kids were only allowed healthy foods approved by their mother. My kids did better at school/university than hers, mine are more sporty than hers, mine eat a very healthy diet not sure about hers, mine like a glass of wine hers prefer stuff you put up your nose.

Your parents choices worked out well for you, my very different choices worked out well for mine. Who can say why that is so?

Stoners? I used to eat loads when I smoked a lot of weed.

Me! For myself. Great when you just come home after a night out and are feeling peaking and there is nothing else as easy to rustle up!

For me personally, I did not think that much long term. Call me reckless if you want, but when you have a kid that doesn’t eat(much or at all, that was a fun 3 weeks when she was 3) , you’re more focused on the now . Funnily (not for me) she went off cereal too for a while recently so that was no breakfast at all . Not sure that was much better.So you wing it and hope for the best.

We have an obesity problem because shit food is cheaper than decent food, and the majority can only afford the cheaper option.

I like chocolate shreddies, coco pops and chocolate crunchy nut granola.

But even I draw the line at Kelloggs Krave, that stuff is pure junk.

And guess what? You will die in the end, just like they will. So why worry so much? Live life to the full, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying chocolate and popcorn

Ah I get it now. Ladies, a MAN has spoken. We should bow to his superior knowledge and judgement because he has chosen to come on here and mansplain to us how we should be raising our children.

Literally the point of your post was to cast judgement over the women who use this forum and educate us because you assume we are all the ones doing this. Not the dads. The mums.

Well thank you very much, now fuck off. Pretty sure no one looks at a box of Lion Bar cereal and thinks “oh what a great, nutritious breakfast choice”. I suspect most think “that will make a nice treat”.

Out of curiosity, is it you or your wife that is able to spend the time making these hugely nutritious breakfasts for your kids every morning? Or do you have a nanny/childminder etc that you ask to do breakfast? I only ask because GP’s and teachers aren’t exactly known for having tons of free time in the mornings.

And yes I just assumed you are male because you certainly sound like you are mansplaining to us.

That is unquestionably part of the problem and it is pretty shocking that the current government appears committed to embedding the problem by packing their panel on food strategy with reps from UPF giants like Kerry Foods rather than experts on nutrition and farmers with first hand knowledge of why fresh food costs what it does and how government could help to make it cheaper without either wrecking biodiversity efforts here or importing substandard produce grown in poorer conditions or with significantly higher pesticide and herbicide inputs from abroad. It’s a really worrying move that signals (yet again, from this government) more interest in keeping large corporations happy than improving the lives of ordinary people.

I ate coco pops every single morning for about 20 years and bloody loved it
I only stopped because I got gestational diabetes!!!!
no, not caused by co co pops

I'm with you, OP. I would never give my kids this option for breakfast, - it would take no time at all before they could potentially refuse a non-sugar option, like Weetabix or an egg on toast and then the food battles start in the morning. I'm quite horrified at the shit that some brands concoct.