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PeepDeBeaul · 22/04/2025 22:17

Me...for me. Always preferred a super sweet breakfast. I can't have wheat or protein that early without being ill through the day. I can't stand dried fruit. So something oaty with a dash of chocolate pls. I recommend Morrisons Triple Chocolate Crunch.

I don't like Kraves though, weirdly too sweet. Coco pops are a rare treat...not filling enough to be breakfast.

RoseAndGeranium · 22/04/2025 22:19

BigSkies2022 · 22/04/2025 18:54

All breakfast cereals are utter filth. You either cook porridge from scratch, or you eat sourdough toast (not supermarket, the real stuff) with eggs. Preferably not breaking your fast until after 11am.

I'm not even joking. If you eat this filth, and feed it to your children, just don't wonder why you and your family are getting a little bit fatter, year on year, and just look and feel a little more shit, bit by bit.

I have fed my DS proper, non-UPF, cooked from scratch food since he graduated from breastfeeding. Yet he and GF will rise from a fabulous meal of slow cooked lamb and fennel and orange salad, with posh ice-cream (no UPFs, it is possible, you just have to pay loads) for pudding, and go and eat microwave popcorn and cheap chocolate. They're both developing little double chins as a consequence. I am fitter than them, and I"m nearly 60. It drives me mad. Why can't they be more upmarket with their gluttony?

Why are you buying ice cream? So easy to make and then you have full control over ingredients. If you don’t bother chilling the custard/ice cream mix right down before putting it in the churn you can have lovely soft serve gelato style ice cream easily within an hour of starting prep.

Dagnabit · 22/04/2025 22:30

My 2 teens eat choco hoops - massive bowls of them! Not everyday, ds is partial to a fried egg sandwich and dd is obsessed with beans on toast for breakfast. I do fancy trying lion bar cereal… 🤔 I presume this is a judgy, I would never let my little darlings near such heinous breakfast foods type post?

Dagnabit · 22/04/2025 22:34

Blueyseviltwin · 21/04/2025 19:25

Obviously my kids have a birthday cake?

Two are summer born so we tend to BBQ.

If they go to a soft play party then they might have beige buffet. As I say, I don't stop them but mine eat a brilliant range of foods. Honestly they aren't missing out as they think smoked salmon, steak, strawberries, duck, melon etc are sll fantastic.

We don't have good snd bad food, just food. However, 80,% of what they eat at home is whole food's.

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Whole food’s what?

routinelife · 22/04/2025 22:39

What about Cheerios? My kids love them. I give them as a filler between meals. Wondering about its nutrition content 🤔

SnowFrogJelly · 22/04/2025 22:41

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Greysquirrels · 22/04/2025 22:46

Coco pops with the cream from the top of the milk.....delicious

user499978802 · 22/04/2025 22:53

axolotlfloof · 22/04/2025 19:53

This thread is a hilarious middle class lecture.
Most kids will never eat duck, steak and smoked salmon.
I buy my (skinny, cycle 5 miles to school) kids chocolate cereal if they want it.
They eat a normal varied diet without smoked salmon or duck.

They eat a normal varied diet without smoked salmon or duck.

No smoked salmon? No duck! I think you can assume you're on the social services radar @axolotlfloof

CarlyCoffee · 22/04/2025 22:54

I have a question about toast.

My kids love white bread toast (bog standard Warburtons sliced white). They loathe wholemeal bread and simply will not eat it. White bread toast is not ideal. What kind of bread could I use instead?

CarlyCoffee · 22/04/2025 22:56

also where do we stand on Alpen? Love me some alpen. Actually think I might buy a box tomorrow 🤤

user499978802 · 22/04/2025 23:02

sleeppleasesoon · 22/04/2025 21:19

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.

Well my children had things like sugar cereal in moderate amounts, i.e. not as breakfast and not daily, but occasionally, as pudding once a week or every two weeks, and the occasional soda when out for a meal and they're now fit, healthy young adults who eat a very wide variety of foods, understand nutrition and enjoy cooking.

I wanted them to learn that life is full of temptations and that it was going to be up to them at some point to learn how to moderate for themselves. Pretending these things don't exist seems pretty pointless. You say you weren't allowed these things and don't like them now, but I can promise you for every person in your position there are two who are sucking chocopops out of the box at the first opportunity.

Vanishedwillow · 22/04/2025 23:02

BuildbyNumbere · 22/04/2025 19:20

Maybe she means poorly educated in eating a proper diet.
and I’m not sure 7 stone is classed as a healthy weight for an adult!

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I’m very short 😂 less than 5 foot.

RoseAndGeranium · 22/04/2025 23:04

CarlyCoffee · 22/04/2025 22:54

I have a question about toast.

My kids love white bread toast (bog standard Warburtons sliced white). They loathe wholemeal bread and simply will not eat it. White bread toast is not ideal. What kind of bread could I use instead?

Have you tried them on golden wholemeal bread? M&S does it. It’s a bit UPF but good fibre content and definitely feels more like white than brown.

BobbyBiscuits · 22/04/2025 23:09

CorbyTrouserPress · 22/04/2025 19:29

Why are obese people ‘fuckers’?

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I really shouldn't have to explain that my entire post was meant to be a joke/ironic. Because I consider the OP's question rather ridiculous.

So no I'm not insulting obese people.

Mrsgus · 22/04/2025 23:10

Call the food police on me now because shock horror my kids have an Easter egg for breakfast on Easter Sunday and a selection box on Christmas day as well as all kinds of cereal the rest of the time Oreo, Honey nut cornflakes, frosties, Kit Kat (yes there's a kit kat cereal!!), Ready Brek etc etc

AutumnLeavesInMyHairDaisiesOnMyToes · 22/04/2025 23:13

I can take or leave chocolate cereal unless it's Krave (or the Aldi equivalent). I love that stuff. Hazelnut, white choc, original, whatever.

Botanybaby · 22/04/2025 23:19

Blueyseviltwin · 21/04/2025 18:56

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?

What a self obsessed middle class snob you are 🤣🤣

CarlyCoffee · 22/04/2025 23:24

RoseAndGeranium · 22/04/2025 23:04

Have you tried them on golden wholemeal bread? M&S does it. It’s a bit UPF but good fibre content and definitely feels more like white than brown.

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Thank you, I have not. I will give this a try.

Botanybaby · 22/04/2025 23:24

Blueyseviltwin · 22/04/2025 06:22

I was tired and messaging between tasks.

I am not all that bothered if I'm believed or not. I'm a GP, my wife is a teacher so we regularly have conversations about children/ health/ development. We also have 3 (adopted) children (1,3,4) who have a range of needs due to their histories. I have a very strong interest in child health and development.

Poverty is a huge problem but largely due to lack of education and beliefs around food I.e. children won't eat porridge/ lentils/ stews etc. So "need" to be feed coco pops and nuggets.

We have lived in a number of countries and (apart from the States) the UK has amongst the worst knowledge of diet.

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Need to be feed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wooky073 · 22/04/2025 23:42

Yes they are not at all healthy or a good breakfast food. But someone buys them. I do like them from time to time but not for breakfast

Turmerictolly · 22/04/2025 23:53

Astonishing lack of insight for a GP.

H0210zero · 22/04/2025 23:58

I do? I love them.

Tassys · 22/04/2025 23:59

My 21 year old buys that shite to eat when he is studying late.

Tassys · 23/04/2025 00:02

Mrsgus · 22/04/2025 23:10

Call the food police on me now because shock horror my kids have an Easter egg for breakfast on Easter Sunday and a selection box on Christmas day as well as all kinds of cereal the rest of the time Oreo, Honey nut cornflakes, frosties, Kit Kat (yes there's a kit kat cereal!!), Ready Brek etc etc

I loved Ready Brek sprinkled with dark brown sugar as a teenager on my period. Made with hot milk it was lovely. Farley rusks with ice cold milk was another teenage period food.

Junk food was very limited 45 years ago😁

Kelly1969 · 23/04/2025 00:13

Blueyseviltwin · 21/04/2025 18:56

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?

Firstly, plenty of people buy these cereals for their kids and adults eat them too.
just because you are perfect in your dietary choices, the rest of us don’t have a stick up our bottoms and like to live a little!
Secondly, coming on her to criticize people and then make typos so your post is barely readable, is ironic!