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?

“Who om each”!!!!

Do you know the definition of ironic, hun? The example you’ve given doesn’t quite compute. You can make as many typos as you like; they won’t negate or make ‘ironic’ your original opening salvo. Hope that helps!

Two kids on the spectrum, I’ve got adhd and juggling two jobs and some stupid ailment that’s got me under immunology consultants and often in bed with shingles, neuralgia and TMJ not to mention fatigue and depression and she’s worried about my kids having cereal. Granted this was 20+ years ago and they are now 25 and 31 - ones 6’5” , ones 6’2” and both are slim.

as with anything it’s all about moderation. a mixed diet. A small bowl of corn flakes (Frosties/special K etc) or whatever and some fruit and a drink won’t kill anyone.

I used to always eat porridge for breakfast in my weight watchers era and it never filled me up if I stuck to the suggested portion and was always hungry pretty soon after. I prefer something higher in protein than carbs.

as a GP I really hope you can keep the smug superiority under wraps when people come to you.

It is a little much for a man (making an assumption here, I know, since the OP mentioned they had a wife) to come onto a website to scold an audience that is largely women about what they might potentially be feeding their children whilst littering their posts with typos and terrible grammar, though, don't you think?

Yeah, I know what you mean. I find it off putting when it turns out a man is behind a post - a bit like a chap walking out of a cubicle in the ladies. It is a bit mansplainy. However, there are a lot of women on here, including me, who agree with his sentiment. I’ve often wondered who buys that crap. There is just no excuse. All this “my kids have Easter eggs for breakfast on Easter Sunday” - yeah, mine too. And on Christmas Day, and their birthdays. It’s not the same as Oreos for breakfast each day or Krave or whatever shitty meal you’re feeling them for dinner. So much ignorance abounds around food in this country and if you say you’ve given them fucking smoked salmon or duck you’re a snob! Only in Britain is eating disgusting crap and feeding it to your kids too a badge of honour.

we buy coco pops

yum

I find the food/pleasure police incredibly tiresome but I did assume the OP was a woman with a wife.

I feel like you may need to get a life 😂 rather than worrying about if people are eating cereal 🤦🏽‍♀️

Fun Sponge would be such a good name for a cake-based, layered, retro dessert. With a chocolate cereal crunch layer. I'm imagining a broiled toffee meringue topping.

Children like sweet cereals for breakfast because of the energy buzz at the start of day, but it's not good for their teeth. Brushing teeth afterwards doesn't remove all the sugar that lingers in saliva.

Personally I abandoned breakfast cereals of any kind in my late teens and haven't looked back. They no longer seemed liked human food, more like a kind of pet food.

When I have breakfast at all these days it's usually eggs, toast etc. Sometimes soup or reheated dinner leftovers.

I rarely buy cereal nowadays and if I do, it's own-brand Shredded Wheat. I'm astonished at how much boxes of cereal can cost and I'd never buy the ones that are more like boxes of sweets with a bit of cereal thrown in.

Most boxes of cereal aren't cheap though! Porridge is cheap. Toast can be cheap. A banana is cheap. Lucky Charms or Cocoa Pops are not cheap.

I wouldn’t waste your time. They obviously aren’t a doctor. They are someone with too much time on their hands, making fake posts to get a rise out of people

They are if you buy the store’s own brand

I worked with someone who had a treat every weekend of Coco pops made with cream not milk as child.
Nightmare.

As I said previously, if I buy cereal, I buy own brand shredded wheat. (It's about the only cereal that doesn't have added sugar.)

Personally I get annoyed by comments like the OP’s about their kids’ diet to be grating because it drips with “I’m a better parent than you” humble brags, when there’s only so much you can do to encourage your kids to have a wider diet. I have 2 girls - one ate a limited range of foods as a child but is now eating lots of things as an early teen. The other one ate almost everything as a toddler but since the age of 4 has been much more difficult about food. I also have a step-daughter (now early 20s) who went through phases of living on full fat milk and beans on toast alone. Would love fish for a while then stop. Now she’s early 20s and eats pretty normally.

I completely agree we all need to care hugely about what our kids eat - but I think it’s the underlying judginess of comments like the OP’s that riles people up.

@glowfrog - this, in a nutshell.
What the OP is saying isn't wrong, it's just that it's very judgemental and simplistic. He has young children, things change. He doesn't know what it's like to have a child who won't eat or develops particular eating preferences.
He says he's a GP, but doesn't understand why more young children don't eat pulled pork?
He's never come across Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, vegetarians, vegans?
His limited ability to have any kind of empathy or see the bigger picture, his ignorance of EDs, or strange teenage diets is the problem, not his point about sugary cereals.

I work in a community pharmacy. Yesterday a baby in a pushchair came in at 9am with a bag of Easter eggs and chocolate all over his face sooooooo I think the cereal would be an improvement.

Totally agree with you, plus the cost of most of them is absolutely ridiculous!!!

What kind of accumulative damage and long term impact can a surgery bowl of cereal have on a young active healthy child?

They’re kids, they burn it off and their cell turnover etc is high. I’m not sure what you mean?

I buy the lion cereal but for a sweet snack rather than breakfast. Kids eat it dry in place of a biscuit etc

I let my kids occasionally have chocolate cereals, my parents restricted what I ate to only ‘approved healthy foods’ no crisps, chocolate, sweets or white bread ever during my childhood. As soon as I was an adult all I ate was fast food and ready meals because I could. I want my kids to have all things in moderation and it seems to be working, they will eat one or two sweets from a bag and put it away for later whereas if that was me as a child I would’ve eaten the bag in one go, quickly, before my mum could chuck it in the bin.

@Giggleslikespickles I think the harm comes from getting the kids accustomed to sugar. It really isn't necessary. And it's part of the reason why so much processed and manufactured food - from tomato sauce to bread to fruit yogurts and soft drinks - has added sugar. We'd be better off without it.

My GC go to "normal" breakfast club, the school has just added some free places (still testing). They've never been offered much other than cereal or once some pancakes so far and I don't see this happening now when the budget will be very tight. They've definitely never been offered eggs or fruit other than the occasional banana, and there's no way they'll be cooking eggs if the "free" breakfast club doesn't start until 8.30.