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?

You perfectly summarise the problem here. In your opinion, only stereotypically middle class children eat kale and quinoa. They’re not fun, are they? They’re missing out on the ‘good stuff’. And meanwhile a nation waddles towards a cheap sugar, cheap meat fuelled obesity epidemic. Mostly having no idea how to cook.

Eating well is being on a high horse?! The shame of it.

It is a bit surprising to me how many people on here happily feed their children sugary cereals (and other junk/fast food) and boast about how slim and healthy they are. The point is that you're training them in habits that may well lead to health problems and/or obesity in later life. Look around - all those overweight adults taking those new weight loss drugs or on endless diets or developing pre-diabetes etc were nearly all slim and healthy when they were children.

It's all getting boring now.
Feed your kids & yourselves whatever you want.

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Just what the world needs, mums putting down other mum's for trying their best not to give their kids junk food.

Sorry, but the fascination with American junk food (which is full of sugar or corn syrup) has given us cravings for it. As an occasional treat it’s okay but there’s just too much junk food and UPFs out there which is also cheap so tempting to buy. It SO bad for us! I know it’s boring but a bag of dried chickpeas is dirt cheap and there’s lots you can do with them. They are also nourishing and healthy.

Oh, I eat well. I eat a balanced & varied diet, as I have previously mentioned. And I don’t want to cause you undue stress or a medical episode, but I’ll admit, I also enjoy a glass of wine from time to time.
Do you literally never allow a piece of sugar or carb to pass your lips?

Or, you're teaching them the skill of managing balance and moderation, which I would think will stand them in good stead through their lives in many areas.

ME my kids have it nearly everyday for breakfast and not just as a treat in the holidays 😂

if you’d read my previous post, I did indeed say that I like to bake my own cakes. Containing sugar.

This is where the ignorance lies. Not being able to determine the difference between these nasty boxes of trash and a home made cake containing chocolate and sugar, possibly organic chocolate though not necessarily.

here is what’s in Krave - some of it is fine I’m sure, but too much nonsense included with the okayish stuff for me to entertain it as real food at anytime of day, snack/breakfast/whatever. Small amount of lecithin in dark chocolate is fine by the way, before you start with the I-told-you-sos:

Cereal flours (55%) (wheat, oat, rice), milk chocolate flavoured filling (sugar, vegetable oils {palm, sunflower, rapeseed} in varying proportions, milk chocolate (8.5%) {sugar, cocoa mass, milk whey powder, milk fat, whole milk powder, cocoa butter}, glucose syrup, fat reduced cocoa powder, whole milkpowder, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier {soylecithin}, acid {citric}), sugar, salt, colours (annatto norbixin, carotenes), antioxidants (ascorbyl palmitate, alpha tocopherol).

The kind of damage that daily/weekly doses of UFP’s inflict on the body. They’re not inane chemicals that slide through the body causing no harm. They negatively impact hormones, affect the gut micro biome, affect emotional and mental health. The list goes on.

If, however, you consistently eat a breakfast/diet rich in whole food you feel nourished physically and mentally.

There’s a reason why bowel cancer is a problem and sugary cereals contribute to it.

What ignorance? I know the difference. I’m an adult, and I have the freedom to choose what I eat, as do you. If I wish to eat Krave then I will do so. Of course, if I ate it every day and in copious quantities, I’m sure I would become very unhealthy, but as you seem hell bent on ignoring my point - that all things are fine in moderation - there’s really nothing more I can say. The body is a remarkable machine, and it isn’t just diet alone that determines health. Exercise, sleep and staying well hydrated all have a huge part to play.
Yes, we have an obesity problem but a lot of this is to do with ignorance around portion control add fatty foods in general (often generational) NOT an occasional box of novelty cereal,

Also a diet heavy in meat, such as pork.

With respect I’m not bothered about your diet. Like the OP I share a concern that someone would feed this dross to their children believing it to be an adequate foodstuff.

I'm sure with the amount of crap on sale today, they get plenty of that without having it for breakfast lol.
Coco pops and rice krispies are not even filling.

I’ll post this again - so Spanish kids spend their childhood/teenage years having cookies and milkshake for breakfast EVERY DAY and also as adults and kids have a diet which includes loads of processed meats, pork and other meat, yet still live longer than people in the UK and the majority of the world and have a lower instance of bowel
cancer than the UK. Let’s not forget the 25% of the population who smoke too. Tell me why?

What’s in the cookies and milkshake? There’s a world of difference between 3 milkshake ingredients including milk, sugar and cocoa powder, and say, UPF style milkshake like Nesquick, for example. Same applies to cookies.

I can’t argue how the specific processes of food, diet, lifestyle and other cultural/social factors influence Spanish health. It’s quite a niche question.

There are however library’s of evidence to support wholesome food as a critical factor in determining current and future health.

Do people really believe it to an adequate foodstuff? Or are many parents too weak to say no when their children demand it?

It’s the same as nesquick, but actually worse if you read the ingredients. Cookies are things like chips ahoy. It’s not really a niche question, it just proves that vitamin D is a massive thing when it comes to health, along with good weather which leads to a more active lifestyle. Sugary cereal is not going to affect anyone who eats an otherwise healthy diet and gets exercise. It’s just not. Genetics also play an overwhelming part in health and life expectancy.

@LaDamaDeElche Hmmm... Eating 'an otherwise healthy diet' is the key thing though. Who starts off their day with a bowl of Cocoa Pops or Krave etc then goes on to have a healthy diet for the rest of the day? I'd guess hardly anybody. If you want to eat healthily, breakfast is probably the best place to start.

As I already said - Spanish children. Otherwise healthy doesn’t mean no crap either. They still eat sweets, bakery type cakes etc. But they eat a lot of legumes, fresh fish, veggies. They also eat a ton of processed meats and meat in general, which they see as healthy, but isn’t seen that way in the uk. However life expectancy is longer and cancer rates are lower.

Foodstuff. It's like having a conversation with a Victorian schoolmistress.

It’s a pretty well-used word. Weird. Maybe I touched a nerve and you like this stuff? Or, worse, feed it to your offspring?

Lots of people their delicious. I bet you were a barrel of laughs as a child.

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I agree with this. Caring about diet shouldn’t be treated as a sort of middle class snobbery. Quite apart from anything it lets the food industry and successive governments that have utterly failed to tackle the food industry off the hook. It’s outrageous that service stations are still allowed to line the checkout queue area with calorie and sugar dense UPF snacks and chocolate bars; that fast food made effectively addictive by its (nutritionally poor) combinations of refined carbs, salt, and sugar are marketed to children; that rather than require hugely profitable UPF manufacturers to charge or absorb a health tax the government allows them to pack food strategy advisory boards; and that British farmers, who should be supported to produce low cost, ethical fresh goods (which they already do, pretty heroically) are instead allowed by our government to be gouged by the supermarkets whenever less stringently regulated produce grown abroad, usually with the support of the exporter’s own government’s subsidies, is available more cheaply, whilst our farmers not only now receive pretty much no subsidies but also can no longer apply for financial help for schemes intended to restore nature alongside their farming enterprises. This country’s food system is currently not in service to the public, it’s in service to corporations that have as their chief, legally binding objective the mission to make as much money selling as much food, produced as cheaply as possible, to as many people as possible, so their shareholders get richer. If class warfare should be directed anywhere, it’s at those corporations: Danone, Kerry Foods, the lot of them. They’re making this country sick and poor, and the government is helping them.