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?

Is normal butter also on your sin list?

oh shut up you do NOT serve pulled pork at kids parties 🙄

Oh please OP.

😂😂😂
I was imagining their joy at a plate of pulled pork 😂
No dessert, no birthday cake!

Depends how old you are and how many years ago you last had them, but personally speaking as someone with a few years behind them (55) they are just not right any more, they used to be like tasty bricks!! Something babies could really keep on and grateful for when you were having problems with your wisdom teeth! They're not like that anymore.

I grew up in the 70s. Breakfast was cereal with added sugar on it. We also had full.sugar drinks.

There were very few obese kids, probably because we didn't snack, we had a lot more exercise and didn't sit staring at screens.

I’ll put my hand up and admit I love a couple of weetabix with coco pops on top. Bloody lovely thanks.

My mum was very into healthy eating (think everything home made : sourdough bread, even home made pasta and some treats). In my teens I got obsessed with UPFs and bought them in secret or at friends.

Best thing is ready brek and add your own hot chocolate powder

I judge people who have food complexes as they ALWAYS rub it off on their kids and risk giving them a one way ticket to an eating disorder. But each to their own.

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.

I buy cocopops. Have them as a snack when working from home. Figure it’s healthier than a chocolate bar.

OP you sound like the height of fun; imagine eating bolognaise and a yoghurt simultaneously! I can’t imagine such dizzy heights of exhilaration and debauchery.

I like to think of the phrase: both things can be true. You can be right about cereal being unhealthy in some forms, but we can be right about our kids eating these in moderation and also healthy. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

You’re not one of these refined sugar free mums are you, because I use that parenting style as a bit of a friend filter if I’m honest IRL

My son. he has SEN and is very picky about food/flavour/texture. I’d rather he had something to eat than battle over ‘healthy’ food that he hates. At least he gets milk with his cereal 😬

Porridge is disgusting though. My kids won't touch it and I can't say I blame them.

My son started asking for porridge after we read Goldilocks and the three bears, so one day I made him some. The look of confusion and disappointment on his little face after the first spoonful still haunts me.

We love a snack, we have every crisp you could imagine, the supermarkets have aisles dedicated to them (was a bit disappointed with the selection over here, but it’s got better!). Also so many cakes, and not just the fancy ones, aisles of the sugary upf laden sweet cakes and breads that will probably survive an apocalypse. We also have a lot of ready made aperos, but M&S are very good for those now too!

I'm quite disappointed it's not venison, tbh
Then a spirited game of "I Spy" and home for some plain porridge and an improving book.
It'll probably be no better when they turn 5.

Two of my ASD kids do, on advice from our dietitian. One of my kids is very underweight due to food aversions so she said to just get wherever I can into him and at least the cereals have added vitamins in them. She also advised adding cheese, cream, butter and full fat milk to whatever I can to try and get his weight up. I hate my kids diets, it certainly isn’t what the rest of us eat but I feel like I can’t do right. He eats shit and I get judged, I don’t let him eat shit and he ends up in hospital due to being so underweight. Your judgment really doesn’t help.

This sounds great. I make a lot of banana muffins (also with chocolate chips and often with cocoa powder) but I've never thought of adding milled flaxseed. Sounds like an easy nutritional win! Thank you!

I like chocolate ready brek

I like porridge.

Particularly with chocolate spread.

And I have a box of the chocolate batons that go in pastries that a PP mentioned. I'll get my coat.

I was the weird child who was allowed coco pops etc on holiday or as a treat but tried it once and hated it! Preferred corn flakes or porridge.
My kids aren’t allowed it flat out.

Sure, but what about now? Once you got past the teenage rebellion (and teenage preoccupation with instant gratification) how did your relationship with food progress?

I absolutely do. It's easy. Throw a big pork in the slow cooker. Wedges, coleslaw, buns. Easy.

I would never have a BBQ.
So unhealthy. All that charred meat 🤢