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?

coco pops a wheetabix and some blueberries love it.
sorry

They are the business.

Mine never had chocolate flavoured cereal growing up. I remember that they got excited at having jam on toast for breakfast at a relatives house!

I thought the thread was about breakfast cereal but it's just a boasty thread for OP to tell us all the expensive foods she buys .

french people eat Nutella non stop , the stuff is sold everywhere and all the derivatives ! But they also cook from scratch etc as I do . I think they have it right , a treat is ok if your meals are balanced

A lot of triggered very unhealthy people here

My DS eats them several times a week. He is at the lower end of a healthy BMI, active and doing well at school. Having dealt with ARFID in his brothers it's not something I can get too worked up about.

We do on birthdays, Halloween and over the Christmas holiday (generally cookie crisp cereal or coco pops but sometimes we’ll try something like what you’ve mentioned).

You should give them duck and venison.

my dc only had cocopops in the holidays

OP, is the salmon, steak and pork, organic and free range etc? I saw a documentary on farmed salmon recently and it was grim.

On the contrary. Me and my family are vegetarian. I'm horrified by all the fatty meat the OP feeds her children.

Childhood obesity isn’t all to do with food. I’m surprised a GP doesn’t know that. Poverty, inactivity, neurodiversity are also factors

Anyway OP, this is one of those situations where it’s not so much that you’re wrong in what you say, but that you’ve said it in such a way that you sound like an irredeemably sanctimonious little arsehole.

ADHD is a neurological condition and has nothing to do with what you have for breakfast.

Also, you do in fact sound like a fun sponge.

There was a report a few years back (I promise) showing that Coco Pops ackshually contain less sugar, gram for gram, than many cereals that are perceived/positioned as "healthy".

Otherwise, Orwell nailed it nearly 90 years ago in "The Road to Wigan Pier" when he described the tendency of the English middle classes to police people's food choices:

“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty'. There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.”

Well clearly someone.

Why do you need to know @Blueyseviltwin

Disappointed that ‘shit in a box’ hasn’t been mentioned yet so feel compelled to post it.

You do have good food and bad food, you’ve proved it in this thread. It also baffles me that you’re crowing that your kids like things like strawberries, whoopdie doo, what an achievement. Most kids like strawberries.
my kids have chocolate cereal at the weekends if they want, neither remotely close to obese. This whole thread is bizarre.

If obesity was a fairly minor issue here and it was unusual for kids to have rotten teeth, then I would say YABU, because a treat is fine and everyone deserves one now and then.

But look around you. Some of the kids at DD school honestly look like James Corden before he started the weight loss. Massive bellies, huge arms and legs, boys with what I can only describe as ‘womanly’ shapes. We have a real problem with kids needing teeth removed as they’re rotten or decaying. What’s happening to our kids is criminal - once you’re on the road to obesity as a child it is very very hard to row back. Not to mention the health complications which are many and life threatening.

So, YANBU. These shit ‘cereals’ are designed to pique the interest of kids (cartoons on the front), and I think we all know nobody is buying a box once a year as a very rare one-off treat. Any parent who buys them on a regular basis is failing their child in my opinion as they’re full of crap.

Yes, they "ThEY shoUld bE EAting moRE proTeIN!!!!" team will chip in soon.

I love Coco Pops!
They are sugary but there's nutrition in the milk at least. Plus they are fortified with vitamins and iron.
DS has autism and a pretty limited range of safe foods, so I've learned to give less of a fuck, I guess.

I don't know who buys it either, op.

If I want chocolate for breakfast, I buy one of those big tubs of smarties.. Half of one of them in a bowl with milk is perfection 😋

I don't know why you're getting a hard time on here @Blueyseviltwin I enjoy chocolate, and don't see any harm in children having it now and again. But chocolate and cereal should never be in the same bowl, and chocolate cereal certainly shouldn't be fed to children. I agree with you. No wonder so many children/teens/people are obese now, when they're starting their day off by eating chocolate!

Cocopops are bad enough, but Oreo cereal? WTAF?!

In my experience they are bought by Grandparents, ideally to be given just before being given back to parents...