Cereal for supper?

[BooBoosMumma]

Did anyone else have cereal for supper when they were little? I can't be the only one??!! I'd have my tea at 4.30/5 ish, a bowl of cereal when Wogan started (7ish?) then it was bedtime.

My ds has just turned one and is now eating family meals with us, so there was me thinking 'cereal for supper ahoy' but when I asked my friends with similar aged children when they were planning to start giving their LO's cereal at supper time, their silence spoke volumes!!!

Did anyone else have cereal for supper? Does anyone give their kids cereal at supper time now???

Yup, still do on occasion :)

Oh and yes it's a staple of DS's supper.

Yup usually something like shreddies with warm milk a few times a week

We always had a biscuit but I like your supper better!

DS has cereal for supper - either ReadyBrek or a Weetabix. He's 1 year 3 months old.

Loving warm milk idea biological. I might try that with a Weetabix.

We got a chocolate biscuit, like a breakaway or a club, with a cup of milk.

DP has this just about every night. He rarely eats at breakfast time though. I think he's very strange.

warm milk on cornflakes is lush, but you have to eat them quite quick before they go soggy :)

We are having chicken and leek pie with brussels sprouts for supper.

Family would think it rather strange if i put out cereal and milk.

Yes we did, or tea and toast. DD1 has cereal for her supper, dd2 toast.

ds1 often has a bowl of cereal before bed

DH grew up in a dinner-tea-supper household and still eats cereal before bed most nights.

I grew up in a lunch-snack-dinner household and rarely eat cereal at night, apart from nights like tonight where we had 'Sunday Dinner' at 3pm.

The kids eat cereal before bed most nights, or toast. We go through q lot of cereal, and sometimes I've thought those "7 vitamins and iron" were 50% of their nutrient intake

DS 16 will eat cereal all day! I think its a teenage thing and he is too lazy to make anything else

I was more likely to have cereal for supper than for breakfast as child. Still have it now for late night snacks.

DS loves it, but usually he has fruit and milk. If he's had a very early tea or he's particularly hungry, I occasionally let him have cereal.

I've worked in residential settings and cereal is a staple of the supper menu, ditto cheese toasties

mmmmmmmm cheese toastie at the end of a long shift

i quite often give my boys, aged 7 and 5, cereal for supper. If we're not eating together, and they're tired or we have too much cabbage and nothing they actually like.

I always feel like I'm cheating, but have happy memories of cereal for supper as a treat (when my mother clearly was, in retrospect, at the end of her tether).

I'm not beyond giving it to them at lunch, either.

Absolutely. Crunchy Nut cornflakes and hot milk is food of the Gods.

I think some of the replies on this thread fall into the we're actually talking about different things when we talk about supper camp.

I mean supper as in something to eat before bed (dinner/tea having been eaten earlier in the evening). Posh people on MN Mean supper as in dinner/tea I think.

My DS likes weetabix or rice crispies, my DD likes cheerios, without any milk the strange child. They are hungry after school so have any early tea about 4.30 - 5.00pm and are then feeling peckish again before bed. Sometimes they have toast and marmite, or a bowl of yogurt or fruit and warm milk. On Saturdays they have sweets!

My children have cereal before bed sometimes if they're hungry. They usually have dinner at 5.30 so are often peckish around 7.
It's the easiest thing to give them and fairly healthy. I'm not cooking again and I'd rather they had cereal or toast than junk.

Wow! Thanks everyone! Shreddies for supper it is!!!