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cheerios

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gingernutlover · 07/06/2006 14:12

when did you start giving these. dd is 9 months and will not eat sloppy breakfast - she will nibble on toast and fruit and I wondered about giving her dry cereal or raisins etc. I thought things like corn flakes, shreddies, mini shredded wheats and cheerios - are these really bad for them?

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oops · 08/06/2006 19:16

sorry, sugar content

oops · 08/06/2006 19:18

we cook the porridge quite dry so ds2 gets a few slices of it for brekkie btw, as he doesn't use spoons etc,

lol at the beans etc

gingernut · 08/06/2006 19:28

Just don't give her gingernuts

Rach32 · 09/06/2006 10:20

DS (10 months) loves cheerios on their own. I think he would quite happily eat them all day if he could. That said I dont give them every day as he is a poor milk drinker so I tend to give weetibix every other day to get his milk intake up (weetibix is the only cereal he will eat with milk and the salt in that is probably just as bad!). x

dinosaure · 09/06/2006 10:28

DS3 loves cheerios.

mumfor1standfinaltime · 09/06/2006 10:57

Ds loves corn flakes at the moment (17m), I put small drop of milk on them and he eats them with his fingers (he still cant grasp the idea of a spoon and usually has 2 mouthfuls with spoon then it hits the floor!)
He also likes shreddies and the mini sized weetabix - the banana ones.
It can be difficult to give 'sloppy' breakfast when they go through the 'independant, I can eat with my fingers now' stage.

gummysmummy · 09/06/2006 11:07

I always thought cornflakes were ridiculusly high in salt? Or have they changd now?

mumfor1standfinaltime · 09/06/2006 18:07

0.7g salt in a 30g bowl full. Ds probably has half 'bowl' full. Is that ridiculously high?

sazhig · 09/06/2006 18:50

Absolute max for under 1s is 1g of salt per day so .35 isnt too bad, just depends on how much else they get. (remembering of course that bm & formula both contain salt)

Tex111 · 09/06/2006 19:01

The original cheerios i grew up on in the states are sugar free. don't know why they don't sell them here and instead sell all the sweetened stuff. there would obviously be a market! i always bring back a box for the children and have even ordered them from an expat grocery store www.skyco.com if anyone is interested.

Tex111 · 09/06/2006 19:09

oops, sorry that should be www.skyco.uk.com. the cheerios i know are made by general mills. are they owned by nestle?

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