I have only recently learnt of the effects of sugar and found out how much is in our food. Unfortunately my kids had more sugar then they should have, due to my ignorance

We don’t like sugar (regard it as poison) and have banned it from our cupboards. We only do cereal – Weetbix on Sunday. The rest of the week my kids eat toast with eggs/cheese/peanut butter, sweet potato waffles, banana pancakes, greek yoghurt with homemade granola (only sweetened with banana and cinnamon) and sometimes we have vegetable quiche / dish for breakfast

Unfortunately a lot of cereals have a high sugar level. Some also have a high sodium level and less fibre that you expect.
Some chocolate powders used to flavour milk have a lot more sugar than others.

We make our own muesli. We can control he amount of fruit and sugar that is in the muesli.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 19 Apr 2016 , 7:07 am

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  Everyone enjoys adding to the muesli jar too!

Breakfast is really important and usually I incorporate eggs in their meal.

OMG. Luckily we tend to eat weetbix with occasional forays into rice bubbles.

My daughter generally has one slice of mixed grains bread with jam. And then some chocolate milk.
Some products are indeed full of sugar. Better be aware of that.

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I love the idea of making our kids more aware on nurtritional value. When I go shopping with my 6yr old, we look at products he wants and we talk about the sugar and fats etc. Apparently it is working cause when he went shopping with Poppy, he told poppy not to get a certain cereal cause “its got to much sugar and will hurt me” #winning

Wow i am amazed at how much sugar is in the 5am muesli, that is promoted as being a healthy breakfast! Good to see weethix and cornflakes the long standing traditional breakfast havent changed. I will be sticking with them i think

My little one loves Super K cereal, she eats this most of the time, but also she likes toast with vegemite or honey.

I check all cereal boxes for sugar quantities. Sometimes we have raison toast, sometimes toast with vegimite. Sometimes cereal