Did your parents let you eat sugary/cartoon character cereals?

[Dukakis88]

My mom didn't let me eat any of that crap...

* Cookie Crisp
* Trix
* Froot Loops
* Fruity Pebbles
* Cocoa Puffs
* Count Chocula
* Captain Crunch
* Frankenberry
* Quisp
* Sugar Smacks
* Alpha-Bits

etc., etc.

But the irony is that I became fat anyway. I'm conducting an informal survey... Did your parents let you eat this crud? Did it have any effect on your general eating habits / health?

[WindRavenX]

1. My mom made sure I ate right

Still am 20 pounds over weight :shrug:
Then again, both my parents are short and stocky so I have an excuse

[RC]

None of that stuff existed till I

was more than old enough not to like it.

[trotsky]

2. Yup, ate lots of it.

I've never been overweight though. Still love sugary cereals - and they're not just for breakfast anymore! :)

[tridim]

9. Same here

My mom didn't fuss over food (cleaning my plate, no sugar, etc) and now in my 30's I can eat whatever I want and I don't gain a pound. Somebody should do a study. Seriously.

[DU9598]

3. Opposite

I grew up on Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch and Malt O'Meal with plenty of butter and sugar. I am now 6, 160lbs.

Had no impact on me. (as far as I know)

[eyesroll]

4. Nope.

We were allowed the sugary stuff on precisely two occasions:

1. On a three-week car trip through New England and parts of Canada. My parents didn't want to buy breakfast at a restaurant, so we lived on the little single-serve boxes.
2. When my grandfather died. He had seven boxes of sugary cereals -- one for each day of the week -- and we inherited the whole lot.

And on edit -- I don't eat the stuff now, either, and my health and weight are good.

[2Design]

5. frosted flakes - with tony tiger

[the Princess]

6. Very Rarely

Most of the time we had Rice Krispies, Cheerios, or - when my grandfather was staying with us - corn flakes.

On Edit - I forgot to log in as myself - this is CO Liberal. The Princess will post later.

This is the DU member still known as CO Liberal.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. Same here.

We'd have them some times, but not very often. We usually ate non-sugared cerals.

[bleedingheart]

7. yup and she made homemade breakfasts too!!!

I was a lucky well fed youth...

[Mojambo]

8. Almost exclusively

Now I'm 31, I have no health insurance and thousands of dollars of dental work in my future.

All because of Captain Crunch cereal.

[drdon326]

10. Captain Crunch......I love that cereal !!!!!! Munchy Heaven

i gotta get some...now

[Rowdyboy]

11. Only Lucky Charms occasionally

Usually either Honeycomb, or raisin bran.

[tech3149]

13. I was wierd

I always went for Shredded Wheat.

[Dukakis88]

14. FREEEAK!!!

We've found the alien imposter!

[nclib]

15. Yes, until she found out it was bad for us.

Sad day. So she switched us to Rice Krispies and we would put a ton of sugar on them.

I did get one box of Fruit Loops a year as a Christmas present.

[BigMcLargehuge]

16. sometimes she did... but never really asked for it

Mom used to set up the breakfast table before she went to bed. If she put out Grape Nuts, we are Grape Nuts, if she put out Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, we ate those.

We let Ian eat Co-Co Crunchies on Saturday morning. Weekdays he eats Cheerios (or the generic variant) or Rice Crispies (or the generic variant). On sunday's we almost always make blueberry pancakes.

[kick-ass-bob]

17. Sugar Smacks and Frosted Flakes.

Sugar Smacks turned the milk brown - how cool is that!??!

I was never overweight as a kid, then as an adult, I drank too many Mtn Dews with my sausage biscuit for breakfast.
I stopped that now though...

[peekaloo]

18. I used to love Post Oat Flakes

:9

with four spoonfuls of sugar. }(

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. FREAKIES!!!!!! The very best!!!

I miss it...sniffle. And no, it didn't have any effect on my general eating habits...unless you think eating a 3 Musketeers bar for breakfast is bad. :shrug:

[Lavender Brown]

20. Yes - I come from a long line of sweet tooths

It's a grand tradition.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. My dad made sure we got whatever cereals we wanted...

I was addicted to Cocoa Pebbles, and on saturdays, Dad would give me a few bucks to ride my bike up to the donut shop to get donuts and milk.
Duckie

[Rhiannon12866]

22. Yup, I ate most of those

My personal favorite was Sugar Pops, those puffy yellow things. I wouldn't touch any of those, today.:puke:

And I ate fluffernutters and peanut butter and butter on raisin bread and only bought my lunch at school if it was spaghetti or fish sticks on Fridays. But I still was a skinny kid and I'm still skinny, today.:shrug: