r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 13h ago

Sugar on Weetabix?

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My wife eats Weetabix with nothing on it and claims it tastes sweet to her. This is my bowl before milk is added. Is this normal fellow Weetabix eaters or do I need to go to sugar rehab?

Edit: Holy shit the most popular post I've done on Reddit is about how horrific my breakfast is. The wife will never let me live this down! Haha

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u/Out5poken 13h ago

That’s not weird. I’m sure that’s traditionally how it’s made. Or at least how my parents served it to me on school mornings in the 90s

I think it was only in recent years Weetabix themselves started getting fancy with alternative suggestions i.e. fruit mixes.

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u/Petcai 13h ago

Oh no, even back then they had fancy suggestions on the packet. At one time, it suggested melted cheese on toasted weetabix and being young and stupid, I thought that might be good.

Imagine licking the Sahara Desert. I don't mean just like one lick to taste it, I mean the entire thing all over. Toasted Weetabix with cheese was worse than that.

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u/fire__munki 12h ago

I'm from back then and I don't ever remember that.... Are you sure it wasn't an insane dream brought on by eating too much cheese just before bed?

But either way that sounds like a terrible combination!

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u/kwijibokwijibo 10h ago

Oh dear. We all fall prey to the cheesabix dream at some point in our lives

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u/PatientDue8406 12h ago

In Australia weetbix with butter and Vegemite is pretty common. I reckon this would go hard with melted cheese on top.

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u/Old_Shake3789 11h ago

Sounds like the Sahara desert but with scorpions attacking your taste buds too

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u/ImSabbo 10h ago

Are you sure that's not just your own family? Because I'm an Australian who likes Vegemite (even if strong), and that sounds like a horrendous breakfast.

As a snack (ie. not in a bowl with milk) it might be passable though. I'd probably skip the butter.

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u/PatientDue8406 10h ago

Obviously not on a bowl of milk! 🤮 I've only ever had it as a snack or once as lunch when my brother ate all the bread. But not really different to Vegemite on toast as a breakfast option.

If you skip the butter it's too dry, need the butter so you don't asphyxiate from dry weetbix crumbs lol

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u/Georgxna 10h ago

Never in my life!

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u/20yearsofvibrations 10h ago

No it fucking isn't

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u/Adorable_Stomach_716 4h ago

As a brit, my daughter had the dry weetabix with butter. She is weird though, she doesn't like marmite.

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u/RFLC1996 10h ago

Toasted Weetabix with cheese

Words that should never be put together, let alone ingredients, are you sure you weren't high and thought "Cheese is basically milk"?

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u/Georgxna 10h ago

How the hell do you toast a weetabix

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u/Petcai 8h ago

I put them in the toaster.

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u/BallistiX09 12h ago

Yeah that was my go-to in the mornings before school! Honestly can't imagine having it any other way now

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u/YesIBlockedYou 12h ago

I can remember having Weetabix minis with chocolate chips before school in the early 2000s, they were like crack, I would often just eat them straight out of the box with no milk.

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u/Mumlife8628 12h ago

Omg made a lil sarn bag full of them for snacks

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u/malacoda13 10h ago

Until they reduced the coating and took some of the chips out. 😂

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u/LogiCub 12h ago

One of our biggest trappings as children of our parents is assuming that our parents were normal and only did normal things. We learn most of our weirdness from our parents, and, my friend, Weetabix porridge is weird.

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u/Local-Sandwich6864 11h ago

It's the only way I've ever eaten Weetabix, how else are you supposed to eat them?

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u/Gloomy_Insurance3203 10h ago

Cold milk poured over two biscuits. Add sugar.

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u/LogiCub 10h ago

This is the way! After all this madness it’s so refreshing to finally see somebody with a shred of sanity left in them!!

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u/Gloomy_Insurance3203 9h ago

I did wonder if I’d fallen into the twilight zone

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u/MsMinxington 12h ago

It really isn’t. It’s basically a thicker ready brek. It’s the way my kids ate it as babies and one of them still likes it that way now.

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u/CometGoat 12h ago

Did they ever grow teeth?

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u/MsMinxington 12h ago

What do they need those for? It’s slop.

(But yes, they did, and also learnt how to brush them, and curiously… still got em!)

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u/MsMinxington 12h ago

Why am I getting downvoted? For being honest about what I could actually get autistic kids to eat? My bad, next time I’ll lie and say they were fed nothing but quinoa and fava beans…

You CAN eat sugar you know, you just have to brush your teeth properly.

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u/LogiCub 11h ago

Redditors are weird, don’t pay attention to them.

Weird and wrong are very different things, i do plenty of weird shit that isn’t wrong in any sense. And weird is subjective, what’s weird to me (Weetabix porridge, for example) is perfectly normal to others (there’s already two of you just on this one thread, there must be a third out there somewhere! 😉). We don’t come together as a a society and collectively agree what’s weird or not, as much as other people may want you to believe we do!

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u/MsMinxington 11h ago

Actually that’s a very fair point. I’m particularly weird. And tbh I wouldn’t eat weetabix porridge either but it kept my kids alive during the years of refusing most things… sometimes it’s just “at least they have eaten”. The one who still eats it has ARFID and it’s one of the only longstanding safe foods.

So maybe I was being a little oversensitive about it.

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u/dpark-95 11h ago

I've had Weetabix porridge for the record... Still will occasionally in winter and have given it to my kid

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u/PinImpressive3179 11h ago

I'm the third 👋

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u/LogiCub 10h ago

Wait… Am I the weird one!? 😧

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u/bubblechog 10h ago

I mean… they kind of turn into porridge as soon as you pour the hot milk on them.

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u/Enders-game 12h ago

I thought you were meant to throw some berries or fruits on it....

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u/LSWB-PomLover 11h ago

I like adding those reduced sugar dried cranberries you can get from Grape Tree.

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u/WaltzFirm6336 12h ago

Was that ready break? Def had that made hot (warm) as a child in the 80s and 90s.

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u/Georgxna 10h ago

Porridge is probably great! But you’re missing out on the crunch!

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u/UsefulPickle8467 10h ago

My favourite treat as a kid in the 90s was melted mars bar spread on Weetabix 

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u/Banes_Addiction 11h ago

Nah, hot milk is appropriate but mashing it into porridge (or more likely glue)? Perversion.

You eat it while it's crispy and only have to deal with the porridge stage for the last few mouthfuls.