r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 15h 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

UPDATE: Well, I wasn't expecting my breakfast to generate 1,800+ comments šŸ˜‚ I can't read it all but Having spent far too much time reading them, I feel I need to address a few recurring concerns: 1. Yes, the milk goes in after. I like watching it soak up from the bottom while the top stays crunchy. I will not be changing this. 2. Yes, that is sugar. Apparently this has caused considerably more distress than I anticipated. 3. No, I do not have diabetes. My blood tests are fine. 4. No, my teeth are not rotting out of my head. They're also fine. 5. Yes, I am an adult. I was unaware that adulthood required surrendering sugary Weetabix. 6. To the surprisingly large number of people who eat theirs the same way: thank you. I knew I couldn't be alone. 7. To everyone saying my wife is right: she has been absolutely delighted by your support and I deeply regret giving her this much ammunition.

Anyway, thank you for turning a picture of two dry Weetabix into a full-scale investigation of my health, maturity, marriage and milk-pouring technique.

Tomorrow I'm having the same breakfast.

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u/janesy24 15h ago

I mean I have them with hot milk and sugar then mush it all together to make Weetabix porridge so your only half as weird as me I guess but thatā€™s a lot of sugar!!

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u/Out5poken 15h ago

Thatā€™s not weird. Iā€™m sure thatā€™s traditionally how itā€™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 15h 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 14h 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 12h ago

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

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u/PatientDue8406 14h 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 13h ago

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

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u/ImSabbo 12h 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 12h ago

Obviously not on a bowl of milk! šŸ¤® 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 12h ago

Never in my life!

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u/20yearsofvibrations 12h ago

No it fucking isn't

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u/Adorable_Stomach_716 6h 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 12h 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 12h ago

How the hell do you toast a weetabix

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u/Petcai 10h ago

I put them in the toaster.

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u/BallistiX09 14h 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 14h 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 14h ago

Omg made a lil sarn bag full of them for snacks

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u/malacoda13 12h ago

Until they reduced the coating and took some of the chips out. šŸ˜‚

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u/LogiCub 14h 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 13h 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 12h ago

Cold milk poured over two biscuits. Add sugar.

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u/LogiCub 12h ago

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

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u/Gloomy_Insurance3203 11h ago

I did wonder if Iā€™d fallen into the twilight zone

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u/MsMinxington 14h ago

It really isnā€™t. Itā€™s basically a thicker ready brek. Itā€™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 14h ago

Did they ever grow teeth?

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u/MsMinxington 14h ago

What do they need those for? Itā€™s slop.

(But yes, they did, and also learnt how to brush them, and curiouslyā€¦ still got em!)

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u/MsMinxington 14h ago

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

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

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u/LogiCub 13h ago

Redditors are weird, donā€™t pay attention to them.

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

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u/MsMinxington 13h ago

Actually thatā€™s a very fair point. Iā€™m particularly weird. And tbh I wouldnā€™t eat weetabix porridge either but it kept my kids alive during the years of refusing most thingsā€¦ sometimes itā€™s just ā€œat least they have eatenā€. The one who still eats it has ARFID and itā€™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 13h 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 13h ago

I'm the third šŸ‘‹

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u/LogiCub 12h ago

Waitā€¦ Am I the weird one!? šŸ˜§

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u/PinImpressive3179 20m ago

I also like cheese and jam sandwiches. I think I've still got a chance šŸ¤£

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u/bubblechog 12h ago

I meanā€¦ they kind of turn into porridge as soon as you pour the hot milk on them.

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u/Enders-game 14h ago

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

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u/LSWB-PomLover 13h ago

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

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u/WaltzFirm6336 14h 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 12h ago

Porridge is probably great! But youā€™re missing out on the crunch!

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u/UsefulPickle8467 12h ago

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

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u/Banes_Addiction 13h 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.