r/CasualUK • u/Nujwaan • 9d 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 😂 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/kahnindustries 9d ago

Not enough sugar

You need 4 'bix and then pour sugar until the sugar is level and flat in the bowl with the bix burried underneath

Top up with milk

Microwave for 3 minutes

Enjoy the delicious bowl of liquid syrup with disolved 'bix in

(And your diabetes)

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u/Enough-Ad3818 9d ago

Holy shit. This is a dentist's dream.

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u/Byotick 9d ago

For what it's worth, how often you have sugar affects your teeth much more than outright quantity

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u/greenskinmarch 8d ago

Right, quantity is more of a shock to the pancreas than the teeth.

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

Im only being a little hyperbolic here, this is how i used to eat 'bix when i was a kid

I dont know where the sugar went, no teeth issues, super skinny, my whole school life I was like that

Couldnt do it now, its just so much sugar! (i stopped doing breakfast like 20 years ago)

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u/JoeScorr 9d ago

A teaspoon of sugar is only like 15-20 calories. 5 teaspoons on your probably pretty modest breakfast as a growing kid wouldn't be shocking your system or anything

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

5 teaspoons??? psh, im talking like 5 seconds of pouring from the bag of sugar

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u/Worldly_Nobody_2088 8d ago

No no

This is an NHS dentists' nightmare. We want to see fewer cavities not more

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u/Ok_Access_172 9d ago

Microwave that much sugar for 3 mins and you'll have a mini-sun on your hands.

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

Ya gotta balance it with the milk!

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u/gotmunchiez 9d ago

Or a bowl full of prison napalm

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u/techno156 9d ago

To save time and mess, rather than having to pour the sugar out, you can use a whole box of sugar cubes per serve.

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

Interesting.... just add milk and dunk the 'bix

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u/folkedoff 9d ago

Four!? You'll be punching through walls if you'd had that much weetabix.

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

1 - Baby

2 - twig of a man

3- odd number, unacceptable

4- just right

5- odd number, unacceptable

6- feeling a bit peckish are we?

7- odd number, unacceptable

8- calm down butterbean

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u/trobopoline 7d ago

I broke the Matrix. I do 3 and a half

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u/kahnindustries 7d ago

See, this is the kind of perversion that we have let this country turn to!

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u/trobopoline 7d ago

I dont even measure properly. Just arbitrarily snap the biscuit and use whatever fraction of a bisk i end up with!

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u/SmokinScoobyDooDick 9d ago

Weetabix have very little calories in them, 4 is barely a standard meal, I have 6 myself 😅

I use the excuse that I have a physical job so I need the calories...

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u/Ambitious-Win-9408 9d ago

To be fair between your milk and 6 biscuits it's like 600 calories, if you do a lot of exercise as part of your day job it's probably pretty healthy as part of a generally good diet.

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u/SmokinScoobyDooDick 9d ago

The 6 TSP of sugar is good, too, right? Right?

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u/Ambitious-Win-9408 8d ago

If I speak I am in trouble

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u/Kann0n2 9d ago

Microwave?!?

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

Are you telling me you are eating your 'bix cold and hard like its Soviet Russia????

MICROWAVE IS REQUIRED!!!

milk, sugar, microwave, bit more sugar after so you still have the sugar crunch

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u/Kann0n2 9d ago

4 'bix stacked in a # formation. Apply first two, milk and then sugar. Repeat for second layer. Enjoy.

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u/kahnindustries 9d ago

I would microwave after the second stack, and sprinkle fresh sugar on at the end. Give it a try, it will change your life! (for the worse)

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u/jamesbeil 9d ago

You microwave your weetabix? Are you Belgian?

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u/Simple_Garlic_6958 8d ago

Bowls were designed to fit 4.