British Expats - Ready Brek

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- The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)

- - Ready Brek - does it exist (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/ready-brek-does-exist-641145/)

dollface

Nov 19th 2009 2:14 am

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8110164)

Convenient hours, coinciding with when kids are home and have to be accompanied, plus summers off seems to be the main attraction.

She used to work an early shift...before kids. The trick is to get to drive the run your own kids are on...but I suspect in our case I will still be taking the kids in, there's irony!

indeed! do the bus companies try to accomodate you on your kids bus?

iaink

Nov 19th 2009 2:16 am

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Originally Posted by dollface (Post 8110171)

indeed! do the bus companies try to accomodate you on your kids bus?

That's what she's been told in her preliminary enquiries. Its not always possible of course.

bodgerx

Nov 19th 2009 2:17 am

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8110016)

Dont go there, there isnt a cereal we havent tried. Mostly its ones with marshmallows that work for a while, but its more sugar and shit isnt it.

They will eat the maple flavoured instant oatmeal though, and the dino one.

We have a 3.5 year old daughter. She seems to have a love for sugar. At breakfast time, we found the best idea was to buy a standard (untainted by choc/sugar etc) cereal and put some natural honey on there. Better than refined sugar I suppose. So she will now merrily chomp down weetabix, porridge, shreddies etc without complaint.

iaink

Nov 19th 2009 2:29 am

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Originally Posted by bodgerx (Post 8110176)

Been there, done that. Vanilla Shreddies worked for a while without anything...something of a miracle.

Didnt last of course...

nldfc

Nov 19th 2009 2:40 am

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The Maple Syrup / Honey trick works very well - But when you are trying to feed the little buggers and get them out the door in double quick time that when you usually find a couple of sticky things in the babies hair and the 4 yr old is almost guaranteed to be stuck to the chair :unsure:

nldfc

Nov 19th 2009 4:17 am

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This thread has just reminded me I have them both on my lonesome next week while the wife is out of town :frown:

Cue the complaints of - Thats not how mummy washes our faces , thats not how mummy does our hair , thats not what mummy makes us wear to daycare etc etc etc

bodgerx

Nov 19th 2009 8:44 am

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Originally Posted by nldfc (Post 8110402)

Oh yes. Fun times. Even though I reckon I do an absolutely fantastic job of washing my daughters hair, with not a drop of water in the eyes, there are always screams of pain..."why can't mummy wash my hair!!". She may come to forgive me in 20 years time...

iaink

Nov 19th 2009 8:47 am

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I'm not allowed to do their hair. But then, to be fair, I have a lousy track record, so I dont blame them....

dollface

Nov 19th 2009 9:20 am

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8110958)

I'm not allowed to do their hair. But then, to be fair, I have a lousy track record, so I dont blame them....

yeah, my o/h doesn't do their har either...........aint pretty when he's attempted it! although I should be grateful he at least has attempted it!:thumbup:

devilzsoup

Nov 19th 2009 9:28 pm

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I've never found it... maybe in a UK specialist shop? They're all over the place these days! I was told that the closest they have to it over here is cream of wheat... as an avid ready-brek eater since I was old enough to shovel it into my gob I will tell you it is SO not the same! I regularly try and get people back home to send me supplies but all I get is Galaxy bars... not that I'm complaining!

UK import shops are your best bet I'd say.

nldfc

Nov 20th 2009 12:56 am

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Originally Posted by dollface (Post 8111042)

yeah, my o/h doesn't do their har either...........aint pretty when he's attempted it! although I should be grateful he at least has attempted it!:thumbup:

Funnily enough when I pick them up from daycare their hair is never the same as it was when i took them in :lol: and there is usually a note in their bags telling me about the 20 things that I forgot to send with them in the morning :confused:

dollface

Nov 20th 2009 12:59 am

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Originally Posted by nldfc (Post 8112606)

Daycares are so fickle!

pinkkristen

Nov 20th 2009 1:23 am

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Originally Posted by gloveman (Post 8107997)

Anyone know of anything like Ready Brek we can get over here. You know the stuff - empty packet of powder into bowl, add milk, shove in microwave and hey presto a hot breakfast the kids will eat. Everything I've tried is more like sloppy, wet porridge.

I have looked and looked aswell but cannot find anything that is the same, though its not for the kids its for me!:o

nldfc

Nov 20th 2009 2:01 am

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Originally Posted by dollface (Post 8112617)

Daycares are so fickle!

My thoughts exactly - If kids needed sweaters in November I'm quite sure God would have given them fur or something :D

dollface

Nov 20th 2009 2:04 am

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Originally Posted by nldfc (Post 8112808)

My thoughts exactly - If kids needed sweaters in November I'm quite sure God would have given them fur or something :D

Exactly - hope they feel really "sheepish" now:lol:

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