do you eat a dessert every day?

meritaten

interesting.............this may sound rude but it would be even more interesting if I had asked you all to truthfully state whether you were overwieght or not! I really dont mean to offend - I just never realised that such a great percentage (if this impromptu poll is any indication) DID have a dessert every day!!!!

from what I can remember of my mum telling me about her childhood food (apart from the fact she went through a chip phase for a few years and even had them for breakfast) her diet was very similar to the one she gave us kids!
I do remember she said that no-one ever had pudding - sweets were for tea! she was from a very poor working class community and her family was thought a bit posh as they had a car! this was in the late thirties early 40s (war years) so it was affected by rationing.
rambling now!!! sorry, but I am wondering whether school meals have influenced people into thinking that a sweet course is normal and whether our present day problems with an overwieght society doesnt have something to do with that???

xxvickixx

meritaten wrote: »

interesting.............this may sound rude but it would be even more interesting if I had asked you all to truthfully state whether you were overwieght or not! I really dont mean to offend - I just never realised that such a great percentage (if this impromptu poll is any indication) DID have a dessert every day!!!!

from what I can remember of my mum telling me about her childhood food (apart from the fact she went through a chip phase for a few years and even had them for breakfast) her diet was very similar to the one she gave us kids!
I do remember she said that no-one ever had pudding - sweets were for tea! she was from a very poor working class community and her family was thought a bit posh as they had a car! this was in the late thirties early 40s (war years) so it was affected by rationing.
rambling now!!! sorry, but I am wondering whether school meals have influenced people into thinking that a sweet course is normal and whether our present day problems with an overwieght society doesnt have something to do with that???

I was wondering the same thing.
I'm a non pudding eater and was a healthy weight and size until I had my son, I've just managed to lose the baby weight so I can say that again though!

My parents had pudding every day with dinner but were both overweight until they dieted this year.

jcr16

we generally have a pudding after every evening meal. it is normally a piece of fruit or a yoghurt, jelly perhaps banana custard maybe a fairycake if i've been baking.

southernscouser

I was about to type 'never', but then remembered I ate half a chocolate gateua about 3 hours ago. :rotfl:

rubytuesday

Not usually, just sometimes at the weekends. Last night I made a rhubarb and apple crumble, with added oats, so reasonably healthy. Then tonight we had pancakes at ten o'clock as we'd only had homemade soup for dinner and 'needed' something extra.

MrsE_2

At home usually once or twice a week at most (most likely on Sundays).

But I usually bring a VLF yogurt & home made fruit salad to work as part of my lunch.

JodyBPM

DH & I rarely had puddings until we had the children, maybe on a special occasion or when we had friends round for dinner.

Since we've had the children, though, they seem to want puddings, so they have fruit, ice-cream, jelly, yoghurt etc. I do make the odd crumble or rice pudding too, but fairly infrequently. DH & I still wouldn't really have pudding, unless it was something special. I'm very careful on my portion sizes for the little ones desserts, though, and it wouldn't be anything other than a yoghurt or a piece of fruit at their light (sandwich type) meal, stuff like ice-cream or rice pud would be after their cooked meal. I don't think its a bad thing for the children, the most usual pudding is fresh fruit (eg strawberries/blueberries/pinapple etc) so its a good way of getting a variety of vitamins into them. And even yoghurts, rice pudding etc aren't too bad.

meritaten

I have to say that when i went to secondary school and had dinners - I couldnt face another pudding on arriving home!!! so usually skipped tea by claiming i was going to friends to do homework! same with sis but bro still loves his sweets! and I believe they have two courses for dinner and my bro is rather overwieght and sis and me??????????............I am about the right weight and sis is (in my opinion) underweight. neither of us ever have pudding at home and dont have a sweet tooth.

COCO-POPS_3

i was a very skinny child, and always had homemade cake or biscuits in my lunch box, and always had a proper puddign every tea time, crumbles, fruit pies etc

since leaving home many years ago, i've continued to eat 'puddings', but nowadays its usually fruit, or low fat yogurts, unless eating out.

my kids have same puddings as me at home, and have school dinners with puddings at lunchtime, one is dead skinny, as he is very active, the other is the right weight for his height

ciderwithrosie_2

Puddings wrote: »

and in fact even when I'm so stuffed from a meal there's always room for pudding.

My son would agree with you there, when he was little he used to think his stomach had compartments, he'd say 'my dinner part is full now' - but my pudding part isn't'