do you eat a dessert every day?

onlyroz

Puddings wrote: »

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

I really don't understand this attitude. Why do people enjoy feeling so bloated that they can hardly move? I prefer to stop eating when I'm full - this is prob why I'm thin and my mum is fat - because she firmly holds with the ridiculous "clean your plate" mentality.

lostinrates

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No children though...DH is a big kid though.

''Pudding'' mid week would usually be some prepared fruit, though, either raw fruit salad, or maybe cooked and served with yogurt, so not like steamed pudding and custard or cake. I'm a bit weird and would very rarely serve DH just one course as a meal, but that doesn't mean always a sugary pudding...sometimes for example its cheese after a ''main course'' which itself came after salad or something. That's ony nowbecause I don't work. I did used o go to a lot of palaver over meals when I did work, but I'm not sure I would now.
when its just me I might have a piece of fruit unprepared or a yogurt too, but more likely not too. Very occasionally I make a sugar free jelly for my mid week /husband free suppers. But more likely to have a snacky meal...rather than ''courses''

brighthair

depends what pudding is classed as - I usually have something but a couple of hours after my meal. I've just had a low fat probiotic yoghurt, and thats my pudding tonight

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As an adult I rarely have puddings, I just don't want them and lol, they're a bit expensive (even buying extra fruit) except at Christmas I make trifle but I tend to have dinner, then a few hours later have the trifle but it would probably mean missing another full meal as I'd be full.

However, I do remember as a child loving puddings of any kind. A meal wouldn't have been a meal without a pudding lol. And as it was the 70's early 80's they were probably full of every E number going lol! (Angel Delight, Instant Whip, Jam Rolly polly, Birds topping, packet lemon meringue with a biscuit base .., anything u'd throw your arms up in horror at eating now we loved then lolol). Poor kids, they get a piece of fruit and have to consider themselves lucky now lolol.

Buttonmoons

We hardly ever have puddings, because I can't be bothered to make em :rotfl: If there is ice cream in the freezer then whoever wants can help themselves after dinner, but it's not regimented and it's not often there is room in the freezer for a tub of ice cream. Sometimes we will all eat some ice cream before dinner.

I do like my home made apple crumbles though, shame DD doesn't, she seems to have issues with things sprinkled in sugar (but not things with invisible sugar, like chocolate, ice cream, sweets......rascal she is)

Spendless

pigpen wrote: »

Our school do have fruit as a dessert option.. it isn't all cake and custard like in ye olden days!! They also get a helping of fruit at morning break as well so they get lots of food!

in primary they cannot have the dessert until they have eaten a decent amount of dinner so I don't see the issue..

if we go out for dinner I ALWAYS have dessert.. and quite often at home we have dessert of fruit, yohurts, ice cream or cake.. they are fabulous incentive for small children to eat all their dinner up.. or at least most of it.

Can you describe how that system works? In the school I've worked in plus the 2 that my kids attend, the children get their pudding at the same time as the main meal. With the best will in the world, I can see that the lunchtime supervisors who are on table duty can't watch how much every single child is eating before progressing onto dessert. Not even if the school is operating 1 dinner lady per class. It's still 30 kids to watch. Unless you are talking about a very small village school.:cool:

I should imagine that the reason schools provide a dessert stems back into the history of school dinners themselves and the reason why they were provided - which I'm guessing here, unaware of how long ago they started-wopuld be to ensure a child got at least 1 hot main meal everyday.

It is extremely rare that I would do a pud and custard or cake type of pudding, but yogurts and fruit are always in and sometimes follow immediately after the meal sometimes not.

MERFE

we rarely have a dessert, less than once a month probably but growing up we had something everyday after dinner. It was quite often just a yoghurt or piece of fruit but sometimes a jam tart, muffin, banana and custard as well as a big dessert on sunday.

splishsplash

a/b: We have desserts in fits and starts - we'll have them every day for a week or two, then none for a few weeks. The usual is ice-cream, berries with chocolate in some form thrown in for good measure. We never have 'puddings', although the children like rice pudding - they buy it in tins sometimes. I can't look at it or handle it without gagging, so I pass on that.

I eat starter and main when I'm out, very rarely dessert. The kids always have dessert when we're out - they view it as the highlight of their meal.

We're all a healthy weight, none of us officially overweight, though I could lose a stone now. I've crept up to the upper level of the BMI range over the past year or two, and I can't pretend it's muscle, I'm afraid. It's the dreaded middle-age spread, I think, and every bit of it is between shoulders and hips - not good. Bikinis are dead to me now:(.

I was a skinny child, and remained thin up until the past year or two, mainly because I was always very active, despite always having home made apple pies, lemon meringue pies, cream horns, eclairs, fairy cakes, you name it. We had something lovely every day, and always ate everything with a huge amount of whipped cream with sugar in. I really must get my cholesterol checked...

Puddings

ciderwithrosie wrote: »

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'

OMG I thought I was the only one - I've always said I have too stomachs, one for savoury, one for sweet - I still use that excuse now if I go stay with my nanna and I'm nearly 30

Puddings

onlyroz wrote: »

I really don't understand this attitude. Why do people enjoy feeling so bloated that they can hardly move? I prefer to stop eating when I'm full - this is prob why I'm thin and my mum is fat - because she firmly holds with the ridiculous "clean your plate" mentality.

No idea, I dont do it often but yes sometimes i'm so full it hurts and me and the OH flop out on the sofa groaning after a meal out (normally all-you-can-eat ) but I love my food and if something tastes good I eat it until its gone...food is my only 'vice' and I counteract it with exercise so I'm happy. I'm an emotional eater so with me its not always a physically hungry thing..