do you eat a dessert every day?

CupOfChai

I adore puddings! I'm one of those who have the need for something sweet after the main meal of the day, which for me is evenings, but I don't always have any dessert because I'm also in the "a pudding every day leads to gaining weight" group! So I must force myself to resist about half the nights of the week.

It's the same with drinking, I'd love to have a glass of wine with dinner more nights than I actually do have it but can't because I would gradually put on weight.

Meritaten, I'd say that in usual circumstances anything sweet eaten fairly soon after the main plate of food counts as a dessert of sorts.

janthemum

As a family probably once a week, two at a push. We enjoy the main meal and no one ever wants one so I dont make or buy any. Occasionally I have a tub of ice cream in, in case but it can stay in freezer for months.

I will do an apple pie or crumble or something similar once a week but cant say any of them are keen.

andrealuton

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???

Interestingly it's my MIL and FIL who have 'pudding' every night, and us who don't. Granted their pudding is often a piece of fruit or a yogurt or something. They do have a baked pud on Sundays after their roast.

We eat puds some of the time. I like to bake...which means that often there is something that needs eating!

kitschkitty

We rarely have "puddings" at home after a meal, but I personally regularly eat fruit after a meal (lunch or tea), or sometimes a yoghurt, and my OH is a sugar addict so will eat cakes, chocolate and biscuits all day long given the chance.

kitschkitty

meritaten wrote: »

I couldnt believe it when i saw I had 50 replies to my thread!!! obviously a subject dear to peoples hearts!!!! Thanks all for some illuminating and humourous replies! reading them all has been a joy!
I see that the 'nevers' are increasing but the 'always' are still in the majority!
I am trying to decide whether a peice of fruit or a yoghurt or even small peice of chocolate counts as dessert!!!!
keep the posts coming and I might actually do a count later on tonight!!!

Well you are meant to have at least 5 a day (minimum) fruit and veg, so I think it's important to have some fruit in your diet, and so generally I'd eat it after a meal.

Unless it's a bowl of fruit salad or fruit and jelly I don't call it dessert, but I do think of it as an alternative to dessert as I wouldn't be eating fruit & cake/pudding after a meal.

jackieb

I'm very surprised at the amount of people who have puddings every day! We usually have one on a Sunday and that's about it. If i'm only making soup, or soup and sandwiches for supper, then i'll probably make a pudding.

kitschkitty

Bufger wrote: »

Always. Its never usually right after dinner though but i always have something sweet i would consider a dessert. Sometimes its a chocolate bar, sometimes fruit, sometimes icecream (last night was bananas and icecream whilst watching X-Men im such a child)

The only exception is when i go out for meals i never have a dessert. Maybe im just completely backwards, hehe

See my mum sometimes says she'll have chocolate/sweets after tea for dessert, but I would never call or consider it a dessert/pudding, but a sweet snack.

I think it's actually interesting how people see fruit, yoghurt, and sweets/chocolate in regards to when in the day they'd eat them, and if it's as part of a meal, as a snack (in addition to a meal), or in place of part of a meal.

lostinrates

kitschkitty wrote: »

I think it's actually interesting how people see fruit, yoghurt, and sweets/chocolate in regards to when in the day they'd eat them, and if it's as part of a meal, as a snack (in addition to a meal), or in place of part of a meal.

I'd have fruit, yogurt and chocolate as pat of a meal, a snack or in place of a meal..so all of these options.

kitschkitty

I will have fruit or yogurt as part of a meal, or sometimes as a snack, I wouldn't ever consider chocolate or sweets as anything other than a snack(treat).

But my OH just eats whatever he wants whenever he feels like it and he never eats 2 main meals a day without snacking through the day, and he'll often miss meals, if he doesn't feel like eating a real meal.

lostinrates

kitschkitty wrote: »

I will have fruit or yogurt as part of a meal, or sometimes as a snack, I wouldn't ever consider chocolate or sweets as anything other than a snack(treat).

But my OH just eats whatever he wants whenever he feels like it and he never eats 2 main meals a day without snacking through the day, and he'll often miss meals, if he doesn't feel like eating a real meal.

re chocolates...I eat chocolate once a month ..hormonal reasons and DH gets me a small box of chocolate from a chocolate shop. I usually have them after a meal, maybe half an hour after, with a cup of coffee. Not unlike having after dinner mints I suppose. But something I used to do a lot when friends dropped in unannounced at lunch time was serve soup and then a bar of ''nice'' chocolate broken up roughly on a plate with some coffee afterwards: because often I had nothing to make up a pudding with in the house.