Do you eat pudding?

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

I am pretty good at mealplanning and cost saving thanks to this website but I am thinking about ways to cut back further as winter looms. I wondered how many people regularly make puddings to feed their families, rather than as an occasional treat?

When I was little Mum made lots of puddings, which I now realise was a way to fill us up if there wasnt a lot of the main course. I accept that many puddings arent very healthy but is it really so terrible to have a fruit pie or crumble 2 or 3 times a week?

I have never been overweight so Mums puddings never did me any harm but its probably not the done thing nowadays. What do you think?

crockpot

I think we should bring back pudding!

Comfort food and can be a cheap way to fill up and carbs last.

I have made bread today and a fish pie. hoping the bread will help keep there little tums full after a busy day at school.

But going for pudding tomorrow, although it might only be buns!

rachbc

I do a pud on sundays only - fruit the rest of the time. Even a fruit crumble is full or suagr and fat so I woudln't want to be feeding the kids them more than once a week.

lostinrates

rachbc wrote: »

I do a pud on sundays only - fruit the rest of the time. Even a fruit crumble is full or suagr and fat so I woudln't want to be feeding the kids them more than once a week.

you can do fruit puddings with out.

I have quite a sweet tooth and like hot things in winter, so fruit can seem a bit grim at the end of the evening. Sometimes I'll halve a peach and put some berries on it and put it in the oven and have it perhaps with some yogurt and a drizzle of honey (yep, there is ''sugar'' in there) and a spinkle of pollen too. Or I make an apple suace with no sweetener but a little clove or cinnamon and have that with yogurt. Or an orange, peeled sliced and left to infuse with its own juice and a little spice of somesort...star anise or a cardamon pod or something. I just find it more cheering.

In the summer I make fruit salads. Thinks like melon with some rose water left to infuse, or just a mix of berries, or mint shredded over fruit.


tbh, when its not cold, even prepping fruit, and apple cut into eights and arranged on a plate, it feels ''more indulgent'' and nicer to share at the table than just chomping on a whole one.

BitterAndTwisted

Active kids need calories, so if they're being fed a healthy diet I don't see anything wrong with a lovely comforting baked pudding a couple of times a week. We ate one every day at school and often had one at night with our dinner as well. None of us were overweight. Apple pie. Apple and blackberry crumble. Bread and butter pudding. Apricot flan. Stewed prunes and custard. Banana custard. Rhubarb crumble. Yummy, yummy, yummy

tanith

We love puddings in our family but I do only make what I call a proper pudding once or twice a week.. I often make all sorts of crumbles, pies , and tarts, I make them from fruit thats I either pick from the wild , grow or is given by neighbours.. I will have some ice-cream with fresh raspberries/strawberries from the garden or apple and blackberry crumble . I think children especially benefit from puddings they love them of course and if the rest of their diet is balanced and healthy then I say give them pudding every day, it can just be cooked apples/rhubarb and custard or pancakes and fruit.. its part of being a child having your Mum cook puddings.. don't deny them.. I'd rather they got a pudding than crisps or sweets any day.. I'm a grandmother now but I remember watching my Mum cook puddings for us and the excitment when we asked 'whats for pudding Mum?'....

FoxFace

We don't do puddings often anymore. We do all have some fruit & yoghurt after our main meal if we are still a bit hungry, but not full blown baked puds However with the abundance of free hedge/tree food like apples and blackberries, now is as good a time as any to stock up

quintwins

we do puddinsg but they tend to be incentives to eat all there dinner instead of to fill them up, we have custard rice pudding yogurt tinned fruit or maybe a wee bit of chocolate and on rare ocasions ice cream

tootoo

i love puddings and try to do these later on for me and hubby when lo is in bed (she's 19 months) when we do have them. She usually has pudding but occasionally isn't bothered and will happily skip it. When she is older though i will try and do them. My mum never seemed to have time as she worked a lot to bring us up, I have lovely memories of my grandma making puddings and cakes for us though.

TrixieB

If we are having a light dinner such as omelettes or soup then I am doing puddings, this is mostly for money reasons, puds are cheap and filling

valk_scot

rachbc wrote: »

I do a pud on sundays only - fruit the rest of the time. Even a fruit crumble is full or suagr and fat so I woudln't want to be feeding the kids them more than once a week.

Puddings don't have to be full of sugar and/or fat. Stewed fruit or baked bananas or apples with custard or greek yoghurt, fruit fools made with greek yoghurt, crumble with oat topping, fat free whisked sponge mix used as topping for fruit puds, rice pudding with semi skimmed milk and raisins rather than sugar to sweeten, bread and butter pudding....oh, there's lots of relatively healthy puds. And you don't eat them on top of your normal big portions of main course, you cut down the amount of mains and fill up with pud.

The other way to do it is to have a soup and pud night once per week, with no main coarse. This really is a good night to have the heavier puddings like pineapple upside down cake and custard etc.