Do you eat pudding?

YORKSHIRELASS

mardatha wrote: »

I love pudding! I fed my kids soup and pudding often instead of a main course. I like the idea of a proper meal of two courses, and then no rubbish like crisps or juice or sweeties, just another proper meal later. It's a different way of feeding kids but we weren't so fat or overweight in the 50s and 60s so it must be ok!

This is exactly my point. If your kids get lots of exercise, rarely drink fizzy drinks, dont often have sweets and get everything cooked from scratch then surely an occasional pudding is OK? I accept that there are many big differences between now and 50 years ago but I try to encourage my kids to have a balanced diet and get lots of activity, preferably outdoors.

Of course if I was feeding my kids chicken nuggets and chips followed by treacle sponge and custard every day then thats a different matter!

Rummer

In my mind the main reason for eating dinner is so that you can have a pudding :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We have a real mix though from delicious fresh fruit to ice lollies or home baking.

lisawood78

PUDDING PUDDING PUDDING - YUM!
That is all :-)

QueenB.

There is always a little something for afters in my house, but there is only a couple of times a week its a big pudding/cake. As long as kids have a majority healthy diet and get plenty of excercise some type of afters after their dinner is not something i see as a problem. On the odd occasion there is nothing in the fridge or cupboard i get some very grumbly children:D

On top of that my kids eat fruit all throughout the day and munch on the fresh veg we grow and run around the garden at every oppertunity no matter the weather. My kids are happy and healthy and have a mum who loves to bake:D

Weigh that up against so many kids in our society today who eat prepackaged cardboard type meals, normally in front of the TV and rarely see fresh fruit or veg, except maybe on TV or in school (due to my OH and I both working in schools this is sadly something we have both come across.) Or they have a diet that regulary includes fizzy drinks and take aways/fast food.

I think my kids have the better deal plus as another poster said............puddings YUM:rotfl:

Blackhill

When my boys were little we always had pudding, especially milky ones. They were not brilliant milk drinkers so this got more nutrition into them. They both loved being outdoors and needed the extra calories. Have always cooked from scratch so they were not eating on top of high calorie, low nutrition meals, also they ate very little rubbish in between meals. Both away studying now so OH and I only have puddings at weekends when boys home. Need to lose a little weight so suits us.

scaredy_cat

would having a pudding after a meal counter the want for a bar of chocolate?

i think a home made pudding is better as you know what's in it. Yes there may be fats, but butter is a natural product, not full of chemicals like marg or sweets.

meritaten

I have NEVER done pudding! I serve enough at lunch or dinner they dont need pudding to fill them up! sweet treats are fine - they got those at tea time. My oldest gd has for the last year demanded (and got) pudding and she is now really overwieght - and I am really annoyed at my daughter for pandering to her!

BitterAndTwisted

Fat kids need to run around. Scratch that, all kids need to run around. I can imagine that if children aren't fed a proper, cooked-from-scratch diet then puddings at every meal might not be such a good idea. Unfortunately I suspect that some parents really don't understand that letting kids stuff sweets, crisps and soft drinks down their gullets 24/7 on top of ruddy nuggets and chips three times a week is where the calorie-count and fat is really stacking up and it's not the innocent rice pudding or plum crumble..

cooking-mama

We only occasionaly have a pudding,and when we do it tends to be a weekend treat,I can see where the OP is coming from tho,and was thinking something similar myself,altho instead of adding a pudding,im thinking about serving soup everyday as a 1st course before the main meal.

valk_scot

Eating a pudding every day doesn't make folk fat. It's what you eat in total over a day or week or year that can make you fat, in balance with what exercise you take. Also there's no difference whether your fat, sugar and calories or fruit, protein and carbs come from puddings, main courses or snacks. The real danger of puddings is that folk tend to eat them as well as a big main course meal, as an extra little treat. If you look instead at the entire meal as one nutritional package it's much easier to fit in a pudding without getting too much food. A lighter meat and veg based main course can be lacking in carbs and calcium so it's an ideal time to have rice pud. Pasta and vegetable sauce? Not quite enough protein perhaps so have baked egg custard with some fruit puree to sweeten. Chilli and rice? Have fruit salad for pud.

And watch the portion sizes of course...a quick way to do this is to imagine putting everything on one dinner plate. If your normal dinner plate would be overflowing round the edges then your portions of main + pud courses are too big compared to if you just ate a main coarse and no pud.