Do you eat pudding?

LilahDavies

Crumble, crumble, crumble. Super cheap and can be made with pretty much any kind of fruit - just get creative and ask neighbours who have fruit trees for any of their spare gluts!!! Up the amount of porridge oats and reduce the butter and sugar content to make it healthier.
Also lovely is baked fruit - such as peaches, nectarines, pears, apples. Wrap up in foil with a teaspoon of honey (I add a sprig of lavender to peaches - yummy) and a teaspoon of vanilla extract and slam in the oven for twenty minutes. I usually serve with a scoop of ice-cream or plain yoghurt.

dreamyd

We never had pudding generally when I was growing up, but I can clearly rememberthat Mum would often do a fuit pie in whoelmeal pastry with home made custard as Sunday tea. Our garden was full of fruit (raspberries and gooseberries mostly) Things got quite tight at various points (Dad was made redundant twice) so I guess that made for a relatively cheap and nutritious meal.

DH and I will have one at weekends, but most of the time we're too busy.

thefourgeorges

I do puddings quite alot... although its not served immediatly after our meal. Pudding comes a bit later, when their meal has begun to wear off and they have hunger pangs. I would much rather they had a homemade pudding for supper than filling up on crisps and chocolate bars.

These are the sorts of things they have
Upside down cupcakes - pineapple, apple, banana, orange with or without plain choc chunk etc
Jam Tarts with extra fruit
Ginger and apple sponge loaf
layered rice pudding (layered with pureed berries)
lemon bread n butter pudding
mini crumbles
blueberry & walnut brownies

With exception of the rice pudding they are all served with either real ice cream, custard or cream... yes shock horror!

I find making things in ramekin dishes or portioning into cupcakes instead of making a huge cake means there is less chance (as they are generally batch frozen) of giving too big a portion or having 2nds. I make them all once a month and batch freeze.

Personally I think that there is a place for everything in a diet, and providing its properly balanced there is no reason that you should avoid certain types of foods. However I still think that a real homemade pudding (yes with sugar butter and cream!) is still alot healthier than the chemically filled confectionary found in the sweetie isles. My kids arent denied sweets, but they rarely ask for them after pudding (and they wouldnt get one then anyway!).

LameWolf

Sometimes; it depends upon the size of the main course, and, tbh, whether I feel well enough to make a pudding.

We sometimes have fruit crumble, but we only have very small portions, and have it on its own, so really, it's just fruit, a little sugar, and oat and butter topping.

If we have bananas wanting to be used up, we have one sliced (between the two of us) with a little HM strawberry jam, but without cream.

In summer, there's usually HM ice cream in the freezer - I tend to use 1/2 cream and 1/2 yogurt to make it, as we prefer this.

I sometimes put frozen fruit (pyo then frozen at home) in a jelly - I get vegetarian jelly crystals from Holland and Barratt; one pack does the two of us for two days.

If it's a cold day AND I have the energy AND we have milk wanting using up, I'll do a rice pudding, which again, we have with a little HM strawberry jam.

If there's l/o cake wanting using - for instance carrot'n'orange cake, we'll use that up for pudding, so that I can make something fresh for Mr LW's lunch box.

I have a really tiny appetite, so pudding is usually served an hour or more after main course, as I can't eat it straight away - tbh, my "main course" would qualify for most people as a "starter":D

HTH.

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if I have soup as a starter then no pud but if I miss out the soup then its a pud.I made some stewed apples and custard yesterday from some freebie apples that were given to me and there is enough for at least 3 days My late Mum always feed us kids like this as it streeetches the main meal a bit if you are trying to cut down a bit on meat and fill the family up.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Not really, as DDs always received plenty of puddings at school and I far prefer savoury foods anyway. I would buy yoghurts sometimes, but mostly, there is fruit available.

Occasionally on Saturday afternoons in winter, I will make a crumble or bake a cake, but the youngest has taken over the baking side of things now. I can quite often come in to find muffins cooling on a rack or open the fridge door to find jelly sitting there setting.



I am quite perturbed by people who insist on puddings as though they are still six years old and at school (older people, not worried - it was a fairly normal thing, but under 50, it's weird). I have had a boyfriend who would eat a huge meal and always moan that he hadn't got his pudding at the end - it usually meant he wanted chocolate or syrup sponge with evaporated milk and custard and cream. But not homemade in 5 minutes with an egg, flour, sugar and syrup in the microwave. Always tinned.



I would rather have more useful food (ie, not more empty calories, ones with protein and vitamins involved, rather than mostly sugar and fat)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Not really, as DDs always received plenty of puddings at school and I far prefer savoury foods anyway. I would buy yoghurts sometimes, but mostly, there is fruit available.

Occasionally on Saturday afternoons in winter, I will make a crumble or bake a cake, but the youngest has taken over the baking side of things now. I can quite often come in to find muffins cooling on a rack or open the fridge door to find jelly sitting there setting.



I am quite perturbed by people who insist on puddings as though they are still six years old and at school (older people, not worried - it was a fairly normal thing, but under 50, it's weird). I have had a boyfriend who would eat a huge meal and always moan that he hadn't got his pudding at the end - it usually meant he wanted chocolate or syrup sponge with evaporated milk and custard and cream. But not homemade in 5 minutes with an egg, flour, sugar and syrup in the microwave. Always tinned.



I would rather have more useful food (ie, not more empty calories, ones with protein and vitamins involved, rather than mostly sugar and fat)

kmiller4

I have a question that I hope someone will answer please. In America (where I am from) pudding is a custardy type dessert made with milk, sugar, a thickener and flavoring (yes we spell it wrong!) such as vanilla or cocoa powder, and then cooked on the stove (we also have instant non-cook varieties). It is cooled (refrigerated) and served in a small bowl, sometimes with whipped sweet cream. Sometimes it is used as a filling between cake layers as well.

I always thought English puddings were steamed cakes like plum pudding, but it appears from your posts that you call almost any type of post-meal sweet a "pudding". Can someone please explain the term "pudding" as it is used in the UK/Ireland? Is it a "slang" for all types of desserts?

Thanks in advance--
Kathy

valk_scot

kmiller4 wrote: »

I always thought English puddings were steamed cakes like plum pudding, but it appears from your posts that you call almost any type of post-meal sweet a "pudding". Can someone please explain the term "pudding" as it is used in the UK/Ireland? Is it a "slang" for all types of desserts?

Pudding is the dessert course, yup. But you'd have to be either dead posh or in marketing to call it dessert in everyday speech. Round here anyway!

TrixieB

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

I have worked in full daycare nurseries for years and we always gave the children a freshly cooked 2 course lunch. Latterly due to the concerns over children's health/obesity we were expected to closely monitor the type of food we provided and follow the guidance produced by the Scottish Government, which does provide useful information on portions and menu plans.

I know the guidance I speak of is geared more to children under 5yrs but it does give some useful. I'm not sure how to post link but you can find it by searching "Nutritional guidance"

http://scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/89729/0021563.pdf

I found this fascinating when I first read it, esp about portion sizes. Hope someome finds it useful