Pudding?

ibizafan_2

Having been born in the 50s, I think it was common to have some kind of pudding every day. I can remember rice pudding, semolina, banana and custard type stuff in the week, and crumbles, jam roly poly, spotted !!!!!! etc on a Sunday. This was well before yogurt, which is what I have these days. Another favourite was tinned fruit and evaporated milk after Sunday tea. I don't think I've eaten much tinned fruit since!

Tiglath

ibizafan wrote: »

Having been born in the 50s, I think it was common to have some kind of pudding every day. I can remember rice pudding, semolina, banana and custard type stuff in the week, and crumbles, jam roly poly, spotted !!!!!! etc on a Sunday. This was well before yogurt, which is what I have these days. Another favourite was tinned fruit and evaporated milk after Sunday tea. I don't think I've eaten much tinned fruit since!

I grew up in the 60s/70s and that's exactly what we did I still love tapioca and macaroni, but just can't do rice pudding the way my Nan did so you get lovely caramelized brown bits to scrape off the side. If we didn't have evap, it was sterilised cream whipped up with a fork.

Lotus-eater

My kids (and us) are given a pudding option at all meals, fruit (or mixed fruit salad, or plain live yoghurt (full fat for kids, low fat for us)) and a bit of HM jam or some muesli.

Take it or leave it, lol. They always take it.

Once in a blue moon ice cream or something else, usually special occasions.

balletshoes

TheConways wrote: »

In the 80s when I was at Primary School, everyone had pudding every day... My grandparents also had pudding everyday after dinner - typically something heavy with custard, or a semolina/rice pudding. That said, they came from the era of rations and war, whereas we don't!

yes, me too. We had a main course (far stodgier main than primary schools serve now too) and then a pudding (caramel tart and custard was my favourite ).

At DD's nursery school they got pasta bake or sandwiches etc for main at lunchtime, followed by a pudding, which was yoghurt/mousse/fruit/cheese & crackers/biscuit/occasionally sponge cake.

balletshoes

liney wrote: »

Life is too short to call yoghurt a treat!

some yoghurts are gorgeous - greek style set flavoured yoghurt is yummy .

quinechinoise

silly_moo wrote: »

My LO will start nursery later in the year and I have asked for a sample menu. I was surprised to see that children have pudding every day there. Surely at under 2 years old they don't need apple crumble with custard?

My son's nursery is the same. Ditto my daughter's school. Having 2 full-on courses helps expose them to a wider variety of foodstuffs at a faster rate. Sometimes they think it was yuck. Other times, it just means sandwiches for tea because they had a large lunch and don't want to eat much.

I think having the pudding course might be to ensure the kids eat something, even if they don't like the main course. On the other hand, sometimes they don't like the puddings either - which means all they've been eating is extra fruit at snack times...

skintchick

Hardly ever have pudding here. DD sometimes has a yoghurt but not that often - she has one with lunch at preschool or as a snack but not as a pudding really.

I sometimes have a bit of chocolate in the evening though.

Pudding is just one more thing to have to cook and clear up.

Gillyx

No 'pudding' as such but I usually have something sweet once all the dishes are cleared away and I'm having my post dinner coffee, usually a yogurt, or fruit or a couple of jaffa cakes.

I would always have a proper pudding after a Sunday Roast, so crumble, cheesecake etc. But my partner works late Sundays so I don't tend to do a roast unless it's a special occasion and he's off work.

The baby usually has fruit or a yogurt after his dinner, but last week it was birthday cake for a couple of days we had a load to get through.

podperson

I always had pudding when I was a kid, though it was usually something like a yoghurt/mousse and maybe a hot pudding or ice cream on Sunday. In fact for lunch as well would usually have a biscuit or fruit afterwards.

I don't really bother now though. I think I realised that I was just having it out of habit. I'm rarely still hungry after my actual dinner so it was just eating more food for the sake of it. Now I don't have one and if I get hungry later on in the evening I might have a biscuit or a snack, but is usually only a few times a week if that.

Threebabes

We have pudding now and then. Normally after a sunday roast. I do love a pudding but not good for my hips.