Pudding?

mummyroysof3

normally just a yogurt/fruit/biscuit/cake after tea if anything. only get one propper pudding with custard a week.

my DD went through a stage of asking for pudding after breakfast..i think she meant having a yogurt after her cereal though lol

miss_independent

We maybe have pudding twice a month. Pudding to me is a pie, pudding or crumble or meringue, fruit and ice cream.

I sometimes have a yogurt though, if I've had a light meal. I have a piece of fruit with lunch and as a snack but, to me, yogurt and fruit don't count as pudding! If they do I have pudding for breakfast and 3 times a day lol.

stiltwalker

I very rarely bother making a pudding - it' not my 'thing' I like to cook and eat savory. The kids however always have fruit and yoghurt after dinner and DH often has a bowl of icecream later in the evening - I'm going through a phase of having a yoghurt in the middle of the evening but at other times I may have a little bit of cheese and biscuits or a crumpet. The kids get puding after lunch on Nursery days but I don't give them lunch pudding at home - mainly because they've generally eaten me out of house and home on the main course!! and they really don't need any more.

Pudding can be a good filler upper if you are trying to reduce the budget - Soup (with HM) bread and pudding night can be a really cheap meal and by getting the 'treat' of pudding you don't feel cheated out of proper dinner. A pudding can also be a great way of filling up those bottomless pits known as teenage boys and husbandsand stopping them (or trying to!) snacking on expensive 'picky' stuff later on.

Mrs_Bones

I think it depends on the size of the main meals you eat. At home we normally do have a dessert with a smaller main meal. The dessert can vary between something simple like a piece of fruit or jelly more often than not to a more warming pud with custard a couple of times a week. I find this enables me to stretch the main meal ingredients out a bit further without anyone still feeling hungry after a meal.

quinechinoise

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

my DD went through a stage of asking for pudding after breakfast..i think she meant having a yogurt after her cereal though lol

My toddler has quite frequently referred to all meals as either "pudding" or "breakfast"! He doesn't do it so often now but one week it was definitely "3 breakfasts" a day - in name if nothing else. lol

Welshwoofs

I don't do pudding unless someone is coming round for a meal or I'm eating out in a restaurant. I don't eat sweet stuff after dinner either - I have literally no biscuits, chocolate, ice-cream or even fruit in the house. I try to keep sugar intake to the very minimum because I don't believe it's good for your blood/sugar or teeth to have sugars on a regular basis.

geoffky

Fruit and yogurt are not puddings...Puddings are for puddings...

CupOfChai

Not a proper pudding, but I do feel a need for something sweet after a meal and it's a job to resist having tea and biscuits or something like that. I try not to have even that (with varying degrees of success) because if I had a pudding every day like I'd like to I would soon be growing sideways!

surveyqueenuk

Actually quite disappointed! From the thread title, I was hoping for a pudding vs. dessert debate!

kelfen

Fruit if nothing else to ensure I'm getting enough