Do you have pudding after dinner every day?

Craftyblue

During the week my partner and I tend to snack after dinner on chocolate or home bakes- bad I know! We sometimes have aldi profiteroles on a Saturday for pudding and we go to my parents on a Sunday, so there's always pudding then! My mums sticky toffee pudding is gorgeous.:D

calicocat

Only if friends are round for a meal, or xmas,birthdays...etc.

I seem to remember a dessert being around often as a kid, certainly at weekends, and my mum will usually have one but it would be fruit and yoghurt now rather than any heavy 'puds'.

My dad was a maniac for cumbles and steam puds, he had a real sweet-tooth and always had a dessert.

Frugalsod

While I would love a pudding every day I would pile on the pounds if I did so. I have a sweet tooth and so would eat them every meal if I had the chance. I find that I no longer buy puddings but try to make them myself and that is usually enough to restrict them. I will try and make a trifle or banoffee pie when I can but know that I will eat it all within a couple of days even though it could feed 8. So once every week or two is fine with me. Though yogurts and fruit are the other options.

Soworried

We have pudding on a Sunday and on a soup night. We don't really need them other times.

LameWolf

Primrose wrote: »

Very rarely do we have a dessert unless we have visitors, or perhaps soft fruit from the garden in summer. Do be careful, if you have children that you're not loading them (or yourselves) with too many calories. Obesity is becoming a major problem in this country and it can creep up on us very imperceptively through the wrong dietary habits, especially for those who love cooking or baking. .

We are conscious of calories (though don't sit and count them as such); so we have modest portions of both mains and pud. Probably both courses together constitute less total amount of food than some people would eat as their main course.:o It's just that we like to have a savoury and a sweet course; I make most of our food myself, and am stingy with the sugar I put in, so I don't think we're in any danger. But thank you for the timely warning.:o Fwiw, we have no children, so that's not an issue; and we both get on the WiiFit every day for at least 30 minutes each, (the amount of times I end up flat on my butt on the floor doing this is another matter):whistle: and are both within the "ideal" weight range according to that.;)

Seakay

This thread has reminded me that there is a theory that having two courses can make you feel fuller and more satisfied and less likely to graze and nibble between meals, so that having a planned pudding can actually help you not to overeat. I am terrible for snacking so I might give this a go myself. I think that LameWolf is right and the important thing is to keep an eye on portion size

PenguinOfDeath

Nothing regimented here, fruit salad in the summer 2/3 times a week, flapjack if we've made any or a Graze box or a Gu pud that was in offer if there's one lurking

Gigervamp

Seakay wrote: »

This thread has reminded me that there is a theory that having two courses can make you feel fuller and more satisfied and less likely to graze and nibble between meals, so that having a planned pudding can actually help you not to overeat. I am terrible for snacking so I might give this a go myself. I think that LameWolf is right and the important thing is to keep an eye on portion size

I guess it depends on the person. As I said earlier, I don't have room for pud after dinner, but I also rarely snack. In fact, quite often, dinner is the only thing I eat in the day.