Healthy Desserts

Citygirl1

I have a very sweet tooth but have managed to cut out sugar in my coffee and on my cereal.

However, I still have a sweet tooth when it comes to cakes and desserts. I try to limit it to just now and again when it comes to full fat desserts but I find I need something after my tea, just the meal isn't enough.

I've been having Muller Lite yoghurts and Greek plain yoghurt with honey (can't eat plan yoghurt on its own), I also have the small Ambrosia custard pots but its much of a sameness and costs mounts up.

Does anyone have any ideas for healthy desserts? The receipes I've found online all include sugar. I'm not a big fruit person apart from strawberries which I sometimes have with Elmlea light cream.

Cornucopia

I'd recommend Skyr (I get mine from Lidl). This is a thick, creamy yogurt-type product usually fat free.

The Lidl Vanilla variety is especially nice, maybe with fresh or tinned fruit? It's zero fat, and somehow has less sugars than the plain variety despite tasting quite sweet.

You can also add granola to yogurt to give it a different texture and more carb-appeal. I quite like a diet fruit crumble made with fruit covered with yogurt or skyr, topped with crumbled granola.

I also have a Banana Bread recipe that I make from time to time, which has very little fat or processed sugar, but comes out like fruit cake.


The high percentage chocolate (85% cocoa solids) has very little sugar, although it's quite high in fat. It's also something of an acquired taste.

ariarnia

I guess first you need to define what you mean by healthy?

you already said low sugar but you're okay with honey

If you're not into low fat you could consider flapjacks made with honey for protein and fibre plus the change in texture and you can add seeds and things

low fat and or carb as well would be a challenge so maybe sugar free jelly

when i was slimming world i used to enjoy a hot chocolate as my after dinner treat and it was nice and hot and low or no sugar if you buy coco rather than a mix

I buy this https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Terrafertil-Organic-Cacao-Powder/306282011 and it's 100% pure cocao powder so very strong and bitter you only need a little then use milk and honey to taste.

pancakes can also be nice and they're just egg milk and flour meaning you can use honey or lemon or something like banana and it's a bit more substantial

if you can give a better idea of your criteria then we might be able to help a bit more.

Citygirl1

Thanks for your replies. By healthy I mean low fat, low sugar. I do love honey but have heard even that's not good for you as its full of sugar but I thought it was natural sugar.

I love pancakes but with golden syrup which I guess is a no no.

VfM4meplse

I suppose you could make sugar-free jelly. Not very pleasant, and the aspartame won't do you much good either.

How about ripe-ish bananas in evaporated milk?

Eta: one of my childhood fabourites was cream-fruit, consisting of apples, pears, bananas and whatever else was ripe in evaporated milk. No sugar, and it was delicious. If you made a batch with one of each, it would last for a couple of days in the fridge.

krlyr

Homemade avocado cocoa pots - OK, they're no Rolo yoghurt, but they're not bad! Also, as you're blending it up, you can get away with the frozen avocado halves rather than the more expensive fresh avocados.

kah22

I hear what you are saying Citygirl1; I use to have sweet teeth

Seriously though I do wonder about low fat products and what they are really offering me. Have a look at this article from the BBC Good Food website

Yes, I do like my sweet stuff but my coping mechanisms are: if I have tea I’ll want something with it so in a lot of cases I opt for coffee, I try to eat nothing after seven o’clock, all minerals are sugar free. If I want something sweet I’ll have it. I think it was Paul McKenna who argued that if you deny yourself something then you’ll start to crave and eat twice as much when you eventually give way. When in friends houses if there is tea on the go I’ll have a biscuit if offered, if only out of good manners

I’ll buy the odd chocolate bar but as far as possible I’ll make my own: Apple pie, low fat cheesecake, poached pears for a Sunday dessert. And of course not forgetting real fruit: strawberries, apples, oranges, bananas, I love them all. I am aware they are stuffed full of sugar

Got to go now I’m feeling hungry 😋

luvchocolate

I make up a sugar free jelly and put raspberries or strawberries in.

Linda32

Hi, I have no idea what is low fat or low carb, but my boss at work looks at anything she eats by thinking of the calories first.

I suggested Options Hot Chocolate to her to satisfy a sweet tooth which are only 40 calories. She said they taste very nice, in fact much nicer than 40 calories

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I don't think desserts are supposed to be healthy. If you have to have one after every evening meal, and you don't like fruit, your options are always going to be limited. If you've made the effort to cut sugar out of every other part of your diet, why not embrace it in desserts, but make them yourself so you know exactly what goes in them and can control portion size? I can never claim my home baking is "healthy", but I know I use free range organic eggs, fair trade sugar, organic butter etc and it's not full of additives like shop-bought sweet treats.

fairy_lights

Mash up a banana with some oats, a few raisins, and a dash of cinnamon. Bake for 20 minutes and you've got hot cookies.
Fruit in general does nothing to satisfy my sweet tooth but if I cook it it does, so baked apples or figs are good with a dollop of yoghurt.