AIBU to think most people have something sweet after dinner daily?

I have a small main course then a bigger pud. In the winter, homemade fruit crumble and custard or sticky toffee pud and ice cream. In the summer fresh fruit and cream or homemade trifle. If I can’t be bothered preparing, then a bag of maltesers hits the spot all year round.

The fuck? It's September!

depends on how I feel.

It's interesting how many people are saying they do and are not overweight. I come from a really slim family where pudding after dinner every day was standard, as well as sliced bread to start. Whereas I am the size of a small hippo as someone put it and I never have pudding, I'd be so embarrassed to order a pudding in a restaurant as a very large person I never have pudding or chocolate or biscuits, yet I remain huge. Perhaps there is something in it. Maybe the pudding eaters have smaller main portions to leave room for a pudding that is not a high calorie as it seems, whereas savoury things are not necessarily lower calorie and I know my main portions are too big. Perhaps I should half my main and start adding in a small pud instead?

Yes but I try to keep it really snall if it's just going to be a sugary treat - I love the tiny bite-sized icecream morsels - or if I'm actually still a bit hungry and it's been at least half an hour since dinner I'll have something a bit more satisfying like some dried apricots and a few nuts with a square of chocolate.

We always do! Strawberries/grapes, yogurts mainly

I always do, sometimes fruit or a biscuit or ice cream

Would love to if my body didn't gain a pound just from sniffing chocolate.

A handful of strawberries is dessert, sadly. Except at parties, etc.

I often have a fun-size kitkat, club or similar was a cup of tea about 8pm. Not directly after dinner though.

You've asked at the wrong place here @QuickPearlFox Many on Mumsnet are part of the 'I'm stuffed after half a grape' brigade, and the thought of a little bowl of ice cream, or a 2 finger kitkat with a coffee after their evening meal sends them searching furiously for their pearls to clutch.

I think many people have a 'sweet tooth' after a meal, and often will have a bit of something, even if it's a couple of chocolate eclair toffees, or a penguin bar, or a couple of custard cremes. DH and I (after our evening meal) have an ice cream (like on an ice cream stick,) or a yogurt, or a couple of biscuits with a coffee.

'I don't have anything sweet after dinner - and neither does anyone I know' as someone said earlier made me laugh. No-one is telling these 'nothing sweet after a meal' people because they know how judgy they are. 😆Of course some people you know have something sweet after dinner, and it's not a fecking apple! 😆

And the people saying 'I would be so fat if I had a little something sweet' after dinner most evenings - of course you wouldn't, what a silly thing to say! Everything in moderation!!!

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I do, usually a yoghurt. DH doesn't.

I was until this year and never really ate sweet things and didn’t really eat much at all.

I started SW and going to the gym and started eating more and I’ve lost a lot of weight.

I use my SW syns having a few little treats in the day or dessert and I’m eating so much more than before with carbs like pasta, rice and potatoes.
I didn’t expect it to work but it somehow has.

I do a lot more exercise now with the gym and swimming but lost 3.5 stone in the past with SW alone and no exercise. I was younger so it came off much quicker and that’s why I didn’t expect it to work when I was eating so little before.

I think it’s a case of everything in moderation and denying yourself things never seems to work.

Usually fruit but not always.

I don’t at home. Though may have a yoghurt, fruit, biscuit etc about 1.5 hours after my meal

The kids (aged between 17 and 9) always grab themselves a piece of fruit, yoghurt or an ice lolly for their pudding. DH will always have ice cream or some sort of sponge and custard as he’s on a very high calorie diet (fortified) so needs the extra calories daily to maintain a healthy weight. I don’t usually have pudding but when I’m due on, I’ll have a couple of squares of chocolate or fruit and cream. We do tend to eat more puddings in the winter like sticky toffee pudding, apple pies etc as I find it warms them up a bit before bed.

Used to growing up and until a few years ago but OH diabetic now so we only do pudding if the kids come over. I don’t miss it really as I’m full after dinner anyway and I knit while watching telly so that seems to quiet the noise.

I think if I lived alone I’d probably be overweight and diabetic with high bp and all the heart pills like my mum and sister as I don’t think I’d have the willpower !

Not day to day at home! But if I'm cooking for friends and family then yes, so probably once or twice a week

I did growing up - but I did not introduce the habit with my kids. Even on Christmas Day we'll have a pudding available but it's rare that anyone wants to eat it till much later.

Growing up my Mom made dessert every single day for a large family. Apple tart, bread and butter pudding, rice pudding etc. Every day! None of us were overweight as we had a long bus journey to school and back ,light lunch in school so hungry for our home cooked dinner every evening. Never any chocolate or sweets.
I rarely bake so haven't kept the tradition going but l think if you have healthy meals its OK.

I like a yoghurt after dinner.

Wrong. In order to control blood sugar and limit damage to your teeth it's much better to have a dessert rather than a snack.

Yes always. I don't necessarily think these replies are representative. I'm currently trying to ween myself off my daily ice cream habit to something a bit less calorific but still.

i do, even if it’s just a couple of haribo.

We ever have pudding except when entertaining

Same here. I'm not an orthorexic teeny tiny, but I find having a rich pudding after a satisfying main too much, so I can't really enjoy the pudding.