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

I have to have something sweet after lunch and dinner - I hate it. It's a compulsion I've been trying to break for decades, and a throwback to childhood habits that is so deeply ingrained I can't reprogramme my thinking. I can't concentrate on the next part of my day until I've had some chocolate or similar. It's miserable 😞

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Are you my ideal dining companion?!

I am the only person I know who wants the starter and the main, and get pressured into not having it because other people dont want to wait for me as they are "saving up" for pudding. Really pisses me off because they dont mind me sitting there with nothing in front of me while they have their dessert.

I used to until I started taking wegovy tablets. I would always be seeking chocolate, biscuits or pudding after dinner. Now it’s a revelation as I wouldn’t even think of it.

Realised that before my husband would do it because I was, but since I haven’t, he’s not bothered at all.

Only at the weekend

DH does like a dessert, but he can afford the calories. Hes happy with whatever is on offer, be it a mini magnum , a dessert pot , at a push he will take greek yoghurt with honey. This week I made him an apple crumble, hes on day three of it

We eat pretty late ,some time between 7 and 8:30 so for me there's no time to eat before bed

If I made a cake, it would be served mid afternoon with a cuppa

I prefer to eat something sweet in the afternoon rather than evening after dinner. I do have a sweet treat pretty much every day but I know I shouldn’t and I don’t necessarily think everyone else does.

We have a pudding every single night, sometimes two because we’re greedy fuckers.

I couldn't not have something sweet after a meal.
I'm a proper sugar addict though!!

I always have something sweet after dinner, usually Greek yoghurt with raspberries and honey or one square of dark chocolate.

Every day! We have fruit with our toddler after early dinner. Then a mini magnum, halo ice cream or couple of squares of chocolate once she is in bed. I really look forward to it. Today I had 3 big cookies in the afternoon so won’t have anything this evening. I‘m a healthy weight and eat balanced meals.

We had dessert when I was a child. A bribe to get my siblings to eat their dinner I think.

Then nothing until I had my own kids. The programming is strong.

I have an ice lolly, Cornetto or ice cream every night. Love it.

Always! Was brought up that way so an after dinner pudding is the norm, I very rarely snack between meals and once dinner is done that's it, no snack or alcohol.
Funnily enough I don't tend to have dessert when eating out.
If the majority of posters don't have a pudding then who is eating all the lovely array of them in the supermarket?

Always have “ afters” at lunch and evening meal. Fruit and/ or Greek yoghurt usually.
But never eat between meals.

When I saw the freshly baked mince pies by the entrance in Sainsbury’s at the weekend, I thought ‘who buys those in September because their best before date will be looong before Christmas???’

Now I know who buys them! It’s @Postieonthego ! 😆

Weekends yes including friday but not durling the week

I always had pudding every night when I lived with my parents
With my own children we rarely have pudding.
Sometimes I'll buy a tub of ice-cream or some ice lollies and occasionally we'll have scones or a piece of cake.
There's always fruit and Greek yogurt in the fridge.
But that's once a week at most.

why is fruit not pudding?

Not since I was a child!

This post has me feeling guilty 😂I eat sweet things nightly after the kids go to bed, recently started baking a cake on a Sunday and it lasts me most of the week as well as the usual biscuits & other sweets I might have 🙈

currently weigh 57kg which keeps dropping so I'm not worried about my weight & I suppose I justify it that I need the extra calories as can't keep losing lol

Always we do - as long as there’s plenty of fruit eaten and it’s in moderation. Life is there to be enjoyed, and in my opinion that includes chocolate.

Yes, but I don't eat anything sweet at any other time of the day

I wonder if it relates to what time you eat dinner? We eat late by UK standards, always after 7 pm, often after 8pm especially in summer so I usually grab a sweet treat when I come in from work, as do kids when they come home from school / college. We then have a proper cooked meal later. I don’t bother with pudding although if I do make one my teens will usually eat it and I’ll have it the next day. But effectively we’ve just moved the dessert / sweet treat from after dinner to after we’ve got home eg 4 or 5 pm.

I do most evenings and wish I could knock it on the head just had some ice cream and really enjoyed it. Had some raspberries last night so not so guilt inducing. i don't snack though so hope this goes some way to balancing things out. i just like a sweet taste at the end of the day, Bad habit I know but it is one of life's pleasures.

I just don’t have a sweet tooth. It literally wouldn’t occur to me to eat anything like chocolate, sweets etc. I occasionally have some natural yogurt for breakfast but never eat biscuits cake or dessert. It’s not on my radar at all

Howevet, crisps, nuts, olives, wine and cheese. I could eat them all day long