Are we in the minority, not having dessert after meals?

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Just wondering really, we don't often have any form if dessert at meals. Occasionally I'll make a crumble or something.

We only have dessert when we invite people over otherwise.

We don’t unless it’s a ‘special occasion’ like Christmas, bday, have people over or go out for dinner!
The kids usually have fruit after their dinner or a yoghurt. And twice a week at nursery some kind of dessert thing... on the app it often says fruit but my son talks about a cookie/doughnut

Almost every meal. I’m size 10. I walk a lot and have a fast metabolism. Rarely drink or have takeaways.

Never have dessert at home. Very rarely have it when eating out. I’m far more interested in starters and don’t often have appetite for 3 courses or equivalent amount of food.

There a couple of restaurants who do amazing desserts and I’ll look at the dessert menu before ordering just in case it affects my ordering.

We usually have cake and custard on a Tuesday as it’s big shop day. But that will be replaced with crumble once the brambles fruit.
But other than that is only usually at Christmas dinner.

We don't either. Usually only when MIL visits (approx once a month in normal times), birthdays and Christmas.

We also have dessert pretty much every day.

Quite often it's just fresh fruit and yoghurt or fruit set in a sugar free jelly. Sometimes, it's a bit more, such as coconut pancakes (with fruit) or a homemade sugar free brownie. This tends to be at the weekends more than in the week.

The trade off is that we very rarely snack afterwards. It's very rare that there is any chocolate, biscuits, crisps etc eating during the evening.

Only at Xmas or birthdays or if we got some nice dessert for cheap.
My MIL does a full 3 course meal for Xmas, which I always thought very posh.

I occasionally fancy something sweet after dinner but I wouldn't count the odd chocolate bar or yoghurt as dessert.

We always have pudding, but we pretty much never have snacks between meals.

I will make a proper pudding at the weekend, but other meals it is most likely to be fruit, or a biscuit, or in hot weather maybe a small scoop of ice cream or an ice lolly. Nothing huge - and if we didn't, nobody would ever eat any fruit!

We usually have fruit after dinner, sometimes with Alpro yoghurt. On a Sunday we often have a crumble or similar.

Nope, I can't remember the last time we had dessert. Ooh actually I lie - last week I got us cakes from the local cafe which has just reopened.

DH and DS will sometimes (2 or 3 times a week) have a piece of fruit after dinner if they are still hungry and there is no meal left but I don't consider that dessert - to me dessert is planned, and cakey!

We might have something like fruit and ice cream or an ice lolly. Or if we’re watching a movie in the evening we might have popcorn. And I sometimes make a “proper” pudding like a crumble or meringues. If not I’ll often take a biscuit or something to bed with a hot drink and my kindle before I go to sleep. I don’t usually eat huge portions, but I do have a bit of a sweet tooth.

We have it occasionally, if I feel like making a cake or something. Growing up we only had pudding on Sundays so its never been an everyday thing for me.

No, I have a yogurt if I want one - kids the same.

No we don’t have dessert

We hardly ever do.. and all the people I know who regularly do are overweight 😬

Don't know if you're in the minority, but we don't habitually do pudding in our house. Very occasionally if one of us feels like it we'll make a crumble, because they're easy. Or we might bake some apples or bananas. But it's quite rare. Otherwise we tend to have some chocolate with a cup of tea while we watch telly after dinner (rock n roll lifestyle I know).
We don't have kids, if that makes a difference. But even if I did, I don't think I'd give pudding as a regular thing.

When I was a kid I seem to remember always having pudding. Anything from home-made pies and crumbles to ice cream, yoghurt, tinned fruit salad, fresh fruit.

I never had desert growing up. My DH had it every single day ; cake, ice cream, chocolate, biscuits and cheese. His parents, sister and BIL are all overweight or obese. DH is very slim and active.

Now we have our own family, its a bit of an issue as he gets himself ice cream or chocolate after every dinner, and DD wants it, so he gives her some (she is 20 months). I believe having cake every day is a bad habit and not one I want my DD developing. DH is addicted to sweet stuff, and simply wont stop. To me desert is for a special occasion, not part of every dinner.

Never have dessert, if the dc want something sweet they’ll have it in the afternoon, dh will usually have apiece of chocolate after dinner.

Dessert is usually only served in this house if we have guests . Although we might have seasonal fruit - strawberries/rhubarb or sometimes greek yoghurt and honey but not regularly. DS has a little joke where he asks "what's for pudding?" when he's finished his main course. The answer is usually "nothing". He's been doing this for years - he's 23 now!

Never really have dessert after a meal, occasionally when we eat out but I'm preferring a starter over a dessert now. DH is used to having a yoghurt after dinner and it's a habit he can't get rid of! Usually I'm so full from dinner I don't want pudding.

No, never (except when guests come over or in a restaurant). But we eat loads of shit outside of mealtimes (choc, crisps) to make up for it.

Special occasions only here, birthdays and Christmas etc. I made a couple of cakes over lockdown and they were frozen in quarters to make sure we didn't eat it all in one go. Cake freezes surprisingly well.

I baked carrot and pineapple cake for my brothers birthday and that was the first time having a dessert after dinner since Christmas. I'm just too full after dinner. I do love cake though 🤤

We called it pudding growing up in my house in the 80s/90s, but the pudding offering was always fruit or yoghurt midweek (sometimes banana and thick lumpy custard, sometimes tin of fruit salad, or rice pudding with a splodge of jam) and Crumble or stewed fruit and icecream or custard on Sundays. Proper dessert puds were saved for Easter, Christmas and guests!

Still do the same now with my DH. That said though, I did splurge and make a pavlova yesterday despite not being Christmas or Easter and in the absence of any guests!! We had a glut of fruit from the garden to use. Felt so naughty having such a decadent pud for just 2 of us, we'll be eating it for the next few days too 😂

We have dessert everyday, I'm recovering from anorexia nervosa, I've not long got out of an inpatient unit and it's one of the only ways I can meet the calorie requirement in a day, without having to resort to Fortisip drinks! So it's usually a rice pudding, a magnum, a thick and creamy yoghurt, some posh M&S custard and banana etc. It has just become a habit now, I prefer to have dessert over double portion dinner. That being said tho, my Mam has dessert every day too. She definitely has a sweet tooth and would rather forego dinner for dessert haha. She bakes hers daily though, she's an amazing cake chef!

I have a square of Lime Lindt chocolate or a chocolate mint, on the sofa after I've cleared up the dinner things.