How many people are pudding people?

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Not a major question i realise. But I’m curious…DP and I are both mid 40s, both been married for 20 years before meeting each other.

How normal is pudding in your house? I’ve never been a pudding person, didn’t grow up with it, ex DH wasn’t a pudding person either.

DP is a dyed in the wool pudding person. Like, every meal has a pudding.

This is not a class/health goady thread btw. DP and i had similar demographics growing up and pudding was very definitely a ‘thing’ when I grew up, just not in my family.

Just wondered, is pudding a regular after dinner thing these days or not?

Definitely a pudding person.. I have a major sweet tooth. Dh not so much

Aaah, thank you. So when you do a shopping order and meal plan does it come with a correspond pudding? I’m genuinely not being sarky but is there that extra level of planning to factor in?

Neither of us grew up having puddings regularly. Dh probably because MIL is diabetic and also they are just very traditionally stoic old school you suffer through meat and two veg and nothing to rich or exotic or expensive sort of middle class. Me, probably because my mum would not know how to cook a pudding. I rarely recall her cooking for me at all. I ate a lot of random stuff that wouldn’t really be considered a proper meal. I did have lots of treats and sweet stuff, but not so much as a pudding, like the course that comes after your cooked dinner.

We do have puddings, but not regularly, maybe 2-3 times a week. That is probably a lot compared to what’s usual for us, but I just finished cancer treatment a few months ago and I have an appetite again, so I’ve been a bit more puds for everyone!! Normally, it would be like once a week, maybe.

I don’t. DH doesn’t. School has made DS a pudding person! He is always bitterly disappointed if there isn’t pudding (thinks he has been punished). We have to keep a stock of ice creams/cake things in just for him.

If I do have a nice pudding in the house, I sometimes have a pudding-only meal. So just a slice of birthday cake for lunch, for example. Or go out and have coffee and cake, or a big ice cream sundae, for lunch.

We have some sort of pudding or dessert after most evening meals. It’s often things like apple crumble or some other type of fruit tart. Sometimes ice cream in summer. Or cheese and biscuits if we haven’t anything else in.

So sorry to hear of your cancer treatment ‘@winterbluess

A question for me, to be hospitable what kind of puddings should i get it? What has made you feel better etc? I’m keen to be hospitable just have no clue what a pudding would entail

I love a pudding, dh doesn't, rarely have one though 😭

Wouldn’t have pudding after dinner (unless I’m a restaurant)

But I love cake, chocolate, ice cream etc… Sweets person!

Man alive, now I feel I have missed out on years of pudding action. Thank you

We love a pudding, but are inclined to put on weight, so only have one at weekends.
I've got the fancy for apple pie. With custard. 😋

Like on Tuesday night after work? Or in restaurant?

We are also pudding people. Usually have something 2-3 times a week and deffo after a roast dinner. We have things like apple crumble, cheesecake, trifle, lemon drizzle cake etc, a mix of homemade and shop bought
Strangely, when we go out for dinner we very rarely order dessert, we always have starters and mains tho. We prefer to come home and have a cuppa with something sweet.

I love puddings. Actual love. I make something like a crumble or Roly Poly once a week and we eat that till it's gone and then it's yoghurt until the next week.

My kids are outraged if there’s no pudding . 9 times in 10 it’s fruit or a yogurt but will occasionally be ice cream or cheesecake and often a crumble or similar on the weekend.

I grew up with similar - we usually had an assortment of ski yogurts in the fridge (I loved the hazlenut one)

Oooh yes - it makes a long day at work a bit easier to deal with. We had warm mince pies (homemade leftover from Christmas) with cream tonight

I’d be the size of a semi-detached 3 bed house if I had pudding every day! I will have a scoop of ice cream or apple crumble or similar once a week, otherwise it’s fruit or nothing. DH has to have a sweet “last taste” after every meal, but that can literally be 5 grapes or two chocolate chips. He’s weird in many respects

I could eat pudding for breakfast 😂
Always have one if I eat out.
If I was making one at home, it would be something like bread & butter pudding, trifle, tiramisu, chocolate pots, apple crumble, eves pudding.

If you don’t have pudding do you have other sweet food in the house like biscuits?
I grew up with parents who remembered war time rations and wanted food to be as cheap as possible. I later found out they had more money than they let on. We had a stodgy homemade pudding after dinner everyday and tins full of homemade sweet foods as this was a cheap way to eat.
I now have something after dinner each day but doesn’t have to be a pudding, it might just be a couple of biscuits.

If I want a pudding, then I have one but instead of dinner.

I don’t want a pudding very often but when I do, I make it and eat it but I don’t crave them.

Dessert only on a Sunday here. Growing up we’d probably have a frozen mousse from the freezer or a yogurt in summer but not otherwise. Growing up puddings were Heinz tinned steam puddings, apple crumble, rice pudding or the amazing Sara Lee pecan ring.

I often make dessert on a Sunday after a roast and it would be a homemade steam pudding, crumble, pie, rice pudding, trifle or cake and custard. Sometimes we don’t, particularly over the last few months as dh has had to do the majority of the cooking.

I love pudding! My mum was an amazing cook and made some kind of pudding from scratch most nights during my childhood.

Never at home and at a restaurant I’d rather have another starter or more bread, I’m an absolute savoury addict, I’d choose salty over sweet any day.

Oh I forgot the regular tinned fruit plus evap puddings of my 80s childhood.

Yeah we always have something after our main. Ice cream, yogurt, cake, pudding even a couple of biscuits, but always something.

Thank you so much for all replies, i’ve realised that as a kid and visiting others’ houses puddings used to give me the shits as i wasn’t used to them. Still aren’t ( never ordered one in a restaurant) but i can try harder to accommodate Dp