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?

Honestly I'm the most disorganised person ever and don't meal plan 🤣 by "pudding" I mean getting something like a yogurt/biscuit/ice cream for myself and DS will do the same. I rarely buy or make a proper pudding because DH isn't bothered by it

Never have a pudding! I much prefer savoury.

DH is g/f and doesn't really do sweet things. I love an old fashioned school dinner sponge and custard type pud but rarely have it.

Restaurant desserts are rarely worth the calories, and I tend to pig out on the starters and bread

I am not but I think lots of people are. I am always slightly gutted that all my friends choose to do main and dessert if we meet at a restaurant because I would always opt for starter and main. I just don't order dessert.

We only had pudding on Sundays at home and it was usually something like crumble or treacle tart or spotted dick so super filling.

youve never ordered a dessert in a restaurant? Really? How odd, you must really not have any form of sweet tooth. I can’t imagine not to have had something.

No never, wouldn’t occur to us, and we seldom have one at restaurants either.

If your husband wants a dessert he can buy or make something. He sounds like an expert so he’s probably the person to be in charge of it!

I’ve never had much of a sweet tooth and that has intensified as I’ve got older plus I’ve got a dairy intolerance so that makes puddings not particularly attractive to me. My DH loves a pudding, is sporty and burns everything off so is very happy when I offer to make him one. We share the cooking - its just not something he is interested in making, whereas I can knock something up well and quickly.

Always had pudding growing up. Not always full-on sponge and custard but a yogurt/cake/biscuit. Probably had sponge & custard/rice pudding 2/3 times a week.

I like the little melt in the middle chocolate sponge puddings with some cream, have it with strawberries when in season, they're just the right size and taste chocolatey and not too sweet.

I mean, I would love to, but every experience of pudding gives me the aforementioned shits. I guess I was never trained to eat pudding.

We don't have a proper cooked pudding very often. But most nights we'll have fruit or a yoghurt or a bit of chocolate. I love a good pudding but it is usually reserved for big family get togethers.

Never. Me and Dh wouldn’t thank you for it either. It’s so not on our radar I have to remind myself to make one for hosting, which is always sticky toffee puddings. I never eat them and wouldn’t order one in a restaurant. Only exception being brandy snap baskets with fruit and ice cream but that’s about once every 5 years. We are savoury all the way people and if we want something sweet it would be rare and a couple of nice chocolates from a box

We don’t pudding in my house. Maybe a couple of squares of chocolate or I keep some ice cream in for the kids who might have a small bowl later on. I don’t have dessert in restaurants either, don;t have a sweet tooth so it always feels like a massive waste of calories

I am absolutely a pudding person. Feel strange if iv don't have something sweet after dinner

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I was eyeing up a chocolate sponge just now! I only have custard in however, no cream 🙁

Also like fruit + yoghurt or grapes and cheese, it's nice to have an after dinner snack

I cannot remember the last time I had pudding at home. Probably over a 15 years ago, when I was married; my ex used to like a pudding so I used to make something sometimes on a weekend. When growing up my mum used to make pudding, a crumble, pie, cake or rice pudding type thing, the odd creme caramel, but not a daily thing by any means.

Growing up, we always had something after our main course. Usually yoghurt or fruit, maybe ice cream, with a cooked pudding a couple of times a week. Not a big stodgy one every night, but always something.

When I moved in with DH it took me ages to get used to the idea of just stopping after the main course. I still love puddings but rarely cook them at home; I'll have fruit after most meals though. And I will nearly always want a pudding when eating out, and get disappointed if others don't!

"Yogurt or fruit" my mum used to say; apart from Sunday lunch when it was crumble or a sponge pudding.

Now I say the same thing, I also say "pudding is a privilege not a right"

I think I’m more pudding than person!

There would be uproar in my house if there were no puddings! They children have a small yoghurt after dinner followed by something sweet from the cupboard - chocolate, biscuit, mince pies etc - ice cream in the summer and my eldest loves rice pudding so had a bowl of that tonight. DH and I tend to just raid the cupboard for something chocolate. In the autumn we'll make crumbles with fruit we've picked on walks but we don't tend to make or buy other specific desserts. "Lunch pudding" is also very much a thing - a KitKat or similar chocolate bar. Nobody in the household is remotely overweight, teeth all in good nick, and I'm T1 Diabetic (just dose my insulin to allow for the extra carbs). I can't imagine life without puddings, ever!

@SockQueen I'd forgotten about ice cream, last time I ate out 3 course meal I had ice cream for afters. I was getting a bit full.

Fruit and yoghurt available after every dinner a the kids always want it, I rarely do. For Friday night dinner or anything at all special there’s probably a pudding.

I would chose a starter over a pudding any day while eating out, very rarely have a pudding at home

My meal doesn’t feel complete without a pudding but it’s often something simple like yoghurt and fruit.