To not offer my DC pudding regularly?

[MrsMushroom]

DD1 aged 8 says it's wrong. She reckons her mate always has a pudding after her evening meal....do yours? Or is DD just being a pain? I can't see it as necassary to eat cake/icecream etc after every meal.

I let them have a biscuit or a flapjack or fruit if they want.

My son is 3 and has a yogurt after his tea.

Flapjack, fruit or yoghurt in our house WAS pudding during the week. Maybe ice cream or apple pie at the weekend.

No I don't and never have done puddings.

Not needed if meal is sufficient and a price of fruit is fine.

Think they are a good route to getting porky.

I TOLD her that the only reason her mate's Mum is giving them cake and icecream is because it's a playdate and a treat! I knew I wasn't being mean!

Natasha she has packed lunches and I put in a small muffin or cereal bar...and fruit.

Fruit or yoghurt here, ice cream or a home made pudding like rice pudding or a crumble on a Saturday or Sunday.

I don't do pudding either, except very very occasionally they might have a Friday treat of a chocolate mousse or something. Otherwise if they are still hungry after tea they get offered fuit, yoghurt or babybel.

We never had puddings when I was a child so I guess it's something that just doesn't occur to me.

We had the DDs little friends over for tea recently and I realised pudding was probably an expectation so they ended up eating my Haagen Daz!

Its usally fruit or yogurt in this house. A couple of times a month it may be ice cream or apple pie and Christmas will be a pudding festival. Otherwise we don't really do pudding

No i occasionally offer yoghurt or fruit if she still looks hungry but not always. I don't think its necessarily a good habit to get into always needing something sweet after a meal. She's only 2 though, my experience may affect future opinion!

In fact I gave her some chocolate angel delight the other day and she didn't know what to do with it! Just ate the sprinkles and declared herself full -much to DH's delight!

Yes , we do. It depends, however, on what you call pudding. Yoghurt or fruit salad is pudding here. Or fruit with a dash of cream. They don't serve fruit at the school so I like to make sure ds has it at breakfast an dinner(evening meal).

Ds3 has pudding every night - usually ice cream, lolly, fruit, yogurt or small biscuit, cake or chocolate bar. Ds's 1 & 2 used to have the same but they don't really bother now.

My 3ds always have pudding.

While I was a child I never had pudding except at Christmas or very occasional Sundays after a roast lunch.

No, only on special occasions like Easter, Xmas, guests to dinner.

No-one ever thinks to ask for it either.

Don't do puddings here either. If DS wants he can have fruit, yoghurt or a biscuit.
We sometimes have a pudding on a Sunday.

I usually do pudding (yoghurt, fruit etc) after lunch, not tea.

YANBU. I don't normally do pudding either, other than a piece of fruit, unless it's a special occasion.

On the other hand, DH would agree with your DD. Apparently his mum did pudding after every meal (except breakfast). He says that he feels something's missing when we don't have pudding, and that fruit just doesn't count unless covered with syrup and ice-cream

I didn't have puddings as a child, and I'm porky (as is one sister, but not the other).

DP did have puddings, and he's porky if he doesn't exercise.

Mum and dad had puddings as children (not as adults), one is porky, one isn't

All anecdotal, but pudding after dinner isn't in itself a reason for obesity in my opinion.

DS (2.5) is bang on average, and generally has a pudding after lunch of the biscuit/flapjack/icecream/cake variety - and that isn't dependant on how much dinner he eats. He burns it off no problem.

I can't see the difference between cake and flapjack, but other than that YANBU.

We always had pudding when I lived at home, but the portion size of the main meal was small enough to leave room for pudding anyway.

Dont bother with it nowadays apart from special occasions.

YANBU.

DS1 has normally has fruit or sweet roll and a yogurt.

I seldom make pudding, too much faffing and DS probably wouldn't eat it.

My 2 year old always has a pudding of fruit or yoghurt, occasionally a bit of cake or biscuit as a treat, very occasionally ice cream or a proper cooked pudding if we have guests.

Pudding only turns up in our house probably once a week or less. YANBU