AIBU to ask about dessert?

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After the Diet Coke thread I thought this might be interesting.

Do your kids get a dessert after their evening meal every day? Obviously if they don't want one they don't have one, but is it on offer, so to speak every day, and if so, what sort of things?

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I give my kids chocolate for dessert after their evening meal everyday.

Yes, DS 6 really looks forward to it, once a week it's homemade fruit cocktail, Sundays will be a slice of cake of some sort. Every other day of the week he can have one thing from his snack box (Yoyo bars, little boxes of raisins, haribo mini bags, mini banana bread, tesco banana bars and sugar free jelly pots, They're mixed evenly so he doesn't just have the same thing every day, I can't think if there's anything else in there!) Perfect teeth, lower end of normal BMI.

Forgot to add he doesn't always have it after dinner, he knows he can only have one thing a day from his snack box and sometimes chooses to have it after school and will have something from the fruit bowl after dinner instead.

Nah, we don't have dessert. One course is enough faff TBH.

They usually have a biscuit or whatevs after school tho.

Rarely here, too.
Go through periods where they might be in to yoghurt, or occasionally some fruit, but mostly the main meal is enough until the next meal.

Yes, usually. Either a full fat yoghurt, a mini fruit yoghurt ice cream or fruit. Proper pudding is a bit of a rarity.

2 or 3 times a week they'll have fruit (banana, melon, oranges). Occasionally plain yoghurt. That's usually an hour or so after their dinner and just before they go up for reading, showers, bed.

None of us really have sweet teeth so our boys are more likely to have supper as opposed to pudding: cheese, toast, buttered crackers.

@megletthesecond

what's the recipe? Every one I've tried is shite. I can do 'proper' ones in a bain-marie but life's too short to do that frequeltly.

No. We have icecream in the house sometimes, but it's not offered after a meal. Cakes and muffins about every two weeks.

No. Not after a meal.

They have fruit or a flapjack after school, sometimes cake or biscuits. I don't mind them having sweet stuff but i don't automatically offer sth sweet after a meal.

They have a cup of milk after their evening meal and then head off to bed.

A couple of times a week, cake or ice cream or pie or something. But fruit is always available as a snack and they often help themselves to some after dinner.

Weekdays- no. (But I don't count fruit- they eat that every day when they want it)
Weekend dinners yes- small dish of ice cream/ yoghurt/ or one thing from sweets stash e.g. A fun size chocolate bar or lollipop or similar. Oh and they have an ice cream once a week after school (we live in a hot country)

Dd likes proper puddings and I aim for a proper pudding twice weekly as anymore and she's over the recommended added sugar allowance of 2 tsps a day (I do a weekly view, not a daily one). She is into Apple crumble at the moment. I make it with only a little crumble and it's quite tart because not much sugar. She's allowed it once with a small scoop of ice cream and the rest of the time plain. She also has a small allowance of sweeties for the week, which she can eat when she chooses. The rest of the time, she has a piece of fruit and/or cheese.

Yep, DD (16 mos) is offered fruit or yogurt after lunch/tea. Occasionally other things like rice pudding or sugar free jelly. She's currently obsessed with satsumas.
I don't tend to give her really sugary things at home but she does love the odd bit of ice cream when we're eating out!

No, desert Sundays at most. However they get a lot of 'treats' not daily but I feel overall they get enough not to warrant desert every day

No dessert.

I allow unlimited access to a cupboard containing sweets, chocolate and biscuits for anyone wanting something sweet.

wettun the one on the BBC food page seems to keep them happy. The mixture is enough for two mugs. I don't eat it though, I'm a squishy fudge cake person.

microwave mug cake

No, my kids usually say they're too full from dinner. If they asked I would alsways give it to them as both are skinny and could do with a little extra weight.
Dessert is not something that's ever been the norm for my family though. It's never been seen as a 'treat' as we could have it whenever we wanted.
Pretty sure if I asked my kids if they wanted haribo they'd snatch my hand off though...tough ;)

we usually have dessert in the form of fresh fruit. kids are used to it and love it.

Thanks for all the replies.

My 2 (7 and 4) are offered fruit after each meal, both of them love fruit so they almost always have some. The little one doesn't like yogurt, the older one only likes plain natural yogurt so sometimes has that for breakfast not as pudding. After their fruit they can choose 1 thing from their 'treat box' if there's anything in it (this will be chocolate/sweets etc from party bags, Christmas, Halloween, Easter etc depending on season!) only allowed 1 thing (older one occasionally has 2) and so it's very little, e.g. last night it was a tiny choc football for DS and a mini choc coin for DD. If there's nothing in their box for whatever reason I don't specifically buy stuff for it, so wouldn't go to supermarket and buy 'treat' stuff.

Sometimes, especially if they have a friend over, I'll buy mini ice creams on sticks (think like a mini magnum but supermarket own cheaper version) and the can have those. DS will only take a couple of bites and then leave it so I encourage him not to bother and generally he isn't fussed. There's no 'rule' about having to eat all your main course to get pudding but if they haven't made a decent attempt at it there's nothing else.

DD does a lot of sport and sometimes (but no way every time because it would be too often!) I'll let her chose something out of the vending machine at the leisure Centre/gym after her training but she's quite sensible and will rarely eat the whole thing- e.g. The other day she chose a Twix and ate one stick and saved the other for another day.

I like baking and the kids do too, so perhaps once every 2 weeks we will bake and they will have whatever we bake for pudding after dinner. Little one has been watching I can cook and wants to make marmalade cake so we're doing that on Monday!

At school (both there every day for lunch and have school lunches) they are offered 'pudding' every day, but once a week it's only fruit, once a week it's cheese and crackers, so only x 3 a week is it a 'proper' pudding and neither of them much like the puddings so have none or choose the fruit. I'd guess they only have a school pudding max once a week if it's something like ice cream/

Yes we always have a little pudding - fruit, or something I've made, or yoghurt, or we have a jar of 70% dark chocolate buttons so they have a few. It's not dependent on finishing supper either, but they have to have eaten enough to be healthy.

More often than not we do, if we'really at home it's a yoghurt, if they'really at GP's (which they are 2-3 times a week) it's proper homemade pudding and we have a proper pud on Sundays too. Rice pudding, clotted cream and raspberries today yum!

DD is 3 she usually has a yogurt. Sometimes cake or pudding of we've made one. Sometimes I've cream but that's usually in summer. If she hasn't eaten much dinner she only gets offered fruit.

We always finish a meal with something sweet. I prefer them to think of food as a whole, rather than treats or snacks.

I always wonder why it's a struggle to find good yogurts not full of sugar in this country. I love when we are on holiday, it's so much easier to find healthy food abroad.

My complaints about school diner are not about the desserts/ puddings or whatever, they are about the abysmal menus in my local state schools: no starter, no veg, nothing fresh, it's just some fatty meal. If they exceptionally offer something healthy, they still offer a choice of pizza or pasta or chips, so you can't blame the kids for preferring the worst option. I have compared with the menus for some other countries, and it's depressing.

Not always but mine are very skinny so I buy them sponge puddings which they have with cream.

My kids have a pudding most nights. They are a healthy weight so I'm not worried about it!