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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Yes mine do... Sometimes a scoop of ice cream...A pancake, small piece of cake, ice lolly, fruit, yoghurt, small piece of homemade cake. I'm pretty easy going about it. I'm fanatical about no fizzy drinks and they only drink milk or water so I figure a small pudding isn't the end of the world.

Small piece of cake twice apparently

mambono5, your state school doesn't serve veg with dinners??

Have they ever said why?

I think expecting a starter is a bit much though

We only have pudding on a Sunday, but DD can help herself to fruit whenever she wants it. We're having Eton mess for pudding today.

Nope, has never crossed my mind to provide desert (other than high days and holidays).

But that's not to say DS doesn't eat lots of cakes and sweets, he does, but not as something to eat after he's eaten, iyswim.

He's more likely to have a random muffin mid-morning.

no starter

Fruit salad usually, occasionally a muesli bar. Obviously special occasions call for something a little more decadent - although DD hates chocolate or cream so is much happier with fruit.

Yep, after lunch and dinner. It'seems usually yoghurt or fruit, sometimes cake or a little bit of chocolate.

Childminder and nursery 4 days a week so cake and ice cream etc there. Everyday though DD has a pear after our main meal.

Cutted up obviously

Nope. Maybe I'm being precious but I don't think sugar that close to bedtime is a good idea. DH and I will occasionally get a grown- up pudding as a treat (tiramisu or dark chocolate mousse or a Gü thing) but we eat it after DD is in bed.

DS 15 months eats plain tart yogurt after dinner. The kind you marinade Indian foodswith.

We have something if we fancy it, but not after every meal. Tonight we had banana and ice cream, sometimes it's jelly, yoghurt or chocolate if we have it in, sometimes an apple or some strawberries, sometimes nothing.

Nope, just lunch and dinner - no fruit/yogurt etc after either meal

By starter, I mean fresh vegetables, like a tomato salad or gratted carots. The fact that people find the idea hilarious show exactly what is wrong in this country. I am comparing with menus from state schools in other countries where eating fresh food is normal, not something to be ridiculed. What's wrong with giving kids decent food?

We have 'proper puddings' twice a week, on a Saturday (in our jammies in front of a film) and at my Mums on a Tuesday
By 'proper' I mean cake and custard type puddings

Every other day I don't routinely offer but if they ask they can have fruit and I have biscuits, little pots of rice pudding & custard or yoghurts
They generally mix and match in some way (bananas and custard, berries and rice pudding, a biscuit dipped in yoghurt)

Couldn't be arsed with the extra washing up of doing proper puddings every night

mambo, those are not examples of starters. They are standard healthy food items that most people would expect to find served with any meal.

Unless your idea of a starter is different perhaps? I took it you meant starter as in 'first course'?

Yes a homecooked one everyday after dinner- usually a fruit crumble, sometimes whipped cream/homemade icecream with fruit. She doesn't eat sweets outside of that though & we don't keep chocs/yoghurts/sweets as snacks.

Yes a homecooked one everyday after dinner- usually a fruit crumble, sometimes whipped cream/homemade icecream with fruit

Wow...You make a homemade pudding everyday! I'm exhausted just thinking about all that cooking!

Worra anything can be a "starter" if you serve it before the main course and you expect people to finish it before the rest of the food is on the table!

Well yes Annie, quite.

That's why I found the idea so amusing. Most state schools are so overcrowded, they can barely manage to get the kids fed and watered on time, by just serving a main and a pudding on the same dinner tray.

I would be far more concerned about the school's refusal to serve vegetables

At nursery my daughter does but we tend not to at home. She can have a yoghurt or fruit if she wants but tends not to want it.

When I was a wee one pudding was most definitely expected! It came with one of ice-cream, condensed milk, evaporated milk or cream. Possibilities included;

• apple pie
• apple crumble
• apple sponge
• fruit pies / crumbles / sponges of other fruits (rare)
• bakewell tart
• coconut tart (like Bakewell but the topping was chewy coconut)
• lemon pudding
• blancmange (bleah)
• jelly (bleah)
• trifle
• suet puddings and similar (many varieties)
• jam and other pies
• 'bought' ice cream of flavours that were not vanilla.

Mmmmmmmm!!!!

ZOMG - I forgot custard as a topping!

No, we're quite sporadic. I'm more likely to make a pudding when the fruits like rhubarb from the garden are in season. There's normally yoghurt in the fridge so if they're still hungry after eating a decent amount, then they can have one of those.

They get pudding at school/ nursery. Plus they aquire plenty of sweet things from places like parties, so there's no need to add in a routine after dinner too. They've got good appetites and are happy to fill up on savoury food.