Obese and pudding without sugar

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Hi, I suppose my aibu is aibu to ask what people have as a sweet evening snack / pudding, that does not contain sugar or sweetners? I'm so bored of just having fruit or fruit with nut butter. I just can't think of anything else - except plain greek yog and fruit. Any suggestions? I've cut out sugar as I'm very overweight (have ptsd and used eating as a coping strategy, have never been overweight before). Any suggestions v v much appreciated! Thanks!

Sugar free angel delight

Why do you think you need a snack/pudding?

Even people who don’t eat pudding every day occasionally fancy something! It’s completely normal

Frozen grapes - like little sweeties!

Dont generally eat pudding. Yogi tea do s lovely coco one with chocolate shells and liquorice, so taste sweet. Have that with a chunk of dark chocolate?

Probably not great but a piece of honey coomb from a jar of honey? The waxy bit can take a while to chew.

Frozen banana blended up.

Baked plums with cinnamon.

Do have sweeteners, but those jelly pots only have 5cals.

I think if taking care of your mental health means a pudding is a good idea right now (because if cutting it out would feel like a punishment that is not going to help!), then baked apples, ,maybe rice pudding with a tiny bit of sugar, full fat yoghurt, would all be healthy and comforting.

@alittleprivacy, porridge bread sounds great (I am gf). I see lots of recipes online, but is there one you would recommend?

nothing.
I have something sweet after dinner most evenings but then kitchen is closed until morning at least.

I find a good portion of dinner + a portion of jelly or a few squares of chocolate or fruit&custard is more satisfying (for me) than a smaller dinner & tv snacks

I used to love ice cream but then I started to blend up fruit (just fruit, no sugar or anything else added) and freeze it in ice lolly makers... the BEST ice lollies! So satisfying and even better than ice cream.

Sugar free jelly made with less water and then mix plain or greek yogurt into it when it’s cooled. You can add fruit etc to it. Pancakes made with mashed banana, eggs and oats...I add sliced strawberries on top.

It's a matter of changing habits. I brush my teeth after I wash the dishes, that's my way of telling myself I'm done eating for the day. Do it for a while & it becomes normal. I also try not to have any sweets in the house because I will eat them all, so rather not put temptation in my way. I am making a concerted effort to lose weight & not eating dessert is just the start.

Sugar free jelly?

Also, nobody is saying you NEED pudding for goodness sake, stop banging on about it! She obviously means what can she have IF SHE FANCIES IT, the fact that some of you don’t eat pudding is irrelevant and unhelpful.

Why has no one pointed out that fruit IS sugar? If you're 'sugar free' but eating fruit, you're not sugar free. A pp said they were sugar free but having roasted bananas - an average banana has 14g of sugar or over 3 teaspoons. Natural sugar is still sugar. In fact fructose is pretty awful as far as sugar types go, though the fibre in fruit does offset that.

What fruits do you have? If they are still high sugar you're not going to stop craving sweet stuff anytime soon - things like grapes, bananas, pineapple, mango are all particularly sweet. Try having berries instead, especially blackberries, blueberries, raspberries. Some Greek yoghurt with a tiny bit of honey or jam in could end up less sugar in terms of grams than a big portion of fruit though of course you lose the fibre. A small bar of 70% of more dark chocolate would also be similar in terms of sugar to something like a banana. My kids like frozen blueberries blended with yoghurt with a electric mixer - goes the texture of ice cream and quite low sugar.

Anything sweet is going to have either sugar or sweeteners in though, so if you want to cut out both those things you'll need to stop having something sweet after dinner.

A couple of squares of VERY dark chocolate. The darker the better so you literally can’t eat more than one or two.

We don't have pudding, never have done.

I hate to say it but I just stopped snacking in evening altogether and had it with a meal instead x

Would a fruit yoyo be too high sugar, just under 5g per 100g?

All of the people suggesting low sugar angel delight or those foul sugar free jellies have missed the part about no sweeteners.

Teapigs chocolate flake tea is nice, and you could eat something sensible like a rice cake alongside it.

@MeganTheVegan

If you have no constructive advice why don’t you go away and eat some broccoli?

OP- dark chocolate is good as others have said. Just a couple of squares can really satisfy

Agree with PP, small amount (eg two squares) of dark chocolate probably has the same sugar content as fruit and might be more satisfying.

85% dark choc has much less sugar than 70% by the way.

I used to be the same, its hard breaking a life long habit. Now I'm overweight, we only have cake at the weekend.

why do you need a sweet pudding in the evening? I never have a sweet pudding in the evening and I don't really know people who do this regularly.

can you not go without esp of you want to lose some weight?

@Booksandwine80 That IS my constructive advice. No-one NEEDS pudding and it is almost certainly contributing to the OP's weight problem.

You’ll probably find you’ll stop craving sweet things once your body gets used to you cutting out sugar. In the meantime if I were you I’d cut out the fruit which is full of sugar and have a cup of hot chocolate made with dark chocolate and full fat milk. This should leave you feeling full until morning. I have to agree with the pp though, no-one needs an evening snack/pudding. Have you ever thought of trying the 16:8 diet?

@alittleprivacy, porridge bread sounds great (I am gf). I see lots of recipes online, but is there one you would recommend?

I make this one but I use full fat yoghurt as low fat dairy is overly processed and contains more sugar. If you are celiac be sure to get a gf porridge as most oat batch are contaminated with wheat products. It's a yummy bread and so easy to make. (Unless you accidentally buy what is calling itself natural yoghurt but is actually yoghurt and cream and your bread turns out soggy.)

glenisk.com/recipes/porridge-bread