To think having dessert daily is excessive

[adriennewillfly]

When I was growing up, dessert was a common occurance. It was served with lunch at school. At home we would often have dessert in the evening, even if it was just a piece of fruit.

Now I'm a bit older, the idea of it sounds so excessive! Does anyone actually eat dessert more than once a week? Is it possible to stay in-shape/diabetes-free with a daily dessert?

We have never done it, my mum never gave us desert either, was a very rare occurance, infact she gets quite riled up about the subject 😂.
I do have a sweet thing everyday, whether it's chocolate or a cake at some point. I suppose it doesn't make any difference if you have it after dinner.

I have fruit/yoghurt after lunch most days and cheese or dark chocolate after dinner. I might make a crumble or something once a week.

Ds has fruit/yoghurt after dinner, always has since he was on 3 meals a day. Both of us are healthy weight

I have a cake or some chocolate or something sweet everyday, sometimes twice a day. I’m not super slim but not hugely overweight either (12 stone at 5ft 7) and my weight doesn’t change. I do a lot of walking. The whole family is the same, the kids are skinny if anything. We don’t restrict any foods. I think as long as you’re very active and eat lots of fruit and veg and healthy stuff as well then it’s all good. I love sweet treats. Life is too short to worry about what you eat all the time.

When did it become so acceptable to pick apart other people’s lives like this?

I wonder that too, about a lot of things.

Back in the 70s/80s my mum used to do a pudding every day for my dad - things like rice pudding or treacle sponge with custard. He was very slim back then, but he cycled to work every day so probably burnt it off. My sister and I weren't interested in that sort of pudding - we'd get something much smaller, like a little piece of cake.

I’m with you OP, I can’t believe the hedonistic way some people live their lives! Dessert, it’s shocking . We just eat raw turnips.

We have yogurt and/fruit for dessert pretty much every day. Once a week we might have a "treat" dessert like pavlova, apple crumble, chocolate mousse.

I do think it's unhealthy to have a "big" dessert every night

I have fruit and/or yoghurt every day and other dessert type things when I feel like it. Life’s too short not to.

You ABVU to use the word “dessert”.....

What’s unhealthy about an apple after dinner? Treacle sponge and custard every day, not a good idea, but an apple?

I have dessert almost every day. Sometimes it's fruit or a yoghurt, other days it's cake or ice-cream. I've done that overweight and I've done that underweight. I don't think it has much bearing on my weight loss or weight gain, it's the overall diet not whether you use an average 200 calories of that on dessert

It depends on the size of the dessert and what you are eating as a snack/with your meals.

A meal with no pasta/potatoes/rice etc... but with dessert isn’t that much different than one wo a dessert but with a huge serving of pasta.

I was the same when I saw that our nursery gives a pudding every lunch. But in reality it's often a yoghurt or mixed fruit or something which seems a a lot less indulgent. Especially as my little one rarely eats the actual lunch (not a big dinner fan.)

I have a yogurt or a small chocolate bar after a meal for dessert. I think perhaps like a full sticky toffee pudding or Eton mess or banana split etc is a bit excessive but even a small bowl of ice cream or a chocolate bar or something is pretty normal!X

You'll have to prise my post-lunch flan from my cold dead hands!

A bit of cake once a week? A yoghurt only on Sunday? How fucking Dickensian. I'm not fat, I walk the dog everyday 3-5km, I swim 1km 3 x week, eat home cooked food. And enjoy my daily flan.

We have a naughty dessert every Sunday. I make it from scratch. Usually a cake or a chocolate overload dessert. It's our treat. I wouldn't eat something like that during the week but would have fruit or nuts but I don't really class that as a dessert.

My lovely dad would have disagreed with you. He loved his sunday cake and daily dessert! No idea how he remained in such good shape. I agree with you really though OP :D I very rarely have dessert myself. In the summer we will get berries from the garden and my kids get that for dessert if they finish their dinners nicely but that's about the extent of any regularity.

DP and I have dessert every day. It’s either something like a yogurt, little chocolate mousse pot or a little jelly or trifle.
I’m a stone overweight and my DP is underweight for his height. Both had blood tests for various things like diabetes and high cholesterol recently and all fine. Our overall diet is probably around 80% healthy nutritious food and 20% junk

Me, I try not to (but have a very sweet tooth).

The kids? Hell yes. They need every calorie I can get into them (the 10 year old has currently dropped to a BMI centile of 6). Fruit with cream, cake, icecream. Amazing how much space they can make when full from main course!

I think breakfast is worse than a daily dessert. If you have tiramisu every day you know that's sugary and fatty. But if you have a bowl of cereal very day for breakfast you don't realise how much sugar and salt you are taking in. A boiled egg on toast is probably way better for you than a bowl of cornflakes.

You have to look at everything you are eating.

Yogurt is worth cutting out, absolutely full of sugar unless you buy the plain kind.

We always have at least a bit of fruit or a yoghurt or similar. Or we have some vaguely Ok ok ice lollies I discovered. It’s rare we have a cake or something more substantial but that’s the bother of making / buying it rather than a blanket policy. I think children find it rounds off a meal. Without kids I probably wouldn’t bother.

Plain Greek yoghurt here just because they prefer it. With a spoon of jam or honey on top if they want it (varies day to day).

Always have fruit for dessert, and for snacks. Very occasionally have a sweet treat such as cake/pudding.

Mmmm flan elQuinto. Is it homemade?

I am trying to cut out sugar but only because I struggle with moderation.

Dc have some some of pudding every day. Bananas with homemade custard, cake, yogurt, fruit salad with cream. Chocolate sometimes.
What's so bad? Most of those things have fruit, eggs, fat (which kids need). I would have it daily if I could stick to a small portion (can't! )

BlaueLagune What about tiramisu for breakfast The handful of times a year we have home made tiramisu we always have it for breakfast the next day, it tastes amazing.