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?

YANBU but I have dessert every day even though I want to stop. Sometimes I have 3 a day

I don't get the McDonald's hate, either. You can get salad in Maccie D's, cut up veg and fruit (although that's a sin on MN, too fucking lazy to cut your own veg and fruit, eh?) and their coffee is great.

You might be right about dessert, but pudding on the other hand, is acceptable every day.

Well it depends what the dessert it. An ice cream sundae every day is completely different to a single digestive biscuit. Why are people so desperate to 'understand' why other people do things differently to them? Surely it can't be surprising.

Thanks to this thread I ate tiramisu for breakfast.

We tend to have pudding at the weekends. Never, ever home-made unless it’s Christmas when DP makes banoffi pie. M&S all the way.

We have desert every day, they are just as part of the meal as anything else. My kids do need fruit, calcium and everything, why on earth should I remove deserts from their diet?

It's about portion size and moderation, not banning an entire food group from your diet. We keep things like birthday cakes and sweets for special occasion, and squash is banned from my house.

The last thing I would want is my kids feeling like they have to binge on sugar because deserts have been banned when they were living at home. And I have a sweet tooth.

Thanks to this thread I ate tiramisu for breakfast.

I have a pack of oykos in the fridge, tiramisu yogurt is the way forward

Very rarely have pudding as I don't have a sweet tooth. The odd occasion I do make one it tends to be something with tart fruit, like a rhubarb crumble or lemon meringue pie.

I do like cheese and crackers after a meal though.

Thanks to this thread I ate tiramisu for breakfast.

I don't even like tiramisu but I could force some down in solidarity!

Completely depends on the person. Some people can eat a LOT and stay slim. Others become obese on the same diet. Exercise and lifestyle aside, it is an accepted fact now that different bodies tolerate and thrive on different amounts of and types of foods. If you are piling on pounds then it is excessive. If you are not then it is surely OK.

I have pudding pretty much every day but during the week it is almost always fruit with yoghurt, unless I go out or feel like treating myself.

At the weekend, pudding might be something a bit more indulgent. I'm a healthy weight and exercise regularly (4ish times a week). We eat lots of vegetarian meals, fish at least once a week and red meat less than once a week (probably once every 10 days). So I am not worried about a daily yoghurt. Surely this depends on context, and balance is key...

We have afters (we’re northern ) following dinner and tea. All of us, EVERY DAY.

We also do Super Saturday where, after tea, they have their normal afters (ice cream or a cake or whatever) and then they get ANOTHER afters. A little packet of Haribo.

We are all skinny.

How do you like them apples, OP?

Yes, we have pudding every night. Might be a piece of cake, crumble, panna cotta, meringues, apple pie, etc. Always had pudding at my parents and have never stopped. In the summer we do tend to have more strawberries and raspberries instead of a proper pudding. Each to their own, as in so many things!

Janice, me too! Well I'm Cornish but we have afters too, it's offered after both dinner and tea although we don't always all have it. Sometimes it is fruit (tinned!) But just as often it's bread and butter pudding or treacle tart or crumble. Love me a stodgy afters.

Not overweight.

And I eat pasta by the kilo too. And alllll the potatoes.

DH has a dessert every day as he has a very sweet tooth. He is however very fit, correct weight, goes to the gym, walks the dog 3 times daily and has a job that can involve a lot walking too.

He is fit as a fiddle.

YABUAR

I eat dessert every day. I have a sweet tooth. Sometimes it's a bunch of grapes or a banana or a small piece of chocolate, but this time of year, it's real dessert: pumpkin pie, apple pie, key lime pie, Kentucky Derby pie, sweet potato pie. I like pie.

of course every healthy, home cooked meal is accomplished by a MASSIVE salad

Actually I do eat massive salads. Not so much at this time of year.

Feeling a bit ick at the moment after snacking on three raw carrots. Even healthy stuff is bad for you if you eat too many of them!

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

It sounds amazing, can I come for breakfast :)

The more the merrier We also do special birthday breakfasts (French toast or waffles). The other 90% of the time we are boring and have porridge or fruit and yoghurt.

A low fat Greek yoghurt with blueberries and perhaps a drizzle of honey some days. At the moment, it's sats/clementines etc as they have hit the shops, or apples, as russets are only available at this time of year.

As long as overall calorie intake doesn't exceed energy expenditure then its perfectly possible to have a daily dessert and stay at a healthy weight

I've for a sweet tooth so would always prefer a slightly smaller main course to allow room for a pudding. DH on the other hand would much prefer to have huge dollop of mash with main course and skip dessert. I would see the mash as a 'waste of calories'

I definitely need something sweet every day but some days it will just be a yoghurt rather than anything more substantial (it has to be full fat though, I can't abide watery low fat ones!)

When people say "we eat more snacks nowadays" they mean they do. I don't eat snacks except a bit of fruit (the sugar!the sugar!) I eat 2 proper meals a day. And proper puddings.. (no, a thimble of plain yogurt doesn't count as pudding I'm not bloody French)

@PineappleDanish

It's a full-fat yoghurt too. I hate the low fat ones - they have a texture like disintegrated cardboard.