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?

Pudding is something to look forward to after a meal. I've always enjoyed it and don't see it as excessive. Some people are full up and don't bother, I can understand that but it's nice to have it on offer if you fancy it. It doesn't have to be anything big.

Why is it only acceptable if you are a healthy weight??? I’m chubby and love desert but I eat very nutritiously a skinny person may have a terrible diet?

how miserable sunflower

Yes, pudding, every day. Can't stand the smug killjoys on such subjects. Today I had two mince pies in the office, take me away in chains.

We only eat dessert for special occasions like birthdays and Christmas. I’m Scandinavian and this is how I was brought up. I’ve been in the UK for over 20 years and I never adapted to having a pudding after every meal.

astra very festive! I have a chocolate santa lolly in my bag and I plan to eat it. Not even for dessert, just as a random pick me up this afternoon.

I cant imagine how miserable it must be to never have dessert or only have cake on birthdays. Urgh.

Oh goody,another MN food thread

Back in the day we all ate pudding every day but very few people were over weight. Rising obesity rates aren't to do with eating pudding every day.

Post WW11

Did you forget to turn off your time machine @Ternet?

I'm an immigrant and I've always been super shocked that the school dinners have a pudding every day.

We have dessert after evenng meal maybe once a week. And on special occassions.

Fruit isn't a dessert unless its a fruit salad, and/or accompanied with cream, custard etc.

My DH is currently a Keto- maniac - not even slightly overweight before or with any preexisting health issues, just buys the nonsense that it is going to make him live for ever ( its an eating disorder, it truly is) because of dodgy, cherry picked pseudo science. Means he would happily ban anything with any form of sugar sugar or carbs from this house, except I am not quite so deluded and eat sensibly and from a variety of foodstuffs. I am a healthy weight and with excellent base health.

There's nothing wrong with a dessert, nothing wrong with a daily dessert, everything good about fruit. Quite a lot wrong with having lots of desserts that are eaten instead of dishes with more protein, fibre and vitamins and minerals. Not the greatest to have a food intake , however composed, that regularly takes you over your own calorific requirements or portion sizes that mean you get used to having just a bit too much all the time.

Have some sense of proportion.

Super shocked? By pudding? I can imagine being mildly surprised maybe..

I don't think I've ever had dessert. I often have pudding though.

Fruit isn't a dessert unless its a fruit salad, and/or accompanied with cream, custard etc.

that's the problem with these threads, no one is talking about the same thing

Of course fruit is a perfectly suitable dessert even if yes we know they should be eaten 30 minutes before a meal, not at the end but I can't be bothered to remember why

We have dessert with every evening meal, mostly mixed fruit (cut up into pieces like a salad but no syrup or anything else), a couple of times a week would be ice cream or a proper dessert I cooked (cake or pancakes, rice pudding, that sort of thing). We hardly ever consume fruit juice in our house though and not much snacking on chocolate or biscuits during the day.

pancakes its "apparently" so the fruit doesn't get held up in the digestive system behind your meal and ferment away madly upsetting the whole digestive process. Or summat like that.

Do what you want, eat what you want, and leave the rest of us alone to do the same?

I wish I were lying for comedic effect but today, I have had.. Huel.

The adverts may say it tastes delicious but I can assure you it tastes a lot like pea and oat vomit.. cold.

However not to be out done by some on here... whilst its now 5pm, and I should have had two full shakes by now, I have in fact had ONE shake, split in half, over the course of the day because I cannot possibly manage a full one, in one go.

I am going out back to shoot myself now, I cannot believe what I have become.

Yes it's excessive. We serve it once a week, other than fruit or yogurt.

I did 15,000 steps today, in the cold.

I just ate some bread and butter pudding and will have some chocolate in a minute.

There is pudding and pudding though isn’t there. Having a sticky toffee pudding every day would be excessive. Having a bit of fruit, yogurt or a lolly isn’t really.

I just ate some bread and butter pudding and will have some chocolate in a minute

A woman after my own heart. Life’s too short not to eat pudding.

The thought of that bread and butter pudding kept me going through the day.

Life's not worth living without some.

When I was young I think dessert at school was a thing because most children who had dinners were FSM. The dessert as I recall was semolina or creamed rice pudding. Now I worry about the amount of aspartame in 'healthy' desserts, dd brought her dessert from school recently, a piece of chocolate cake and the chemical smell/taste nearly knocked me down.

Personally I think life’s too short to police what people eat. Life is hard, if people having something sweet every day gives them a boost then I’m not going to shit on that.

I love semolina pudding.

Oh FFS what is it with these threads at the moment??

If you want to eat /feel happy eating pudding every day, go for it.

If you don't, then don't.

Unless you're talking about your own child, it's none of your business what anybody else puts in their mouth.