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To want a warm pud every night?

217 replies

NW2SW · 04/10/2020 12:59

It's cold, and miserable and I'm craving custard and a sweet-sweet stodgy dessert after every evening meal.

Please tell me I'm not the only one? Has anyone found a healthy-ish alternative that'd hit the spot, before I turn into a pudding.

OP posts:
KetoPenguin · 04/10/2020 20:33

@EsterOdesavitch this is a somewhat healthy version.I do 6 medium eating apples, peeled and chopped with a squeeze of orange juice or a tbsp water and large tsp honey. Put in 20cmx 20cm oven dish at 180 for 10 mins. I make the topping in the food processor but you can do it by hand 200g wholemeal flour, 50g oats, 50g butter and 50g demarara sugar. Whizz in processor until it looks like sand. Top the fruit with it and cook for about 40 mins.

bananamonkey · 04/10/2020 20:35

@EsterOdesavitch I use this and substitute just over half the flour for oats, you could probably cut some of the sugar too:

175g plain flour
110g golden caster sugar (can use any sugar)
110g cold butter

EsterOdesavitch · 04/10/2020 20:41

Fabulous thank you both very much GrinFlowersCake

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Nat6999 · 04/10/2020 20:42

I don't eat puddings, I'm a savoury person, tonight we have had meat & potato pie with loads of gravy, I have nearly licked the plate clean, I love it & there is enough left for tomorrow night as well.

GrouchyKiwi · 04/10/2020 20:54

Objectively, Winter food is the best food. Stews, baked potatoes, casseroles, puddings, custard, all the good things.

Summer with its virtuous salads can get in the sea.

Mooballs · 04/10/2020 20:55

[quote Candyflosscookie]**@Mooballs* I don't know how anyone fits a dessert in unless you have a v small main course?*

This is not the thread for you. Off you trot to one of the usual fat bashing, competitive undereating, virtuous preachy threads. Bye.

I've just sent DH to the Coop for custard 😂[/quote]
Just genuinely curious rather than anything else as I've got a good appetite an am a healthy weight/size with no hangups about food. But I never feel hungry enough to eat dessert and my post didnt warrant such a rude and defensive response. But I guess this thread explains why there are so many obese people about! Enjoy your puds hungry ladies.

HollywoodHandshake · 04/10/2020 20:59

Mooballs

HAHA I feel so sorry for you if you have to watch what you eat so carefully and deprive yourself of good food. Learn about portion control, and you'll be able to enjoy a bit of everything. It's better for you, and you'll be slimmer in the long term... Wink

QueenOllie · 04/10/2020 21:02

I have a separate dessert stomach
Seriously though I would rather have a starter and pudding than a main if out to eat

JustSaying101 · 04/10/2020 21:05

Well I absolutely love a warm pudding, even when it's in the summer! Have a huge craving for rice pudding now after reading this thread, but have naff all in dessert wise, so will have to settle for a yogurt 🙄 Definitely not going to hit the spot...

maverickallthetime · 04/10/2020 21:11

I made treacle steamed pudding in my pressure cooker tonight after a roast- managed to squeeze it in mooballs Wink

There's also a really good recipe with frozen fruit that has a bit of crumble on the bottom and top- it's delicious!

KetoPenguin · 04/10/2020 21:15

Mooballs don't you know there is a second stomach for puddings?

KetoPenguin · 04/10/2020 21:19

After his long shift in the chiller dh ate a massive dinner of 2 thick pork chops, 12 roast potatoes and a mountain of veg then a large portion of the crumble so that is the secret.

PontiacBandit · 04/10/2020 21:22

How funny, we don't usually have puddings but I did make a couple of mixed berry fruit crumbles this week as I had a carton of custard to use up.
They were perfect for colder weather and definitely hit the spot.

Elderflower14 · 04/10/2020 21:42

@QueenOllie that's what I tend to do when I go out... I worry that I can't eat a massive main meal so tend to do starter and pud!

TazMac · 04/10/2020 21:43

I’d love a syrup sponge with custard right now but as we are trying to be healthy, the only thing I can find is hot chocolate (no squirty cream either 😢).

Chottie · 05/10/2020 06:55

@EsterOdesavitch

Sorry I know some have commented on it already with ingredients, but I need a little more idea of quantities and ratios, how much butter to add etc - a natural baker would know by eye but I really don't!

Sorry DM, she'll be out there rolling her eyes at how crap I am.

Just google Mary Berry recipes :)
Chottie · 05/10/2020 06:57

@Mooballs

If I was having a pudding at home, I would eat a small main course. IF I was going out to eat I would not eat lunch beforehand. :)

SwanUpping · 05/10/2020 08:05

don't you know there is a second stomach for puddings?

Grin Haha I love that! Grin

However, if you fancy something sweet when watching weight you could eat:
-home made apple, pear, rhubarb, apple and blackberry, apricot compotes made with spices like cinnamon, cardimom, cloves, nutmeg etc, maybe some honey, eat with a cantucci biscuit or a dry finger biscuit that are used for trifles (can't think what they are called) or amaretti biscuit or scattered with flaked almonds or a few grape nuts

  • make a home made pudding eg lemon pudding with sauce and share a portion with DH or only serve a tiny amount in a ramekin
  • hot fruit salad with dates, prunes, orange segments, chopped banana, star anise, some lemon or lime zest etc
  • fry a slice of fresh pineapple on both sides cor a few minutes having powdered it with a bit of icing sugar
  • heat up a half of tinned pear in microwave (avoid ones in sugared syrup) and eat with a tiny squirt of chocolate sauce.
  • shove a small banana unpeeled in a low oven (when oven has been on for something else) until it is black on outside, peel, eat with small dollop apricot compote and small dollop natural Greek yoghurt
  • thread three or four good quality fresh, tinned or dried apricots on rosemary stalks, place in lightly oiled baking tray, powder with cinnamon and tiny bit sugar, splosh of Sauterne or similar and bake in oven for 30 minutes

Or be like the French, take a good hour or so for lunch, with three modest courses, and then eat vegetable soup for dinner.

Bluetrews25 · 05/10/2020 10:21

EsterOdesavitch - crumble is in a basic 2:1:1 ratio
Twice as much flour as butter and sugar by weight ie 100g flour:50g butter / marge:50g sugar. If you want to bulk it out, add oats - half the weight of flour - after you have rubbed in.
Vary as you need
You can make it into sponge by adding 1 egg for around 150g flour, throw in baking powder as required (around 1.5 teasp if 150g plain flour, less if using SR) and enough milk to give soft dropping consistency. Mix marge and sugar well first for sponge. Gives great results when microwaved.
HTH
We all need to maintain our pudding intake at this time!

Candyflosscookie · 05/10/2020 13:09

@Mariola321 Elmlea is an abomination. Revolting stuff! At least get actual cream rather than fake plastic crap! 🤢🤮

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DaintyElephant · 05/10/2020 16:06

What IS Elmlea, while we are at it?!

RepeatSwan · 05/10/2020 16:14

How did a post get deleted on a thread about puddings!?

My mum was very keen on Elmlea. Is it the cream equivalent of marg? Or is it just uht?

burntpinky · 05/10/2020 16:14

God now I want pudding!!!! WR sticky toffee puddings served with Green & Blacks Salted Caramel ice cream is a true winner.

I just bought 3 chocolate oranges (on offer at WR) though not sure it counts. Have hidden 2 as Xmas presents but kept 1 out to share with DH tonight