Pudding after dinner?

[tuliplily]

If you have small children, do they/you have pudding after dinner? If so then what? Do you have the same thing?

DH always had dessert as a kid but I only had it on a Sunday ( usually crumble) after a roast.

My toddler has fruit and yogurt but rarely anything else.

AIBU:

Yes- of course we have pudding
No- rarely or never

Yes, my youngest is 14 and he just grabs whatever he fancies from his snack box in the cupboard. It's filled with crisps, chocolate bars and sweets etc

Always. Usually chocolate mousse (mine are secondary age). Mine won't eat anything else.

I sometimes have cheesecake, treacle pudding etc. DC's done like those.

It’s a yes in our house, it’s a decent pudding too (not fruit).

I was brought up in a house where it was fruit or nothing. Miserable!

Nope, don't "serve" pudding. Usually some number of us (teens and adults) will wander into the kitchen independently after dinner for a piece of chocolate, a biscuit or some ice cream if there is any, or fruit and peanut butter.

Used to have pudding as a child, but these days it’s just pudding at the weekends. Kids on weekdays will have yogurt or cereal and/or fruit or something on toast/bit of bagel...

I never eat pudding, even if we're out for dinner I'd rather have cheese - DH is the same, we just don't have particularly sweet teeth I guess. DC have yoghurt or fruit if they want it, although they are still working their way through Easter eggs at the moment, so it's more likely to be chocolate currently.

Fruit and/or an ice lolly. Sometimes a small pot of rice pudding or custard or jelly.

When the kids were little we'd have tinned fruit/fruit salad/berries with yog most days.
Now they are 10 and 13 we have Soup and Pud once a week as a set meal. Tinned or fresh supermarket soup and a home made pud/cake/dessert. I cant be arsed cooking a proper tea and prepping pud!
Usuall suspects are cake, crumble, pineapple fritters, cheesecake, triffle and smores :)

We usually have pud if we eat out of if someone comes (and brings with) to eat with us.

We never have pudding in our house, never have done. I’m always stuffed after dinner, and I’d be the size of a house if I had pudding too. Normally I don’t eat anything after dinner until next morning!

Always had pudding in my family growing up. Large family with a sahm.
Bread& Butter pudding
Apple tart
Rice pudding
Ice cream
Trifle
Crumble
Always home made custard!!
EVERY DAY!
Fancier at weekends after our roast dinners.
None of my family including my parents were over weight. Actually most were tall and very gangly.
None of us continued the tradition in our families as all too busy as we are all out of the home working and my dc have no interest in desserts even in restaurants

something small and chocolatey e.g. a mini fudge brownie bite is offered as a bribe to persuade them to eat a piece of fruit. If they aren't hungry they will have neither but they can't have the brownie unless they first have the fruit.

We just had rice pudding for dinner. It had whole milk and sugar in it. We liked it and enjoyed it.

No puddings here! My GM used to make lovely basic puddings like crumbles and tarts and pies. My DM wasn't keen on them when living in a hot country. I've never served them (fruit yes) except when friends come round.

My DD would usually just be offered fruit or yogurt, or maybe ice-cream or mini roll. Now I think about it , as a child we ways had something simple like Angel delight, or my favourite at the time which was Swiss roll with custard( DM was not an adventurous cook!)

@KihoBebiluPute

something small and chocolatey e.g. a mini fudge brownie bite is offered as a bribe to persuade them to eat a piece of fruit. If they aren't hungry they will have neither but they can't have the brownie unless they first have the fruit.

Please understand I am trying to help, not criticise, but this strategy is unhelpful. It reinforces the idea that fruit is something horrible to be tolerated in order to get to the lovely brownie

I don’t think we have it even once a month
The kids do love the occasional crumble and custard though

I can’t believe so many people give their children sweets / chocolate / cake etc every night

I am pretty relaxed about it but wouldn’t let my children get in to a habit of “needing” pudding. Those people who you meet who say they don’t feel satisfied by a meal unless they’ve had something sweet, it’s such an unhealthy mindset

Not normally but today we've all had a mini Crunchie and a Solero

DS always has some kind of sweet or homemade cake after dinner. Today's was banana bread.

However, he doesn't have nearly the amount of daytime sweets I see other children having. I work in the school he's just left, and now feel I was really mean insisting he have a piece of fruit for morning snack when the majority of my yr 3 class has bags of crisps and dessert bars. Same with contents of lunch boxes.

(Not judging them, the children are all happy and healthy, but I'm not going to feel badly about an evening treat because clearly we're all giving them, just at different times of the day!)

We have started, main and pudding most nights. But we dont do giant portions. Starters are usually things like small bowl of soup, little tartlet etc. Then whatever for main and then a small pudding which is just melon/fruit salad, crumble, pie, cheesecake, ice cream, mousse.

I really dont like just eating one thing. Much prefer smaller bits of lots of stuff. Would hate it if I couldnt have pudding!

Homemade pudding here every night - sponge and custard, treacle tart, brownies, sticky toffee etc.

We do have pudding sometimes but on average probably only about once a week - apple crumble or suchlike. But the children often like an ice cream or yoghurt after supper, or a piece of homemade cake as there's normally something around. This week it's School Days Sprinkle Sponge which they're enjoying with custard - school memories kicking in!

@ShirleyPhallus

But what about kids who get snacks everyday? What's the difference in those giving their kids sweets/chocolate bars during the day or those who dont snack but have a small pudding.

We're not really a snacking household, but we are a pudding household. What's the difference?

We do but a yoghurt or piece of fruit is considered to be a pudding.

I would say 6 nights out of 7 is yoghurt / fruit. We get the shopping delivered once a week and there are always 2 x muller corners for each child. Once they are gone it's back to 'normal' yoghurt. They might have an 'ice cream sundae' on a Saturday which is a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a bit of sauce and a few sprinkles.

I don't think it's healthy to never give treats. That's how I was brought up and consequently have no self control with food. It's a constant battle.

No we very rarely have pudding and I was brought up to have it only on Sunday