Pudding after dinner?

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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

They have an ice cream or a biscuit or a yoghurt. They don't usually have anything else sweet except fruit the rest of the day.

They have friends who are given sweets/coke/bars of choc every day as a post school snack. I was restricted on sweet stuff as a kid and struggle to moderate. Dds still have choc from Easter and have a can of pop a month. They are better than me at moderation so I don't worry re pud.

We only have pudding after a roast. My mum was the same so it’s just the norm for me.

Dd can have a yogurt or an ice lolly if she’s asks after dinner.

We always had a pudding of some sort every evening. Either home made or from the shop. It finishes dinner off nicely. It doesn't have to be enormous.

I had the same growing up, so did husband.

Sometimes. DD made jelly yesterday and so they had that but it's an infrequent thing

We only have a "proper" pudding (crumble etc) for Sunday lunch. But everyone helps themselves to fruit, yoghurt, ice cream etc.

We always have something - usually something pretty small, like a piece of fruit, or a square of chocolate, a biscuit or sometimes cheese, with a proper pudding like crumble or steamed pudding on Sundays.

I tend to view pudding as an alternative to snacks - I'd rather follow my meal with something sweet than eat it at a random time.

When my kids were little they used to eat at teatime and often had a yoghurt or fruit afterwards.

When they were old enough to eat with us later they had the fruit snack after school. Pudding in our house has always been special occasions & Sundays only.

@Horehound

Jeez I'm shocked so few have pudding. I have some kind of treat most nights

I don’t have pudding but I have a few bits of chocolate in the evening

Always puddings when I was a child in 70s/80s. Never got into the habit with my own family. Once or twice a week maybe. Fruit/yoghurt always available though.

Mine have fruits but my son also has a little bit of chocolate every night after dinner

6/7 nights the children just have fruit. My husband has a real sweet tooth and will be more generous with sweet treats than me (no sweet tooth!). About once a week they might have a 'proper' pudding, yoghurt or ice cream. But they have hot dinners in school and I think they have something sweet every day there

When the children were smaller we would have pudding most days. We are not snackers though so really I think it evens up
fruit pies, bread and butter pudding, rice pud, treacle tarts, cake and custard...fancier things for high days and holidays... creme caramels tiramisu, lemon meringue pie, cheesecakes

I do and did mainly cooking from scratch, for mains and puddings. Not a full time SAHM but a over caterer with a giant freezer so baking large quantities of stuff is my bad habit.

and yogurt is not pudding...it's yogurt! But I suppose the quantity that is eaten on this thread goes a fair way to explain the many many miles of yogurt aisles in the supermarkets!

A pudding is always offered, only DH turns it down. It's usually fruit, rice pudding, ice cream, home made cake or a couple of chocolate buttons. All very small portions but everyone enjoys them.

Always offered my kids pudding - fruit, yoghurt, chocolate mousse, ice cream or similar - when they were little. Nowadays (they are 20 and 18) they can pretty much take it or leave it - sometimes we have something if people are still hungry otherwise we don't bother. I don't think it set bad habits for them - actually I was always quite relaxed about not having any forbidden foods and now they are healthy eaters who eat pretty much anything and are not overweight.

There seems to be a bit of a trend for fruit and yoghurt as the only acceptable option on mumsnet, but it's often packed with sugar & I notice my friends giving huge servings of it. Also young children do actually need carbs and carefully chosen puddings can be a good way to provide those, as well as eggs, milk, nuts and fruit.

I make homemade desserts for my 2 young kids.

• rice pudding
• semolina pudding
• fruit crumbles
• pancakes
• malt loaf
• roly poly pudding with fruit compote instead of jam
• banana bread
• oat and almond flapjack
• pecan meringue pie

I give small portions and both will sometimes choose the fruit thats always available as an option, they regulate themselves well.

[quote themalamander]@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?[/quote]
To me it’s just getting used to the taste of it, so you start craving it even if you don’t want it. Personally I don’t give my young child a sweet snack each day, fruit is given as part of meals but not all the time, I think it’s ok to eat some meals without finishing with something sweet. Likewise I don’t think it’s necessary to give a treat bar each day, but I appreciate we all do things differently

Oh and we are also a) not snackers and b) I look at the whole meal. My friend obsessed over not giving her child puddings but serves huge amounts of savoury carbs and encourages the child to finish big portions. My small servings of desserts probably add less calories to the meal than her double sized bowls of rice or pasta.

My kids have chocolate most nights. Usually do try and mix it with fruit, so maybe chocolate buttons and a tangerine/apple.

Me and DH also have tea and chocolate about 8.30pm every night.

Cake once a week on Sundays.

Mine have a pudding after lunch and dinner everyday. So does H. They think everything savoury needs be followed by something sweet. Ds2 asks for a breakfast desert too It’s not anything good like yogurt or fruit, it’s biscuits and ice cream. They also have biscuits at school pick up.

We do on special occasions (Birthdays, Christmas, Easter), if we've got guests for dinner or if there was something particularly yummy looking in the reduced section

We always have yogurt and fruit unless we have guests.

Mine would never eat a proper pudding that I make like a fruit crumble, pie or sponge pudding either. They’d rather a few haribo or fizzy worms after dinner.

Only proper desert as rare treats/or if we have guests. Probably less than once a week.

That said there are always snacks around including ice creams if anyone wants anything.

After Sunday lunch, if we’d had a supper party and they had a treat of leftovers, if we had their friends for supper or very occasionally (maybe once a month) an ice cream from the kitchen window ice-cream shop.

I make puddings on Sundays and occasionally on Saturdays. This weekend we had tiramisu 😋 Otherwise it's fruit, yoghurt (or any leftover weekend pudding if you're lucky)