What warm healthy puddings do you eat?

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I am trying to eat more healthily and eat less chocolate etc but am craving sweet things. My teen DDs always ask for pudding too and are fed up with me saying 'fruit or yoghurt'!

I sometimes make fruit crumbles or stewed fruit but I can't think of other warm healthy puddings I can make. As it's coming up to Xmas and we'll be eating lots of 'naughty' stuff I thought I'd try and counteract that in advance . It's also much colder so looking for something warm!

What do you make?

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Baked bananas? With a couple of squares of dark chocolate tucked inside to melt?

Or fage lowish fat geek yogurt with a hot berry sauce (mixed frozen berries with a bit of sugar) and a crumbled ginger nut biscuit perhaps.

Freezer banana ice cream (basically frozen over ripe banana, whizzed in blender), with some hot low fat chocolate sauce maybe

Autumn pudding.

Baked plums (with star anise ginger etc) with fage, baked pears also, or apples.

There must be ok low fat freezer cheescake recepies on Google.

Baked apples stuffed with raisins and a dribble of honey?

Apple and berry crumble but less topping than usual and add oats and nuts to topping - maybe squirty cream too.🤗

My mum used to serve hot stewed pears in a stemmed glass with a little chocolate grated on the top. It was all about the melting, I liked it a lot. I haven’t managed to get dd to buy into it, though.

@YesILikeItToo

My mum used to serve hot stewed pears in a stemmed glass with a little chocolate grated on the top. It was all about the melting, I liked it a lot. I haven’t managed to get dd to buy into it, though.

Ooh I fancy that right now.

Jelly with fruit and sorbet/frozen yogurt

(Not very warm though0

Sweet potatoes and pumpkin casserole , topped with pecan streusel topping, so delicious.

I personally eat chocolates or a tiny bit of cake daily, i bake 90% of the time so I control the amount of sugar that goes in.
I believe it’s lighter and not worse ,even better Than all those "healthy" desserts made of high precent of fats like nut butter, maple , honey or dates, they just taste too sweet and flavourless .

Candarel Sugarly is your friend. Just like real sugar but zero calories and not like the cheaper yacky sweetener powder. Satisfies the sweet craving with 0 calories. Maybe substitute for sugar in custard (and use skimmed milk)

An easy one I do is to use a bag of frozen fruit: the mixed berries, cherries or blueberries and top with a really thin layer of crumble which I keep a tub of in the freezer ( I mix in jumbo oats which I think improves the texture tbh)

Sliced baked apples in bulk get eaten with yoghurt or pancakes.
Cake topped with warmed mixed berries.
Stewed prunes and custard are popular to my surprise. I'll add in yoghurt if I remember.

Baked apples with cinnamon
Pears drizzled in melted dark chocolate (yeah I know it's chocolate but a little goes a long way) or chocolate bananas
Apple, pineapple of banana fritters (just dip in to batter mix and shallow fry or bake in fry light)
Tinned fruit, sugar free jelly and Squirty cream
'Blancmange' made with sugar free jelly mixed with yogurt
I like making random layered desserts of eg. A chocolate digestive bashed up, a layer of toffee yogurt, a layer of Banana slices, more toffee yoghurt, some Squirty cream, topped with some more biscuits crumbs, or some granola, topped with yoghurt, then some mango slices (tinned or fresh), more yogurt, topped with some crushed pistachio nuts.

Anything home made is a better option than shop bought, simply because you can use real fresh ingredients, and can reduce the proportion of sugar.

You can also try swapping things like some of the flour for ground nut.

Ignore the people on mnet who act like it's normal to constantly deny yourself anything sweet ever. We've evolved to crave sweet flavours as an easy source of energy.

I focus now on making puddings that at least have some nutritional value, so that it's not just sugar calories.

Homemade custard with proper egg.
Fresh fruit crumbles.
Flapjacks with fruit, seeds and nuts
Pancakes made with eggs, milk, with fresh fruit.

‘Healthy’ puddings is just on a sliding scale really, but some things are a bit more on the healthy end depending on how much sugar has been added:
Sliced oranges on a plate with orange flower water and sliced toasted almonds sprinkled on
Grilled peaches
grapefruits with caremalised brown sugar
Pancakes with chopped sliced fruit on
Baked bananas in their skins
Lots of the vegan raw brownie etc recipes look a bit healthier by using natural ingredients to sweeten
Granola, fruit, yoghurt
Frozen yoghurt is meant to be healthier than custard, cream or ice cream, I think. Still has loads of sugar in it though!

I make a chocolate cake/ muffins with a whole grated courgette in and reduce the fat content.

Also scotch pancake mix with blitzed berries/ bananas added to mixture before cooking are very nice - and pretty as they're pink. I usually put a bit of vanilla but no sugar. Eat with some honey and squirty cream (not too much!).

Experimenting with recipes is fun.

Sweet potatoes and pumpkin casserole , topped with pecan streusel topping, so delicious.

This sounds delicious queenofarles do you have a recipe for this one?

Based on a Slimming World recipe, this is more than enough for one person
Frozen cherries or berries
Porridge oats (40g)
1 Egg
Alpro coconut yoghurt
Drop of coconut extract
Cinnamon

Put the fruit in the bottom of a dish
Beat the egg, add the oats and yoghurt. I think SW outdoor say a pot of mullerlite but I use however much yoghurt think. Add a drop of coconut extract and some cinnamon. Add sweetener to taste,
Pour over the fruit and bake.

There are loads of low cal pudding treats you learn on diet plans, not really great but you get used to them.
Google mug cakes & baked oats.

Using very ripe bananas can sweeten baked goods and reduce any added sugar.

Silken tofu (definitely not normal tofu) blended with lemon juice and grated zest tastes like lemon mousse to me. It's ultra low calorie.

Also frozen berries and thick yogurt or low fat /fat free fromage frais , blended in a food processor makes instant ice cream. Season to taste.

Frozen bananas and yogurt or ff fromage frais, also blended to ice cream consistency.

Banana and honey sandwich pref with sesame seeded bread done in sandwich maker omg delish (or Nutella-that's healthy its got nuts innit!)

Banana pancake. Mash banana. Whisk in one egg. Cook in coconut oil.

Low cal, lowish carb and very satisfying.

The thing is, unless you have a very small main course then pudding is extra calories you don’t need - so even if it’s healthy then it’s going to make you gain weight - unless it’s something very small.

I know lots of people say that our grandparents etc used to always have puddings and didn’t gain weight - but in those days people didn’t have sugary drinks or constant snacks during the day.

We have a lot of tinned peaches served warm. Peach crumble is good too.

All Bran cake is a classic, make that with dates and you find it has a sort of sticky toffee flavour to it.