What warm healthy puddings do you eat?

[imasurvivor2]

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?

Apple cooked in apple juice with cinnamon plus Greek yoghurt. A variation of the above with any other fruit. If you really feel the need you can add a bit of granola on top of the cooked fruit but I find the fruit and Greek yoghurt enough.

You can make a very nice clafoutis with tinned black cherries. I use Asda’s.

If you want something filling but healthy how about a small bowl of porridge with banana and cinnamon on top, or a dollop of jam, or some nuts, raisins, and honey, or choc chips/cocoa and sugar and cherries…anything you want really.

Can you not try hard to break the cycle of having puddings completely? Maybe switch to ‘starter & main’ approach to meals instead of ‘main & pudding’? Or just have pudding once a week and offer maybe a a square or two of (very) dark chocolate on the other nights?
If you can’t pull away from puddings then I think, IIRC, that Tom Kerridge’s dopamine diet cookbook has some recipes that could be worth looking at.

Chocolate chia pudding made with Stevia and almond milk is such a treat. A blob of cool whip on top is extra nice!

Some sweet breads are not too unhealthy and can be modified a million ways to make them healthier, banana, zucchini, pumpkin, coconut, gingerbread to name a few!

Yorkshire pudding (it's only milk, flour & egg) with warmed up frozen berries or jam & a dollop of vanilla ice cream or greek yoghurt is lush.
Nigella got me into it years ago!

I eat low carb/high fat, so my pudding options (if I have one) are a square of very dark chocolate, an apple with a slice of cheese, alpro yoghurt, berries and real cream.

dateloaf it’s dead easy and so delicious ,

You boil or roast some diced sweet potatoes and sugar pumpkin then mash/blend till you have a smooth , thick consistency , add some vanilla , cinnamon you can add half cup of milk or 2 eggs or nothing , into a baking dish it goes and top with a mixture of brown sugar, flour , bit of butter and pecan and back till the topping is all caramel like 😋.

Another easy light option is spiced ground rice pudding, it’s totally addictive and only made of 1 cup ground rice, 1/3 cup of sugar, 1/2 tbsp of ground caraway , 1tbsp Cinnamon , tiny bit of star anise, and 6 and half cups of water , you can adjust the water depending on how thick you prefer it.

Everyone is different but I don’t buy into all sweet cakes and desserts are bad.
If a small "healthier" brownie made of mashed bananas and almond flour is 137calories and 11.g in sugars
Then it’s no better than a small Madeline that is round 112 calories and 6.5 sugars or 1 dark chocolate digestive around 81 calories and 4g sugars
I know which one I’d pick to enjoy with a nice cup of coffee, and it’s not the mashed bananas brownies

Thank you so much queenofarles I am addicted to pumpkin pie so that sounds brilliant.

queen I agree with your examples but for me adding fruit (apples and cherries being my favourites) to cake or pudding gives something extra.

@queenofarles fair point about the calories, but for some people (myself included) almonds and fruit are preferable to trans fat biscuits. I like the food I eat to make a difference to my health, as I can't eat that much food overall without gaining weight.

I do think one of the healthiest habits you can set for your kids is getting out of the cycle of needing pudding after a meal - there's a lot to be said for growing up unfussed by sweet foods.

Better to eat homemade puddings than bought ones full of processed crap, sure. But putting fruit in a dessert like a cake, a crumble or a pie doesn't make it healthy . It's still full of sugar and refined carbs. It's not about the calories per se - you need a certain amount of calories, and a small dessert isn't necessarily going to have more calories than lots of savoury things do.

It’s all depends on how you see it, I’m not talking about deep fried Mars bars wrapped in bacon
but a small slice of simple loaf cake or sponge cake made with fresh good quality products are not as sinful as they are portrayed.

Your post reads like a 70s diet cult. Don't pass these things on to your daughter's, this rubbish about 'healthy' food and 'naughty' food and stuff.

Just eat the pudding. The next day, don't eat the pudding. There. Balance.