Do you have a pudding every night?

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Exactly my question. I'm so used to having a pudding, no matter how small, every night. If we don't have one it feels like the meal is not complete.
As I'm overweight it needs to stop. Need to save some money too. I have a wardrobe full of nice clothes that don't fit.
If you do have a pudding & still keep the calories down what do you have? Fruit salad is the obvious choice, but you get fed up of it after a while.

I never eat pudding at home but quite often have breakfast as a evening snack.

(I don't do breakfast at the generally accepted time alot but still need my fill of Coco Pops 🤣)

We do. I have a huge sweet tooth though.

Yes, eight to twelve bars of chocolate a day. I feel like crap.

Yes to lunch pudding (tracker bar or biscuit)

as well as tea pudding which you are correct must be accompanied by a cup of tea!

Yeah, i have to have something sweet, usually chocolate most days. I'm properly addicted. Quite good at portion control though and mainly stick to bitesized.

Fruit with Nutella is really nice and healthyish

I do, I don't think I do but most nights I have a yoghurt or some fruit or a left over mince pie etc. All adds up. Pointless calories as I'm not hungry straight after a meal.

I never said it was driven solely by having pudding. I was responding to "I'm pretty sure there are no rules. Eat what you like"

Yes.

Most nights it's something very simple like stewed fruit (with yoghurt as an option) or a fruit salad. Only about once a week or so is it something more substantial than that.

We have "dessert" at the end of every meal.

The standard is yogurt (with a bit of yogurt, jam.or honey), and/or fruits.
Occasionally, we'll make more elaborate dairy based stuff like semolina or rice pudding. Usually when the meal itself is quite light.

And then on weekends or special occasions we'll have proper pudding.

No. We only ever have pudding if we are having family or friends over for a meal, then we do pudding too. But honestly months go by. I have never understood dinner and pudding, but I wasn’t raised like that so it never crossed my mind to introduce it as an adult.

No.

I’m usually content after having a main meal. I may have a pudding at home if I crave one. I usually find I crave one when I’m sad and since I don’t often have them, it means going out and getting one. Often if I buy one, I find that it doesn’t taste as good as I hoped after a few bites even if I enjoyed it before so it gets put away or someone else will eat it.

However, if we’re out and there is a pudding that sounds nice, I may get it depending on how I feel after eating my meal.

No don’t have pudding at night. Do have berries and yogurt at lunchtime. Still overweight.

Never. Rarely if I go out for dinner

No, never unless it's a special meal out

We didn't have puddings as children either

We don’t have pudding every night, maybe 2 days a week, a proper pudding I mean. Otherwise, we always have a fruit bowl so I tell the kids they can have whatever fruit they want. If I have any myself, it’s often a satsuma or some grapes.

I have dark chocolate, the darkest I can find. It took me a while to get used to the taste (I used to always have milk chocolate after a meal) but one square is very satisfying to me now.

Yes we, me DH and 2 teens, always have something sweet. There's usually a homemade cake or it could be chocolate. At the weekends there might be a more special pudding like tiramisu or a crumble.
I love fruit, especially exotic fruits for a pudding too. Also have greek yoghurt and fruit after lunch.
I would also class biscuits with a drink after a meal pudding too.

My DD 14 favourite treat is 100% dark chocolate. Montezumas usually. She nibbles on cocoa nibs too.
But as cocoa is quite high in caffeine, i do not buy her these regularly.

No I only have it at Christmas, I only eat twice a day breakfast around half 9 and tea around 5 and I might have a biscuit or small amount of chocolate in the afternoon

I think if we tweaked the title to 'something sweet' instead of 'pudding' (pudding does imply roly-poly, steamed syrup, tiramisu, trifle etc), many more are owning up to choc or biscuits etc.......

I have pudding every night. On the daily I also have chocolate / biscuits / cake etc.

I am not overweight (size 10) and do zero exercise. I also have a desk job.

Not sure what keeps the weight down other than my diet containing zero cholesterol as I have no animal products ever. I don’t eat meat, dairy, eggs etc.

A lot of deserts contain eggs which are very high in cholesterol as is dairy (particularly cheese) so maybe it’s because I only ever eat the vegan / plant based options of cake, chocolate and ice cream which helps me? Who knows but I have a very sweet tooth.

What about a little petit filous yogurt? They’re tiny so very little calories but the strawberry and raspberry ones are nice and sweet!

One square of chocolate (or one chocolate) every night with a cup of tea.

We can go for weeks without pudding, but we would prefer a savoury starter to a pudding.