AIBU to think most people have something sweet after dinner daily?

[QuickPearlFox]

To have something sweet/ pudding every day after dinner?
kind of thought the majority did this but after talking to friends maybe not. So for example after dinner every night will have something sweet eg bar of chocolate, biscuits

I can't ever stop at having just one piece, it doesn't work. I've tried not keeping chocolate in the house but eventually end up buying some because otherwise I'm climbing the walls. I managed to break my addiction to diet coke, but chocolate (or puddings) has proved impossible. I think I would be a dress size smaller otherwise. Can hypnosis help with stuff like this?

Yes strawberries, raspberries or yogurt.

I eat with the kids in the week quite early, so I often have a bit of yoghurt at 8, or some fruit/nuts or a glass of milk or perhaps a square of dark chocolate to wake me up if I have fallen asleep on a bedroom floor putting someone to sleep to wake me up a bit, but not a proper pudding.

My DH feels like a meal isn’t finished unless he has something sweet. I do crave sweet things after dinner, probably because of my 1980s childhood! (Blancmange anyone?) But it usually passes if I wait 10 minutes. My DCs can take it or leave it, which is probably a good thing.

I don't know about most people but I do like to finish my evening meal with something sweet, usually a biscuit or cake.

No I don’t never have since I was a kid

Every night without fail. Always been slim as an adult.

But that's it, I don't do crisps, biscuits, snacking or heavy drinks like lattes in the day.

I eat like a snake: massive dinner around 7pm, chocolate or ice cream between 8-9pm, then no breakfast and a light lunch , like crackers and cheese.

I bloody love food and look forward to my evening eating.

i was thinking the same. The shelves in the supermarket tell a different story as do the concession stands, bakeries and dessert places on high streets. Any work meal, restaurant menu etc has a pudding section. Maybe people eat these cakes, biscuits and confectionery during the day and just not after a meal.

I think it's probably better to do this after dinner rather than eat anything, esp. sweet stuff, later in the evening. Think you're meant to let your insulin levels fall gradually after about 7pm not send them shooting up with biscuits or chocolate before bed. But all food will do this obviously.

It's interesting because in the days when fewer people were overweight, it was the norm to have a pudding after dinner earlier in the evening, but probably not to snack after that time, snacking ('eating between meals') was very much frowned on.

Love the smug posts of those saying they have something every night but are still slim. It’s not about weight it’s about health ! You can be slim and unhealthy and bigger and healthy- sugar is pouring flames on the fire of whatever we’ve got in our genes that could click into “on” mode - these smug posts of “still slim” are sending me .

I certainly don't wait until just after dinner.

I knew the majority on the poll would be YABU 🤣🤣

So predictable.

I certainly do

We have fruit, usually berries but things like mango in the winter. We used to have ice cream with it but we need to loose a few pounds so we have ditched the ice cream.

I do but it has to be under 100 calories. It’s usually a freddo.

Oh I have a biscuit after lunch and a cake after dinner every day. I am definitely going to die young.
Well that's if the wine doesnt kill me off first.

No, I don't. I don't really have a sweet tooth.

My partner does. He has something sweet every night - ice cream, biscuits or chocolate. But I can take it or leave it so I leave.it.

I have no idea about anyone else I know. It's not something I've ever asked anyone!

I don’t know about other people, but I very seldom do. A couple of hours after dinner, if I feel peckish I’m more likely to make popcorn.

I would easily be able to do this but don’t for health reasons. I have grapefruit instead.

Yes always have had something sweet after a meal doesn’t feel finished unless I have something sweet - all my family are the same - I usually have some greek yoghurt

Only on Sunday. It's too much sugar to be doing it every day.

You’ve asked evvvveryone you know this exact question have you?!

You just had to, didn’t you?! You just couldn’t resist getting a bit of shaming in

I do have quite a lot of haagan daaz in the freezer atm because Waitrose has a great offer for £3.95 instead of £7 on some ok flavours eg chocolate brownie so yes I tend to eat ice cream every day in the evening because it’s there… The only sweet thing in the house though apart from fruit.