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

No I don't 😊 I'll have dessert if I feel like it but not every night ❤️ I grew up with it all the time because dad was English and dessert was a given 😂 if I have something sweet I'll usually have it during the day 😘 because I'm a adult and can have cake whenever I like ❤️

Your grandma sounds the same as my dad dinner wasn't over unless you had pudding 😊 I think it was more to fill you up back then 😊

only sometimes, and even then it might only be a couple of biscuits or a Viennese whirl.

I usually do some Greek yogurt with some frozen berries mixed in. I do it before I start on tea by the time we have eaten it’s defrosted. Very rarely we have a dessert sometimes do some jelly’s angel delight or ice cream or ice lollies when it’s warmer.

I never do no. I grew up with desserts but moved away to London age 19 and lived my own life. Perhaps I am wrong but I have always perceived having desserts the whole time rather old fashioned. Different strokes for different folks.

We do, but I tend to prefer mine in bed with a cuppa at the end of the day. I’m craving it from dinner onwards.

We are a bit overweight but I don’t even care. Life’s too short to deprive myself. I’d love to be the kind of person than doesn’t want sweet stuff though!

I doubt many people have an actual pudding every day, though many probably reach for the chocolate or the biscuit tin more often than they care to admit.

I wouldn't recommend crack to be enjoyed once or twice a week but not in front of the kids!

Maybe not but I have to avoid chocolate or sweet things more than once in a blue moon otherwise I’d want it all the time.

It becomes a craving for me and the ups and downs of blood sugar would also make me much hungrier much of the time. I didn’t realise that until I changed my eating pattern to be a bit healthier because I was worried about being pre-diabetic. I found out that eating more fibre and protein and eliminating sugar for a while made me much less hungry once I’d eliminated the cravings.

I rarely feel faint with hunger these days but I used to all the time as a child probably because we ate so many carb laden foods: lots of mashed potatoes, chips, pies, sugar in tea, cola, sweetened yogurts etc.

I don’t deprive myself at all and eat lots of really tasty foods. I even have chocolate and pudding occasionally. Just not regularly enough to be a habit because I know how tedious it is trying to go cold turkey with the cravings and it lasts for weeks before you get over them.

But I’ve never had puddings as routine since I was an adult. I’d be huge if I did. And I’ve never given them to my kids either although I haven’t stopped them eating sweet things from time to time when we were out and about or the odd treat at home. I remember people bringing sweets for their kids after school but my kids never needed them or asked for them and I found it a bit odd.

I do not have a sweet tooth, so very unusual for me to want anything sweet, such as pudding, on a regular basis.
Formal dinner parties will have both a pudding and a cheese course, but I will probably only eat a bit of cheese and that only if hungry.

Don’t have pudding but will have a biscuit/ protein bar with cup of tea later

I don’t.

No. Not in my circle of blueberry and plain water mums. My daughter has one close friend who always has pudding and always comments about it when she goes for tea there. I don’t know anyone else who serves pudding.
My niece has never been allowed sweets at all. She’s 4. Only fruit or plain Greek yogurt.

I have some chocolate or a biscuit or a cornetto maybe 4 times a week. I dont think anyones having a full sticky toffee puddingor 3ayered chocolate cake as some posters are implying

My family growing up had pudding everyday which would usually be a homemade baked item, they still do and arent in the slightest bit overweight. A small pudding isn't a lot of calories and can easily fit into a 1800kcal day

Starter and main every single time!

I do at the weekend, either on a Friday or Sunday night, maybe something nibbly on Saturday.

I don't really crave sweet stuff much anyway, if I do it tends to be after lunch/mid afternoon.

My mum is the polar opposite, I think she'd get withdrawal symptoms if you took away her daily Magnum!

Yes a meal isn't complete without pudding for me.

I have to. I wish I could break it as a habit.

Starter, main, followed by another starter!

Hardly ever…can’t even remember the last time. And as a child it wasn’t the norm in our family either…perhaps on a Sunday, occasionally, we’d have a bit of ‘fruit and ice cream’ (which would be tinned fruit and a slab of Neapolitan ice cream from KwikSave 😂)

Our DCs have yoghurt or fruit after dinner but DH and I don’t have anything. I’m already overweight, I’d be obese if I ate pudding every night.

GREEK yoghurt (it has to be Greek!) ✅
Fruit, fruit. Endless fruit (bonus points for 'berries') ✅
And the MN favourite: Two squares of dark chocolate ✅

This has got to be THE most predictable thread this week.

Quite a few people on here saying greek yoghurt, which to me a savoury thing.

Yep. I have a hot chocolate with at least 3 biscuits!

@Magicpaintbrush I'm exactly the same as you, I've struggled with it for decades. I'm slim, but a dress size bigger than I would otherwise be. I hate feeling it has a hold over me. I don't have any other addictions (which I do see it as)

I tried hypnosis and it didn't work, I don't know if that's because the practitioner wasn't very good, or because deep down I resisted.

The only thing that reduces my cravings is eating very low carb (I believe that reduces your amount of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, similar to GLP-1 drugs), but I can't stick to that very long because I comfort eat carbs.

I might just have to accept it and take up running every day.