Do people still have puddings?

[pongonperdy]

Just wondering what the norm is. We don't tend to have dessert very often. However have noticed that at nursery and school they get dessert every day.

Of course.

Tonight is apple crumble.

95% of the time it's healthy. 5% of the time it's lashings of custard and licking the bowl.

My two seem to get cake and custard practically every day at school but I always give them something after dinner as well. It's usually a yogurt or piece of fruit but I've done it since they were small as a kind of 'reward' for eating up their meal. Not sure if that's what you're supposed to do but it seems to work!

Same as Crazycow00slevin I use pudding to bribe my DD to finish her main course. It varies it can be yogurt, fruit, blamange, jelly, ice cream, homemade cake, crumble, lemon meringue pie, semolina, rice pudding, treacle sponge, baked bananas with maple syrup and of course custard with various things etc...

I like cooking and baking a little too much I must confess, and I wonder why I'm a size 16 still

DD always expects something. Maybe ice cream or a chocolate cake bar. But we always have a pud on Sundays and occasionally during the week. I have been practising a chocolate cake recipe so we have had rather a lot of that.

I prefer cheese.

I would forgo a main course when out to have a starter (or two!) and cheese and biccies.

I never do, the DCs always have something. Yoghurt/fruit during the week, something treatish like choc mousse/ice cream/piece of cake at the weekend.

the children have pudding every day - fruit or yoghurt for say 4 nights and a cooked pud on the other three, usually crumble, rice pudding, bananas and custard.

Partly because they are little and I see it as a way of getting extra nutrients into them, mainly because they like it, partly in the hope that if fairly healthy puddings are a normal part of their diet they won't get hung up about sweet stuff.

We (dh & I ) only have pudding if we have guests or I am really fed up!

Only if we have visitors or are having a treat. But DH and I would often have a piece of chocolate later in the evening.

I wouldn't have time to make a pudding as well as dinner!

I grew up on a 'proper' pudding every day and now I always feel I need something sugary to finish off with. I'm keen to avoid it with DS so he doesn't end up with the same problem.

see angel I only ever had chopped apple for pud, at best and I put my sweet tooth down to deprivation!

I have pudding about three or four times a year.

The kids have pudding every day and sometimes more than one thing. They have something home made every day too.

The DC usually have pudding about an hour after dinner.

Tends to be fruit/ yoghurt or fruit pies and custard and only a small bit.

I never have dessert, even when doing dinner parties now I just have a cheeseboard

Yes, I love pudding even if it's just a square of choccy. Gutted at the mo cos I've cut out dairy to see if it helps 12wk DS with his reflux so just when custard season's starting I can't have any :(

Yes - yoghurt or fruit (berries, mango, plum or something) or maybe a biscuit or bit of cake if we've been baking. Sometimes crumble or something at the weekend.

DS sometimes asks for dessert at breakfast

To Chulita,

Do not worry you can still have custard without dairy. Get dairy-free custard powder from health food shop and use rice or soya milk in place of cow milk.
For choccy, just get dairy free version from health food shops. It's as good if not better than the usual variety.

DH and I gave gave up dairy and sugar because DD advised to in order to stop constant throat problems. It worked for her and we have just carried on. Had no dairy/ no sugar rice pud tonight and it was great!

Yes - have a sweet tooth. I'm with others that I would much rather skip starters if eating out and have a dessert.

Kids will have something after their lunch if at school and hot dinners it always seems to be something like chocolate cracknel or custard biscuits, I will pack them a yogurst and fruit bar or something.

In the evening after dinner they will have something like apple & pear chips which is apples and pears cut up in thin strips! Or cheese and crackers. Home made cakes and biccies if I have been at home in a baking mood but very rarely will I cook 'proper puddings.'

pudpud yes! I love all that, but have a bum the size of the British deficit, so generally have something like an ice lolly and a low fat hot chocolate drink so that I don't feel too deprived.
DS has a lolly or a yoghurt or both.
At the weekends (oh alright a couple of times a week) I quite like pudding after breakfast.
Burp! Can't beat a nice bit of cake after breck!

only at weekends and/or if we're having people round. But I find it quite touching that MIL always makes 2 puds when we go round on a sunday for lunch. Ice cream, cream and custard are almost always on offer to go with whatever we're having.

We'll generally have fruit or yoghurt. Plus chocolate after supper for DH and I. I love proper puddings but only make them on the rare occasions we have people over for a meal.

I grew up with pudding after lunch and supper. Quite often it would be fruit or yogurt, but always something. My mother was always surprised that we didn't cook pudding as students because she said it was a cheap way to fill up, but we never really got into the habit.

Tonight ds is making semolina, and dd has just made apple muffins that have gone a bit wrong, so we are eating those as pudding too.

Yes, lots of homemade pies and crumbles in summer (plums, apples, blackberries). More cake type stuff in winter.

Very rarely. I never have enough room after my main course for one and wouldn't enjoy it. In any case I prefer to have a starter and main and forego the pudding.

I usually only do dessert if we have friends over or I get given a load of apples to use up. (I make a mean Eve's pudding!). On the other hand I am fond of baking so we quite often have some cake or scones in the house.

I have found since DD started school and has got into the habit of having a dessert, she leaves a little room for pudding by eating less of her dinner, which I am not happy about.

Oooo pudding and cake every day!! Now both dcs are at school I'm trying to do home baking and proper puds rather than shop bought. The dcs would be up in arms if there wasn't any cake or pud. Mind you so would I.
PS haven't name-changed by the way!

always!
Yoghurt, fruit, cake&custard,table cream,jelly etc.