do you give your children pudding every day?

[donnie]

I pretty much do and I am wondering if I should be more strict. Pudding in this house is cake or a biscuit or ice cream, maybe a bit of chocolate. My dds do eat plenty of fruit and veg too but I feel perhaps I indulge the pudding thing a bit too much.

What about others?

I do but it is normally fruit , yoghurt or an icelolly occasionally cake.I dont see the harm of puddings as long as they are not eating cakes biscuits all day.We would have cake more often but my 2 prefer fruit or yoghurt.

DD gets chocolate after most evening meals. But she generally eats all of her meal, and eats a balanced diet including loads of fruit and veg, and is very active - so IMO not a problem.

mine won't really accept yoghurt as a pudding unfortunately!

I don't actually but it was never a concious decision not to. I never had pudding when I was growing up, except on a Sunday.

I've noticed though that it's not the norm amongst my friends. They all seem to have puddings, both for themselves and their children.

tbh, I have a hard enough time deciding what they're main meals are going to be everyday without the added thought of "what's for pudding!"

My boys (7 and 9) rarely have any snacks between meals and have sweets once a week, but they do have puddings in a BIG way!

At the end of every meal (including breakfast) they have [in order]:

1. fruit
2. dairy (cheese, yoghurt, or dairy-based pudding such as rice pudding or custard)
3. 'third pudding' = treat: cake, or biscuit or something.

The first two are obviously part of their balanced diet. The third is not! (Sometimes they will choose not to have any or all puddings.)

DS2 is skinny as a rake, and ds1 is average.

I never do, doesn't cross my mind
they do have organic chocolate ice cream sometimes though (not after a meal necessarily) and I make fairy cakes sometimes and we have chocolate sometimes
There's always lots of fruit in the house and they can help themselves to it.

Mine don't have pudding during the week - but the fruit bowl is always available, and they can help themselves whenever they want.
We have puding at the weekends, probably a yoghurt or cheese and biscuits on a Saturday, and then a sponge pudding, trifle or other delicious stodge with Sunday lunch.

But I never say ok, pudding is...because we don't do it. Maybe if lots of people came I might but that's it.

They have pudding as part of school lunch during the week, so if they ask for it at teatime it's normally a yogurt, or sometimes a jelly/ small ice-cream (this only if they've eaten fruit etc earlier on)

On Sundays we often indulge in an apple pie or pudding of some sort for us all!

thanks folks, interesting....anyone else?

Very seldom do pudding, so they really enjoy it when we do have it - had some broken meringues off the reduced shelf and a tin of fruit last week and you'd have thought it was Christmas!

My dd (2.1) always has pudding but it's fruit/yoghurt based 80% of the time, with maybe a biscuit afterwards if she ate all her main course and is still hungry. Which is basically what I do too! I should add that she eats like a horse and takes her food very seriously. (Also like her mother!)

my boys' favourite puddings are semolina and rice pudding. Easy to serve - not sure how good for you they are though.

Always. She'd have rice pudding every day if I let her! Normally it's fresh or tinned fruit followed by yoghurt of some sort if she's still hungry.

DS has fruit after every meal sometimes with cheese- thats it realy, i do it too,i don't feel a meal is complete without fruit. If i am served a proper pudding will always raid fruit bowel afterwards.

no, only a few times a day, she is 22m. her recent fav is jelly, i think its quite healthy,too

oops means a few times a week

fruit or yoghurt every day. Very occasionally 'real'pudding

DS1 has fruit, yougghurt or sometimes dried fruit after his dinner in the evenings, but only if he's attempted to eat his meal. I don;t care if he clears the plate, as long as he's had a taste of whatever's in from of him.

If he eats nothing, he gets no afters.

Forgot to add that DD has a pudding after her school lunch too. She has a choice of fruit or whatever the other pudding is on offer, Her coice is pretty varied throughout the week.

I always offer ds (just 3) a yoghurt or rice pudding, or sometimes a jelly, scoop of icecream or banana and custard. He then always has some fruit and fairly often a biscuit or sweet ricecakes.
I'll occasionally make something more complicated (crumble, upsidedown sponge, muffins) but not often.