Stuck in a tea time pudding rut.

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Yoghurts

and

fruit

and ice cream once a week.

boooooooooooooooooooooooooring

need some ideas please. Thank you

I went out and bought some rather kitsch pressed glass desert bowls (10p each from a charity shop - you know the kind of thing - on a little stem and are really chunky glass, so no danger of getting broken) but they make even the most boring sliced apple and yogurt look a bit more exciting. Get a few hundreds and thousands / chocolate sprinkles in stock, and also we love those teddy bear shaped wafers here for a bit of old school ice-cream parlour chic

Other pud ideas: bread and butter pudding, banoffee pie (dead simple to make, but not very healthy ), even lazier cheesecake (digestive biscuits spread with philly and topped off with lemon curd)

Jelly with fruit in
Bananas & icecream & chocolate sauce
Fruit crumble
Brownies
Apple strudel
Baked bananas in rum

Second the 'cheating cheesecakes' - digestive biscuit, we use fromage frais or greek yoghurt, top with fresh fruit and drizzle with a small amount of jam.

This time of year baked apples, apple crumble, apple charlotte, apples cut into wedges and baked in flat dish with lemon juice, honey and sesame seeds...

ds doesnt really seem to like pudding

i look like one! with all the extra there is to eat..

crumble is easy and they can help make it too
did apple and apricot one last night with ground almonds in topping with custard or cream very nice

nice with dates too!

DSs can choose what they want. Usually Ice Cream, Fruit Flakes or warm custard but they have to eat all their dinner (or have a very good go and try everything) so they only get pudding a couple of times a week.

If they don't finish their meal they can have fruit.

mine have a yoghurt or a small ice lolly e.g. mini-milk/mini twister or an ice pole or dd's favourite, waffles and ice cream with toffee sauce (that is a weekend-only pudding though!). They dont have one every night and dd(4) even sometimes says 'no thank you' when offered.

a biscuit
or
ice-cream
or
tinned fruit
or
fruit cake
or
apple crumble
or
yoghurt

after most dinners, 'cos i love 'em!

never made it but bread and butter pudding looks quick and easy to do!

Dd is addicted to the French Creme de Marrons (sweetened Chestnut puree) with whipped cream. Not to be eaten very frequently, but a very yummy treat.
You can find it at Sainsbury's, in the section with special oils.
On the days she knows there is creme de marrons she eats all her dinner very nicely (no dinner = no dessert)...

Oh, and this carrot cake is also one of the biggest hits in our household.

The all time favorite for DS is finely grated carrots in orange juice with sprinkling of cinnamon or finely grated cucumber in apple juice with orange blosson water.

• flan

• vanilla stewed apple or pear with raisins/figs/prunes and a dollop of cream

• petit filous ice lollies (just put a stick and freeze)

• Alpro soy chocolate or toffee dessert

i love aplro desserts - just like fla in holland...

like thick yoghurt, thick custard or thick pink milkshake - yum!

I don't give my DS pudding, he loves fruit and is happy with that? Why do DC need unhealthy puddings except as a treat?

Occasionally DS gets a cake if we have baked that day or a piece of chocolate or a yoghurt. I might even offer a milk lolly but dessert is something we just don't reaslly do.

I always offer fruit after a meal though and sometimes ds has it and sometimes not it just depends.

mummy why assume pudding is unhealthy?

In some families it's part of a balanced meal.
We eat the "french" way. starter, main, desert.

If the starter and main is vegetarian, then flan is apropriate as it is milk and egg(protein)
If it is mainly starchy/protein, then stewed or fresh fruit/veg is apropriate for fibre and fresh vitamins
If your DC don't drink enough milk then yogurt is apropriate
etc...
etc...

Yes, agree with Slim22, it is great way of balancing out a meal.

i must add my children eat fruit during the day : no sweets, chocolate, crisps etc.

Well we eat like the Italians who rarely have dessert- except maybe an ice cream later in the evening. They generally eat fruit after a meal. Ds does eat yoghurt sometimes after a meal because he really doesn't like milk much so yoghurt has always been a substitute for milk for him.

Slim - do you really eat a starter, main and dessert every day and is that for evey meal or just one meal?

I'm interested because part of why we don't have dessert is I have enough problem cooking a main course every day, if I had to add a home cooked (mostly) dessert and starter I think it would finish me off in the cooking department

Lazycow, it's easier than it sounds.

Starter is usually simply a fresh raw vegie with seasoning. ie: tomato and olive oil, veggie sticks with or without hummous, olives, that sort of thing. Whatever is in the fridge and we always have lots of vegies, cooked salads, corn tacos and fresh salsa, dahl......
The idea is to sit down and share and try new things.
In the evening it can be soup.

Of course it's not written in stone, everyday/ every meal.
If DS too tired (or me not bothered), like everybody else we simplify to simple all in one dish or whatever is available.
That's where pudding is a great way to balance things.

I'd rather give a nourishing pudding than have him moan for a snack before bedtime.

Like Slim22, we usually have a starter at the main meal (lunchtime) and sometimes in the evening.

We always have something after the main meal although it is often just fruit or yoghurt.

I just had to go raid our cake stash as a result of this thread.

We usually have something sweet/a snack a few hours after our dinner, so more of a supper. Don't get me wrong, this can be crumble and soy yog/soy custard, steamed sponge when I have had time or we have had lots of sports/training, to a piece of fruit and a few nuts/glass of soymilk.

We generally treat 'dessert' as a healthy extra so it tends to be a choice of fruit, yoghurt or toast with almond butter and jam.

We do like to bake at the weekends so there may be a chocolate fudge cake going which we have with some rice cream! Yummy... I do like my sweets

we try to do light dinner/heavy pudding, heavy dinner/light pudding, most nights.

so tonight is tomato soup with garlic bread and salad, after will proberly be fruit cake.

sunday is trout, veggies and potatoes, so will proberly be ice-cream.