How often does your baby/child have dessert?

[Elmers]

Just that really? I see loads of ready to eat food pouches/jars which seem to be pudding rather than main meal. I've never bought one because I don't give my 8 month old dessert - but should I be??
I know he has dessert when he's at nursery, normally like a crumble or something, and that's ok but at home if I think he's still hungry after his lunch/dinner I'll just give him some fruit.
I seem to remember a friend giving her kids dessert every day when they were younger but then when does that stop? I don't get to have dessert every day, as much as I'd love to.

My 12 month old gets 'pudding' but nothing from a jar. Fruit or plain yoghurt or fruit with yoghurt if he's really lucky!

He's had homemade rice pudding and custard before but not regularly. Usually if I do a Sunday lunch or something.

He does get the occasional biscuit but it's a baby rusk or baby biscuit with no added sugar. More often I give him a breadstick with peanut butter to dip it into.

I do think it's nice to offer them a desert but it should just consist of what they should be eating over the course of the day anyway!

Dd is nearly 4 but we only started offering a pudding the last 4/5 months - usually an ice lolly or an little ice cream, sometimes fruit & Greek yogurt. Not every day.

My 4 year old has only ever has dessert at the weekends, usually a handful of chocolate buttons or a mini milk ice cream. Weekdays I offer yoghurt or an apple/pear

Mine have 2 courses, would I describe it as pudding? No. It’s fruit, yoghurt or very rarely ice cream.

Most days. I think it’s a normal part of a meal. Yoghurt or fruit. That sort of thing. I wouldn’t call chocolate buttons or ice cream etc a dessert - they’re treat foods.

Yogurt and fruit if hungry but that’s it

Proper puddings only on special occasions like everyone else

We are very much a pudding family but I’m not particularly fussed about the order my toddler has everything in - it’s often all served at the same time and he goes back to the savoury after!
Tends to be all healthy stuff like plain yoghurt and fruit, or stewed fruit. Occasionally might be some home baking like sponge cake.
Would never make a big deal about ‘pudding’ either of having to eat enough dinner to get it.

If she eats all her dinner and seems hungry still then yes of course I give her some more. Usually yoghurt and fruit. (8 months)

Mine are grown-ups now, but I used to make a pudding every day .Apple pie or crumble , steamed sponge puddings Birds custard, rice pudding, bananas and custard, lemon meringue pie .

Dessert like cake? Never really. I tend to give dc fruit or yogurt. The youngest has pudding at nursery but it’s all very healthy, sugar free ‘cakes’ or greek yogurt/ fruit

Mine is 7 months and he gets dessert which can vary from yogurt to a fruit pouch to a baby jar of rice pudding or fruit medley custard.

We just did fruit when ours were babies and now they all still ask for fruit after tea every day!
they’re allowed treats on a weekend
and I think they have a pudding after there dinner at school x

Hear hear!

And people wonder why we have an obesity crisis.

But those things all are dessert.

I tend to put a dollop of yoghurt in one of the sections of the sucky plate and often watch (generally only one of) my twins dunk her dinner in there. Tonight was a spag bol yoghurt mix. Gives DH the heebie jeebies but it makes her happy!

It seems to me that people don’t understand what dessert actually with all these protestations above. Yoghurt, fruit etc definitely is dessert.

It’s either:
the last, usually sweet, course of a meal.
or:
fruit, dates, nuts after a meal (usually British)

Mine gets dessert at nursery but gets plain yoghurt and/or fruit at home.

We have our dessert after he’s gone to bed. The only time he gets sweets is if we’re at a cafe/restaurant and we’ve ordered something sweet for ourselves or other occasions where there might be something sweet being shared by adults in the group, then he’ll get a few very small tastes of ours.

He’s very food oriented and always want some of whatever us going - I figure we either don’t eat it in front of him or we share a very little bit and don’t make a big deal of it.

My 19 month old will have fruit and Greek yoghurt after his tea usually and a fromage frais with lunch when not at nursery but I don't really consider them pudding as such. He never has cake or anything at home but at nursery they give him school cake/cheesecake etc almost every day (presumably made with low sugar quantities)

Mine get a dessert every night after dinner but its usually fruit, an ice lolly or yogurt. Sometimes it might be a small cake or a bowl of melted chocolate with fruit. Things like crumbles and proper desserts are rare and only if we have people over for dinner, eat out and christmas.

Cant remember how old they were when they started having dessert but i never bought jars or packets of baby food puddings. Was probably about 3yrs for the eldest then when they started noticing their brother had something for the younger two so about 18mths probably.

@Lemonsyellow Not necessarily! I give yoghurt and fruit as part of the meal. Same with for example oat carrot cupcake is a snack.
I think I meant I wasn't going to give anything with sugar, only natural sugar either as a dessert or snack.

I didn't give my son anything sweet til he was older than two (he did have cake on his birthday and he did eat fruit, I mean no puddings or chocolate). Was quite annoyed when I found out the daycare would occasionally treat the kids when the ice cream van pulled up at the high school across the street! My daughter had more sweet things (remember my Dad giving her a chocolate digestive at about nine months). We didn't have dessert as a matter of course at meal times.

Nothing before 1. My dc get pudding once a week at home and twice a week at school. They get sweets or popcorn on friday when we all watch a film together. They are aged between 9 and 17 though so older than most on this thread.

Exactly. It’s part of the meal, and a normal part too.

My 21 month old gets pudding at nursery, like a proper pudding most weeks...but it's one day a week so I'm okay with that.

At home we offer fruit after most meals if she is still hungry. Maybe a yoghurt or other dessert once a week but not regularly as we don't really eat puddings.