Desserts

[JRmumma]

Might be a stupid question, bit why when people are weaning, do they seem to always offer dessert? I don't have dessert every day, at either lunch or dinner let alone both. So why do babies get it? Seems strange to me to get into the habit of always having something sweet after a meal.

Don't understand it either - we only have pudding once every couple of weeks if that so it doesn't occur to me to add pudding in - plus he eats tons so I'm not going to risk him going off the chart with pudding as well! I usually just give pieces of fruit with each meal so he gets a variation of sweet and savoury but doesn't grow up thinking savoury = boring and sweet = reward at the end.

We never really did pudding. Humans do tend to eat more if you offer a different flavour though, so if you want or need to get more food into them then it would be a reason.

Dunno. We never have pudding unless we have people over for dinner.

I give the kids bits of fruit with their lunch but I'd rather they eat it before their 'proper' food.

I have a voracious baby, so offer an alternative after he's eaten enough savoury - but at 14 months, that's roughly equivalent to 2 ready made pouches. I want him to have a good variety so tend to move on to something different until he lets me know he's full.

Yoghurt, fruit, custard, tapioca pudding...

Thanks. Yeah i agree that offering something different if you think they need to eat more but have had enough of the main meal part, but as a rule it just baffles me and im about to start weaning tomorrow (excited) and just wondered if it was for an actual reason of just one of those traditional things that most people do but no one knows why exactly.

Mainly asking as DS cant have cows milk and so yoghurt is a no no, and this is what seems to be offered after each meal.

You won't need to worry about pudding for a few weeks yet then, just lots of different tastes and textures to play with for now.

I went with the attitude that "sweet" really meant "refined sugar and processed crap" so avoided chocolate pudding (yes really, you can buy this for 4+ months in a jar!) but didn't stress about nutritious stuff like fruit.

2oz tapioca (which is made from cassava, a root vegetable) with 1 pint coconut milk, bake on low in the oven for a couple of hours. Green leafy veg and anything with chickpeas in are good sources of calcium. Hummus on breadsticks or rice cakes is a good if messy finger food, for example.

From what my df friends have said, banana soreen and cheap bourbon biscuits are safe

Will try that tapioca thanks. Ive never had it before i don't think.

Will note that banana soreen tip too!

We did fruit crumbles, custards (needed to up the calories), fruit, yoghurt, rice puddings, and occasional biscuits/cake we'd made - yes, 10 mth olds enjoy cooking.
We also used food as a play stuff - plates of cooked spaghetti, spaghetti hoops, porridge, jelly and cold custard is hilarious, so long as your prepared to put them straight in the bath!

It's like rice pudding i think, but school dinners put me off so i don't really know!