Eyes bigger than belly

Don't spoil it for me Galen

Actually, I make an almond and orange cake, that Absent posted, quite often - it is delicious.

If you google gluten free sponge there are recipes and also tesco have one.

And I'm sticking to it!!

That is the best excuse for a lemon roulade that I have ever heard

Unfortunately, as I'm gluten intolerant, I can't eat sponge puddings so I have to have things with loads of cream and, usually, meringue! We were all invited to DD3's for lunch yesterday but, as she was doing apple and rhubarb crumble, I had to make, and take, a lemon roulade!

My eyes are often bigger than my belly. I like a meal with lots of different tastes but I think I am being increasingly defeated by the massive portion sizes we seem to be served when out for a meal nowadays.

I don't often have room for a nice sponge pudding any more I used to though.

Portion control needed in my house as well.

And you did want it!

Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa! I succumbed
I just had to have that golden syrup sponge, well it would have been out of date after tomorrow and waste not want not, or do I mean waist not?

I love things savoury but OH on a cold evening - or rather in the evening after a cold afternoon walk - there's nothing so good as a little something sweet.

And I'm the one who mostly opts for a starter and no pud. This is so unlike my lovely SiL, who loves her puds and won't look at the WHOLE menu until she's found THE pudding.

I always have my naughty something sweet after a healthy main course, of course! glowing halo emoticon.

My nana made the best steamed banana sponge I have ever tasted I try and try to get mine to the same consistancy but no chance the same with the rice pudding I can never get the skin right on the top sort of half burnt and not (if you see what I mean)
soop I can let you know the glamma household are now having thick yellow custard with blackcurrant tart for pudds tonight after reading your post,was with ice cream but I can taste the custard.

MargaretX, you're right! It must have been the phillie that was philling.

#phillienotfilly

OGM Yes! All suet-based puds are the tops. Jam roly-poly, treacle topped dumplings, spotted dick...served with real thick, yellow custard.

bags your eyes know better than you that an eighth of pie is not a meal!

One of our local Italian eateries offers 3 course lunch menus for £6.95, £7.95 or £8.95. What to do but have all three? And the quality is very good too! Now don't all rush at once.

Especially banana and pecan.

I think a starter spoils the enjoyment of the main meal. And leaves no room for the essentialpud The latter can be ice cream.

Bags, now you're talking! Puddings have to be 'proper'. I've got visions of my lovely Mum's steamed blackberry suet pudding. Biscuits just don't compare!

If I eat pudding at all, it's the entire meal. Just as well I don't eat puddings often then!

I don't count biscuits with coffee/tea between meals as pudding

I like to graze lots of little nibbles.

When I lived in Germany, I often met a friend for 'lunch'. Lunch was two jugs of coffee and two cakes! Somehow the cakes were less sickly-sweet than those in Blighty, but it was a specialist cake shop! I certainly couldn't do the same here.....

So much for starting to lose the 3 lbs. I have put on over Christmas. I have just been to a children's birthday party at Odile's house and I have vastly overeaten carbs. Four small potatoes , two huge hunks of French bread, a big salad and two helpings of melted cheese, known as raclette. Plus three glasses of wine.
I am pinning my hopes on my daughter - I have asked her to be firm with me and not let me finish up all the unused food in the pan.

I would happily graze on all the chutneys, poppadoms and titbits that are set in front of us before we choose our meals. By the time the curry arrives, I'm full!

One of the reasons I have gone off "going for an Indian". DH always wants a starter and then always orders too much. Even with just naan and no rice. Yeuch. Far too filling.