How often do you have dessert?

GillyBob, our crop of figs this year has been our best ever, not only for the quantity, but for the quality, some of the sweetest we have had. I guess it was the rain early on followed by such a hot summer. been picking a dozen or so a day for a couple of months now, and still plenty to come.

As and when I fancy one. Find that when I don't restrict myself, I don't crave things and actually eat less. Strange but works for me.

Pollengran, not keen on sugar and cream I guess

I was quite surprised just how many choose fruit and yogurt, would normally have 0% Greek yogurt but we had some creme open. But if we eat out, I do like my high calorie deserts.

Fruit. Sometimes stewed fruit and a slosh of custard from a box.
I think school dinners provide them because a/ they always have but more significantly I think there is some kind of rule or law that a FSM must include a main course and a dessert.
I think it may be buried somewhere in the net but I can't find it.
But I did find this. Cant imagine the number of hours, the number of meetings and the number of civil servants to come up with this:

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/pdfs/uksi_20141603_en.pdf

We have recently changed to full fat milk and yoghurt because evidence seems to show that this type of fat is good for you. Don't know if this is true but it certainly tastes much nicer and doesn't seem to be having any negative effect on my losing weight

When did creme mean cream? When did that happen? Give me soup, proper ham bone and lentil soup. If they have run out, I will take the quickly pureed mushroom.

I don't understand cake. I hate the word cake, and "cupcake" makes me want to boak .

JessM --- a slosh of custard from a box, how can you ? I can manage to eat a whole box to myself, love custard.

Yuk Wobbly - think I'll join you Pollengran!

I feel sick

3-4 times,a week. Usually a couple of individual jelly pots or mini trifles. They satisfy my need for something sweet but as they are only three or four teaspoons full I figure I'm ok

We usually have something sweet after our lunch, yogurt or pudding, although our son will opt for cheese and biscuits every time. A cup of tea and maybe a piece of cake or ice cream sometime during the afternoon, and this is our lot.

I used to love school dinner custard, especially the skin on top.

School dinner custard was absolutely gross Wobbly . I have always called the skin on top "rabbit" (don't know why) and I remember telling my grandma I didn't want any rabbit with my rice pudding.

I am very of your regular crop of figs.

Mum would make rice, macaroni or tapioca pud every Sunday. Dad and I would take turns each week for who got the skin yum !
I like the skin on custard too

If my children came into the kitchen and saw me preparing a pudding they immediately asked 'Who's coming for dinner?' If we had anything for 'afters' it was fruit or maybe a biscuit. Nothing has changed in the 40 or so years since. I make puddings when we have visitors and enjoy the treat.

I usually have fruit with lunch and a yogurt after tea, but I fantasise about tiramisu most days!!

Growing up my mother served a pudding every night after dinner. It may have been tinned fruit and custard, home made apple pie and custard, strawberries and cream, or home made rice pudding. The whole family were as slim as a reed! We walked everywhere, and housework was very hard slog. Nowadays I have a little pot of something about three times a week. I an now considerably fatter. My GD gets yoghurt or fruit, but is mad keen on biscuits, ice cream or sweets. We have had to limit these to special treats.

Generally fruit with natural yoghurt I make with full fat milk. Delicious and now after all this fat rethink I'm sure no worse than horrible "0%"! Maybe weekend treat of a cheesecake or I make a tart . Love desserts, cakes and sweets but have no willpower, DH even worse so we steer clear !

Only if someone is coming to dinner. Usually I have a small yogurt, and occasionally open a tin of sliced peaches which will last me 4 days. I always eat them naked (not me, the peaches I mean, no cream).

Two squares of dark chocolate after meal every evening. ( sometimes 3)

When we were younger the DH and I used to have a pudding after every weekend meal but now, when the calories pile on the pounds, I only offer a dessert if we have guests so we rarely have one. Even then I skip the cake at afternoon tea in order to substitute one lot of calories for another rather than doubling them up. Sometime, if we have a pudding, such as blackberry crumble, left over I will have that for afternoon tea instead of the cake.

That said, we are having the DH's goddaughter and her new DH for the weekend so I am making a strawberry Pavlova with double cream. Yum. The rarity makes it that much more appreciated.

We have a yoghurt or an ice cream sometimes or fruit but proper desserts ( the yummy ones!) are only for when we have people over for dinner ( then I make 2!) or if the family/ GC are staying over.
I prefer dessert to dinner so given the choice I'd have sticky toffee pudding or chocolate melting puds every day.
I want to live with Aurelia!

You'd be very welcome * Craftycat*!

Really only when we have guests in this house.
I'm not a very pudding-y type and I positively dislike cream, but dh would tuck into any pud every day - with cream - if it was there - and since he's watching his weight he doesn't want the temptation.

We had school dinner puds every day, but it was in the days when children generally got more exercise, weren't ferried everywhere in cars. But school dinner puds weren't usually very nice - mostly various varieties of stodge with very watery custard. About once a term - oh frabjous day! - we had something called chocolate cracknel - and I did even like school rice pudding. I don't think anyone liked tapioca pudding, or frog spawn as we called it.

Yogurt or fruit, occasionally single serving dessert (creme brulee or panacotta etc, especially if they are on the short-date shelf). Once a week we have a family meal when we have a dessert, but neither of my men-folk have a sweet tooth, so normally don't bother.