How often do you have dessert?

We only ever have fresh fruit. I used to offer my children yogurt, fresh fruit or cheese and biscuits. It's still a family joke. GC are given fruit, yogurt and occasionally jelly (sugar free)

Maybe a yoghurt or fruit and occasionally Ambrosia low fat rice with a dod of jam. Like Wobbly I can put away a carton of custard - no problem, especially if accompanied with a banana. However, I rarely eat puds when in a restaurant. I prefer a starter and mains and am usually full up by the pudding course . We always had pud at school. All the usual like Spotted Dick, chocolate sponge, marmalade pudding, bread & butter pudding - all with custard- yummy, I am salivating at the very thought..

Jinglebells, I did hear of a restaurant that only did starters and puds!
Apparently v popular with women only groups, but don't know whether it's still going.

I will often have 2 starters and no main course - I often fancy the starters more and usually won't have room for starter and MC - at least not in places where they give you a big plateful.
Having said that I had the most minute MC ever in a smart restaurant in the City (London) not long ago. One very thin parcel of ravioli, about 3 inches square. I wanted to laugh and ask whether they were serious, but a BIL was treating us so I kept quiet, and I have to say service and everything else was very good.

Not everyday, but several times a week.

At school, many moons ago, I had pudding, (sponge & custard, ice cream & jelly, shortbread & almond custard, fruit salad & cream), and I had a pudding after tea at home. I had a very healthy diet growing up, mum was a great cook. I was a very sporty child, and always active, so I think that was helpful.

We rarely have a pudding at home but occasionally have one when we eat out. I'm not that bothered about puddings really so don't see the point of piling on unnecessary calories.

I think as long as children are reasonably active, have a fairly sensible, balanced diet and are not overweight, it isn't a big deal having a pudding.

I used to enjoy the puddings with school dinners and I had another dinner in the evening with my parents - but no snacking and usually just water with meals. I wasn't especially slim but certainly not overweight.

I think the problem these days is that there is too much focus on food, at the same time as an obsession with body shape and appearance. This, I feel, creates a conflict between succumbing to the ease and instant gratification of fast foods/convenience meals and the pressure of conforming to what is presented as the "ideal" body shape. This seems to have created an unnatural relationship with food where more and more people either lose their ability to recognise when they are "full" and become morbidly obese or they develop bulimia or anorexia.

Is anyone brave enough to do that? (Just have a starter and a pud)

OH usually has tinned fruit (in juice) and 'squirty' cream' after his dinner while I prefer fresh fruit and fat free yoghurt with a sprinkle of flaked almonds. I keep my sweet treats for when I go out for coffee with friends or out for a meal. When eating out I could happily forgo the main course. I always find the starters and desserts far more appealing.

Not had a real rice pudding with toasted skin on top for ages, luvly

My GC have a choice of school dinner or packed lunch. If they take a packed lunch, then DDs give them a cooked meal in the evening including pudding (ice cream or yoghurt usually). If they have a school dinner then they usually have tea in the evening (sandwich & fruit or maybe a piece of cake).

Hardly ever had sweet things, but my current medication gives me an absolute craving for sugar. Cheesecake is currently my downfall.

I usually have a packet of maltesers after lunch and then after my main evening meal I will have one of those little pots of fruit. At the weekend we go mad and have trifle or a cheesecake.

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.

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.

You'd be very welcome * Craftycat*!

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!

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.

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

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).

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 !

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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