Dessert how often ?

**ladytoysdream** · 12-27-2011, 09:30 PM

Is dessert / treats, a daily thing in your household, or just on special days ?
If it is often, have recipes changed due to rising prices ?

Got any economical recipes/ ideas to share ?

**JerryG** · 12-27-2011, 09:54 PM

We rarely have dessert at this house except for the holidays. We almost always have fruit though - I usually have it chopped up for individual portions to dole out.

**Trishagirl** · 12-27-2011, 10:14 PM

Same here at above I love fruit & have some chocolates on hand also(:

**Nana2two** · 12-27-2011, 10:25 PM

If i have the grandson spending the night i tend to have sweets on hand, but other then that. I don't I love fruit but hubby hates it my daughter will eat apples every day.

**Ramona** · 12-27-2011, 11:48 PM

We're not big on desserts but a piece of chocolate or some cookies are very welcome

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I just discovered that Market Basket has their brand of fudge mint cookies that taste exactly like Thin Mints

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**greekislandgirl** · 12-28-2011, 04:04 AM

During the holidays we have sweets everywhere. We get them as gifts but also I way over-baked for our Christmas party on Dec. 17. We're STILL eating them (unfortunately). Plus everytime anyone comes to the house, they bring us a cake or pastries or something. But usually, we don't have desserts here. I periodically bake something to have for when people come for coffee but we try to avoid eating that stuff ourselves. We only have fruit when my ILs give it to us (they're in a co-op and often do have extra) because it's not in the budget right now to buy fresh fruit.

**wanderlusting** · 12-28-2011, 08:01 AM

I don't regularly have deserts. But will make something if we have someone over for dinner or it's a special occasion.

**Darlene** · 12-28-2011, 08:08 AM

We only have sweeets if we have company or someone gives us some around holidays. I crave sweets sometimes and have been known to have a bag of special dark chocolate morsels in the pantry "for cookies" slowly disappear. Wonder where they go?

**KimZ** · 12-28-2011, 08:09 AM

DD eats 1 scoop of Ice cream almost everynight.... she gets 2 cookies in her lunch box... but that's about it for us unless it's a Holiday

**bunnys** · 12-28-2011, 08:10 AM

I eat sweets most days. Unless I purposely avoid them.

There are times that I give up sweets for weeks on end to lose weight. After about 3 days to a week, I forget about them.

**hmcart** · 12-28-2011, 08:36 AM

we usually have something sweet in the house but there are 6 of us and it keeps us from running and grabbing something on a whim. We dont however have a true dessert after dinner too often.

**Squidge** · 12-28-2011, 08:50 AM

My parents used to have dessert pretty much every single night. For Sunday dinner we would sometimes have three desserts, one after the other...and that is why we were all overweight and is an example of how money was wasted

As soon as I moved away from the family home I knocked all that on the head as best I could, but it's still hard to pass up dessert all together.

I never buy cakes or buns; I usually bake once a week or fortnight and I always make a lot less than the recipe suggests so we aren't eating what I've made every night of the week. I like trying out something new often, however, brownies, Good Housekeeping's chocolate flapjacks and Mars bar cookies (I replace the chocolate pieces in the recipe with small chunks of Mars bar) are my go-to desserts and I make them small. Everything is bitesize; better for my waistline and better for my pocket.

Otherwise, I like buying little chocolate sweets or fun size bars of chocolate to have after dinner if my craving is pretty bad. They last a long time.

Originally Posted by Darlene

We only have sweeets if we have company or someone gives us some around the holiday. I crave sweets sometimes and have been known to have a bag of special dark chocolate morsels in the pantry "for cookies" slowly disappear. Wonder where they go?

The chocolate we buy for baking purposes is kept in the bread bin and it tends to disappear over time, too...and it doesn't disappear into the cookies

**McD** · 12-28-2011, 09:16 AM

We only have dessert if we have a special dinner (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc).

If the kids have eaten a good dinner, they get a small snack later in the evening.

**imagine** · 12-28-2011, 09:25 AM

We have dessert occasionally.

I find it is a good way to make something seems special.

I find it is also a good way to use up things that no one seems to be eating or are about to go bad, like the last few apples that are no longer as crisp as one would want fresh makes a good apple crisp dessert. or the milk about to go bad makes a good freezer kool aid sherbert.

**oheoh's momma** · 12-28-2011, 09:34 AM

no just special occasions for hubby and me. Grandma on the other hand is diabetic and is the cake queen.... Cakes aren't that great anymore......... I made too much for Christmas and it made me rethink gonna scale way back next year. Made chocolate cake, apple pie, and banana pudding along with goodies not much ate at all......