Do you eat dessert after a meal? How long after the meal do you wait?
By ctrymuziklvr
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
United States
August 6, 2007 4:27pm CST
I don't always have dessert after a meal but lately I've had a sweet tooth and have been buying a couple of things to eat after my dinner. I just bought an awesome Walnut Banana bread that for me is an awesome dessert to have with my coffee or tea. I also bought half of a cherry pie. I love when the store sells them that way because I live alone and it won't go bad and I also won't make a pig out of myself and eat the whole thing! Last night I had a small slice with a tiny bit of milk and nuked it and it was delicious!
Do you have dessert after dinner? How long do you wait? I always want it right away and have to make myself wait.
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24 responses
@raychill (6525)
• United States
6 Aug 07
I rarely eat dessert cause I'm rarely hungry after a full meal...especially one at a restaurant or something. But sometimes I will eat an ice cream cone or something if I have them at home after I eat. It all depends. I usually only eat it if I'm still hungry after my dinner so I don't really wait long at all. Otherwise if I do want it...maybe an hour after eating is what I'll do. I don't eat after 8pm though... I don't really like to eat after 7 so it all depends how early I ate dinner too.
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
6 Aug 07
You're lucky! I wish I could skip dessert. Even when I'm not hungry I always crave something sweet after my dinner.
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@jillhill (37353)
• United States
6 Aug 07
Yes I love desserts...darn! I love ice cream though and anything you can mix with it. Like banana's or chocolate and if you have a brownie to put the ice cream on that works for me! I usually have it right after supper and try not to eat too late. If I eat too late I sometimes wake up in the morning starving!
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
7 Aug 07
Total opposite of me! I have heard that some nursing homes serve the dessert first.......at first when I heard it I thought....how nice. You get to eat the best first! But come to find out that the sugar stimulates their appetite and they eat more of their meal! Go figure!
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
6 Aug 07
That's the thing...when I have dessert I can go a long time in the morning before I get hungry. I sometimes have cereal or toast just because I take medication. Otherwise I wouldn't eat until lunch.
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
13 Aug 07
I recently started making smoothies and can't believe how great they come. I love having a blender.
@AmbiePam (121323)
• United States
6 Aug 07
I don't eat dessert anymore. I have very little income, so I wondered what I could cut to save money. And sweets or desserts were the first to go. And it is such a shame, LOL! I've been eating healthy, but I had to cut even the healthy desserts out. When I did eat dessert, I usually waited at least an hour before having it. Sometimes I tried to wait until I was actually a little hungry again.
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
6 Aug 07
Since I've been earning money online I've been able to put desserts back on my shopping list. I'm not rich but I've been able to afford some things when their on sale. I went without for a long time and this is a real treat for me.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
11 Aug 07
Sometimes we have dessert after dinner. I mostly wait until my tummy has settled from eating dinner then we have dessert, usually ice cream and sometimes cheesecake. I always have to have my coffee too.
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
13 Aug 07
The cheesecake sounds great to me and I always need my coffee since I'm such a coffee addict.
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
8 Aug 07
I think fruit is actually the best dessert we could eat. Everyone knows it the best for us that's for sure. When I have it I love fruit salad as dessert.
@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
6 Aug 07
I like deserts. I usualy decide depending on how large the meal was and if I am too full. I do not have desert after every meal.Its too fatening. I do have yogurt and things to choose from that are low fat or no fat as well.
@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
6 Aug 07
I often eat yogurt for dessert. Sometimes it's just something sweet that I'm craving and that will do the job...plus it's good for me.
@cynddvs (2948)
• United States
7 Aug 07
I rarely eat dessert right after dinner if at all. Most of them time if I have dessert it's more of a midnight snack, which I know isn't good for me. Here lately I have had a little bit of a sweet tooth. Just earlier I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies. They smell so yummy and I am still trying to resist eating the whole batch lol.
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
8 Aug 07
Just the thought of chocolate chip cookies wants me to go in the kitchen and start baking! I'm so bad!
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
7 Aug 07
I don't always have dessert either, ctry, but I do have a sweet tooth that can be hard to control. I have learned to control it much better than I used to. Your cherry pie sounds delicious. When I was in high school they served the best cherry pie that I've ever tasted. It was so good that some of the guys used to go from table to table attempting to buy it or trade something for it. My daughter visited me today and made brownies while she was here. If it had been left up to me they would have been in my cabinet for a couple of months.
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
8 Aug 07
Cherry pie is something I've always loved and I think I got that from my mother. She's crazy about it!
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
7 Aug 07
I've kind of developed a sweet tooth myself,...I can't go too overboard as I have a low blood sugar problem, but yes, do like to have a little something sweet after dessert, and with this hot weather been having ice cream usually as a dessert..---So bring on the Hagan Daaz--LOL
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
8 Aug 07
I have been going way overboard with ice cream since summer set in. I didn't buy any this last shopping trip and am going to try to stay away from it for awhile. It's definitely my downfall.
@Nardz13 (5054)
• New Zealand
30 Aug 07
Hi there. Well last night we had dessert, as it was our daughters birthday, so we had a small family dinner for her and had a rich chocolate cake with ice cream and peaches... We dont often have dessert everynight, only when we feel like it and definetly on one of our birthdays... I usuall wait at least an hour or so, or sometimes I will go with out...
@daveisdavid (878)
• Singapore
7 Aug 07
I don't usually eat dessert after a meal but there are times I would like to have dessert after a meal. Dessert I prefer would be vanilla ice-cream with chocolate hot fudge. I would like to eat my dessert right after my meal while my mouth is still ready for food.
@samtaylorskykierajen (7976)
• Canada
7 Aug 07
It is very rare that we have a dessert after a meal just because I really don't care for baking but on the odd occasion we do especially at Christmas time .
More often then not though everyone is full after they eat and not in the mood for dessert so we usually save it for a couple of hours after our meal and then have some while watching t.v or something . This is of course if we don't eat it when it is baked right away as we would be like you and have to make ourselves wait or we would end up eating it before the meal lol .
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
7 Aug 07
I know that a lot of people tend to have a dessert after the meals, usually something sweet. I do like desserts but after a meal I usually feel nicely full and dessert wouldn't even be appreciated as it should :)
I tend to eat dessert as a snack in between meals sometimes when I have it at all.
If it's fruit I often eat it before the meal. I read somewhere once that some fruits are better when eaten before the meal instead of after.
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
7 Aug 07
I know dessert is quite common in the western style meal. In my country China, some places will also have this custom. But usually we will have a dessert after a meal in a retaurant. We don't have it at home. The dessert will be available at night as a snack, but not after dinner. Usually after dinner, we will eat some fruits and that's all. If we are eating in the restaurant, then perhaps they will deliver the dessert at the end.
@BeachLover (520)
• India
8 Aug 07
Oh.. I love dessert. I always prefer it after my meal. In Indian culture, it is a tradition to have dessert, full of calories, after a meal. When I was kid I used to skip my meal and try to complete it as fast as I can to have dessert.
@profitline (82)
• Singapore
7 Aug 07
I will always take some dessert after dinner and most of the time its something sweet and heavy, which i believe is the cause that made me so big in size recently.
