Some Basque restaurants serve heard dry jack OR desert. We decided we like a bite of hard cheese and an olive at the end of our meal at home.

I never thought of the cheese as the last bite. It's filling and supposed to be good for the bacteria on your teeth.

We went to a Mediterranean restaurant the other day. We tried three desserts. One of the desserts was a shredded wheat with a dollop of cheese and honey. It was tasty, but not something I was used to eating. The cheese was really chewy maybe because it was warm.

Most of the time, the food is gone the dishes get carried in the kitchen and then washed. Finished! Ever once in a while we have a dish of icecream, but that isn't the norm.

Moni

A cup of coffee.

Never have dessert, coffee always with my wine left from dinner. Off to fix my coffee now! Oh, and thank you Jose Alutuve for hitting a home run! A free pizza tonight!

Hmm, none of the above, generally. The meal ends when the plate is empty. Often there is popcorn or yogurt late in the evening, to avoid going to bed hungry. But never desserts with dinner, and never coffee at night.

I never really thought about it. :?

The meal ends when we are done with our plate. No plans for dessert or anything else normally. If we have company we will probably have some type of dessert. We might have a small snack before bed.

I try to leave at least one bite of whatever is on my evening meal plate. Almost never dessert, and especially not at nite.

I read somewhere that you should fast for 12 hours at least twice a week. So if I finish supper at 6:30 p.m., I don't eat breakfast before 6:30 a.m. So obviously no evening snack.

Almost always a sweet dessert. Never caffeine, it would keep me awake.

Two of us share a bottle of wine every night. He is finished at the table, I save my last bit for kitchen cleanup and maybe some HGTV. We are not sweet eaters, getting our sweets from the grape :)

Never dessert. Don't drink wine....seldom eat cheese. I usually have a RC cola, but I have one throughout the day, so it isn't anything special. I usually have ice cream or cookies on hand. I usually have some ice cream in the afternoon, and sometimes fix a little pot of tea and have with cookies...in the afternoon too.

We are very early risers, so usually retire to bed before we have an opportunity to get hungry. But if we are up late, we will split an apple and have some sharp cheddar. Neither of us are dessert eaters unless I'm cooking for guests.

I usually have fruit. Navel oranges, strawberries, banana, blueberries. Or watermelon or cantaloupe. Not right after dinner, maybe an hour or so later.

I graze throughout the day whenever possible. I never really want dessert after dinner. I eat what I want when I want.

Not a desset eater here, or a coffee drinker. I have problems with hunger - not able to eat much anymore. Sad.

My favorite evening snack is a Granny Smith apple, drizzled with honey and sprinkled with black pepper, along with a glass of red wine, any red.

LOL

Dessert all day! hurray!

Always something sweet after lunch and dinner, even if it’s just a bite of cookie, or a glob of Nutella, lol

After dinner, I have a handful of dark chocolate chips with peanuts. Just enough to satisfy the sweet tooth.

• I generally have some fruit but an hour or two after dinner. I tend to skip lunch most days - if I eat lunch I am not hungry enough for dinner and just tend to snack, which is not a great idea. So I eat early and I am ready for a piece of fruit around 8-8:30. Right now it's a handful of red grapes but whatever is in season will work.

• I often have some cheese before dinner, specially if I have a glass of wine or I am with family. Desserts are rare and usually saved for larger family get-togethers. Now and again I will have a tiny piece of chocolate with my fruit.....like a couple of Hershey's kisses, no more. I am not a big chocolate eater.

I don't do daily desserts. I try to make something about once every week to 10 days. A cake, pie, cookies. My bigger family will polish off a standard cake In two days. We don't need sweets daily. I do often split a apple or orange after dinner with my boys unless they had fruit with breakfast. Saturdays are a whole new ballgame. I allow the boys up later. Its board game night and SNACKS..lol. Grapes, cheese, crackers, popcorn, and occasionally cookies.

Lately.....it's been peppermint tea.....around 8pm.

When the meal ends, we’re done as a rule. Occasionally one of us will have something. I like a small piece of dark chocolate, or right now a couple of fresh strawberries. DH might have a bite of something later too but neither of us want to eat anything before bed.

Hubs and I usually split a bottle of wine with dinner. Usually red, but if we are having fish or chicken, white. Children always have white, (milk) though occasionally one jokester will decide he wants red and mix in a bit of strawberry syrup. DH and I always have coffee and, sometimes, a little something after clean up.

I didn't grow up eating dessert seven days a week, and neither did my DH. After dinner we'll hand wash a pot or pan and knives, load the dishwasher, and usually read in the living room. We may have a little milk with a sweet there before bed -- a cookie or small piece of cake or pie. (We will have had tea and a sweet around 3 p.m., so we don't want a lot more sweets at night.) DH unloads the dishwasher and we clean up and go to bed.

I couldn't drink half a bottle of wine with dinner. Who'd clean up the kitchen while I slept? We each have a drink (gin or bourbon) before we eat dinner --fortification for watching the evening news. Water with dinner. We only drink coffee in the morning.

Strawberries and whipped cream an hour or two after dinner, but only if I have craving for something sweet which doesn't happen every night.

On the weekends, we'll have a little dessert- maybe some ice cream. During the week, we each have a small (3 ounce) glass of red wine after dinner for its purported health benefits (OK, and it tastes good!)

With sleep.

We don't end with dessert unless we're traveling. If we see something we like on the dessert menu, we either share it or just order whatever one person wants. We always end a meal with coffee - black with dessert; cappuccinos if no dessert catches our fancy.