Most chocolate pudding is cornstarch and cane sugar wearing a dessert costume. This one gets its body from chia seeds, which thicken on their own as they sit, so nothing has to be cooked or thickened with starch.

The original version of this recipe called for two cans of coconut milk split across two servings, which works out to well over 800 calories each. We rebalanced it to one can across four servings. That lands at 423 calories and 6 g net carbs, with 13 g of fiber doing most of the carb math for you.

Make it the night before. Chia needs at least two hours to hydrate fully, and it is noticeably better in the morning than it is after a rushed thirty minutes.