Making banana pudding is easy . . . if you just follow the directions on the box of pudding and take a little advice about how to make it taste good and be more health friendly.

About the bananas
 
my complaint with most people's banana pudding is that there's lots of pudding and not enough bananas and wafers.  This is easy to fix.  Make sure you use three large bananas per batch of pudding.  And don't use green ones, make sure the banana is ripe (otherwise you get sour pudding). 

About the wafers

Use low fat wafers, and use plenty of them.  I usually use half a box for one batch of pudding.  You can use regular wafers, but that will ruin healthy nature of your pudding.  Get used to the low fat wafers. 

About the milk

Do not use cream or whole milk, but don't try to make pudding with skim milk or even 1% lowfat milk.   It just won't work.  Use 2% milkfat milk mixing as box states for large batch, which will be three cups.  You'll have to stand over your mixture at this point, heating it to a low boil slowly over medium or less heat.  Stir often.

Putting the pudding together

Cut up three bananas in medium/large bowl (fairly thin horizontal slices) and put them over about a half inch of crumbled wafers.  Line the edge of the bowl with whole wafers.  Pour in hot pudding mix, then add more wafers.  I poke them down into the pudding with a spoon or fork, then cover the top of the pudding with wafers.

Serving banana pudding

Do not refrigerate.  Allow pudding to cool down for about half an hour, then dig in.  I don't know who started the cold banana pudding thing, but they're nuts.  It's better warm.  If there's a lot left over, then I put it away in the refrigerator.  And don't try to nuke it warm again.  That just doesn't work.   So . . . it's either warm or cold, but not rewarmed. 

You can play around and add other fruits if you like, but stay away from whipped cream.  No decent banana pudding deserves to have whipped cream dumped on top of it.

And learn to eat it this way . . . if you hope to live a healthy life.  Eating regular banana pudding is never good for you, especially as you grow older and need to keep off extra weight.