To be annoyed with people thinking flapjack is healthy?

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It's not btw. You might as well eat sugar straight out of the bowl.

Flapjack isn't a healthy snack. It's a very nice treat or pudding. Just because it has oats in doesn't magically take away the sugar and the golden syrup crap. Stop giving it to your dc thinking it's better then cake. It's not.

Most flapjack is made by melting a block of butter, mixing in sugar adding oats and then a ton of golden syrup. The oats do not make it healthy. Making it at home so you can call it homemade doesn't make it healthy.

I'm really surprised how many MNetters think it's a good healthy snack to give to their dc. Rant over.

Tactfulcactus I've just made flapjack.

Remembered there is a school thing tonight and I need to donate something sweet.

It's going to be a very long painful night of a play in another language so I'm helping everyone slow release their angst. I've omitted the gin, but perhaps in doing so I've omitted some chance of fun...

Now someone's mentioned shortbread....

Mmmmm shortbread.

I posted the basic school recipe.

Its not from a cookbook that's for sale. It's one made especially for the schools in the area and it's about 30/40 years old.

It seems unfair to judge all flapjacks by that one then #notallflapjacks

The weirdest flapjack combo I've ever had was with pate and chutney as a starter for a Christmas do. There is a reason that it is usually served with toast.

You seem very invested in this thread to prove yourself right for some reason

Worst argument from an OP ever!!

Ineedmorelemonpledge (what's pledge??!!) - you're inspired! I hadn't thought about adding the gin to the flapjacks! I have sloe gin too - that's even fruitier, so even healthier, right?

Who has been feeding their child a flapjack and calling it healthy?

Why is this rattling your cage so much? They aren't healthy. That doesn't mean you can't give them to your child or eat them yourself in moderation.

There's a lot of miseducation about healthy and less healthy foods. I once served a woman who had filled a salad box with chicken and tomato pasta "because she was trying to be healthy." I also know of people that don't "count" drinks, despite a Costa cappuccino havjng in excess of 200 cals.

Just leave people to it, though! It's their problem, not yours!

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There should be a I Am Being Reasonable And I Don't Want To Hear A Counter Argument section perhaps?

#iABRAIDWTHACA

I make breakfast flapjacks that consist of roughly 300g oats, two mashed bananas, some almond milk, a tablespoon of peanut butter, a tablespoon of honey, a tablespoon of coconut oil, some chopped dried fruit and some nuts and seeds.

If you make flapjacks that are unhealthier than cake, then yes, they are going to be unhealthier than cake. I don't really see your point!

"MN is full of crap that people don't need to care about."

You could expand that out to the entire fucking internet!

Tactful the furniture polish...

You can also use it to add a delicious lemony glaze to your baked goods.

I guess.

To those Mars Bar users...

You need to use this recipe...

Bake flapjack (omitting Marsbar) and cut into squares.

Place on plate

Pull up chair and sit down.

Open Mars Bar.

Eat Mars Bar thoughtfully and with gusto whilst eyeing up flapjack suspiciously as some kind of excuse of ingredients masquerading as a quality treat.

Laugh mockingly.

Don't eat it then....and get a life!

Who gets so worked up over a flapjack? Seriously!

You mean some parents give there child a home made square of flapjack in packed lunches How could they? Won't somebody think of those poor children being feed flapjack

My ds is only 9 months so does have flapjack yet, but I home bake some for me and dh and I use agave syrup, apricots, nuts, seeds, porridge oats and olive oil spread they work out at 190 calories per fair size piece so no worse in fact probably better than when I go out for cake & coffee with mil.

It annoys my mum because my dad thinks it's a healthy option, and will only ever entertain flapjack as a baked snack, refusing to see it as equally calorific or unhealthy as other options anyone might choose, and selecting flapjack a little self-righteously. So I do see what you mean.

You haven't used any science ego. You've said flapjack is medium on the gi index. The sugar negates to slow release but if you aren't scientific enough to understand that then that's ok. you've also said you've studied this... I'm not quite sure you have since you can't grasp the basic fact that the sugar offsets the oats.

It must be quite awful to go on threads and post more and care more then the op...

turquoise every single lunchbox or healthy snack thread has have some healthy homemade flapjacks posts on it. It's started to unreasonably annoy me. I just wanted to scream flapjack is not healthy. I feel better for it now.

Anyway off to eat some chocolate crunch.

All I know is that unscientifically if dd ate a piece of cake prior to a 3 hour dance class she would end up feeling hungry with not enough go energy. She would then have to either eat something else or eat twice the amount of cake which would make her feel sick/put weight on.

If she eats a small flapjack it gives her enough energy to last the morning.

Someone needs to explain to me, using Science, what it means for the sugar to offset the oats, because I don't claim to know anything about nutrition and would like to understand this.

Surely the sugar would release its energy really fast, and the oats would release their energy more slowly, so the oats would still be releasing energy after the sugar has finished?
But OP seems to be saying that the sugar somehow does something to the oats so that it makes all their energy come out fast, with the sugar? Is that it? If so, how does it work? And does the sugar also stop the soluble fibre working? (Is soluble fibre still a thing, or isn't it true any more?)

I just really want some nice flapjack now.

Thank you, Ego