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.

This is a really nice flapjack recipe for coconut fans.

When I make this I do it in a square tin and divide into 16 portions.

Each portion therefore contains 9g butter, so that recipe linked by the op where each portion contains 28g butter seems rather unlikely!

Rant over

Why do people write this? Pointless. And annoying.

Why come back if your rant really was over?

Meh.

One day I will post a recipe for Nainamo bars, and then you all will really know what an unhealthy snack looks like.

(Clue: it's got three layers, all of which involve obscene amounts of butter.)

Aside from this though is often , as the op says, they are included on lunchbox threads as something healthy for the average child. The average child doesn't do hours of dance - the average child in the uk is overweight and doesn't need flapjack to get through school.

"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."

So you already knew YWBU....before you asked AIBU?

The mind boggles!

Archery - I felt compelled to Google them. My teeth gave loosened just looking at the picture.

They are fantastic. My favourite layer is the middle one: butter, custard powder, sugar, and a wee bit of cream, all beaten together. They really are a cold-weather treat, though, when you need the calories.

Mmmm flapjacks

Uhm. Depends how you make it?

That flapjack from mumundone link is awesome and saw me through a 35 hour labour and breastfeeding munchies. Please speak for just yourself.

why not just give them a banana?

Well by that logic why cook from any ingredients at all? Why so many recipes? Just boil chicken eat it. What's with all this ducking roast chicken chicken salad chicken dopaiza any of that? Why not just eat two tomatoes and a fistful of boiled mince?

I can't face trawling through 27 pages again. What page is the link on watchingdallas?

I adore flapjack.

I agree over all its not a healthy snack compared to an apple, but compared to a slice of cake, I think its healthier for egos reasons.

tempted to whip some up to give to the dc, for a healthy afternoon snack

YABU to diss the food of the gods.

YAalsoBU to assume every child has the same nutritional requirements.

Suspect due to the number of posters now wanting flapjacks you actually work for a company launching a new flapjack based product ;-)

I agree with you OP. Muffins too.. and pasta for tea... actually not healthy!!

Ego are you THE angry chef?

If so I bloody love you.

Anyhoo, just eating my crisp salad (cheese puffs, monster munch, chipsticks) and the dog is shaking with jealousy. I think he'd probably lynch me if it was flapjack.

It all depends!
Flapjacks with nuts and fruit and veg is health-IER than a chocolate bar or cake.
A bran and fruit and veg muffin is health-IER than chocolate or cake.
Whole meal pasta with loads of veg is health-IER than chips.
we can't live on apples lol

Muffins are just an excuse to have cake for breakfast without having to say the word "cake" when ordering it in a cafe.

Not read the full thread so not sure if it is mentioned, but I believe that despite being unhealthy if a flapjack/cake/whatever is baked at home to a standard recipe with all the sugar and butter, it surely has advantages over the equivalent shop bought baked good, which often have undesirable fats instead of butter, and possibly even more sugar, not to mention preservatives.

There are several healthier recipes available online for flapjacks which I am tempted to try now - here's one hedihearts.com/simple-and-clean-flapjack/ which has 2 tbsp honey and sweetness from the bananas as the sugar.

I like Ego's point about context.

Individual foods aren't healthy or unhealthy, then. But diets (as in WOE) are.

Oh god! Now I want flapjack and I am fasting!

Plus I am the only -sane- person in my family who eats flapjacks so making them is the path to dooooom!

I use my grandmother's recipe which has cornflakes in and then I throw in fruit and chocolate chips and it is absolutely heavenly and my addiction to them is probably why I need to do 5:2!!