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.

Flapjack should have chocolate in it. Just the sugar and syrup isn't enough.
Personally I make it with chocolate drops, cocoa powder stirred in with the oats and some ginger powder.

Yum.

4 Tablesoons of syrup = 100g. and is 320 calories.

8oz sugar at roughly 250 g, with sugar @387cals per 100g.

Ratio of sugar to flour in cakes: 1:1
Ratio of sugar to oats in flapjack: 1:6

Flour has a few more cals than oats at 364 / 389 per 100g respectively
but
Sugar as more cals than golden syrup at 387 / 320 per 100g respectively.

There are the eggs to consider in cake, which adds protein, and bulks up the size of the cake but:

Flour: 10g protein per 100g
Oats 17g protein per 100g.

(And there is 12oz of oats in there recipe as opposed to 80z flour. )

Oats have 11g fibre per 100g
Flour has 2.7g fibre per 100g.

I would sat that flapjack is a healthier snack than cake in any context, and healthier in the context of a wider balanced diet.

But not like, say, rice cakes. Or raw carrot.

But then flapjacks are usually suggested in the context of being an alternative to a bar of chocolate or a Mr Kipling French Fancy or a slice of chocolate cake (with associated icing and buttercream, perhaps).

I am not convinced by all this gubbins going into flapjack.

Yes blu unlike all these basic 'sponge' recipes. Thats just the base in my house for a huge wodge of buttercream and icing!

Sorry - 'flour has a few less calories than oats at 364 / 389 per 100g '

But in terms of sugar, in those recipes, cake has 8oz, about 953 calories in the sugar, and the flapjack has about 320 cals in 4 tbsp.

And by weight the flapjack has 50% more oats than the cake has flour.

A bowl of Rice Krispies with skimmed milk has less calories than scrambled egg on toast. But the first will leave me hungry & wanting to snack by 10 am whereas the second will last me until lunchtime

The same with flapjacks & cakes.

I find it impossible to get worked out about something like this. The oats improve the GI rating. There are worse things to eat.

I found the "talk about sporty snacks, win a Lidl voucher" thread, which was indeed full of flapjacks. I was so tempted to post the Nainamo Bar recipe (butter and biscuit topped by butter, sugar and custard powder topped by butter and chocolate) but I bottled out and posted about peanut butter sandwiches instead.

I wanted to suggest flapjacks.

I make mine with a mixture of oats and barley flakes. Its more like stuck together granola

Archery Nanaimo bars are a Christmas treat in our house thanks to my Canadian mama, and you've given me the craving 6 months early!

whiffle last time I made a tray, even I realised we could not eat them all at once, so I cut them up and froze most of them! It's nice to occasionally be able to take a sneaky square for me and DS when I am rootling in the freezer for actual food.

No, YANBU, flapjack is a cake. It's like those 'breakfast biscuits' - my colleague has those every day and I tell him he might as well just buy a packet of hobnobs and have those for breakfast, it's exactly the same.

Using the same logic I very often enjoy breakfast cake, breakfast kebab, and often a breakfast mojito.

Also I'd like to add that I have a share box of flapjack from Tesco in my kitchen right now that I am going to share with the baby in my belly.

Cause that means I haven't eaten a share box to myself.

I really need flapjacks and came this close to ordering a box from Amazon

Very, VERY tempted by a Breakfast Mojito.

All that lime juice, mint, has to be healthy..

Breakfast Mojito, Now that is somebody that knows how to live!! 🍹🍹

Anything can be breakfast if you call it breakfast!

Made a kind of healthy flapjack earlier - more a refrigerator cake thing but tasted nice. Porridge oats and pinhead oatmeal, seseme seeds, a shit tonne of butter, some 100% cocoa chocoalate and a bit of creme fraiche and about 5 tsps of maple syrup (using for taste not because I think it's better than sugar). Mashed into a baking tray and an hour in the fridge, was lush.