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.

I bet that flapjack tastes like shit tbh mumundone,

I buy a box of Tesco flapjacks every couple of weeks and the DCs and H have a couple after meals. Bad me for enabling their habit.

They also have a Jaffa cake with that which counts as one of their five a day yeah?

(seriously OP, are you Divina McCall flogging a sugar free health book?)

Can you get deep-fried flapjacks? Now they would taste AMAZING!

If you don't want to read people's subjective opinions on topics that probably don't really matter that much then I suggest you're in the wrong place

Dried fruit has no place in a flapjack. Or any other food. . The best way to make healthy flapjack is to mix oats and mashed banana into a dough the same consistency as flapjack dough then bake it as biscuits on a baking tray, chocolate chips make it yummier but a bit less virtuous.

Mmm flapjack

When my dcs are in need of a snack I give them a broccoli stalk to suck on. They love it and wouldn't thank me for offering them sugar laden rubbish! For a super special treat I dip a mung bean in pure cacao essence and they can nibble on it. They are truly blessed and super duper healthy.

I made some with coconut oil instead of butter and agave syrup instead of sugar.

Still full of fat and sugar then, just didn't taste quite as nice.

I do know where the op is coming from. On the competitive lunchbox threads there would always be a "homemade flapjack" in amongst the little pots of olives and the small pasta salads. It was deemed so much better than shop bought cake.

Dried fruit in a flapjack is a granola bar.

i made some with coconut oil instead of butter and agave syrup instead of sugar.

Still full of fat and sugar then, just didn't taste quite as nice.

There is absolutely zero superior about your ingredients, they are faddy superfoods which will be on their way out as quick as they came in and just taste worse

Yes, but they are only really posting on healthy lunch box threads to fan out their pretentious wank, Stealth

no need to get defensive.

I like flapjacks, cakes, jaffa cakes ect but I don't pretend it's anything other then what it is. Delicious crap

My dc might have a flapjack or whatever when we go out for hot chocolates and cakes but they know it's a treat. I don't give it to them everytime they do something sporty as a healthy snack. My point is to own what you're doing. Don't kid yourself your dc are having the healthy option. If you're going to the trouble of making banana flapjacks to avoid sugar why don't you just give them a banana?

Put a raisin in it and it's pretty healthy.

Just one though, any more ruins the taste.

One of your five a day init.

Fear not. All you need to do is wait until your local supermarket has a BOGOF offer on flapjacks, then only give the free ones to your DCs. Obviously if food is free, it can't possibly have any calories in it. Then donate the ones you paid for to the local food bank - and you have the added satisfaction of doing your bit for charity. Problem solved. No charge for this excellent advice.

Sambuca flaming flapjacks need to be "a thing"

That "sugar free" flapjack recipe contains 175gr dates, which in themselves contain 66.5gr sugar per 100gr. Ok it's not refined sugar but it's still sugar.

YANBU op, I've seen this on MN and IRL too.

Don't care. They're delicious. DC don't care either. They think they're delicious too.

If I did care, I still couldn't get as irate as you OP. Have yourself a glass of wine with a side order of flapjack.

Why are people claiming that adding chocolate makes flapjacks less healthy? Madness! What is chocolate made from? Cocoa beans. See, chocolate is actually one of your 5 a day. (Oh, and thus chocolate orange would be two...)

It could be worse, at least flapjack has no salt, unlike baked beans.

More food madness.

Back to this crisp salad - do you mix up same brand but different flavours or is it different crisps e.g. Doritos, frazzles, roysters and wotsits? The first time sounds more like roulette fun but second type might be more nutritious? Do you drink wine with this type of salad for the grapes/one of five a day?

YANBU, it is the same with the blueberry muffin which is also touted as having magical healthy properties especially if home made.

My mother used to bake, I know just how unhealthy home baking can be.

rice crispy cakes are better

If a flap jack hasn't got condensed milk in, it's not good for you. Fact.

A hand full of coconut is also a must.