To be annoyed with people thinking flapjack is healthy?

[BrandNewAndImproved]

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 added dried fruit and cherries (the glace ones drenched in syrup) to my recent batch. Am certain they countered the chocolate chips I threw in alongside them.

When some of it fell apart I ate it with full fat yogurt, pretending if I squinted it looked like granola.

Yum.

rice crispy cakes are better

Mars bar rice crispy cakes are really good too
(I feel I need to say I'm not sponsored by them)

I have never made flapjack.

Surely it has salt in it, though?! A hefty pinch of salt makes all things oaty/sugary taste better.

My daughters junior school allows a fruit or vegetable for morning snack...or a cereal/breakfast bar. I've been wondering if homemade flapjack counts as I'm not wanting to start buying them.

My Mum makes the best flapjack.

I know what OP means - when people talk about their kids having food removed from the lunchbox because it isn't healthy enough, and there's always someone who says 'homemade flapjack' as a healthy sweet thing instead.

JollyPostman

My favourite is to mix up different styles and shapes and flavours

So I sometimes find cheese and onion is a bit claggy, but adding in salt and vinegar really peps things up. So then add some frazzle for texture, maybe some Worcester sauce French fries and some plain hula hoops which pick up the flavours.

I'm not going to restrict you though - feel free to play with the flavours and try out plenty of combos you like. I would recommend a dry white that can handle the salt or a fruity red to balance out the savoury flavours.

I am almost dribbling!

Have been looking for a good flapjack receipe! Also have lots of Mars bars, there's tomorrow sorted.

I think the trouble is that some people think that a "sugar-free" flapjack must be OK, not realising that the butter/syrup combo is very sugary and energy dense.
I think they are fine (very nice) now and again, especially home made still warm, but as a healthy snack, I don't think so.

Ego, syrup is sugar, like any other refined sugar. It is not 'slow-release energy'.

And to say that the calories in a flapjack 'won't be laid down as fat' is just wrong. Of course they will be, if they are in excess of what the child is burning off.

*My favourite is to mix up different styles and shapes and flavours

So I sometimes find cheese and onion is a bit claggy, but adding in salt and vinegar really peps things up. So then add some frazzle for texture, maybe some Worcester sauce French fries and some plain hula hoops which pick up the flavours.*

Please tell me you are not talking about flapjacks...

Want flapjack now!!!!

Oats are slow release energy though. Whereas chocolate & cake are not.

Crisp salad lol

You can put all sorts of nuts, bran and dried fruit in there. Much better than many sugary foods.

Grumpy yep of course! Let me know how your cheese and onion flavoured flapjacks get on

We don't allow flapjacks in this house! Sugary tooth rotting demon bars of doom! My children get their sweet fix by having a lick of a raisin each after dinner. That's enough for them.

But really, I make Nigella's one with dried fruit/nuts and seeds with condensed milk, they're given out after sport and my kids moan it's not Haribo, ungrateful gremlins.

Flapjacks are yummy. And a great snack if you've been out cycling or running and need an energy boost. Porridge in a bar.

If you don't put something sweet in they taste like bird food (we've tried it for a school homework when ds was in about year 5). Yuk.

Mmmmmmmmmm so hungry now.