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 make the best flapjacks I've ever eaten by bastardising lots of recipes. They are also pretty nutritious, though calorific. Full of protein but taste yummy.

Butter- tick. Shitloads

No sugar - I whizz two packs of mejool dates with the melted butter for sweetness, tastes caramelly

A dash of maple syrup (could be golden - same shit)

Carbs- oats, plus a good shake of cornflakes - absolutely delish in a flapjack

Then I add sesame seeds and macadamia/cashew/pecan nuts, bashed up. Half the weight of oats/cornflakes so they are pretty nutty. Used to add other seeds like chia but they make the flapjacks taste like shit and look highly suspicious to children so I whizz those into smoothies instead.

The result tastes amazing but definitely packs a nutritious punch. I keep the pieces small ( for the kids, massive for me) and worked out that a piece has less fat and sugar than an average slice of cake, but LOADS more nutrients. Loads of protein seems to stop a big sugar dip later. Perfect for after school and before activities/sports, to keep them going. If I have two for breakfast and I'm genuinely not hungry til about 1 which for me is unprecedented as I'm a complete pig.

So yes you are being unreasonable. Flapjack is a definition like sandwich - they vary wildly in content and nutrition. Some will definitely be healthier than cake.

But Cadburys fruit and nut has palm oil and you need to think of the orang utans.

At least with home made flapjack you know it has proper butter in rather than evil margariney things or anything that destroys habitats for nice furry animals.

oh god monster munch - you def need pickled onion monster munch in a crisp salad.

I have a variation on crisp salad, whereby chocolate buttons are added, as croutons.

Oats have soluble fibre. It's not just about GI-related stuff.

OP. But you could say the same thing about healthy, 'low fat' things. equivalent of 6tsps of sugar in a mullerlight for instance .

Yeh my kids have the odd treat, but they recently just scoffed a load of grapes as they came home from school too so its swings and roundabouts really.
I don't like the cereal bars, me and DS were early for school today so nipped to the shops and bought DS a breakfast bar (he'd already had breakfast earlier) I have the sweetest tooth in the world and just one bite of this bar was too sweet even for me.

DDs school centres / focuses heavily on healthy eating etc. They've still made and sold candy floss with all the enumbers (probably) on the last few celebratory occasions.

queenbean this sounds great. Something to be served with prosecco to equally classy friends perhaps? Re the flapjacks, I'm sure I made some egg/courgette/cheese/oat combo flapjack once. Tasted like shit but not an unhealthy flapjack overall

Aren't you clever op, here is your gold .

I would love it if this thread could run and run and become the super soaker thread of its day.

Oat2pasture that's an American english use of flapjack to mean pancake. In the UK flapjacks are akind of baked oatey tray bake cereal bar.

Oats are a pretty high protein, high fibre grain. A flapjack is a treat that generally fills you up more than other carby snacks.

No I wouldn't say it was the same as eating a bowl of sugar.

Ah you see I read the other thread & found out everyone was calling you I as ego means I!!

My daughter leaves for school every day at 7am. Twice a week she has a morning dance class (instead of PE). Once her academic lessons end at 3.45pm she then has a 15 min break & has 2 hours of dance class.

Sometimes she will have a banana to keep her going - but sometimes it may be a flapjack. If she were to have cake or a chocolate bar she wouldn't last til 6pm & would end up feeling sick.

Ds is a very fussy eater, he eats very little. He needs to put weight on. I'd prefer him to have a flapjack as snack than a chocolate bar or sweets as the flapjack does contain some nutrition.

Proper lolz at crisp salad

GENIUS

Have to admit I give Ds fromage frais because they have a higher protein content (& he won't eat Greek yoghurt like dd does).

The sugar levels are not ideal but it does again have some nutrition.

Oats are not magic.

No foodstuffs are magic.

I give mine Greek yog at-home
I wish they came in tubey yog packs...

Can you do a Pombear salad?

I like flapjacks with glace cherries in them.

I also like these: d1ycl3zewbvuig.cloudfront.net/images/products/11/LN_607049_BP_11.jpg

...but they're a bit too small to be perfect.

If you ever go to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, and have a cream tea there (expensive, but oh so worth it), the cake stand comes with scones and petit fours and victoria sponge, and this big triangle of brown flapjack which looks out of place amongst the fancy stuff, and which you assume is there to fill you up. How wrong I was - it was the most delicious thing in the whole setup. Amazing.

Ego if you ever find yourself near a Hema (which is like a Dutch Tiger, and is slowly rolling out across the country - there's a big one in Victoria station) they do something that is basically a packet of GIANT jaffa cakes, except they are nicer in every way, and instead of the orangey bit in the middle, it's blackcurrent jam.

I put loads and loads of nuts in my flapjacks (big, chunky nuts like Brazil nuts and pecans as well as chocolate chips). Nuts are calorie-free, right?

Makes the flapjacks practically as healthy as grapefruit, I reckon.
(You know, like grapefruit or celery, you use up more calories digesting them that they actually contain, so you end up with a calorie deficit.)

I'm with you, OP.

Every thread about school lunches has posters smugly listing the 'healthy' contents of their kids' lunch boxes, often including 'homemade flapjacks'. Because when you put 500g of sugar in at home, it's fine.

I wouldn't give a toss if they weren't so smug.

Feckin strikeout fail. Need another flapjack to boost my energy levels.