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 sometimes make a cake with flapjack on top. Now that is very nice.

I cannot understand the flapjack love at all. My mum used to make it (except she called it 'oatcake') and it was just oats, syrup and butter (raisins if you were lucky). You could have broken a tooth if you got a corner bit. It was awful. I've never been mad on them since, even though I now know they're supposed to be slightly squidgy and not like pieces of fossilised polystyrene.

Homemade is almost always better than processed just because the ingredients are better and more 'normal' - no hydrogenated/palmoil/cornsyrup shite

If op is referring the the sponsored thread - c'mon op - we are just trying to win a prize here!

I love flapjacks.

Annie - wow the bit of Jaffa cakes I don't like is the orange but I LOVE black currant jam!

Mm, the South African version is definitely a health food. 4 cups oats, 3 cups coconut, 1 cup sunflower seeds, 1 cup flour (spelt works well). And then a block of butter, a cup of sugar and a bit of syrup. .. but in Saffa/Afrikaans cooking that really IS a low sugar ratio!

Finding this thread a wee bit depressing - all the 'give me a deep-fried flapjack on a bed of chips' joshing around. Make your own flapjack by all means but it IS basically cake and not hugely superior to a Penguin bar in a lunch box. A bowl of porridge in the morning sends me into a deep slumber by late morning - so I'm not (personally speaking) so convinced by the slow release argument with Oats - it's a huge surge of carbs for me. Flapjacks are undoubtedly tasty and if you're going to make them yourself I don't see any huge advantage of skimping on the sugar and butter - the substitutes that people often suggest aren't that much better.

The best flapjack I have ever had are Premier Inn ones you get at breakfast. I had about four just like that then ashamed to say I wrapped another 4 in my napkin for laters. God.

Placing, try adding some double cream to your porridge. Adding fat slows down the rate of carbohydrate absorption.

Penguin bars are a typical example of a processed snack with corn syrup in. Very bad for you.

Lol at crisp salad.

I was once part of an office 'tea tonight' conversation and was telling a colleague that I make a lovely salad using oranges, feta, mint and almonds. Another friend piped up "yeah well I make a lovely salad using sausages and mash". Her salad sounded much nicer than mine.

I'm sure Premier Inn never had flapjack when I was staying there, the swizzing tossers.
Maybe I was too busy eating all of the cooked breakfast stuff, but it seems unlikely that I'd miss the 'healthy' flapjack.

Brillo the breakfast menu has been revamped. I was gob filled smacked by the utter scrumptious-ness. You'll have to go away again and see for yourself [thumbs up]

Good roughage - doesn't stay in the system for too long. Oats make me regular.

The best chewy flapjacks are M&S ones. Yummy. Not had them in a while and now I want them.

I had a Snickers flapjack a while ago. It was amazing.

Aren't flapjacks the 'healthy' option in Starbucks, Pret, etc?

Mmmm... Imagine a deep fried Mars flapjack!

Or do American's just call something else flapjack like the jam/jelly debacle?

Sort of. As previous poster pointed out "flapjack" in the US is another word for North American style pancakes, also called "hotcakes."

The corner bits of flapjack can be hard & get left till last.
You can avoid this by making Refrigerator Cake instead. No baking so really eco friendly.

Queenbean

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

Did you actually read the post you are quoting there?

They've been eaten in England since Shakespeare's time. Abit late to get upset about them.

Hmmmm- is 6.55am too early to eat flapjack (especially Mars Bar ones)? I have some downstairs- bought for DS to sustain him during sports stuff at the weekend.

I could just melt a Mars on top...

Oh my god im not the only one who read thi ngy karmels book and thought hmmm ice cream and flapjacks arnt great things to be feedi f your kid everyday ...

Has to be better than some stuff though. Like my mil spooning a fricking cream frappe into my 1yr olds mouth. Actual

If that's all you have to worry about you are a lucky lady he he

See also granola. I love that crunchy nut one with the shards of chocolate or them m&s triple chocolate one. But even as a fat fuck, I know it's not a breakfast, it's a fucking pudding! I let myself buy it about once a year and treat it as such.