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.

Scarednoob i work in m+s and a lady came in and bought 3 boxes yesterday, she kept appologising

I made granola once-it was absolutely delicious but the amount of honey/golden syrup made me weep for my teeth.

Personal!y I like a bit of flap after some afternoon delight

A nibble of something sweet after afternoon naughtiness is officially "Tiffin Time" isn't it?

Mmmmmm Tiffin...

We have a bastardised version of flapjack at the moment because I brought back loads of shredded wheat by request of DS from the UK and....he didn't like it.

So I've been hiding it in various forms. Shredded wheat flapjack being one - this has butter, honey, raisins and peanut butter...

Not crumbly though. More chewy like a cereal bar.

Wolfiefan

As an alternative to custard my aunt pours melted mars bar over puds.

And all those paleo or vegan puddings too - they are still just mostly sugar plus carbs.
If in doubt eat an egg if it's breakfast time or indeed any time and if you're vegan stick with your proper natural vegan products like proper veg (and nuts unless you've weight to lose)

Definitely right though it isn't a healthy snack, and that's why I don't waste the calories on them when I'm at the M&S service station selecting those plastic pots of cakes in a three for two offer...

Why waste a single empty calorie on the taste of an oat? Go straight to the mini rolls.

The question is, are they actually unhealthy? In small quantities, as part of a balanced diet? For someone using a lot of energy?

Are they worthy of an all consuming miserabilist rage?

If so I will join in, a bit of wild rage is great from time to time.

But is it good for our blood pressure?

Medium GI, soluable fibre baked goods v rage?

Aargh, what a dilemma!

Lemonpledge

Your post really resonated with me. You speak so much sense

Yes Pug, I was agreeing with her

I think its about empty calories, if you eat a chocolate bar or crisp packet the nutritional content isn't great, but a flapjack has much higher nutritional value with all the other bits in it. It is the same as everything eat alot of one food and its bad even if its a perceived healthy food.
My choices are about making each calorie worthwhile so as a treat it would be a flapjack over a chocolate bar as its a better choice. doesn't make it a healthy food, but neither is it healthy to only eat apples and carrots.

Lets not forget all the good vitamins in fat, some vitamins are fat soluble so a bit of butter is good for you.
A lot of fat is going to be bad for you.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

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

EddieStobbart I salute your excellent problem-solving approach.

(I was insanely hungry all through my preg, and added, er, crumbled up digestives and full-fat greek yoghurt - yoghurt sounds healthy but in nutrition terms it might as well have been lard - into my porridge. No wonder I got so fat.)

No one wants to ruin a flapjack with body nuts

Not all flapjacks are created equally though, are they. They vary from essentially baked porridge with barely a whiff of fat or sugar, to pretty much equal parts of sugar, butter and oats.

I always wonder why you can't buy flapjack flavoured ice cream because I would DEFINITELY buy it.

Today I was going to be virtuous and do important stuff like cutting the grass and sorting out my banking. Instead I've got to go out and buy oats and condensed milk and 'stuff' (mars bars maybe?) then I've got to make flapjacks. Then I suppose I'll have to eat them. Then I'll need a lie down. And before I know it oh will be asking what I've done today.,.. So that means I'll have to save some for him. Just doubled the quantities on my list. But hey, it's not gin..so I can still feel healthy and virtuous. That reminds me, if you buy the gin that boasts about all its added botanicals you can including it in your 5 a day. So perhaps I'd better get some to wash down the flapjacks.

School recipe for flapjack and cake.

12oz sugar
12oz butter
4 tbs syrup
1lb oats

Cake is 8oz of everything plus 4 eggs

Each makes 12 portions (primary)

Cake is better for you then flapjack. Less sugar less fat. The oats don't work as slow release food with the 12ounces of sugar involved. Stop kidding yourself.

As for the Gi index. A lot of diabetic people use the gi index to help control their sugars. Funny that all the diabetic customers I've had over the years weren't allowed to eat flapjack ever but could have cake and shortbread if their sugars were ok before lunch...

Flapjack is lovely especially with custard but it's not healthier then cake.

Ok ego you go and do that if you really care that much to prove me wrong 👌

But I'm right in this.

Pasta is the one I used to hear touted as "healthy". I think low carb mania has put paid to that.

BrandNew: but are you saying that cake has 8oz of flour as opposed to 1b of oats in flapjack? In which case each bit of flapjack has less fat and sugar : carb?

If you say so ego. I've also studied children's nutrition I'm not chatting out of my ass. You seem very invested in this thread to prove yourself right for some reason.

Blu it all goes into the same tin. Cake obviously rises but flat wise they're all the same size. Every portion of flapjack contains one ounce of butter and one ounce of sugar. Cake doesn't although I'm not saying cake is healthy all I'm saying is that the oats do not make flapjack the healthy option as it has more sugar then cake.

That's not the same as any of the recipes I have seen. The ones in my books have a higher proportion of oats - just under half the total rather than around a third.
Plus oats really aren't the equivalent of the white flour in most cakes.