Muesli musings

[Anotherloafofbread]

Why is muesli considered healthy and flapjack a bit of a treat.

I make both but I must have set and eaten an entire box of muesli while my baby doesn’t sleep whereas I’d never eat 9 slices of flapjack. Really the only difference is a bit of butter

AIBU - they’re clearly different

AINBU - basically the same with different marketing

Well most muesli I’ve seen doesn’t have sugar, syrup or butter whereas flapjack has a tonne of those. Still ok as breakfast though, same for cake imo.

You are kidding right? The only thing they have in common is that they both contain oats. But muesli clearly doesn’t have butter, sugar or syrup which is then baked till it turns into a caramel. It’s completely delicious but very calorific!

OP have you ever made either? I don’t think you can have done!!

I get your point.
I can't buy granola anymore because I can't restrict myself to the pixie portions the bag suggests and a human sized bowl is about 700 calories or more.
It sounds healthy but it isn't.

Are you mixing up muesli with crunchy granola? They’re quite different. Muesli can be used as an ingredient in flapjacks, if you add butter, sugar and syrup in large quantities to it, but because it doesn’t have any butter, sugar or syrup in it it’s obv far more healthy.

Granola has a fair bit of sugar or syrup in it, and maybe a bit of oil. So definitely less healthy than muesli but not as bad as flapjacks.

They’re all delicious but not the same.

Both terrible but flap jacks are a bit more honest about it.

I am the opposite to you OP.

Flapjacks are the perfect vehicle for a divine combination of fat and sugar = delicious and hard to stop at one.
Muesli is hard work to eat, much more chewing, less sugar = one small bowl is enough.

Flapjacks, especially homemade, are too addictive!

I was also wondering if you meant granola - which is like a flapjack really - rather than muesli which is just oats + nuts/grains/seeds.

The ingredients for the Pimhill Organic Muesli I’m sitting in front of are: oats, wheat flakes, sultanas, raisins, apple flakes, almonds, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts.

As pp have said, you’re probably mixing up muesli and granola.

(I never eat the latter unless I make it myself - shop bought versions are horrifyingly full of sugar and syrup and God knows what else.)