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Healthy flapjack recipe or other lunchbox ideas??

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mrsmalumbas · 15/11/2006 14:58

Hi anyone have a healthy recipe for flapjacks ie. not too much sugar and fat? I'd also welcome any other recipes for lunchbox things that are healthy like nice muffins or biscuits - I like to include something for snacktime, but DD not supposed to take chocolate bars and is fed up of musli type bars (which in any case are stuffed full of sugar, mostly).

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fortyplus · 15/11/2006 20:16

The problem with 'healthy' flapjacks is that they invariably disintegrate and your dd will end up with a box full of crumbs! I'd rather use a standard recipe and incorporate dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, nuts or whatever takes your fancy. And it really hacks me off when schools ban chocolate - a nice organic chocolate bar makes a perfectly acceptable treat and clings round teeth less than fresh orange juice, apparently.
Mine quite like 'All fruit Bars', which count as a portion of fruit - they are 100% fruit, unlike school bars etc.

elclose · 16/11/2006 10:43

use banana to bind instead of loadsa butter and sugar
banana breakfast bars
150g butter use flora light
75g soft brown sugar
3 tbspoons honey
350g porridge oats
50-75g chopped nuts or seeds( pumpkin&sunflower)
1/2 tspoon baking powder
3 medium bananas

melt butter, sugar and honey add all dry stuff mash bananas and add, then spread out in a baking tray and put in oven for 20-25 mins at 180* or gas
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this are so nice you can freeze them too

frogs · 16/11/2006 10:49

This is my recipe from another thread a little while back:

Here's my muesli bar recipe (sorry, it has irritating American cup measurements, and I haven't yet got around to working out metric equivalents. But it's a fairly tolerant recipe, I generally guess quantities, and have never had a disaster yet). Dd1 was making this by herself at 8 or 9, it's gratifyingly easy.

1 cup honey or golden syrup
Two thirds of a cup of smooth peanut butter, or softened plain butter
Two and two thirds cups of rolled oats (porridge oats works fine)
1 cup wholewheat flour (plain seems to work okay, though)
1 tsp cinnamon
one third cup of wheatgerm (I often omit this, if I don't have any wheatgerm. Doesn't seem to make any difference)
2 cups mix-ins in any combination of the following: coconut, raisins, chocolate chips, finely chopped unsalted nuts, chopped dried fruit. I have also used fresh fruit that needed using up, eg. squishy bananas, ditto kiwis and oranges.

Heat the oven to 180 deg. C. Mix the honey and peanut butter/butter until well-blended. If it's v. stiff, heat gently to soften it all. Stir in the oats, flour, wheatgerm, cinnamon and mix-ins. If the mixture seems too dry, add water or fruit juice in very small quantities at a time -- you don't want it too sloppy.

Press into a lightly greased tin. I press it down quite hard with the back of a spoon/spatula -- if there's too much air in it the muesli bars end up a bit crumbly.

Bake for about 30 mins until barely browned. Cut into bars while still warm. I tend to refrigerate them once they've cooled, as it makes them easier to handle, particularly if you've used fresh fruit.

mrsmalumbas · 16/11/2006 16:05

Thank you - will try these ideas, had never thought of peanut butter or banana. Off to do some weighing and measuring now...

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TeeCee · 16/11/2006 16:11

Other ideas:

home made carrot cake

home made banana loaf.

home made fruit loaf

Fig rolls

Dreied fruit - like apricots, raisins, apple rings

Fruit salad - strawberries, grapes, blueberries, satsuma segments, peaches, plums, apples, melon

cream cheese & breadsticks

avocado and banana dip with breadsticks

cheese, crackers and bits of cucumber

cheery toms, carrot sticks, cucumber, cheese

picnic eggs

malt loaf

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