Can you freeze flapjacks? And does anyone know a good, low-GI flapjack recipe?

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Waitrose do tubs of bitesize flapjacks that DS likes for his school lunchbag. They are super because they have tons of calories and it's tough to get calories into DS. Unfortunately I can't resist them, really I can't. It's fine to leave them in the cupboard but when I'm handling them to put into his lunchbag they just jump into my mouth. I'm diabetic and am generally pretty good about controlling the gi of my food but can't control my craving for these.

So I'm thinking that my choices are not to have it in the house (which is what I do for other things that I find hard to resist) or handle it in such a way that it would be hard to pop it into my mouth there and then, possibly by freezing it.

I think it's the oatiness and chewiness that I like most about flapjacks, so I'm also on the lookout for a good low-sugar flapjack recipe if anyone knows one.

There were some nice cheesy flapjacks on here a few weeks ago. Got carrot, cheese + coriander in them. They'll be on the recipes page I'm sure.

I have recipies for fruit and nut bars and chewy peanut bars, both from a
GI diet cook book. Do you want them?

Is that Grandma's Groovy Cheese Flapjacks Meglet? That recipe looks fab, thanks.

What's the cookbook MrsMills? I bought a load of GI books around the time I was diagnosed so I may have it already.

Yes, that one . You could put stronger cheese in to boost the calories I think, I was going to add parmesan to pep them up a bit next time. I have bought a big bunch of coriander and frozen it so I can make them without having to go shopping (always have carrot, cheese + oats in the house anyway).

Home made muesli bars -

165g wholemeal flour
Sweetener (equivalent to 75g sugar)
2 tså baking powder
7g wheat bran
1tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp allspice
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp salt (optional)
135 rolled oats
160g apricots - finely chopped
70 sunflower seeds
175ml unsweetened apple puree
115ml apple juice
3 omega-3 eggs
2tsp vegetable oil

Line a shallow 20x30cm baking dish with baking paper.

Mix the flour, sweetener, baking powder, bran and spices in a large bowl. Stire in the oats, apricots and sunflower seeds.

Mix the apple sauce, apple juice, eggs and oil, and add to the flour mixture. Pour into the baking dish and spread evenly.

Bake at 220c/400f/Gas Mark 6 for abopt 10-15 minutes. Let cool and cut into bars.

• the original Gi DIet by Rick Gallop has quite a few , and the Gi cook book by Louise Blair.

Thanks MrsMills. I've also had a quick look through my GI cookbooks as I bought them for main meal ideas and hadn't even looked at the sweet stuff. One of them has a very simple recipe for wholemeal and oat cookies that I might make.

It's such a pain when adults and children are at the opposite ends of the eating scale. DH and I try to be be low-fat, low-sugar, very high fibre and lots of veg but if DS eats that stuff it fills him up in about two forkfuls and he doesn't get enough calories or nutrition.