NT they've really gone and done it now!

I don't eat flapjacks - far too calorific - so I wouldn't even look at the contents or notice they were healthier but if it's called a peach and seed bar, it makes it sound tasty and wholesome and available.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/08/the-national-trust-has-become-an-easy-target-for-conservative-hysteria

Why is it not flapjack?
Does flapjack have to have a certain amount of sugar?
I called mine flapjack when I sold it in my cafe.

They could have introduced that as something else rather than call it flapjack and see how it went.

I've always done that with recipes, reduced the sugar content as much as I can, so that they are still tasty but have fewer calories. It goes with the territory when married to a type 1 diabetic.

Does this mean if we eat flapjacks we are homophobic?
I'm not sure, but we could be accused of being sexist.

Flapjill anyone?

The new flapjack sounds GF so yipee for those who need GF!
but it's not a flapjack and, yes, I know oats should be GF but they can be troublesome and I am sure they are not gluten free.

Don't like flapjack? [SHOCK]
You will be banished behind the scenes and not allowed to eat in public

I don't like flapjack ( anyone want to make something of it?)

Well, anyone on the FODMAP diet (IBS) won`t be able to eat the new version because of the apricots and peaches, so that`s something else I can`t have when I want a treat after slogging round a stately home!

We are! I am sure the Scottish do it better. Thankfully the sanctimonious prig of a director general of English NT is leaving. Hopefully, she will be replaced, by someone normal.

Just as a matter of interest are we talking just English NT re the lanyard
and the flapjack?

I live too close to our NT property to bother to eat there, but there's a lot of praise from them wot do. So the food must be good.

However flapjacks have a fixed list of ingredients otherwise they're not flapjacks. Definitely a breach of the Food Description Act.

I'm not an NT member either and I don't really care what they sell in their tearooms but that is not a flapjack!

Wonder if they can be 'had' under the Trades Descriptions Act!

Annie a from me, too...

A choice would be a good thing. Sometimes I'm in the mood for something nutty and seedy, other times I just want a big wodge of syrupy, buttery comfort food, maybe with chocolate on top. Or even a small wodge; as someone says, the portions are often huge, so they could offer half-portions as well as large ones.

Exactly Greyduster. The National Trust has jumped on the health bandwagon. One of the joys of visiting their properties is a visit to the tearoom. DH thinks it's a huge great to have a slice of cake. Why meddle with he flapjack recipe? We are all adults, we don't need someone else to decide what we should eat!?

We are not members either, but regularly walk the Longshaw Estate in the Peak District which has a very good tearoom near the car park. When GS comes with us, he always has flapjack. I know he won't look at anything that has seeds in it, so he is going to be mega disappointed! Why not introduce the seedy bar thing alongside the flapjack and let people decide for themselves? Or can we not be trusted to use our own good judgement when it comes to eating healthily or not? Should NT now be called The Nanny Trust?

H and I are not a members either.
We enjoy a good piece of cake though.

I'm not an NT member... it's not been attractive enough to join. When I do go to a NT property, once in a blue moon, I'm happy to pay the admission fee.

I have a John Lewis card, they give me free tea and cake

Sorry for some reason didn't see the link....I'm having a flakey day [embarrassed].

Dear Lord, a healthy flapjack! That's a total contradiction in terms. Flapjacks are supposed to be squidgy sweet blocks of enamel stripping joy not a healthy seed bar. If I want to eat bird seed I'll share the feeding trays. If I want a gooey, sweet treat I'll have a flapjack.

Have you read the link vq? That explains all.

Anniebach

A whole can of worms about flapjacks, as VQ says is there a hidden meaning ? and do we have to wear a lanyard to eat one ?

I'm not a member but only because they don't have many properties in this area.

What have they done to the flapjack? Are we still allowed to say flapjack or does it now have another meaning?

Does this mean if we eat flapjacks we are homophobic?

I am a member, but a very disgruntled one.

We had lunch in an NT property last week, three adults, 2 children; 2 baked potatoes with tuna salad and colslaw, 2 chicken and vegetable soups (delicious) and a ploughmans. 5 empty plates and no cakes, no flapjacks or replacements, not because we were eating to approved government standards, just didn't want any, we were full.