No added sugar or fat flapjacks

OK, let's lay down some groundrules. I love carbs, and fat, and sugar. However Mr B is on a mission to reduce his body fat to 'professional athlete' levels, and unfortunately my regular flapjacks contain more than a tad of each.

My normal flapjack recipe will follow (and I admit it tastes waaaaaaaaaay better) but... For those with dietary issues or trying to be virtuous, what follows is actually pretty good. Anyone who eats breakkie on the run would certainly be better off with one of these and a cup of tea than those breakfast biscuits you get filled with weird stuff...

Ingredients (makes 9 largish flapjacks)

• 400ml apple juice
• 3 apples (dessert) or pears or a mixture
• large pinch salt
• 130g raising or other dried fruit
• 30g seeds of your choice (pumpkin, sunflower etc)
• 250g oats
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• good grate of root ginger if you have it - dried if not.

Method

1. Core and chop the fruit roughly (leaving the skin on for added good stuff). Poach it in the juice gently for 30 mins or so until it's nice and squish-able, although it will hold its shape.
2. Blitz the apples until you have a lumpy purée (only a few pulses).
3. Add the flavourings (cinnamon, salt, ginger) and dried fruit and seeds to the apple schmush and stir it in.
4. Finally, add the oats until you have a cement like mess. It's meant to look like this, honest.
5. Squash into a tin lined with baking paper (mine is 23 x 30cm) and bake at 180C for 30-40 mins.

So here we have them...

Not too bad for health food!