Clean Eating Healthy Flapjacks For Kids {No Refined Sugar} (2024)

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Healthy Flapjacks For Kids

Who doesn’t love a Flapjack? That sweetness, the oaty, gooey, bite of deliciousness you get with a fresh batch of Flapjacks. You with me? Great, you’re going to love these healthy flapjacks for kids. I mean, they’re not only for kids, just saying :)

These Clean Eating healthy flapjacks are free from all refined sugars and use very ripe bananas, a little maple syrup and date paste for natural sweetness. Store bought flapjacks (& most homemade recipes) use buckets of refined sugar.

Not these. They’re a healthy flapjack oat snack and perfect for after school snacks, lunch boxes, picnics… you get the idea.

And obviously you’d make enough so it’s not just the kids who get one. Or two.

How To Make Oat Flapjacks Healthy

The refined sugar is what traditionally makes a flapjack a less than healthy snack. So, when you take out the refined sugar, it becomes a far healthier snack and you can read about why it’s okay to have some sugars when you’re Clean eating.

Once you swap out the refined sugar for natural sugars (the bananas, dates and maple syrup) you’ve got an awesome treat bar, and I can tell you, the kids won’t notice these are refined sugar free!

They’re gone in no time at all, so while I’ll give you the storage instructions below, I’m pretty sure you won’t need them.

More healthy snacks for kids

• No Bake Date Slice
• Blueberry Banana Bread
• Toffee Apple Dipping Chips
• Clean Eating Raspberry Muffins
• Healthy apple flapjacks
• Chocolate flapjacks

Healthy Flapjacks With Dates

In this house, we’re huge date fans. Seriously, we love them. Kids, adults, they’re used quite a lot and I’ve not found many things that don’t work when you use dates as a sugar replacement.

In this recipe, I’ve used date paste and ‘chopped up small’ dates in the mix. The banana flavour come through and having some chopped up dates in there gives a little something extra. Dates make these soft and chewy, perfect for really little kids as much as anyone else!

If you don’t love dates quite like I do, feel free to leave the chopped dates out, the rest of the recipe stays the same.

How To Make Healthy Flapjacks For Kids

These are so simple to make, you can have a batch prepared and cooked and ready to eat warm in less than half an hour.

What you need:

• 3 Cups Organic Oats – I like these ones
• 1/3 Cup Butter
• 1/3 Cup Pitted Dates – keep 4/5 out of the date paste to chop up in out in your mixture
• 2/3 Cup Mashed Banana
• 3 tbsp Maple Syrup – I use this one

Step 1

Make your date paste. Simply take your dates and add 3/4 tbsp boiling water. Blend your paste until it’s smooth. Add a little more boiling water if needed, you want the paste to be really thick.

Once your paste is blended, add your bananas and blend the mixture together. Put to one side.

Step 2

Melt your butter and Maple syrup over a low heat. Add the warm butter and maple syrup to the oats and mix.

Step 3

Pour your banana and date mixture into the buttery oats and mix well. Your mixture should bind well, and be sticky.

Step 4

Line your baking pan with paper. Rub a little butter on the paper to stop the Flapjack sticking. Push your mixture well into the pan, so it’s compact and even on top.

Step 5

Bake for around 190/375 (depending on your oven) for 18 minutes. The Flapjacks will be soft when you take them out of the oven, they’ll harden up as they cool.

How Long Do Homemade Flapjacks Last?

Not long in our house but if you’re slightly more restrained than we are, these will last for about 5 days. In fact, on the rare occasion there’s been a few left over, I can tell you they get even better after a day or two. I don’t know why but the flavours seem to intensify.

How To Store Homemade Flapjacks

You can store these healthy flapjacks for 5 days in an airtight container like these ones. These are brilliant if like me you’re trying to cut down on your plastics, and I use them all the time.

Make sure the Flapjacks are fully cooled before you store them.

How To Freeze Flapjacks

You can freeze Flapjacks! I know, who knew. Just put your cooled Flapjacks in an zip lock bag like these and throw them in the freezer. You can keep them there for up to a month.

When you want them, let them defrost fully before you eat them. No one likes an ice cold Flapjack. Unless it’s broken up and sprinkled on Chocolate ice cream :)