A healthy alternative to digestive oat biscuits?

estebancambias

I'm actually addicted with these, but I know they can't be good for you, so I was wondering is there a healthier homemade alternative?

AckwelFoley

You are correct.

They are certainly not good for you.

Better than some but still bad.

estebancambias

Damn!!!!!!!! Oats are good; yeah? So if I buy like Oats and heat them with no sugar, I can have healthy lovely oats? Please...please.

NextSteps

Oatcakes. They're actually really tasty, especially with cheese or hummus.

g'em

estebancambias wrote: »

Damn!!!!!!!! Oats are good; yeah? So if I buy like Oats and heat them with no sugar, I can have healthy lovely oats? Please...please.

Oats are wonderful - eat them for sustained energy release (i.e. porridge first thing in the morning) and even eat them with some fruit or yoghurt if you like it sweet.

As with everything, just don't eat too much.

And like UB suggests, there's always oatcakes. Very handy as snacks, and can be eaten with a variety of weet or savoury toppings, or on their own.

rubadub

Are there any recipies for healthier versions of cakes or buiscuits (I miss them). e.g. for cakes/buns/buscuits you could sub in oat flour, but what about the oil. Would olive oil stand up to baking? I see most commercial baked stuff has veg oil in it rather than butter, so if not olive oil what would be the best oil to use that wont impart an odd flavour. I might like some flavours imparted, like sesame oil. Might be some oil lower in saturated fat, like the one walkers crisps are made with (dunno how much better it really is.)

I have made peanutbutter/oat/whey cakes before that were nice, really dense, but would like a light cake recipie too.
Oat pancakes are easy since the ratios do not really matter.

IIMII

rubadub wrote: »

Are there any recipies for healthier version

Yeah, have often wondered that myself

Dizzyblonde

estebancambias wrote: »

I'm actually addicted with these, but I know they can't be good for you, so I was wondering is there a healthier homemade alternative?

I don't know if they're healthier (though home made stuff usually is), but I have a really good recipe for Hobnobs:


8oz sr flour
8oz sugar
8oz porridge oats
8oz margarine
1tbsp golden syrup
1tbsp hot water
1/2 tsp bic soda

Mix flour, oats and sugar,
melt margarine, syrup and water in a pan and stir in bic soda and add to dry mix,
mix well, make smallish balls and put on greased tray and flatten slightly with a fork,

Bake at 180C for 15 mins, cool on the tray,
You just want them to go golden, not brown.
Cool on a wire rack.

IIMII

For oat biscuits I do the following:

500g oats
375g Butter
375g Brown Sugar
8 tablespoon of syrup
1 mug of plain flower

Tastes better when the butter is mixed in a solid-ish state (as opposed to melted).

There must be a healthier version.

Faith

Are oatcakes a suitable breakfast food? Are they as filling as porridge with as little calories, say?