I am getting seriously sick of seeing recipes for healthy this and healthy that and clicking in to them and seeing two cups of sugar in the ingredient list…. um what part of that is healthy?
In fact, the latest culprit of this was a recipe I saw for a Healthy Saltana and Bran Loaf, and from a well known New Zealand baker at that. The ingredient list was my type of recipe, only 5 ingredients all of which I could pronounce and most of which you would have in your pantry if you were ever inclined to bake. The instruction list was just as impressive, soak the fruit, bran and sugar in the milk for 10 minutes, add the flour, mix and pop in the oven (go do something that makes you happy, or clean the house for 1.5 hours), cool and eat.
That is me through and through, don’t give me a huge long list of ingredients, this herb that spice blah blah I like things quick and easy, but tasty. I also have a HUGE sweet tooth which I am trying to keep at bay so all my teeth don’t fall out, I don’t get fat and my insides don’t rot (ok this may be an exaggeration but ya know!).
This brings me back to my point, two cups of sugar in this Healthy recipe?
Give.me.a.break!
The ones that claim they are healthy and have 1/4 cup brown sugar whilst not ideal, I can live with, provided the recipe has a decent number of servings. A little bit of sugar can’t be THAT bad. And sometimes things just taste better with a little bit of sugar or butter!
So next time you want a healthy recipe, think about the ingredients that go into it and decide whether or not it actually is healthy, don’t believe it just because the title claims that is it healthy. ‘
Ever been caught out with the ‘healthy’ recipe trap?
Yes! So true! I saw a recipe for low fat chocolate cake once and it had the same amount of sugar as usual in it, the only difference was skim milk instead of full cream!
I don’t mind making an unhealthy recipe sometimes (for the adults in my life – not the Little Mister), but I don’t like misleading recipe titles. It was a normal damn chocolate cake, dammit!
It is challenging cooking for a small child too. It’s hard when you google “healthy children/toddler” recipes and finding that they’re not really good for your child after all. I do have some great resources, but there’s a lot of crap out there. I guess we just have to have a critical eye and I suppose education is the key.
Its frustrating sifting through the crap, if people didn’t put false claims in their titles it would make our life a lot easier that’s for sure!