So Tasty, They’ve Been Tagged!

Our flapjacks are so tasty, Holland & Barrett have had to put security tags on them!

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British Bakewell…Cappuccino Capello…Brazilian Nut…Fruity French…Bavarian Black Cherry…

Which flavour will you be supporting?!

Chocolate Flapjack

This afternoon I have decided to eat a chololate flapjack after lunch.  Can’t wait.  A pre-Christmas treat!

Flapjacks and Coffee

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.  Most of the world’s coffee is still picked by hand, one bean at a time. An experienced coffee picker can pick about 7 baskets of coffee beans a day, each weighing 50-100 kg. The picker will be paid between $2 and $10 per basket of coffee cherries. Once the coffee cherries are dried and roasted, the coffee beans from that basket will sell for about $110.

Flapjacks and Tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

Tea was rationed during the 2nd World War – 2oz per person per week. It was called Britain ’s secret weapon. In the heavy bombing raids people working or taking shelter said they were OK as long as they had a cup of tea!

Coffee and Flapjacks

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.   Coffee is grown in 53 countries around the world, all of them located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The coffee industry employs more than 25 million people worldwide.

Unusual Client Christmas Gifts

If you are looking for an unusual Christmas gift for a client this year that will be remembered and can be shared amongst theur staff whave you thought about sending a box of Flapjacks? Several companies did this last year and they went down very well.  They are heavy so create a big physical impact when they arrive and will make you very popular in the office!

Blackfriars offer a range of boxed up flapjacks which can be sent wherever you want them to in plenty of time for Christmas.

Flapjacks and Tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

There has been much research carried out into the health benefits of teas; this has resulted in tea having a deserved reputation as an healthy beverage. Some of the health benefit facts that have been linked to the consumption of green tea include a reduction in the risk of cancers and cardiovascular disease; a reduction in kidney stones; increased bone mineral density. Increasingly green teas are being drank in the western world for their health benefits.

Coffee and flapjacks

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.  More than 50% of U.S. adults drink at least one cup of coffee a day – but they are not the world’s largest coffee consumers. That honor belongs to Finland, followed by West Germany. Finland drinks about 5 cups of coffee per adult per day.

Flapjacks – a guilty pleasure

Guilty pleasures: Flapjacks

Our favourite meals needn’t be the gut-busters we think they are.  Nutritionist FIONA HUNTER wrote in the Daily mail about Flapjacks earlier this year.

“Undeniably delicious, like all foods that combine fat and sugar, there’s no way the flapjack could ever be described as healthy.

It’s true that oats, the main ingredient, are an excellent source of fibre and provide useful amounts of vitamins B1, B2 and B6.

Also, the fibre in oats is the soluble, cholesterol-busting variety and the carbohydrate is the low GI, wholegrain variety”

For full details of the article visit the Daily Mail’s website