Well, the other day at the supermarket Tahi claimed he was hungry (must be all that colorful packaging rolling before his eyes), and I didn't really want to buy some snack but then I happened to be passing by the very Nairn's oat crackers, so I thought I should give them a go and see how they compared to my recipe.
I don't usually buy something without having a proper look at the ingredients list. It's become a habit. I try to avoid food coloring, food enhancer (i.e. monosodium glutamate), palm oil, anything with numbers or unpronounceable names. This time I didn't, I just grabbed it. What can I say? It was an impulsive buy motivated by curiosity and necessity (feeding a hungry boy).
When I got into the car and opened it to give some to the said boy, I realized there were four packet individually wrapped in plastic. overpackaging, bad points in our family. Plus the fact that it is baked in Scotland, hello food miles!
Then when I got home I looked at the back and realized there were far more ingredients than in my recipe, including palm oil. Eeek! Then I read the bottom and saw they use palm oil from a sustainable source, OK not so bad after all. But still. Inverted syrup, potato starch, soya lecithin (doesn't say wheter it's GM or not)... I mean, when you read a recipe in a cook book, these ingredients are never called for, right? So what do they do? Where do they come from? When I came up with my recipe I didn't even think I would need more than flour, oats, salt and butter or oil. I can see why they add sugar, although I'm no fan of that, but the rest?
Anyway, ingredients list aside, I tasted them and to be honest I prefer my simple homemade recipe waaaayy more. It's my honest opinion and I'm not even tempted to buy Nairn's ones anymore.
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