To ask if those of us who enjoy a sandwich for lunch are a dying breed

I'm not sure why some people see seem to think pasta makes a better lunch than a sandwich, honestly. It's basically the same main ingredients, and more people eat wholemeal bread than eat wholemeal pasta.

I'm surprised so many people seem to need to snack in the afternoon if they have a sandwich for lunch. Maybe, if you would want a sandwich at lunchtime, you need to look at getting better bread and more substantial fillings?

I'm also surprised that people say things like 'i never eat sandwiches but I have wraps/bagels/pitta etc' Reminds me of the man I met years ago that told me he didn't like pasta, but he like spaghetti.

I'll keep making my sandwiches with bread that doesn't make me feel sleepy and fillings that keep me going till dinner time. I suspect that if I was to eat a cheese sandwich on supermarket white bread I would have issues too. (I don't mean that the people that do have issues are eating that, just that I suspect that those would not be great for me at lunch).

My go-to work lunch is leftovers I can reheat in the microwave. I prefer hot food and it's a lot quicker to put them in a tupperware box than to faff about making sandwiches. Also, other than a baguette, I prefer my bread as toast. So another lunch I have is toast with baked beans / hummus / soup. Often add salad to any of these. Even with a meal deal, I'll usually choose the pasta over a sandwich.

I only make a sandwich for lunch when we are out of all other options. Think I had too many boring ones as a child - filled with tinned fish or corned beef and that put me off! (Though only on holidays, as I had school lunches)

Not as much as a Tupperware though.

I also just don’t like sandwiches that aren’t freshly made.

I find sandwiches really boring. I don’t really like eating cold things.

I don’t understand the fascination with a warm up lunch, sarnie or a salad. Some people like to stink the office out with their smelly food like it’s some sort of competition.

You can't just come out with alarmist nonsense like this without at least attempting to back it up with good evidence. Threads like this are a magnet for people with food issues and health anxiety. Don't make matters worse for them.

I have to take something to work that needs to be heated before eating. If I take sandwiches or anything ready to eat, I've eaten it by 9am 😂

Sandwich wouldn’t be my first choice pretty much ever, pasta or a wrap or flatbread is usually my go to

I’m a Tupperware jabber too. I make a harissa chicken and spinach pasta on a Sunday, and that does my lunches (make another batch on a Wednesday evening). I have it with salad. Less calories than a sandwich and crisps (carefully measured portion as on a diet). I like to eat more at lunch, and less in the evening. Most people in our office are Tupperware jabbers, some lovely looking food in our fridge!

I think bread is worse now than it used to be with all the crap that put in it. It makes me bloated and windy.
I make my own sourdough. It literally contains flour, salt and water. It tastes amazing but isn't great for the waistline because it's hard to resist a thick, warm slice with butter fresh out of the oven.

i never have white bread sandwiches @Whoknowshere

bread causes cancer too.

I have a bread maker so I love a tuna or bacon or chicken sandwich on freshly made bread.

I have definitely taken on the fear of bread as a modern evil. I see it as 'bad' food. Which is illogical because, when you look at the nutritional info, it's not high in calories and it's low fat. Plus it has been the staple food of Britain for millenia. So it's pretty stupid to be scared of it. But I am.

Funnily enough posters are always banging on about how people weren't obese/overweight decades ago - and yet what were they eating for lunch? Sandwiches!

I have sandwiches, if it's cold and I'm at home I'll have soup (the microwaves at work are on a different floor and walking upstairs with a hot bowl of soup isn't practical) with a roll. I'll also do a normal salad (no pasta) with either feta, or a southern fried chicken breast in the summer.

Not a fan of pasta (especially cold) or rice and pulses (except quinoa), and don't like anything too big at lunchtime.

Sandwiches with the cheap white bread are not healthy. Add crisps and it is terrible. People have so much more choices now, noddles, rice, pasta salads etc etc, way healthier and way less processed. Still they give them to kids, which is disgraceful, but hopefully this will stop soon too.

Sometimes have a sandwich. We have very good local bakery bread. Usually have Rye or Eiweiss bread or a similar Roll. Often if we have picnic out somewhere.

Otherwise we eat Lunch at home nowadays for work. No office commute. So can eat anything.

When I used to go out to work I would often make something Sunday evening like roast various veg couscous or with a pesto pasta, depending on what we had in and needed to use up. Then Monday and Tuesday dh and I would just put something salady in one part ( leaves/ beetroot/ tomato/ etc), add some ready made couscous/ pasta, add falafel/ leftover chicken/ chickpeas/ feta or similar. Seeds. A dressing in side pot.
Wednesday maybe a soup - homemade from freezer or fresh type from supermarket, with a roll. Thursday a rye bread type sandwich or roll with Greek yogurt/ nuts/ fruit in pot. Friday buy something hot out.

I had sprouted grain bread with cheddar on one side, Swiss on the other and left-over rotisserie chicken in the middle. Popped it in the microwave on medium power to heat and IT WAS AMAZING!!!! 😋

i agree,
they are not dodging carbs, they are eating pasta
i spent a long time having salads for work
but now have sandwiches
and even if i make soup i take a piece of bread

Love a sandwich!!! Shove a load of cheese and onion crisps in there too! 😋

In 40+ working years I never had a sandwich for lunch unless at a conference or other catered lunch. Always brought in my own non-sandwich lunch.

Like other PPs I found sandwiches made me sleepy.

Sandwiches every day for me at work, made the night before. I wouldn't know what to put in a tupperware box, we eat all our evening meal, so there aren't leftovers, and it would be a lot more work to make something else from scratch for lunch.

Whereas I and many other people find sandwiches have that effect.

It always baffles me how they expect people to stay awake during conferences when they give you sandwiches and cake for lunch then you go back to sitting in a semi dark lecture hall. Half the participants are having an afternoon nap, going by the one I went to last week.

Warm lunch is a lot more satisfying than a sandwich most of the time.