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

I’m not a big fan on sandwiches and never have been. I mean I can eat one but it would be about my last choice.

I don’t know why you’re calling eating normally with cutlery (or at least a fork) “jabbing away” - or repeating this rather irritating phrase for something so normal in your update?

Leftovers is so much nicer than a sandwich as for a start it can be warm!

I’m not keen on sandwiches (never have been) and can’t abide leftovers. So usually have toast or baguette with cheese. Sometimes soup.

Yeah, I knew people ate them, I just guess it didn’t occur to me that it was an active choice, rather than just the easiest option. I hadn’t really given it much thought, just found myself surprised by the thread.

I'm well aware of the CoL crisis, thank you. I feel that the people on this thread denouncing bread, which is a filling food eaten by most people in Europe, North Africa and much of Asia for millennia, are the ones not reading the room. Bread is cheap and filling. That matters for a lot of people. Yes, it would be good if mass manufactured bread didn't contain emulsifiers and so on. However, most people on a very tight budget are going to struggle to replace bread with other filling foods that are just as convenient and don't cost more.

This is the bread I mentioned, currently £1.60 on Ocado. I wouldn't count that as fancy bread. I can't justify spending a lot on sourdough and I'm not going to start making all our bread either. I have made bread in the past. It's gorgeous but I eat far more than I do of bought bread, so it's best for me not to make it often.

https://www.ocado.com/products/allinson-s-signature-seeded-361707011

I don't need to take lunch anywhere, but now I want to. 🤣

I love sandwiches for work (meal deals) and picnics.

Don't take out of context what I wrote.
I wrote "most".
There's a cost of living crisis going on, not everyone can afford fancy bread.
Read the room.

Ingredients for the bread I'm currently buying:

Wholemeal Wheat Flour, Water, Mixed Seeds (14%) (Sunflower Seeds, Brown Linseed, Golden Linseed, Pumpkin Seeds, Poppy Seeds), Wheat Protein, Yeast, Fermented Wheat Flour, Cracked Wheat (1%), Malted Barley Flour, Salt, Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed, Sustainable Palm), Vinegar, Molasses Sugar, Sustainable Soya Flour, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), With 52% Wholegrain (Wholemeal Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Cracked Wheat)

I think it's OK. Not massively different from home-made. No preservatives or emulsifiers. Tastes good, especially toasted. We'll be carrying on eating bread, like the majority of the world's population.

Sandwiches are rotten. Can’t stand them

Industrial bread production means too many preservatives, additives and salt, making it unhealthy. Unless you're making your own.

My DC rarely eat sandwiches for lunch. One makes a bowl of smoothie/yoghurt/oats/nuts or a bean-based salad, the other prefers toast, and the youngest both have a bowl of pasta
Tbf, me and DH hardly eat sandwiches either. I bake bread most days, but it's never used for sandwiches. Everyone loves toast though!

I've had the same sandwich for lunch most days for about 30 years and have only recently come to realise that maybe that's a bit odd 🤣

I used to take a lunchbox with either tuna, chopped up ham or chicken or cheese, salad of whatever was in the house, followed by fruit and yoghurt.

This is what i come to MN for - unwarranted outrage perfectly expressed.

Aside from the eating disorder, eating so regularly means your body does not get to experience autophagy which speeds up ageing, increasing longevity and decreasing cancer risk.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163718301478

I eat sandwiches nearly every lunch. I tried salads but they would always leave me starving.

See I’m always eating sandwiches because I can’t think what else to have that’s quick? Need some inspiration as definitely look like I’m eating too many carbs!

See I like my food being nutritionally devoid and I also like lard.

More like,....a dying bread.

(i'll get my coat)

Your comment about the hunger.
When you have your snacks and meals at regular times everyday apparently your body trains itself to send you hunger signals around those times. If you have a large main meal and are full it still doesn't stop those hunger signals. It ensures you eat regular which in turn keeps blood sugar levels on an even keel rather than them spiking and dipping throughout the day.

I have no idea of the validity other than it was something I learnt from my diabetic dietician when I was first diagnosed with an eating disorder a few years back. It's also why one of the first things she had me work on was resetting those body signals by having 3 meals and 3 snacks as part of a balanced diet evenly spaced through my day.

I’m on a train now and ate a sandwich. I took home made wholemeal and rye, containing a couple of thin slices of Comte and leftover fried peppers and mushrooms from yesterday’s dinner. Delicious and healthy and very filling, although not mad in calories. The bread was dense but the slices not large.

OP, one of mine and DPs favourite dinners goes like this:

Sliced tofu, coated in pesto, air fried
Smoked hummus
Half a roast pepper
Tapinade
Avo and tomato

In half an olive ciabatta.

With jersey royals and leeks on the side. GLORIOUS.

I would only really eat a sandwich if I was going to be on a train or otherwise eating on the go and somewhere I wouldn’t have access to a microwave/ fridge/ cutlery and/ or if I needed to be able to bin the packaging cos I didn’t want to carry it around with me. I also find it’s hard to make a sandwich nutritious, you just can’t get that much veg into a sandwich compared to a salad, curry, soup etc.

No because I whack a load of protein with it.