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

Weirdly snippy language OP. They are not "jabbing away with their fork" any more than you are sucking on your little sandwich.

I'm a whore for sandwiches. And I try to limit them because I'd have them everyday if I could. Think it's a nostalgia thing as thry remind me of packed lunches as a child, as that's what EVERYONE had back in the 80s. Both my kids and husband hate sandwiches. The kids will sometimes reluctantly have a bagel, but mostly have pasta, or baked/pastry items for their packed lunch. It's really annoying! I just can't fathom not enjoying a big cheese and pickle sandwich

I make a sandwich for DH and me for lunch most days because I struggle enough thinking what to make for dinner - I'm not wasting precious brain cells getting creative over lunch as well. If DH doesn't like it, he can sort his own lunch.

My office mates are Tupperware jabbers and are very virtuous eaters (much talk of protein) until someone brings in cakes and then they're like vultures 😄

I occasionally get a tesco meal deal if I'm in the office. They have started doing small cartons of covent garden soup as the snack bit, so ill get a tomato soup, pepsi max and a cheese triple sandwich to dip in the soup 😋

I find a hot meal more satisfying.
I always have a chunk of my homemade sourdough with my soup, so definitely no bread avoidance here. I've found my digestive system is much happier since I gave up processed bread.
I blame UPF avoidance for sandwich decline.

I have no particular opinion about bread but sandwiches don’t fill me up the same way a salad with beans and meat or dinner leftovers do. I’m more likely to be raiding the office snack bar come 4pm after sandwiches for lunch. I don’t think I’m unusual so I guess that’s why people eat other things.

I love sandwiches. I eat one every day for lunch. In fact I’m eating one right now!

leftovers don’t appeal to me at all as a lunch choice. Not that we ever have any leftovers mind you!

Sandwiches, thins or wraps all the way for me - simple to make and quick & easy to eat.
I am in the minority where I work though, more & more elaborate lunches are appearing, some of which take a while to construct. I just can't be faffed with that!

And I never want to eat leftovers the next day.

My only gripe is when people have excessively smelly cooked lunches e.g something fishy - in a busy workplace I think that's quite selfish.
It happens quite often though & the smell lingers...🤮

Personally sandwiches just dont fill me up. I tend to have a salad with loads of veggies, some fats like avocado and pine nuts and a load of protein. I dont get hungry mid afternoon then - I always do with sandwiches even if I have a protein heavy filling

If I can’t make a big pot of something at the weekend to have for lunches during the week, I have a cheese and pickle sandwich. It’s just so much easier to put together in the morning than faffing with salads. Can’t be doing with wraps as they fall apart.

I used to get soup & brown bread 3 days a week on my office days. We have a canteen.

But I got totally sick of that after 18mths so I bought a glass lunchbox & small matching glass container a few weeks back & I'll bring my own lunch now.

As I'm preparing dinner i sort out my lunch box & then I leave it in the fridge ready to grab in the morning.

Here's what I had this week, in every case we were eating this for dinner & I just made a bit extra.

Monday- lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, cooked Beetroot, chicken breast marinaded in extra virgin olive oil, fresh rosemary, lemon zest & juice cooked on the griddle. In the little tub I had couple of croutons, shaved parmesan & caesar salad dressing

Tuesday: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, Beetroot, red onion, radishes, sliced ham & in the small container a hard boiled egg & dressing

Wednesday: butter chicken curry with mixed peppers, red onion, peas & cauliflower rice & 1 spoon of jasmine rice. 1 small piece of coriander & garlic naan. In small container fresh coriander & chopped salted peanuts to add

Thursday: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion, sliced new potato, steamed & tissed in evoo & salt, red & yellow peppers, radishes, black olives, chicken breast roasted with chilli flakes. Home made French dressing (separate)

Friday: glazed salmon, cold noodle salad with Asian type dressing with green peppers, raw sugar snaps & coriander. Cubes of roast squash on the side

When I work from home I often make homemade soup- roast carrot, spiced butternut squash, minestrone etc

Or we'll have a sandwich- often tinned red salmon, or egg salad, or BLT etc

Because the weather is nice now I'm happy to eat lots of salads but I'll also bring left over dinners like - beef bourguignon, lasagne, pasta etc

I love a sandwich but don't have bread very often because I don't find it filling and makes me fact. Iv just had omelette and salad for lunch although the sandwich might of been a lot less fattening with the amount of cheese I put in it 🤣🤣

I definitely love a sandwich but I like to have a bit of variety so il change it up each day. Il do a sandwich/wrap/pitta/bagel , soup and brown bread, a salad, crustless quiche, Baked potatoe and side, a mini ploughman's, sushi, noodles, pasta salad. I just love all food no discrimination here 😋

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.

I also have a near phobia of condiments, especially mayonnaise so buying a sandwich out is almost impossible. I do live Tesco Just Ham no mayo white bread sandwiches but they are a binge food for me, not a lunch.

I get lunch free from work. I'm very 'difficult' with food though so tend to have the same every day - hard boiled eggs and 'salad' (my unexciting version of salad - luckily I work in a school so all the salad ingredients are separated into separate bowls for fussy kids and me! ) .

My kids all love a sandwich.

I do enjoy a sandwich but it needs to be fresh with good quality bread. DH makes an amazing sarnie but it's got about 2 days worth of calories in it so it's a treat food.

Lunch for me these days tends to be eggs as I need filling but light food otherwise I want to sleep through my afternoon.

If I'm out and about for work I'll pick up a meal deal or go to somewhere like Wasabi for their Korean chicken and rice.

I'm 44 and do love a decent sarnie. I'm fussy on the type of bread and the filling though. My lunchbox - I just treated myself to a new bento box style one from amazon for a tenner - normally contains picky bits. Main compartment is a mixed salad (normally with some leftover grilled chicken or meat, hummus and pitta), smaller compartments have seeds, fruit/veg and things like that. It's a nice way for me to eat a variety of things and keep my protein/fibre intake up, whilst I'm on a 13hr shift. Sound stupid but it makes me less likely to reach for the chocolates, cookies and so on that are often at work. In the winter, I will bring a tupperware with some soup in it.

At home, or on picnics, I'll happily have a sandwich but I look at it as more of a treat thing. My 18yr DS loves sandwiches: his fav is cheese and jam! DD likes Marmite sandwiches.

Yes! A packed sandwich makes me want to vomit.

Ooh I found my people 😅.

Im like this too. It started when I bought a lovely Greggs tuna baguette which surprisingly is pretty good for calories. Anyway, bread was lovely and crunchy and soft in middle and just yum. Texture is important to me.

A few weeks later, I treated myself again to another and it was a totally different experience. It was soggy in the bottom and the previously soft inside bit was now mushy and made me gag at the thought of eating it.

So now, I never but sandwiches or baguettes as you never know how fresh they really are and whether the inside will be mush or not bleurgh!

Always make my own if I fancy them from fresh. I won’t even make them overnight for a work lunch!

I love a sandwich. I've just finished a turkey and lettuce cob for my lunch.

Sandwiches and toast are my favourite foods, but I don't eat them much as the crisps are a side with a sandwich and I am trying to lose weight. I do think it's a dying meal😕

I've noticed this at work too!

I love, love a sandwich! Cheese and cucumber left in a locker so it goes a bit hot and melty and squishy by lunchtime is my ultimate favourite. White bread of course. And yes, I am reminiscing to school days and my first job!

I'm trying to do the keto thing because I'm fat and, because I bought a tiger loaf two weeks ago and ate the whole thing in 48hrs making cheese toastie after cheese toastie.

@JaneBerlinYou are not unreasonable to love a sarnie!!

I feel like making a filling sandwich is a lot of work compared to throwing in last night's leftovers in a container.

They can take my sandwich out of my cold dead hand!

Great! I bloody love cake and bread.