Sweaty cheese sandwich in lunchbox

[Notanotherone5]

Hi

my daughter has started taking packed lunches to school. Once she took a cheese sandwich but apparently the cheese went all sweaty and was disgusting

any tips to stop this from happening or shouldn’t it be an issue now the weather is cooler? They don’t have a fridge to put sandwich in and apparently an ice block made the bread soggy!

I wrap my DHs in tinfoil and he's never complained about it being sweaty. And his sits in a van all morning.

I make sandwiches using frozen sliced bread (quite dense bread not white) it defrosts by lunchtime but keeps the sandwich cool

I find using foil instead of plastic food bags/cling film helps with this.

also I only use ice blocks during the hot weather or if there’s meat in there.

I use those hard plastic freezer blocks.i put one in ds lunchbox it keeps his sandwiches cool all day

I always put a little freezer block in packed lunches.

+1 for that - foil works so much better than plastic. And it's recyclable!

Where is she keeping it? A cheese sandwich won't go 'sweaty' in a lunchbox for a few hours. If anything, it's likely to be far more palatable because it's at room temperature not straight out of the fridge.

I don't put butter in my sandwiches and that helps prevent the sweaty, slidy texture. But yes, for normal, people, foil or greaseproof paper wrappings will make it less so.

I use kitchen towel as a first layer then foil.
When I use an icebox or gel I put the sandwich in a sandwich box with kitchen towel to absorb moisture. I too find spreading butter on frozen sliced bread easier when making cheese sandwiches.

Thanks all. It was only in the really hot weather a few weeks ago we tried it so will give some of these ideas a go

I use these, rather than wrapping in foil or cling film.

www.sistemaplastics.com/uk/sandwich-box-to-go

Dc both have insulated fabric lunch bags and I freeze their yoghurt tubes. The frozen yoghurt keeps their food cool for longer and the plastic sandwich container stops it from making the bread soggy

Freezer packs