sugar sandwiches are a fine after meal treat

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A few times I've mentioned having sugar sandwiches after a (healthy) meal people look at me a bit strange. One even gasped.

I can't be the only one doing this right?

"Absolutely disgusting thing to do & to feed that to your kids"

Do you give your children anything sweet to eat?

I used to eat sugar sandwiches. The only person I've met, outside of my immediate family, who also ate them as a child is MIL whose 80th birthday is very soon.

We both cringed when talking about it recently.

someone please explain this is it literally sugar tipped on to bread then folded and eaten?

doesn't the sugar just fall out? or is it buttered first? maybe I am being thick

My mum had excellent teeth too.

I did talk to a student a few weeks ago who said that as money was tight he would often eat a bread sandwich.

I am wondering if the people horrified by sugar sandwiches also never let jam sandwiches darken their homes?

salmo I think I am the only person who loves cod liver oil and malt on a spoon!.
We used to buy from the chemist in big brown jars and dad did aeroplanes with the spoon.

Gymbob you butter two slices of bread, sprinkle one with sugar, then sandwich the two slices together.

My dh used to have this as a treat (he was brought up abroad). I don't find it disgusting. There is probably less sugar than a biscuit, and certainly than an iced cake. Plus, it is less processed if you are using a golden sugar and 'proper' bread (not sliced rubbish). It's probably a lot healthier than ice cream.

It always amazes me what people find healthy. I know a very, very few people who are genuinely healthy (I am definitely not) and then a lot of people who will get on their high horse about dessert, but then give their kids a ton of processed food, or never have McDonalds but loads of ice cream from the supermarket is ok. There's a lot of double standards out there.

When I was a student we would deep fry jam sandwiches (white bread obviously) and coat them with sugar when they came out of the fryer. Instant jam doughnut!

I don't see the issue as an occasional treat? Hardly gasp-worthy. Might not be something everyone finds tasty, but it's really not that different to a slice of cake / other pudding. If we all liked the same things life would be boring. I used to have sugar toast (like cheese on toast but with sugar) occasionally when I was younger.

A more sophisticated take on the sugar sandwich is white bread buttered, sprinkled with sugar and then dry fried. Caramelized toast. Delicious.

I really cut back on sugars for the children. I'm a very good baker, so it was hard. BUT I discovered that, as they grew older, they were buying sweets and food with a lot of sugar, so all I could do was limit the amount in the home.

I get quite vexed about the amount of sugar in food. It pisses me off.

I've just had to drag a hysterical 12 year old to the dentist - and there will be another trip to follow it.

Part of me wNts to slap her - think ahead! If you spend money at school on sugary food OF COURSE you'll end up at the dentist! - but the other half of me thinks that people being a bit stupid snd thoughtless makes the advertising industry very rich, so it's not entirely her fault.

Sugar and fat is big (politicised) business. It's far more of an issue than giving your child an occasional treat. In fact, I would say it intruded into the home: because it's so prevalent, it affects your choices as to what to feed your children.

"I am wondering if the people horrified by sugar sandwiches also never let jam sandwiches darken their homes?"

But that's fruit, so on of your 5/7/9 a day

It's the thought of the gritty sugar that I don't like.

But carbs & sugar, well that's any cake or biscuit, isn't it?

Get yourself a loaf of brioche.... sorted!!

mrsdavidbowie - we never had malt with our cod liver oil. Just pure unadulterated oil. I can testify to the rankness.

Well 'ard we were

'any' should read 'many'

I remember my teacher at school saying she used to eat sugar sandwiches, she talked of how it wouldn't happen today, so bad for teeth etc.
So when I got home I made me and my sister a sugar sarnie each. After that we used to eat them as a treat in the school hols, my parents had no idea.
Haven't had one in years!

I don't think it's a big deal either. There are lots of traditional pudding recipes that use bread as an ingredient along with sugar and butter. I can't get outraged by it .

We used to eat sugar sarnies in the 70s! 4 kids, no money, cheap treat!

thanks herman, I was being thick

I wouldn't eat it (don't think it tastes very nice) but nutritionally,no different the chocolate fudge cake/ice cream/etc I sometimes eat as a meal. If you enjoy it, eat it really no different to other desserts

I often had them for my school pack up. That and a whole carrot and a bottle of kiaora.

Seeing as we're talking about sugar...

My mother always put sugar on strawberries, I tried an unsugared strawberry as a child and preferred it so asked for mine unsugared. She would always pull a face and say she couldn't understand how I could eat them with no sugar! She claimed they were too sour without it!

I never see people serving strawberries with sugar these days.

Well yes, bread and butter pudding is pretty much that plus other things?

And yogababy - you sound quite zealous. Is sugar completely banned in your house? I really doubt that an occasional sugar sandwich/sugary treat is what's causing rising obesity.

And the op is not talking about a diet totally consisting of sugary and fatty foods.