Freezing sandwiches

[MermaidTears]

Very boring post, but DD is about to go into year 4 and school dinners are no longer free at her school.
Just in time for arrival of dd3.
I can't afford school dinners and to be honest dd1 is pleased at the idea of packed lunch everyday!
Does anybody actually freeze sandwiches?
It would massively save me time, but I keep thinking they will be awful and dry once it's defrosted?
Inspiration from eat well for less TV show

I fucking HATE making sandwiches and delegate this to DH as often as I can. I took to freezing sandwiches as well, and got it all over and done with on Sunday mornings.

Only ever froze marmite sandwiches or ham & cheese as these are the only ones the kids will eat and they freeze fine in a ziplock back. Chuck it all in the pack up and it's unfrozen in about 20 mins at room temp here.

Like you, I need everything as easy as I can make it, so batch freezing a bunch at the weekend makes life easier as far as I'm concerned!

They are perfectly fine not soggy at all.

bloody because he works away alot now with a new job & when he is here he works 15 hour days & takes phone calls all through the night! He does the most he can. He leaves at 4.45 I don't think he will fancy making packed lunches before he leaves for work everyday.

If you're doing batch stuff why not prepare the fillings to speed up the daily making process? Hard boil a couple of eggs, grate a little bag of cheese, mix up tuna and mayo etc. Quicker then to prepare daily sarnies

I've successfully made and froze sandwiches and was very surprised that that I couldn't tell they'd be frozen. They were lovely and soft and not at all soggy. Make and freeze in bags and take out in morning. There are a few things you shouldn't freeze, one being mayonnaise. I think it separates. Google to see what others are. I've done basic cheese, ham etc. Give it a go you'll be surprised.

I freeze sandwiches as I have 3 at school and 1 at nursery. I do them on a Sunday and the kids (inc two fussy teens) have never complained. I also put the other bits into little bags (yoghurt, fruit etc) on a Sunday as well, then it's just a case of putting the two bags into lunch bags. Just tell them to bring back the bags or you go through a mountain of them!

It doesn't save a lot of time overall, but it does save time at the busiest part of the day.

I do this & also freeze juice cartons - we're in Cairo & every little helps in keeping lunches cool.

Obviously Cairo = no ham, so I just make a loaf of cheese & pickle/sliced chicken sandwiches every couple of weeks & shove in the freezer. If dc or I have time & can be bothered to make more interesting sandwiches in the morning, great, or I sometimes do a batch of veggie pasties/samosas or pasta to eat cold; but when we're in a rush it's really useful to just be able to grab frozen sandwiches & chuck in each lunchboxes along with a few other bits.

The other advantage of frozen juice is that it's harder for the wretched children to grab & glug, leaving me with the sudden discovery that we have none just as our school bus is leaving...

Wraps also work OK if frozen, although the fact hat you can't include salad makes them even more carb-y & boring than sandwiches. Still, better than nothing - if I somehow run out of bread I always have a packet of wraps knocking about, so make 6 cheese wraps - 3 for the dc that day & 3 to stash in freezer.

I think this is such a miserable idea. I remember a tv show in which mils showed their dils how they should live - one advised freezing sandwiches. Her son -the dh - said he hated having semi-frozen or soggy sandwiches as a kid for lunch but the dil was converted.

coco which TV was that? I love watching stuff like that haha

It was years ago and was a bit like Wife Swap - except it was the MIL who moved in and took care of the kids. DP and I still talk about the frozen sandwich one.

Why not save even more time be even lazier and buy ready made frozen sandwiches from Iceland? No need to buy seperate bread and fillings then.

Iceland do frozen sandwiches

Coco I think I remember that programme, was it on during the day and the DH's didn't know their wives were watching them for 3 days while they looked after the children?

I used to do them in my casual supply teaching days. I was pre dressed in case I got a phone call, and when I got one, I could grab a sandwich from the freezer and be out of the house in 5 minutes. Everything else was longer life and in my bag already.

I'm not a great fan of sandwiches so it worked well for me because I could have a selection of fillings (ham, cheese & pickle, smoked salmon & cream cheese, mozzarella & pesto, cooked meat and sauce like cranberry) and I wasn't wasting food, or eating increasingly stale food and one filling per week.

They were defrosted by lunch. No issues with being soggy and far less soggy than a tomato sandwich made that morning.

Making 20 up in one go meant only one round of washing up, not daily contributions to it. If I have to regularly make sandwiches again, I'd definitely batch freeze them.

fuds think you're right - the dads looked after the kids and the mils moved in to advise - and criticise - or something like that.

I have frozen sandwiches first for myself when I was at college then for my son who is autistic and eats exactly the same thing for the past 6 years he is very fussy, I always love the comments you get on frozen sandwich thread about taking 3 minutes, completely forgetting the washing up which bulk making sandwiched completely cuts out, you do it once, the sandwich is always fresh, they are not soggy, never got my head round that one, in the summer you put it in the lunch bag frozen so cutting down on the risk of the food getting warm, the bread is not 3 days old, the ham hasn't been sitting in the fridge open for 3 days, so food safety wise much better.
It is much much cheaper to buy 2 loaves of bread for £1:50, and the filling and use it all up rather than chucking some of it, better for the planet as well as your purse.
Things you can't freeze, egg, Mayo, salad, my other son occasionally in the summer has sandwiches and he like tuna and sweet corn with mayo, the mayo and sweet corn are added in the morning, and for the record the sweet corn GPs in frozen.

Sweet corn goes in frozen

Freezing sandwiches - bloody genius! You have no idea how much this will change my life, thank you OP for this thread!

We used to do that. Make up 20 lots of sandwiches on a Sunday night and that did us all a weeks lunches at school/work. My mum would take them out on the morning and by lunchtime they were defrosted and lovely and soft.