Frozen sandwiches

[BingBoings]

When I was at school my mother used to prepare our sandwiches eg at the start of term, and freeze them.

We would then take a sandwich each day, and as to how defrosted it was by lunch really varied by the time of the year.

In winter, still a bit solid.

In the height of summer, just..: very wet.

We had a good laugh about this at the weekend - but my mother says we are being v unreasonable and she sees no issue with it.

I think I’d rather probably get a a letter from school if I did this. They were terrible.

Who is unreasonable here - her for making us eat these abominations for years, or us for taking the piss.

When money was tight, we also did this, but always got the sandwiches out of the freezer the night before and put them in the fridge. They were fine (mainly ham & mustard).
Now we freeze sliced bread before using - because there’s an enzyme added to sliced bread that causes it to grow mould quickly, and freezing it first kills the enzyme and means that once defrosted, it doesn’t go mouldy after a day in the bread bin!

This is why I do it - my child only has a packed-lunch on a Mon and Fri, and only wants plain ham and butter. So I open the ham on a Sunday, make a couple of sandwiches, then freeze them - voila. They defrost just fine and he's never even noticed.

People do all kinds of things to save time, as suits their individual lifestyles and circumstances. If you can't understand that other people might have different busy mornings/priorities/kids/preferred fillings/kitchen space of a morning then I can't help you 😁 (God knows why I'm defending my sandwich-prep choices on here, the pearl clutchers can jog on 🤣 especially you, @RosyappleA, with that comment! I can only assume you've never actually encountered bad parenting, but believe me, this isn't it...)