To be frustrated at meal deal selections?

[Yohannsd]

In the Meal Deal sections. Went to four shops today and none had a plain cheese sandwich (not even any price labels so assume they don't sell them) but a variety of cheese and pickle, cheese and onion, triple cheese etc.

FFS I just want a plain cheese sandwich!

You can get kids packed lunches from most supermarket cafes. Doesn't take long and better value for kids. Asdas are a quid for sandwich, fruit, snack, drink.

Make your own and take it with you. It’ll be nicer, anyway.

Are there any cafes or sandwich shops where you could get a sandwich made up? They often have meal deals.

If you do this ask them to check the value separately of each item as could be less than meal deal price

The small Tescos near me has them: I buy them occasionally to make grilled cheese sandwiches for a treat.

I have noticed that they sell out fast so if I go after midday or on the weekend they tend not to have any.

Buy a loaf and sliced cheese and make your own.

I always look for the most expensive for each option. My Co-op meal deal separately was £6 but with a Co-op member card £3.50. Sandwich eaten yesterday, Ginsters steak slice today, smoothie next week.

Just go let you know that Greggs do plain cheese and plain ham children's sandwiches. They just use spread no mayo or anything.

@SanFranBear Co-op member card is a one off £1 not an annual charge. They have the best meal deals.

DD is the same, hates the mustard they out in whenever ham is in a sandwich. Noticed it's hard to find plain prawn sandwiches on malt, too. I'm the same with chilli everywhere when we eat out. So many nice dishes are ruined because an indefinite amount of chilli or chilli oil is in the description. Often, they can't take it out and there's simply no way of knowing if it's enough to blow your head off or a tiny dash.

DS likes a sandwich with lots of fillings but I've noticed m&S do a children's sandwich plain cheese or ham cut into quarters that also do little fruit pots/bags in the same section

Find an independent shop where they make it for you?

@Bjorkdidit I said it's for my child. Who only wants a plain cheese sandwich. If I got him a roll he'd refuse to eat it and we'd be back to square one.

But what is cheese in a roll if it's not a 'plain cheese sandwich'?

A roll is different to two pieces of bread stuck together?

A roll is a roll. Not a sandwich

A cheese roll. Some kids literally will only eat one food. No deviations.

Just remove the salad?

Make your own sandwiches?

Of course it's a sandwich and you didn't say anything in previous posts about it needing to be a specific type of bread.

I just thought a roll because then you'd not have to carry around a whole loaf of bread, but if you need sliced bread, you could just buy it in the supermarket. Seems easier to me than trailing round multiple shops looking for something that doesn't exist.

I'm sorry but a roll definitely isn't a sandwich. A sandwich is a filling between two slices of bread. A fussy toddler will know the difference.

Marks do take away sandwiches : plain cheese and plain ham sandwiches for kids.

If where you live they are unavailable and it's for your child why don't you just make it?

Thanks for the excellent advice 🙄

I refuse to buy plain cheese sandwiches out and about (I can’t believe some of the prices places charge for a tiny kids plain sandwich). Luckily mine also eat pretzels/cheese straws etc so I usually resort to something from M&S bakery which is cheaper if we are out and I haven’t packed a lunch.

Boots do one, it's only £1.50
It has soft cheese insteAd of butter/mayo so not sure if your toddler.would eat it

I hear you OP. I can well recall the days of trying to negotiate with fussy toddlers that a wee bit of cress in an egg mayo sandwich was fine. I also had one who wouldn't (still doesn't) eat butter. When the emergency snacks ran out it was always a pain in the arse finding something shop bought they'd actually eat. Also, nothing more frustrating than a toddler who will eat a sandwich but under no circumstances will eat a roll with exactly the same filling. Used to drive me demented.