Healthy Sandwich Fillers, No HAm Allowed!

[BaconAndAvocado]

Following the latest anti-processed meat reports, I'd love to know what else Mums are supposed to put in the DCs' sandwiches?!

Cheese
Tuna
Egg
Marmite
Salad
Cold roasted meats
Houmous
Pickle
Peanut butter
Jam

Oh obviously jam isn't that healthy

Banana!

Tinned salmon
Prawn
Peanut butter and honey
Tuna and sweetcorn
Veggie sausages

grated cheese and carrot
bean pate e.g. butter beans mashed w garlic and lemon juice, s&p

Cold roasted vegetables with hummus
Tuna and avocado
Soft cheese and alfalfa sprouts
Boiled egg and beetroot - lurid colour, great flavour!

Avocado and tomato
Peanut butter with apple
humus with salad
cottage cheese with beetroot
tuna with cucumber
cream cheese and celery and or apple
cream cheese and smoked salmon (luxury option!)
left over roast chicken with salad, or with celery and walnuts

Mozzarella tomato & basil is the favourite here, otherwise they like bacon or sausage but your dicing with nitrates/nitrites. I've just ordered a mincer and I'm going to make my own sausages, should solve the preservative issue.

Wow, making sausages...apart from a mincer, is there any other equipment that you need? We eat a lot of sausages, but am slightly scared by the recent processed meat news..

Cold fish fingers

sardines
mackerel - smoked or tinned

The mincer has a sausage attachment, I need to buy casings and then mess around with a recipe. I'll mess around with making sausagemeat first, experiment with seasoning and flavours and just pan fry and then when I find a good recipe I'll start to play with stuffing the sausages - intend to make a fortnightly batch and freeze.

Salmon & lettuce or cucumber

Smoked salmon & watercress

Sardines & tomato

Cheese and tomato
Shredded chicken
Salmon and Potato
Houmous and red pepper
Fish Fingers
Roasted Veg
Tandoori Chicken

the chicken one is a real favourite and quite healthy as it is grilled:

Grilled Chicken Sandwich

Ham is ok! if you have the real thing (ie 100% meat)

Buy a ham hock from a butcher (£3 ish), boil it, chill, slice, freeze the slices for future use. Use the boiling liquid for soup base.

Or buy your ham from a good butcher who cures it himself and doesn't pump it with water and nitrates. It is only salted pork at the end of the day

Does ham hock contain nitrates/nitrites? Even good quality ham contains preservatives. Parma ham only contains salt - but it doesn't specify which kind.

Had a niggling doubt so just googled, apparently Parma ham is preserved using only sodium chloride, which is a relief because we buy it by the tonne to avoid the preservatives. Waitrose also sells a chorizo which doesn't contain nitrates/nitrites - this one.

Anyone know of any other nitrate/nitrite-free cured meat?