making sandwiches the day before- tips please

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hi there

this morning i spent about 10 minutes making sandwiches for 3.6yo ds, 15mo dd and me for after preschool- his preschool is a bit far so we need to eat something first and then come home.

can you give me tips on making sandwiches the night before that won't go soggy by lunch the next day?

we don't eat ham or pork.

i know some people freeze their sandwiches but i can't get my head round this! though im willing to be convinced that it works?

TIA!

Thinly spread butteron both slices of bread. Grated cheese, lettuce leaves and wrap up in foil or greaseproof paper, not clingfilm. If you want egg sandwiches, mash the hard-boiled eggs with some mayo (or melted butter) and spread directly onto unbuttered bread.

Thanks for this! Will try that!

Anyone have any other ideas as well?

I use frozen bread to make sandwiches and a fresh filling so buy lunch the next day they are still fresh, dh has never complained but said needs lots of butter. Takes a bit of getting used to cutting frozen bread but it's fine

just saw most recent replies, i googled it last night after lack of response from MNers and found a few tips, main things are what mrspremise said though- whatever your filling the cheese and lettuce works apparently- although there are some fillings to be avoided such as tomato. so thats what i'm going to try, as i can't get my head round frozen sandwiches! and freezing bread for me is a hassle because i make my own bread and it is a pain (though not impossible) to freeze so that the slices stay separate!

thank you!

I use wraps as dd(8) is 'off' sandwiches at the moment, but same rules apply.
I use whole baby cos lettuce leaves as 'wrapping' as such for any filling so that it doesn't make the bread/wrap etc soggy.

So just butter/mayo/leave plain whatever bread your using and then put on the cos and place filling in the cos, I use rare roast beet, chicken or ham with cucumber and tomatoes. Top with another leaf and the bread is then protected from any moisture from the meat or salad!

Make them the evening before, put in the fridge, take out next day. What would go soggy? Shops sell sandwiches made the day before

When going out I have made s/w with frozen bread that I have managed to prise slices from. No need for a cool pack as they are defrosed by lunch time.
Make the kids s/w the night before. Buttered bread, mayo and meat/cheese/egg etc. Put in s/w box in fridge. They have slices of tom and cue in the other side of the box to construct the rest of the s/w as they like at school

The worst thing I ever did was to make a sandwich with marmite and salad - tomato, lettuce and cucumber. It was a sodden mess by lunchtime, and I'd been really looking forward to it. The salt in the marmite had drawn all the water out of the salad.

if you avoid wet things like cucumber or tomatoes then it's fine to freeze sandwiches. Try wrapping them in those reusable sandwich wrappers.

I make up the sandwich and put them in a sandwich tub and then put in the fridge. We have coloured ones similar to these. Got them in asda

these are the ones we have - also useful for putting wee bags of fruit in to stop them getting squashed

Shop bought sandwiches which include tomato don't go soggy as they genetically design special tomatoes that have no juice.

I freeze sandwiches-yesterday I spent about half an hour making enough for my DH and two young DS's for the next two weeks (bought 'on offer' stuff):

Cream cheese (Philly!) and ham bagels & sandwiches
Cheddar & ham rolls
Peanut butter sandwiches

Double wrapped in cling film, stored in a larger freezer bag, taken out when required.

I was very sceptical at first but have been doing this for about 6 months. Every so often I ask my DH if it goes soggy but it never does.

Also, If I need to be out quickly in the morning, i make from peanut butter sandwitches and pack the lunch bags and put straight into the car (if none of the contents need refrigerating-drink/biscuit/fruit).

I am now a self-titled lunch box queen. I often have a big baking session and freeze individual cake slices/muffins. In the morning I take the bags to the freezer, grab a sandwich and cake option each, bung in a piece of fruit and a bottle of water.

They get narked that I won't buy them Dunkers/cheese strings etc, but they get a good variety and a healthy lunch, which doesn't require huge time & effort when I can least spare it.

Best post ever sibling

Thankyou! DS starts school this year and has to be in his classroom by 7:55, you've just halved my stress levels!

Thank you Americas.

I'm a bit of an evangelical bore, but only because for the first year I did it the hard way (making 3 lunches from scratch every morning), so now there's an easier way I want to share (it's not 'my way', just gleaned from different ideas-mostly from MN!)!

I love being able to just 'fill' a lunch bag from pre-organised or pre-bought options. So even on days when we don't have fresh fruit (or the apples in the fruit bowl are a bit manky!), I have little bags (sealable snack bags bought from supermarket) with a handful of raisins and dried apricots which can be the fruit option. And at the start of the week I use the same bags to make snack packs with little cubes of cheese. You can buy them but cost a fortune comparatively!