If you had to make 40 filled rolls.

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I need to feed some volunteers, grab and go style. I'm thinking rolls, crisps, fruit and baking. I'm thinking average two rolls each. Let's say 40 to be on the safe side.

Don't want to spend an excessive amount, but do want it to be decent. Also don't want to get bogged down in faffy fillings.

What tips do you have?

What fillings and in what proportions?

Definitely vegetarians in attendance, possibly vegans. I'm not going to start taking orders.

I second this their sandwiches and platters are excellent and good value. Cheese platter comes with crackers etc.

This. The struggle to find pre-made sandwiches if you don't like mayo/pickle/sauces is real.

Personally I'd do:
Hummud and falafel, or hummus and roast veg
Grated cheese
Sausage (some meat some vegan)
Tuna mayo

With cucumber and tomato slices on the side.

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Sorry but egg and cress is gross and it's always the sandwich left over and reduced in the shops.

If there's no refrigeration dump my suggestion of chicken. Then it's similar to @Rightnowstraightaway suggestion

• Hummus and falafel, or hummus and roast veg or grated carrot
• Grated cheese
• Tuna mayo

Maybe have two containers of cocktail sausages (one meat and one vegan).

Add in fruit and cakes/flapjacks.

It is controversial!! So its best keep it to simple contents to the sandwiches- less in them the less chance there's something people will dislike.

I mean it's more likely people will gag at the inclusion of margarine than be angrily whispering to each other about the exclusion of a delicious layer a marg on the sandwiches someone else prepared for them.

Sports event - will it be a mix of sexes? Or mainly male or female?

Frankly I would cook up a load of sausages keep them warm in dishes and do sausage in a bun, ketchup and bbq sauce on the side.

Tbh If it's mainly youngster they aren't bothered about different rolls, keep it simple!

I am aghast at how many of you go around grating your cheese for sandwiches!

Brilliant Bussteward - like your thinking - 👍🏿☘️pandering to foibles is enabling unsocial eating behaviour - years of cricket teas which consisted of grated cheese and onion - ham cucumber - egg mayo - plain salad ( Cos lettuce etc) plus crisps and bowls of condiments went down a treat 👍🏿☘️🥒

I think so too.

If I was grating cheese for mass sandwich production (it goes further thus less cheese) I'd just shove it through the grater on my food processor. Probably quicker than slicing it.

You cannot just take tomato out of a sandwich. It will have already made it mushy. It will already taste of tomato. It is impossible to remove all traces of tomato I like tomatoes, but hate them in sandwiches. Much better to keep things plain for a crowd.

Egg and cress
Cheese and pickle (much easier than cheese and tomato)
Ham and lettuce
Tuna mayo with cucumber

Might be an issue if there are any vegans - no idea what to put in vegan roll, or if rolls are even vegan.

From years of Cub/Brownie/Scout camps, our grab & go to lunch bar is:
pre sliced warburtons rolls (brown and white)
cheese slices (actual cheese, not induvidually wrapped plastic cheese)
ham slices
jam (with knife in the jar)
chocolate spread (also with knife in the jar)

then a bowl of fruits (apples, bananas & satsumas), box of crisps and bowl of biscuit bars (whatever is on offer at the time).

It’s not exciting or necessarily nutritionally brilliant but it’s easy and self service so reduces waste.

You leave them plain and set out an array of fillings which people can help themselves to with.
Cheese (pre sliced or grated)
Ham, turkey, beef or chicken slices
Mayo, relish
Cucumber, tomato, onion, lettuce, spinach, red pepper.

And deffo use the vegan cheese... it's delicious made from cauliflower as it happens...

I think it’s better to have most sarnies with only 1 item in as 2 doubles the chance of people not liking them

@bussteward and @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g understood the assignment.

I did not expect these flights of fancy, just some consensus on whether to put pickle in the cheese rolls, how many ham and what to do for vegans. In real life, peanut butter and jam was suggested. It's a miracle it hasn't been suggested here (just about everything else has! Even tomato and onion). Does peanut butter and jam throw the cat among the pigeons?

Just keep it simple. Ham, cheese, hummus. Everyone is catered for and the more fancy you get the more chance people don't want things. Its one meal and people aren't paying for it.
Peanut butter and jam, just no. If teens/kids are volunteering I might do some jam or leave a few rolls cut and not filled so there are plain rolls for the picky and have a jar of jam out or get a few single portion jam/ marmite/ peanut butter so people can pick their own

You really need to find out your groups dietary requirements. I regularly put on events for volunteers and send out a simple survey monkey questionnaire for dietary needs - no requirements, vegetarian, vegan, any specific allergies.

There's no point in catering for 30 meat and 10 veggie options if you end up with 20 vegetarians/vegans

Other alternative is would the set up allow people to make their own? Bread, butter (dairy free, get some flora or similar), plate of sliced cheese, plate of sliced meat (chicken and ham?), bowl of lettuce, mayonnaise and a chutney. Make their own subway style, grab a packet of crisps and a cake and move on

I wouldn't like any of those. The chutney ruins a perfectly good cheese roll.

I'd stick to half rolls and half wraps.

Plain cheese suitable for vegetarians
Quorn slices of fake chicken (veggie and vegan)
Plain chicken.
Plain ham.

A bottle of mayonnaise. So those who want it can squirt it on.
A bowl of salad leaves they can help themselves if they wish.
A couple of punnets of cherry tomatoes to help themselves.

Quavers/crisps
Apples/bananas

I wouldn't like any of these. I'd be keeping it plain. Loads of people don't like chutney, mayonnaise etc. and I'd leave it to those who want it to add it because once it's added you can't take it off.

I read your list of everything with mayonnaise with horror until right at the end I spot you have thought of me and I can eat a good old ham sandwich and thankfully no disgusting mayonnaise. Not everyone likes it.

Def give vegans and veggies first go at the spread. I've been left with nothing in the past when the meat eaters scoffed all the non meat stuff.

To be honest, I'd make all the rolls veggie. Maybe a plate of cocktail sausages or sausage rolls to avoid disappointment from carnivores....

Egg mayo
Houmous and grated carrot
Peanut butter and chopped dates
Grated cheese with pickle
Philly with chopped olives and sundried tomatoes

Appreciate it wasn't in the OP, did not expect this level of interest, but in slightly different situations and similar crowd I've done vegan with optional cheese and there were no complaints so meat fillings will be in the minority. I doubt there will be many complaints but I would like people to be happy and to keep food waste to a minimum.