What can I put in school sandwiches that won't kill the children?

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Ham = bowel cancer
Tuna = mercury poisoning also fish isshoos
Cheese = Too much dairy, breast cancer
Jam = banned

I'm running out of ideas

Sarnies are out.

Bread is bad.

Has to be an organic bean salad with mixed leaves.

Or you could just let the school feed them sausages & chips with fancy names!

sen d em for school dinners

Do you know how much water you need to produce a leaf of lettuce? (Half not watching BBC2's future of food programme). You are killing the planet to feed your child!

Do they need feeding, actually? Think of all the nasty things they might not possibly get if we just didn't give them anything to eat at all!

Do you ever get the feeling that you just can't win?

Feed your children what you know they'll eat using your common sense.

You will still be wrong but what can you do?

When I was at school it was liver pate on Sunblest white sliced with a blue Panda drink for 10p and some Monster Munch. A dairylea square or mini Scotch egg if you were lucky.

We hated people who brought egg sandwiches

We pitied anyone who brought brown bread sandwiches.

We were sick with jealousy at people who's mum's slipped in a Blue Ribbon / Wagon Wheel or carton of Um Bongo.

Cucumber. Not only is it dead posh, like, but also mostly water so no risk of dehydration. Plus it's green, so it has to be good. DS3 had either cucumber, cucumber & salami or salami sandwiches every single day of Yr2. Obviously I now realise the salami could have killed him.

chicken breast cooked the night before. Makes alot of sandwiches actually...am converted/

Ooh, Edam cheese sarnies on white - no cucumber 'cos it made the bread go soggy. And a caramel wafer. Then out for a quick game of kiss chase. Those were the days.

salad cream sandwich

I expect kiss chase is banned now, due to potential passing on of germs. So, bean salad followed by sitting quietly in case you hurt yourself or catch something.
Kids today - they don't know they're born!

Are we about to drop dead of liver pate/caramel wafer/Um Bongo disease do you think? I'm surprised I've lived to see my fortieth birthday tbh, given the amount of crap we consumed in the seventies

Was lovely though

obviously bread and water is the way forward

Did anyone else ever have luncheon meat in their sandwiches? It sounded dead posh but was truly gopping! (Obviously due to its deadly processed meat content.) Can you even buy it anymore?

Yep - I quite liked it . Also v partial to Sandwich Spread - that salad cream stuff with tiny bits of unrecognisable veg that came in a glass jar. Seriously lovely.

Shippams 'meat' paste
Primula 'cheese' spread

All those preservatives and your children will live to be 187!

We used to have sandwich spread, but it was on home-made brown bread which I used to try to hide under the table as I ate it. How I wished for shop-bought sliced white.

What about honey? Organic and from local bees of course (if there are any).

Have just had a flashback to nipping the corner off a Dairylea cheese and squeezing it out like a little teeny weeny worm.

Obviously would NEVER give them to my kids - FAR too unhealthy. Far more fun to have mung bean & apricot compote!

Toast Toppers

Not strictly a sandwich spread, but still the height of sophistication in 1978.

Cheese & onion crisps - now they ARE delicious in a sandwich.

Agree totally, Shell. Got to be white bread though - none of this wholegrain nonsense

What were those big marshmallow things that were covered in chocolate? I think it went biscuit, blob of white stuff, then chocolate all over. Those were a regular feature of my packed lunches. I want one NOW. Can you still buy them?

Wagon Wheels?? Yes - you can still buy them - they are def smaller now though, and the chocolate is thinner and more like mocklate than chocolate

Or so I hear

Here you go Hassled!

I remember them!