Can you really freeze sandwiches?

[Paolosgirl]

Fed up to the back teeth of making 4 lots of sandwiches each night - can you make them in advance and freeze them? If so, what fillings are suitable, and how do you stop the bread from going soggy?

I am converted, thanks! I'm going to make up a huge batch the Sunday before they go back to school, and see how it goes. I usually make the sandwiches up the night before and chill them, but if I can delete that evening job from the list of all my other evening jobs, I'll be a happy bunny.

What is the best way to defrost them? I think maybe that's the key to success -- presumably not microwave?

Off to bed now but will check again tomorrow - thanks for all the replies, guys

Just take them out of the freezer the night before and leave in the fridge until you put then into lunchboxes.

Well I'm so with you on being sick of making the blimmin things.

Personally I wouldn't freeze sandwiches though although yes it's possible.

You can't put any salad in them fpr one thing.

I remember having defrosted sandwiches - my dad used to make up industrial sized batches and they were awful.

Yes you can make sandwiches and freeze them and they can be very good.
Use good bread - not cheap white sliced. We tend to use sliced granary/multigrain.
Good fillings - any type of sliced meat, pate, cheese (not cottage cheese). You can add mustard/chutney etc. Do not add salad ingredients such as tomato, lettuce, cucumber (you can always make a pot of these these night before).
Wrap each individually in sandwich bags/cling film.
No need to defrost overnight - we have always taken them straight out of the freezer in the morning and they have defrosted well before lunch time.
(Same goes for frozen rolls - but don't freeze a roll with a crisp crust and expect it to be crisp when you eat it).

Thanks again for all the replies here. You have no idea how my spirits have been lifted at the thought of not spending my evenings making sandwiches - seriously!

We only use wholemeal anyway, and have fruit/raw veg sticks as standard, so I guess not having salad in the sandwiches won't matter too much. As Lily say, I can always make a pot of salad the night before if needed.

Now - I may just pass on the sardine, vinegar and cayenne if you don't mind, Madam?!

Yes, that was one of my mother's favourite sayings as well - and one which I now find myself saying to my children on an all too frequent basis!

I grew up eating defrosted sandwiches - never seemed to do me and my siblings any harm. And the bread doesn't go soggy.

We would just grab our sarnies out of the freezer every morning and they'd be defrosted by lunchtime.

Honestly there are some very precious mothers on this thread

I'm about as non precious as they come, but I draw the line at freezing sandwiches.

My incredibly laid back dh would probably divorce me if I inflicted this on the dc's, with good grounds.

MadameDeathstare! I did say that, just the once to my Mum when I was a teen...it was roast duck and I couldn't get the cute ducks in the park out of my mind...boy did I suffer for that one!!!

ChloeHandbag, if you didn't tell them, I bet they'd never even realise!!!

But why ChloeHandbag? I don't get it. They're not going to die and frozen sandwiches are really not horrible although I don't suppose you've ever tried them. Unless you are an SAHM whose 'job' is making your children sandwiches, I can't see why your DH would divorce you if you 'inflicted' this on your DCs. God, melodramatic much?

I don't get it either? What are the "good grounds"? Why is it an infliction????

You know what this is going to turn into don't you???

FROZENSANDWICHGATE!!!!!!

[GRIN]

Btw Roast chicken is good too....

lol at 'with good grounds'. gawd, what a drama queen.
personally i think rolls do better out of the freezer than sandwiches, but ham, cheese etc, nothing with too much water content basically, is fine.

Sounds like a great idea. May start doing it myself.
I often freeze a loaf of bread and that defrosts fine without going soggy so can't see sandwiches would be soggy.

lol at being a drama queen.

Honestly we are uber laid back parents, but we both have bad memories of being given frozen sandwiches as children. A year or two ago I wondered if it was just some weird 70's thing and tried it out and sure enough they were just as horrible as I remember. To be fair I can't stand cold sandwiches as in straight from the fridge let alone ones that have been defrosting in a lunchbox, they just don't taste like food.

It's hardly grounds for divorce though. And forgive me, but you really aren't coming across as 'uber-laid back' in the slightest

Crikey, I only asked about freeezing sandwiches! Your DH would divorce you if you inflicted this on your children? Is your marriage really this shaky, your husband this precious a control freak - or were you just posting for effect?! Only on MN...

FWIW, I froze a sandwich last night, defrosted it and fed it to DC1 for his lunch. Not only did he not bat an eyelid, but he ate it all without fuss and has survived the experience - although I will of course be checking him at regular intervals throughout the night for signs of necrotizing fasciitis and similar diseases.

The results of my scientific experiment would suggest that sandwiches can indeed be frozen, time can be saved in the evenings and marriages can survive a sarnie from the freezer. Hurrah!

That is a brilliant post paolosgirl. I think this thread deserves to go into the round up. It's hilarious

I often make sandwiches with frozen bread - IMO it is a good way of making sure the filling stays cold til lunchtime so no need for ice blocks which invariably get lost.

Do not think frozen sandwiches would be any different!

As for divorcing you for doing so - let him do the sandwiches each night then!