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?

It really does go to show that even the most mundane post on MN can become a hotbed of tension and drama!

DH is many things, but not a control freak - obviously he wouldn't really divorce me, what I meant by that was that this is the one thing that Mr laid back feels very strongly about.

Apparently his mother used to freeze a months worth of sandwiches for the family to eat while she was at work and he talks about it with horror. He hated them and has made it clear that he really would prefer it if I didn't make them for the dc's. As I said I gave it a try and he was right - they were horrible and no I didn't put salad in and only use granary/wholemeal bread.

I am very fond of the open freezer, bung in oven school of cookery, so anything to make life easier and if I thought freezing sandwiches was ok then you can be sure I'd do it.

i think you should try again, tbh. imo there are few worse things than 'freezer-burned' bread, it tastes revolting, but that comes of the door being opened and shut all the time and the bread being left there for yonks.

a few days or even a week in advance, in the coldest part of the freezer, they taste fine.

I presume Mr Handbag makes the sandwiches in your house then?!

I echo what Aitch and all the others have said on here - having tried it the other night and discovered they taste absolutely fine, I can't understand what the big fuss is about really. I also can't understand why I haven't made sandwiches in this way before - it would have saved me hours over the years.

BTW - you may be interested to know that I checked on DS1 at regular intervals through the night, and he has emerged unscathed from his experience of eating a defrosted sarnie with both legs intact and a healthy glow to his cheeks. Another hurrah!

Hmm. OK. This has possibilities.

So my children eat sandwiches containing:

jam, marmite, ham, cheddar, salami

(although they won't both eat all of those, that would be too easy)

with real butter, and some kind of 50/50 type bread (that's the furthest we've got from cheap white).

No danger of anyone accepting any salad in their sandwich.

Could I freeze all those? I'm thinking jam would be grim? What about marmite?

Fruitful
You could freeze all these sandwiches. Jam should be OK (have tried jam in frozen cakes/pastries and these have been fine). I would just avoid that type of bread that turns to blotting paper when damp (thinking back to horrid (non-frozen) cheese and tomato sandwiches in sliced white for packed lunches when young).

Oh, ok. I usually freeze the 50/50 bread and leave the loaf to defrost, and it's ok. I'll give it a try then!

then you might be entering freezer burn territory, though. i'd start with fresh tbh.

I've just finished eating my previously frozen ham roll for lunch. 'Twas delicious. I've been freezing filled rolls for ages. Mostly cause we only shop once a week and the rolls went stale by the end, and the meat started to go off as well. My tips are:

Use rolls - I've occasionally tried bread and its a bit more hit and miss.

Cut in half, add meat (I normally add sliced ham, sliced chicken or left over roast chicken)

Do not add butter or mayo prior to freezing

Wrap each roll individually in freezer bag/empty roll packet/ tuperware tub - lob into freezer

Night before needed, take out roll, prise top off, add mayo/saladcream/pickle, put back into bag/box, leave to defrost in fridge overnight

Works a treat. I make all the filled rolls on a Sunday just after the big supermarket shop. I've never tried cheese, but I've heard it works well. Happy sandwich freezing!

Paolosgirl - glad to hear your ds survived sandwichgate.

Btw Mr Handbag cooks every meal when he's not working, hoovers, cleans, tidies - the only domestic chore he's not so good with is washing.

I've never frozen sandwiches but always freeze bread. Once defrosted it's just like normal, bit bemused by this talk of 'awful' frozen bread.

Ahhhh...but does he make the sandwiches, or does he just insist you make them a certain way, with the threat of divorce hanging over you if you disobey?

I'm just pulling your leg!

I think I need to show dh this thread - his sandwich controlling has gone to far now, you've all helped me to see this. Tomorrow I'll call Relate.

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You go girl!!!

Go, Chloe, go!

Having grown up on frozen sandwiches, my mum used to make them on a Sunday evening for the week. Doing them for the month sounds grim. In your chat, you may also want to probe gently around sibling issues and choice of sandwiches - there were some quite vicious rows heated debates around who got first choice in our house