Freezing Sandwiches?

[fionas]

There was a woman at work who used to make sandwiches for her DH and two DSs on a Sunday night for the week ahead and freeze them.

Then all they had to do was grab a sandwich out of the freezer at the start of each day and it would be ready to eat by lunchtime.

Obviously there would be some foods you wouldn't do this with (I think she mainly did ham and cheese) ... but just wondering if anyone else does this?

I like the idea of being that organised but it had never occurred to me to do that.

What does everyone else think?

[The[cookie]Doctor]

OMG I love it!
It would make mornings so much less rushed around here. Especially as I can never know if I'm going to get Ant's lunches made before Alex wakes for a feed.
I think freezing cheese sounds a bit weird though!
Hmmm will have to think about this.

[morgan78]

Sounds like a good idea im wondering though if they would go a bit soggy. Will be interesting to hear what other ppl have to say.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

morgan78 - I often use frozen bread to make sandwiches if it hasn't been taken out the night before and never had a problem in that respect

[Indadhanu]

When I made my lunches I used frozen bread and never had an issue with it going soggy. I reckon using frozen bread makes it less dry by lunchtime too.
I'd love to make Shel's lunch for her, but she leaves at 6am and I can never be @ssed to get out of bed that early I'm having an empty head moment but apart from ham and cheese (and it does seem a bit odd to freeze cheese...?) what other fillings could you use?

[Netix]

You can freeze cheese, we freeze the big blocks all the time, and they defrost okay. But I will admit to never having frozen a sandwich, let alone with cheese in it.
I wouldn't think that 'salad' type fillings would go well, as when they freeze, their cells burst with all the water content and go a bit yuk. I had a lettuce freeze once in the back of my fridge. However, capsicum will freeze just fine raw. I guess chicken would be okay too, but don't know about anything else that you would put with it. I suppose the best way would be to put a small amount of a number of things on a tray, bung them in the freezer (omg, I nearly said oven! ) and see how they go. I would say that this tray would also need to be covered tightly, just as a sandwich would, because if something is exposed to the air on a freezer, it is affected.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I freeze salami all the time (for pizza ) so that could work... chicken would work definitely, umm what about tuna? I used to make tuna, mayo and spring onion (mixed together) i wonder if that would work.

[smiles4u]

OMG, I can't believe I come across your thread

... as I was only just thinking about 'the frozen sangers' the other day

Mum would make them the day before & then pop them in the freezer only to take them out for us the next morn before we headed off for our 30min walk to secondary school.

... Oh, was thinking the other day how guilty I felt back then & still do even now (as my folks didn't have much money). As Mum never knew how much I hated those sandwiches still chilly cold & seemed to lose their flavour by the time lunchtime came around (must have something to do with having been in the freezer ?? ) ... and I did the unspeakable & always threw them in the rubbish bin at school ... yeh, 4 days a week, Mon - Thurs, (Friday was tuckshop lunch day) ... all those years through secondary school. Just couldn't tell Mum, ... yeh, sadly my Mum was pretty scarey to be around those days

BUT I just couldn't bring myself to eat them,

... So sorry FIONA !!!! Gee, I hope they taste better for you then they did for me, LOL

[fionas]

OK, I'm finally getting around to actually doing this as we're spending way too much money on lunches.

I've just made a batch of: turkey, cranberry, swiss cheese and grated carrot.

Next I will do tuna, cream cheese and sweetcorn. And after that smoked salmon, cream cheese and roast capsicum.

Will let you know how they taste when thawed but I think my shoulder is still sore from the amount of back-patting it's been getting from me for actually getting around to it even.