Serving Sandwiches

[countrymom]

do you serve sandwiches, if so, what kind. I don't right now, but when its so hot outside I would like to serve something that doesn't require a plug in appliance.

[Blackcat31]

We do sandwiches alot in the summer time. We do PB&J, ham and cheese, turkey and cheese, egg salad, tuna fish, grilled ham and cheese and roast beef and cheese. My kiddos love sandswiches, especially because I use big cookie cutters to cut them into fun shapes.

I have these (but have found a few more as well): http://www.cheftools.com/DynoBytes-D...tinfo/06-3020/

[PitterPatter]

do you serve sandwiches, if so, what kind. I don't right now, but when its so hot outside I would like to serve something that doesn't require a plug in appliance.

We do sandwiches a lot in the summer. I don't have AC in the kitchen and it tends to get very hot with the oven and stove going so sammies it is about 50% of the time. We have things like chicken roll ups on tortillas. turkey ham or roast beef, cheese, tomatoe and lettuce on whole wheat bread. PB&J of course. Chicken salad or egg salad on whole wheat and cut fun shapes with large cookie cutters, we even have those sandwich cutters now. Tuna on toasted white with tomatoe and lettuce. Banana and PB sammies. Toasted english muffin with ham, tom, and lettuce. Grilled ham & cheese using waffles. BLT's. Hot dogs... stuff like that.

I love the tomatoe and lettuce because u can use that as a veggie option on the food program. Then u just need to add fruit which is usually cut up fresh fruit like apples, bananas, kiwi, pineapple or melons. Quick and easy and NOT wasted like some cooked foods my kids tend to waste.

[PitterPatter]

We do sandwiches alot in the summer time. We do PB&J, ham and cheese, turkey and cheese, egg salad, tuna fish, grilled ham and cheese and roast beef and cheese. My kiddos love sandswiches, especially because I use big cookie cutters to cut them into fun shapes.

I have these (but have found a few more as well): http://www.cheftools.com/DynoBytes-D...tinfo/06-3020/

I guess I should have read before posting ::

I have those dino cutters as well as the hearts and dolphins. The dolphins don't come out very clear tho so the kids don't get it. What else is available?

[meganlavonnesmommy]

We do sandwiches at least once a week.
Grilled Cheese or ham and cheese
Turkey and cheese with lettuce and tomato

We arent allowed to do PB, though all my kids love it. None of mine eat tuna or egg salad, thought I love it. :-) I usually serve tomato soup with the grilled sandwiches, it counts as a veggie and most of the kids love it.

We do bagel melts sometimes too, bagel with pizza sauce and mozzeralla cheese melted a bit in the microwave.

We did cold pasta salad last week with pasta, diced chicken, celery, peas and mayo, the kids gobbled it up. I made it the night before and served cold with ritz crackers and fruit.

[familyschoolcare]

I do sandwiches twice a week. I offer a choice when doing sandwiches you can have the meat (turkey, ham, or chicken) I am offering with or with out cheese, PB&J (and a slice of cheese as per food program), or egg salad.

[PitterPatter]

I do sandwiches twice a week. I offer a choice when doing sandwiches you can have the meat (turkey, ham, or chicken) I am offering with or with out cheese, PB&J (and a slice of cheese as per food program), or egg salad.

Doesn't the PB count as your meat? Why do u need the cheese?

[BusyBee]

Doesn't the PB count as your meat? Why do u need the cheese?

I know for us, you need so much PB to count. My fp lady said it is best to serve PB sandwiches as a snack unless you add another protein at lunch.

[countrymom]

thanks ladies, I know this is going to sound stupid, but I felt guilty if I fed them sandwiches. But its so hot and such a wide range of kids that its hard to please everyone and I refuse to serve nuggets everyday (we have them once or twice a month)

[BusyBee]

I have served nuggets once the entire time I have been open, (I wasn't feeling well and made dh run to Walmart to pick some up) just because when I first started my lady told me how many you actually have to feed the kids to count as the portion. Plus, no offense to anyone, I think they are gross. I would rather just serve "real" chicken.

AFA the sandwiches, we have them once a week around here, just not pb&j. Wed is sandwich day, the kids love them, especially if we have a picnic with them!

[SunflowerMama]

I usually do sandwiches every other week or so but I'm considering a panini press!

If I get one of those I can see us having different hot sanwiches maybe even twice a week with homemade bread. Yumm!!

[GretasLittleFriends]

We do sandwiches at least once a week.
Grilled Cheese or ham and cheese
Turkey and cheese with lettuce and tomato

We arent allowed to do PB, though all my kids love it. None of mine eat tuna or egg salad, thought I love it. :-) I usually serve tomato soup with the grilled sandwiches, it counts as a veggie and most of the kids love it.

We do bagel melts sometimes too, bagel with pizza sauce and mozzeralla cheese melted a bit in the microwave.

We did cold pasta salad last week with pasta, diced chicken, celery, peas and mayo, the kids gobbled it up. I made it the night before and served cold with ritz crackers and fruit.

We are allowed to use peanut butter as long as we have the recommended protein serving covered. My food program rep recommended that if I'm going to serve pb&j to include apples with peanut butter or celery with peanut butter so they get enough protein at lunch time. I never thought about giving them a slice of cheese... That would work well too.

[dEHmom]

I serve sandwiches, sometimes 2 or 3 times a week, sometimes once every 4 weeks. Depends on the weather, how much time we have, or what we are up to.

But the sandwiches are always on healthy whole grain, whole wheat, or in pitas (i call these sandwiches too even though they are not).

They vary with what is inside....

hot roast beef sandwiches
fried egg sandwiches
egg salad w/ lettuce
tuna w/ lettuce
lunch meat w/ lettuce
roasted chicken (actual roasted chicken left overs) sometimes with gravy
jam sandwiches
cheese (real cheese) w/ lettuce and mayo
grilled cheese

those are some of the sandwiches i make.

[Meyou]

I usually do sandwiches every other week or so but I'm considering a panini press!

If I get one of those I can see us having different hot sanwiches maybe even twice a week with homemade bread. Yumm!!

I would love a panini press. Yum!

We do lots of sandwiches in the summer. I can't turn the oven on or we'll melt in the house so I'm limited to the toaster oven. I have the dino cutout too or I cut them in four strips. Somehow the same sandwich cut into four "sticks" is much tastier. I use wraps, pitas, bread and bagels.

We like:

tuna
egg
chicken
roast beef
cheese and tomato
ham
pb and banana
grilled cheese
hummus and tomato
cucumber,tomato,green pepper, feta

[GretasLittleFriends]

I serve cold food at lunch time about 50% of the time. For example today it's going to be tuna macaroni salad (has tuna & cheese in it for protein), along with garden picked peapods and raspberries (both picked last night) and milk. .

I serve a lot of sandwiches. They range from ham & cheese, turkey & cheese, chicken salad, tuna salad, egg salad, pb & j, fried egg sandwiches (not often).

The other "sandwiches" I serve that the kids love are made with tortillas. I'll make quesadillas (usually with left over chicken and cheese, then just heat/melt in microwave), black bean roll-ups, and ham or turkey & cheese roll-ups.