Original sandwich ideas?!
Answers: i'm trying to make something new for lunch to give to my kids for school. no more pb&js, no more grilled cheese and no more bologna sandwiches. do you have any healthy but delicious ideas?
Wraps are the best lunch in my opinion!
Spread peanut butter on a whole wheat tortilla and wrap around a whole banana or slice the banana first. Add honey, raisins, apples, etc.
Deli turkey or ham wraps are also great! Make a wrap with deli meat, lettuce, cheese, light dressing or light mayo or mustard, and whatever other veggies the kids will eat (tomotoes, pickles, cucumbers, onions).
Make banana bread and make peanut butter sandwiches with that.
Give them a little pizza snack. Melt cheese in between two whole wheat crackers and give them sauce in a small tub for dipping.
Let them build their own tacos at school. Wrap small tortillas in damp paper towels before putting in their lunches. Put shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, beans, tomatos, salsa, etc in small separate containers.
Also give them apples and caramel, baby carrots or celery with ranch, or trail mix made with nuts, pretzels, cheese crackers, dried fruit, a little bit of chocolate candy, oyster crackers, cereal, crushed granola bars and toss with honey and cinnamon.
Hope this helps!
egg salad
I like ham and banana.
IF the kids will eat them they are delicious.
Avacado and Bean sprout sandwiches with mayo on a good bread, like a sunflower seed bread....
i like a bagle with pesto sause and gilled chicken with mozzerala chesse. yum to me.
they may not sound good to you but here are some more feeling for sanwitches.
http://www.healthychild.com/healthy-scho...
there are alot.
EGG SALAD YES
Tuna salad sandwiches
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Surprise Tuna Salad
Apple, raisins and pecans give tuna salad a harvest twist that makes a delicious cold or grilled sandwich,
READY IN 10 Min
INGREDIENTS
2 (6 ounce) cans tuna, drained and flaked
1 medium apple, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
12 slices bread, toasted
6 slices Monterey Jack cheese
DIRECTIONS
In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients; spread over six slices bread. Top each with a cheese slice and remaining bread.
Peanut butter Thin Sliced green Apple and Granola
Tastes good crisp and healthy
I like a couple different kinds of meat and cheese together,lettuce and tomato....like a small sub.
This is nice in a tortillia roll up also.
Filled pita pokets with chicken salad or make a wrap.
Do they like meatloaf sandwiches?
alfalfa sprouts are a nice change from lettuce.
BLT on a Bun.
Chicken or turkey with bacon on a bun.
They could take leftover fried chicken too....
My son likes turkey "sushi" roll ups. I make them with whole wheat tortillas, cream cheese and lean turkey breast. I roll it up and slice it into "sushi' like pieces and toss some chop sticks in his lunch box. He loves it!
turkey sandwiches are always yummy and you can put so many different things on it depending in what they like.
Dagwood Sandwich
Onion Roll
Butter
Turkey-shaved
Ham-shaved
Cotto salami-thin sliced
Provolone-thin sliced
Swiss cheese-thin sliced
Sharp Cheddar-thin sliced
Shredded lettuce
Tomatoes-thin sliced
Red onion-thin sliced
Slice roll in half, butter both cut sides. Layer turkey, ham, salami, provolone, swiss, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and onion on bottom, place top of bun over all. Wrap tightly in saran wrap, refrigerate overnight.
You could also try wraps, stuffing meat and cheese, pizza or taco flavored meat and topppings into rolled-out crescent rolls and bake them, etc.
I worked at a country club for a couple years. The kitchen was open and I could interact and converse with the members.
I got requests for "something different" ALL the time.
One of the members, Mr. C., came up to the open kitchen and asked if I would PLEASE make something different for his golf party.
I told him, "For you, Mr. C., no problem."
[As long as I had the different foods available, it wasn't any problem for any of the members or their guests.]
I toasted some rye bread; mayo, crisp green lettuce, tomato, alternate layers of sliced ham, turkey, Swiss cheese and bacon; a slice of bread and repeated it.
When I sliced it in quarters, it looked like a rainbow. I brought it to the table and said, "Mr. C., in your honor I prepared this sandwich JUST for YOU! I call it the C. Rainbow Club! Enjoy it!"
The "WOW"s and gasps echoed through "The 19th Hole" - the grill room.
In a few weeks, I was flooded with requests for "The C. Club". or "The Rainbow Club". I made just about every one. Eventually, it was added to the club's menu.
In reality, it was the way it was presented and the way it looked - like a rainbow - to me AND to the folks ordering it.
Every day, you can do lots of different things with the foods you usually buy and prepare for your family. It just requires some imagination and experimentatiion.
Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed answering it!
VTY,
Ron Berue
Yes, that is my real last name!
http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com -this has really healthy lunchbox ideas for kids, it's vegan, but if you want to put meat in you can always do that.
Try some of these sandwich fillings in whole-wheat pocket bread, on whole-grain bread, bagels, crackers, English muffins, rice cakes or rolls, or try filling and rolling tortillas or lavash flat bread.
Cheese, avocado, and sprouts
Grilled cheese with cucumber or sprouts
Leftover grilled vegetables (bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini) with sliced cheese, goat cheese, or pesto sauce
Cheddar or mozzarella cheese with apple slices
Brie cheese with mustard and sprouts
Cheese, tomato, sprouts or lettuce, and pesto sauce
Leftover turkey loaf with tomatoes, and lettuce or sprouts
Sliced leftover chicken or turkey, cranberry sauce, and lettuce
Sliced leftover chicken or turkey, honey mustard, tomatoes, and lettuce or sprouts
Sliced leftover beef with mayonnaise or horseradish, sliced tomato and cucumbers
Chicken salad made with celery, lettuce, and tomato
Tuna/cucumber/green pepper salad with tomato
Salmon salad with lettuce or sprouts
Shrimp salad with lettuce or sprouts
Lowfat cream cheese, and smoked salmon (with tomato, and red onion)
TUNA-EGG SANDWICH
1 (6 oz.) can tuna, drained
3 hard-cooked eggs, peeled and chopped
1 c. chopped celery
1 tbsp. mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste
4 slices whole wheat bread
In a medium bowl, stir together the tuna, eggs, celery and mayonnaise. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Place half of the mixture onto 1 slice of bread and the other half on another slice of bread. Top with remaining slices of bread. Serve. Makes 2 sandwiches.
CHICKEN CLUB SANDWICHES
1/2 c. mayonnaise or salad dressing
18 slices bread, toasted (un-toasted bread is recommended for away lunches)
12 lettuce leaves
6 slices (3 oz. each) cooked chicken
18 slices tomato (3 medium)
12 slices bacon, crisply cooked and drained
Salt and pepper, if desired
Spread mayonnaise over 1 side of each slice of toast. Place 1 lettuce leaf and 1 chicken slice on each of 6 toast slices. Cover with second toast slice, mayonnaise side up. Top with lettuce leaf, 3 slices tomato and 2 slices bacon. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover with third toast slice, mayonnaise side down; secure with wooden picks. To serve, cut diagonally into triangles. Serves 6.
HIGHLAND PARK PHARMACY CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICHES
2 c. chopped simmered chicken*
1/4 c. mayonnaise
1 hard cooked egg, chopped
3 tbsp. chopped, scraped celery
1/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. white pepper
12 thin or very thin slices whole wheat or white bread (Pepperidge Farm is perfectly sliced)
Butter, softened
Pimiento stuffed olives, sliced
Combine chopped chicken, mayonnaise, egg, celery, salt and pepper. Mix well. Spread 1/3 cup chicken salad evenly on one side of 6 slices of buttered bread. Top with sliced olives. Place the remaining 6 bread slices over the chicken salad to make a sandwich.
NOTE: When cooking chicken, simmer, do not boil, so that meat is not tough.
one that i have alot is a blackforest ham on wholewheat bread. you put mayo, 3 sweat or dill pickles, cheese if you like it on it (not me), 2 thin slices of meat, and leadus