Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Healthy sandwich suggestions needed pls.

I would rather have a 4 stroke than a 2 stroke.

My mom picked up some pre-sliced hot dill pickles with garlic, and some pepper rings. I'm not fond of the sodium content at all, but thanks to your suggestions, these will add a little extra something to my sandwiches.

She also picked up the ingredients for a couple of the sandwich mixture suggestions, and I'm going to get them made up tomorrow.

My plan is to make a fair size batch of each mixture, and then freeze it in sandwich bags (each bag containing two or three servings). That way my caregivers can just defrosted in the fridge, and apply it to my sandwiches as need be. This is the only option that I can think of because of time restraints. I'm just unsure if this would have any impact on the overall quality. Any thoughts?

Does anyone know if mayonnaise has a very limited fridge life if it's been added to said mixture, then frozen, then defrosted?

Thanks

PB&N&B&B - Peanut butter, nutella, bananas, and bacon. To die for. Without the bacon, it actually is pretty healthy. Nutella and PB have good fats from nuts!

At the beginning of every class, my soon-to-be-retiring high school PE teacher would mention that "Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are better than sex. And I've had both."

The man liked his sandwiches.

I wouldn't freeze mayonnaise.

I believe you are correct. Freezing mayonnaise is uncool, er, uh, unsafe.

Thanks, guys.

I guess the only other option is to freeze the chicken that I want to use for chicken salad, take out the amount that I will use for the next couple days, then make enough mixture to last, and then add the chicken.

It's tricky for me to get my caregivers to make me a healthy sandwich with some sort of meat, within a 15 minutes max preparation time.

All of my dinner meals are cooked and frozen, so we just have to reheat them.

Cam: For any sort of meat salad, or even salad salads, prep all the ingredients. Even portion out the mayo if needed.

Do not combine any of the ingredients until you are ready to eat them. Cooked chicken in an airtight containter should last for days in a good fridge.

Same goes for any chopped veggies you may wanna put in there or for salad fixins. Keep all the ingred. in separate lidded containers in the fridge.

I can get almost a week in the fridge out of a shredded whole chicken for doggie meals.

Don't buy pre-prepped veggies at the market. They go bad way to fast.

All good advice BK.

Crap! That's 4 times here today that someone has agreed with me. Now I gotta ask my psychopharmacologist to take another look at my meds.

Cam, if by "fridge life" re frozen mayonnaise you're referring to a health risk, that isn't the problem. The ingredients of the mayonnaise(mostly oil, egg yolks and vinegar)separate when frozen and the result doesn't look or taste as good. The acidic nature of mayonnaise and the lower fridge temperature combine to form a very hostile environment for bacteria.

As far as easy to prepare sandwiches, I like either cube steak or similarly, ground round patted out about 1/8" thick and fried a minute or two on each side.