Caution:Killer Sandwiches!

[Lord Azrael]

Next on the list of 'what we shouldn't eat' it appears is the humble sandwich.
According to the news yesterday, many of the packaged sandwiches contain about 4 times our RDA of salt.
However, since I make my own (bread included) I'm not really concerned.

I reckon, if we believe all the potential food risks and don't eat them, then we'll be safe.....and die of starvation a few weeks later instead!!

[ina]

The very few times I ate a shop bought sandwich, I bitterly regretted it: they taste so awful - how can anybody call that food! So I don't think I'm giving them the chance to kill me!

[pskipper]

What horrified me was the fact that most sandwiches (other than the killer ones) might contain one third of my daily allowance of salt!

Hmmm, lets see, fruit doesn't contain much salt, neither does yoghurt.... For one of my three daily meals I have a sandwich, two pieces of fruit and a yoghurt... help help I'm getting my daily allowance of salt

(well probably a bit less as I don't imagine my morning bowl of muesli contains much salt).

[Shirley]

Have you ever looked at the list of ingredients in a packaged sandwich? Scary to say the least... how can a cheese and onion sandwich have an ingredient list as long as the sandwich??

[Peggy Sue]

But cheese and onion sandiched from shops don't taste of cheese and onion- two of my favorite things adulterated!! Also shop snadwiched spoil the theory of things taste better when someone else makes them- coz they don't in this case.

On a boring note, I did a degree in Food Technology (not cooking, industial stuff) and the microbilogy element made me want to eat almost nothing that was pre-prepared- not a bad ethic as it turns out. These things are not meant to be kept for ages, just made and eaten.

[ina]

While I worked as a cook for a hotel once we visited one of those suppliers of frozen foods for the catering industry (I'd better not mention names!). I was actually quite impressed with the hygiene and food safety standards in that place; didn't see anything dodgy, and the food doesn't exactly taste bad, either, if you don't have it all the time. However, we asked the lady who was working in the testing department what she ate at home. Not this! - she replied with conviction...

[Shirley]

Read the section in Joanna Blythman's book - Shopped and you won't fancy eating another supermarket sandwich again... bleuch.

There is an extract Here

[Wombat]

I sometimes get a cheese and salad sanger for lunch but they are made fresh to order and taste OK. If you don't want salt you say "no salt".

Nev

[ina]

Yep, I have no problem with stuff that's made fresh to order - but those plastic sarnies in plastic packaging - soggy, always too cold (because otherwise they won't keep, of course), and, well, plasticky...

[Millymollymandy]

Ha ha, you should try the French version - even worse! At least you can get a chicken tikka one in England which takes away the taste of the plastic.

[kimmysmum]

I'm with you Azrael I to make my own bread and if I happen to not I buy it from the local bakery as I know it is as good (almost) as mine.
My son takes sandwiches to school and will not ask to buy anything from the school tuck shop as he would rather home made. I guess he must be listening when I get on the soap box about safe food practices