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    Best packed lunch sandwich combo?

    Ok, I am bored with my usual staple of tuna sandwiches for my packed lunch. Tried salmon yesterday and I wasn't too keen on them, found them a bit tasteless.

    Anyone got any good combos they would like to share?

    Got to be quick and easy to make since I am generally assembling them at 5 in the morning, prior to a coffee and quick catch up on TZ, before setting off for work.

    I am a brown bread fan, if that makes a difference, but happy to try other types for a change!

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    May be a bit dull but on brown bread it has to be turkey and mayo with a sprinkling of salt.
    Failing that, crisps or pot noodle sandwiches are always an option!
    For the record, I've not eaten a pot noodle sandwich since I was about fifteen.

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    Thinly sliced chicken laid in a corn flatbread on a bed of cream cheese topped with cranberry sauce. Yum!

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    Ciabatta, corned beef, beetroot and salad cream

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    Ham, cheese and mustard, the English kind not that weak forrin muck.

    Or if you can get it, good piccalilli, ideally home made.
    Last edited by Passenger; 19th November 2019 at 08:22.

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    Brie, red grape and cranberry in a tiger bread baguette with some salad. Perfection.

    Usually made at night to save time. Make the entire baguette and then cut into 3 or 4.

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    Ham. And cheese.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Papa Hotel View Post
    Ham. And cheese.
    This... with pickle.

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    Boiled egg and marmite sandwich

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    Cheese and marmite or boiled egg and tomato.
    Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.

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    Cold chicken jalfrezi from last night. Works a treat trust me.

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    Haslet and cucumber
    Brie and bacon
    Smoked salmon and cream cheese in a bagel
    Ham and salt n vinegar crisps (thin white bread is best here)
    Pastrami and mustard.
    Turkey and mayonnaise
    Pâté and cucumber.

    Try and avoid tomato as it makes the bread all soggy although a BLT is a very fine thing if made fresh.
    I find cucumber to be a great addition to a sandwich it adds some healthy crunch but if you remove the middle you don’t risk soggy sandwiches it also tastes bette - to me - than lettuce. Although a bit of romaine is nice too.




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    Quote Originally Posted by catch21 View Post
    Cold chicken jalfrezi from last night.
    Quote Originally Posted by bomberman View Post
    Boiled egg and marmite sandwich
    Wouldn’t fancy spending the afternoon in an office with you two !

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    Quote Originally Posted by bomberman View Post
    Boiled egg and marmite sandwich
    Don't eat that on the train to work when you get peckish!

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    I like to rev up a boring tuna sarnie by adding grated mature cheddar and red onion.

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    Laughing cow cheese spread with crisps of your choice.

    Tuna mayo (lots of mayo) with chopped onion / spring onion and black pepper. Grated cheese is good with this.

    Egg mayo and lettuce.

    Cheese and beetroot. You get a few flavours of pickled beetroot now.

    Anything left over from Sunday dinner.

    Good old corned beef and pickle





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    Quote Originally Posted by subseastu View Post
    Laughing cow cheese spread with crisps of your choice.......





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    Was my guilty pleasure when taking packed lunches!! Always thought I would be the only one. You can use the crisps to cut off slices of the cheese. 😂

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    Some great choices in here so far, I should be good for a few weeks!

    I just thought back to the old marmite and carrot days, will have to give those another try as well.

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    smoked salmon & Taleggio cheese

    smoked tuna and avocado (dash of sriratcha mayo)

    thank me later

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    Was my guilty pleasure when taking packed lunches!! Always thought I would be the only one. You can use the crisps to cut off slices of the cheese.
    We sir have reached the pinnacle of sandwich based foods

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    A brown, seeded bread - BLT.

    Use a fleshy tomato rather than one with lots of seeds/water
    Bacon should be good streaky.
    Pat the lettuce dry.
    put spread on both upper and lower bread slices
    bacon first, tomato next, lettuce on top - insulates the bread from the tomato (the spread helps too)

    Presto-Hey! perfect!

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    Crispy Bacon Brie & Cranberry preferably in a baguette/panini and freshly heated
    Peanut Butter & Cheese - surprisingly nice - you get lots of cheeses described as "nutty flavour/aroma etc" so why not put nuts with some good cheddar cheese? Needs some marg or particularly runny PB otherwise it's a bit dry.
    PB & Salsa works well too, but only made fresh otherwise the salsa makes the bread soggy.

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    I recently made a pot of spicy mexican rice to go into homemade burritos. Mexican rice, chicken filling, lettuce, tomato, onion, avocado and sour cream. Epic lunches!

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    Lemon curd- v v old school but a killer filling

    Corned beef and red onion

    Boiled egg and mayo - just do it the night before and keep in the fridge in a container

    Coronation chicken - you can buy ready done as a sandwich filler

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    Cold shepherds pie with salad cream and salt, and real butter👍

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    Prawn & avocado
    Ham, strong cheese & Branston pickle
    Corned beef & ketchup
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    Pork pie and pickle ... makes a great sarnie - you have to slice the pie unless you have an exceptionally large mouth ... ;)

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    Hot salt-beef on light rye with English mustard and horseradish, pickle on the side.

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    A double decker

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    Not sure it will work on brown but my favourite sandwich is Thick white bread with a smear of butter. Lashings of dairylea, cheap wafer thin ham and as many cheesy doritos as you can fit in.

    It's not classy or particularly healthy but i like it.

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    Proper ham (not wafer stuff) and mature cheddar with mustard mayo. Actually I think I might have one now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Morgan View Post
    Hot salt-beef on light rye with English mustard and horseradish, pickle on the side.
    How does this work as a packed lunch?

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    Rice cakes and marmite

    Marmite and lettuce sandwich

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    My current fav is cheese, corned beef and homemade chilli jam.
    For me, a sandwich has to have some form of cheese in it

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    Roquefort cheese and anchovies

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    Quote Originally Posted by CriticalMass View Post
    Roquefort cheese and anchovies
    Washed down with a glass of alien’s blood?

    After Christmas - Turkey, English mustard, sliced stuffing on fresh bread.

    Possibly better than the Christmas dinner that it was left over from.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackal View Post
    Washed down with a glass of alien’s blood?

    After Christmas - Turkey, English mustard, sliced stuffing on fresh bread.

    Possibly better than the Christmas dinner that it was left over from.
    Good point, the creative reuse of the leftovers of the Christmas lunch can be soo much better. Fried slice of Christmas pud is a real treat.

    Anchovies draped over Russian salad on a crisp bread is bloody good.

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    Pheasant, bacon and avocado.

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    Cheese and Jam.

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    I think you've got to go a long way to beat a good old cheese and pickle sarnie.
    Nice strong cheddar, branstons pickle and crusty loaf......luvly

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    Peanut butter and strawberry jam.....Americano.

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    Two milk chocolate digestives with a slice of Dairylea between

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    Quote Originally Posted by GraniteQuarry View Post
    Two milk chocolate digestives with a slice of Dairylea between
    Savoury smores

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    Quote Originally Posted by Franky Four Fingers View Post
    I think you've got to go a long way to beat a good old cheese and pickle sarnie.
    Nice strong cheddar, branstons pickle and crusty loaf......luvly
    I'm on a diet with no bread in it at the moment. I won't sleep tonight now I've read that!
    Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    I'm on a diet with no bread in it at the moment. I won't sleep tonight now I've read that!
    Bread is very difficult to cut out, I'm also dieting and I think it was the thing I craved the most even over crisps and sweets....but sorry😀

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    Quote Originally Posted by Franky Four Fingers View Post
    Bread is very difficult to cut out, I'm also dieting and I think it was the thing I craved the most even over crisps and sweets....but sorry
    Yes bread is the thing I really miss the most. Only saving grace is I can have a cooked breakfast with bacon, eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms, so life isn't all bad!!
    Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Puntsdog View Post
    May be a bit dull but on brown bread it has to be turkey and mayo with a sprinkling of salt.
    Failing that, crisps or pot noodle sandwiches are always an option!
    For the record, I've not eaten a pot noodle sandwich since I was about fifteen.
    I'm ashamed to say I indulged in a crisp sandwich upon my return from the pub last week.
    My old mainstay was Cheese and Onion Pringles. Has to be liberally buttered white bread. However, I had none in so used Frazzles. Not going to lie, amazing.

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    As for the packed lunch. If brown bread, I'd say chicken. Bit of salt, bit of lettuce.

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    Some interesting combos in here to say the least. Some made my mouth water, others made me heave.
    We really are all very different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sausage View Post
    Not sure it will work on brown but my favourite sandwich is Thick white bread with a smear of butter. Lashings of dairylea, cheap wafer thin ham and as many cheesy doritos as you can fit in.

    It's not classy or particularly healthy but i like it.
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