freezing pack lunches

busymumof3

I will bow to your experience peeps! Thinking about it I once bought some fairly expensive platters of sandwiches from M&S (pre-MSE days!) and did have my suspicions that they seemed unusually cold so it may be the norm in the prepackaged sandwich business.

The imagined icey fillings still stting my teeth on edge though!

Spendless

I wondered how they'd taste too, so one day I made just one for me to see how they were. They were fine. If you don't fancy being the guinea-pig though busymumof3 what about dishing it up to the hubby or kids and see if they notice

busymumof3

Spendless wrote:

I wondered how they'd taste too, so one day I made just one for me to see how they were. They were fine. If you don't fancy being the guinea-pig though busymumof3 what about dishing it up to the hubby or kids and see if they notice

I'm by far the least fussiest person in the household! Husband prefers to buy Subway sarnies despite my offers to make him a packed lunch. That to him is cost saving as opposed to going to the local Italian! He doesn't do moneysaving, that's my job!

newlywed

janeawej wrote:

when married to ex dh i used to freeze all his packed lunches as he would expect me to b e telepathic in knowing which days he would want one and would eat all biscs, crisps ect in the house and then complain about the lack of them in his packed lunches:mad: :mad:

ham or cheese sandwiches/rolls freeze well biscuits r fine!! crisps yes i did say crisps ( not to keep them fresh but to stop him eating them all:mad: ) donuts! pork pies! drinks all packed in a carrier bag so he could just pick up a bag from the freezer on his way out!! it saved many row at 6 am i can tell u!:eek:

Crisps and biscuits freeze ok? That's interesting. I already freeze the bread, crumpets, cakes, etc. If it isn't icecream then OH doesn't seem to touch wha's in the freezer Do the crisps go soggy at all?

Frugal_Fox

I make up all my packed lunches on a saturday morning - keeps the sandwiches and lunches chillled and if I take them out in the morning they are defrosted by lunch time. We experimented at home to see what worked and what didn't - anything with a high water content is to be avoided.... eggs, cucumber, tomato... Bread doesn't go soggy - and stops the children eating it before lunch time too!

shazanne_2

I use the frozen blocks from my freezer box to keep my kids packed lunches cool. Don't know what they are called but they are usually blue and fit perfectly into the wee net bit in their lunchboxes. Keeps their yoghurts etc nice and cool for them.

mrs_baggins

perhaps my hubby would like this. In our house we either have lots of fillings but no bread or loads of bread but no fillings!! If I can freeze them when we have everything that will be a bonus!