Sandwich Fillings

[Phillipa]

Just wondered what you guys eat on your sarnies when you fancy a change from meat. I've not fallen in love enough with any milk free cheese to have a whole butty of it!

All ideas welcome.

Phillipa

[Fozzybear]

Normally have meaty sandwiches, but I also have:

Tesco Raspberry jam (sometimes with the cheesly slices)
marmite
peanut butter (Asda value for preference)
Tesco lemon curd

also have (but still pretty meaty) Tesco Coronation Chicken sandwich filler, which is milk-free and pretty yummy.

[ellsie]

I like tuna,mayo tomato sauce and capers in a mix,and my other fave is boiled egg and mayo. On Sunday,bacon mmmmmmmmm!

[paranoidangel]

Chocolate spread! At the moment I've got some Plamils stuff that the health food shop ordered for me.

[matt]

carefull with the lemon curd as normal ones will have butter in!!

cold meats always high on my favoruites list.
blueberry spread!!!!
maple butter ( very very thick maple syrup no actual butter)

blackcurrant jam and peanut butter:o

this could get into a contest of who's eaten the strangest mix!

[rebecca c]

Dont eat wheat but as I try to keep the kids low dairy I have a couple of ideas

homous
smoked mackeral and horseradish (check this some have dairy some dont)
if you can eat goats cheese its especially good with alfafa sprouts
tinned fish

[matt]

yeah i'm another no wheat.
got myself a loaf of rice bread to try so i will post a review when tried.

tend to replace with premier biscuits normally. love pilchards. and spam not together though!:lol2:

[Fozzybear]

carefull with the lemon curd as normal ones will have butter in!!


I've only bought one jar since going milk-free and I checked that it was ok before using it. Have only used a little bit of it actually - must check what the storage life once opened is...

[Caroloujo]

ive been having mayo, lettuce and cheese slices (from H&B) cheddar and mozerella ones....Mmmmmmm nice......I normally have tuna n mayo though....

[rebecca c]

I find the rice bread best toasted and not good for sarnies. Still has a lot of additives in it so I dont eat it very often - just to feel normal every now and then.

[Kamagrian]

I like tuna in low-fat mayo with sweetcorn and a bit of dijon or grainy mustard - preferably on crusty bread. Mmm. :)

I also love hummous on crusty bread, but my bf's homemade stuff is sadly too high-fat for me to have more than a nibble of at the moment. Other fillings I really enjoy (though I can't have all of these at the moment) are:

bacon, avocado and rocket on ciabatta or crusty rolls (works really well with that veggie 'bacon' you can buy);
Fresh tomatoes and basil leaves on ciabatta with a couple of slices of Tofutti 'Mozzarella style' slices;
Blackcurrant conserve (my current little 'problem');
Peanut butter (I love Whole Earth and Meridian);
Egg mayonnaise with tons of cress or rocket, on wholemeal bread;
Cheezly super-melting 'cheddar' in a toastie with sliced mushrooms.For weirdest sandwich...my ex's father loves cold baked bean and peanut butter sandwiches. And my father used to love cold tinned rice pudding sandwiches (on buttered white bread, of course) when he went fishing.

I haven't inherited this strangeness, before anyone wonders...

[matt]

now that's just sick!!!!

certain no no now but did have condensed milk sandwich as child!

so what's wrong with a toasted open sandwich? going to open the bread sometime this week and freeze most of it. good excuse to have some bluebery conserve on it. well it's opened and they have to be eaten within 6 weeks isn't it!:D

[Pam]

I like tuna mayonnaise or chicken in lemon mayonnaise, mashed avocado in granary is good too.

Lemon curd - usually it is only the expensive stuff that is made with butter, we go through jars of the stuff and the Morrisons own brand is dairy free and a good consistency (their cheapo one is a bit gritty and not as nice). I keep it in the fridge once opened but it rarely stays there for more than a couple of weeks.

Condensed milk - Fussels used to do it in a tube - perfect for squeezing onto digestive biscuits. Sadly it is forbidden food now.

Rice pudding sandwiches!!!!!!!! Wouldn't it make the bread soggy? Though I admit to being rather addicted to tinned rice pudding at one time and had to restrict myself to one tin a day whilst pregnant with my now milk intolerant 6 year old.

[Phillipa]

Thanks guys, I knew you wouldn't limit me to boring old jam sarnies! Though I'm not sure I'm quite brave enough to try all of the suggestions just yet!

[alexx]

Peanut butter
Houmous with carrot sticks (gives it some texture :) )
Prawns with marie rose sauce
crab
Mackerel in tomato saucve (yummy on toast!!)

[Kamagrian]

Rice pudding sandwiches!!!!!!!! Wouldn't it make the bread soggy? Though I admit to being rather addicted to tinned rice pudding at one time and had to restrict myself to one tin a day whilst pregnant with my now milk intolerant 6 year old.Apparently he used to put TONS of butter on the bread, so it didn't go soggy in the time he took to eat the disgusting mess. I never had a chance of being 'normal' with the freakish genetics on both sides. ;)

I love rice pudding..especially with vanilla and nutmeg in it. :drool: Does anyone have a recipe that works really well with soya (or other non-dairy) milk? I have some pudding rice and now I'm thinking about it, it would be just the thing for this cold Edinburgh weather.

[Pen]

I'm also on a wheat/gluten-free diet so no bread for me. Tried rice bread and it was absolutely disgusting, even toasted, as it never actually 'toasted.' So the closest I get to a sandwich is two corn cakes or rice cakes with something stuck between them. It is usually goat cheddar or sugar-free raspberry 'jam,' but hummus is good too. Thought I might try to make some hummus as I have some dried chickpeas in the cupboard--would flavour it with lots of garlic and fresh herbs and enough salt to stop it tasting bland.

In the old days, my favourite sandwiches would be roast chicken with Helleman's Mayo, or a good quality cheddar cheese with crushed Walker's cheese and onion crisps! You know, I have never met a Canadian who has had a crisp sandwich! Can't think why.

[matt]

they have never tried a crisp sandwich? what do they do? great thing to do. used to put crisps with loads of things. ham and crisp or paste and crisps.:D
and pretty much any flavour aswell!

rice pudding that's dairy free. do you like coconut? if so then cook the rice for a little while in water then drain and finish off with a tin of cocnut milk. sweeten to taste. no reason it wouldn't work with dairy free milk as long as it doesn't split. i'd stick with the coconut milk.

[Pam]

Crisp sandwiches - yummy! (sadlly no longer with cheese and onion flavour crisps though).

Rice pudding - I've heard of people making it with soya and rice milk but I don't know if the milk would separate and go bitty. Make it with water and then mix some soya dream in for a final warm through? I've done tapioca with soya milk quite successfully but only did it in the pan, I'm too impatient to transfer it to the oven.

[Kamagrian]

Rice pudding - I've heard of people making it with soya and rice milk but I don't know if the milk would separate and go bitty. Make it with water and then mix some soya dream in for a final warm through? I've done tapioca with soya milk quite successfully but only did it in the pan, I'm too impatient to transfer it to the oven.Actually I got such a craving for it last night that I made an oven-baked rice pudding. It was just pudding rice, soya milk (I used Soya Soleil), vanilla extract, Splenda sweetener, sultanas and nutmeg. It was yummy and my dairy-eating boyfriend adored it. :D Couldn't believe it was low-fat, but since I used no oils or spreads it certainly was. In fact, I just asked Matt what he thought of it and he said (and I quote):

'It was scrummy! Is there any left...?'

Think I might make another batch tonight....

[Pen]

You might want to find an alternative to Splenda (sucralose), but preferably not aspartame or any other artificial sweetener. See the horror stories from people who have eaten Splenda: http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_testimonials.htm (http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_testimonials.htm)
Have you tried Stevia, which is a natural sweetener; a herb?

[Kamagrian]

You might want to find an alternative to Splenda (sucralose), but preferably not aspartame or any other artificial sweetener. See the horror stories from people who have eaten Splenda: http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_testimonials.htm (http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_testimonials.htm)
Have you tried Stevia, which is a natural sweetener; a herb?
Yeah, I'm aware it's an unhealthy bad habit - I had to do a study on artificial sweeteners as part of my holistic therapies training (I had to do a diet and nutrition course, among other things). I tasted Stevia a few years ago but sadly couldn't STAND the stuff, and I've heard even worse stories about aspartame. Unfortunately sweeteners are one of the remaining bad habits I have left over from a bad history...

Incidentally, I can't get direct access to that page - it's blocked for UK residents by demand of Tate and Lyle's solicitors.

[rebecca c]

I much prefer my kids to have sugar stuff than sugar free because I am very wary of sweetners and have touched anything with sweetners in for years.

[Pen]

I don't like stevia either. I too never knowingly consume any artificial sweeteners and unfortunately can't have sugar (sucrose) either. I'm not keen on honey and never used that either, but have very recently discovered a clover runny honey which isn't too bad (in quinoa 'porridge' and on top of fruit-filled corn pancakes). I have heard there is date sugar (I think it comes in granulated form), but have yet to locate any. The other sweetener I can have is maple syrup, but I can't stand the smokey aroma (so have never actually eaten any so don't know what it tastes like).

[Pen]

How ethical/legal would it be for someone to paste some of the splenda horror stories on this site?

[matt]

always preferred to stick with sugar for me and daughter as have heard the horror stories about the sweeteners.

posting excerpts....no idea what legal position is. think prob safer to paraphrase in your own words with a comment that you are just saying what you have heard. not like we are likely to get viewed by tate and lyle!!! or that one of us will tell the solicitors of your comments!:lol2:

[Nic]

On rice pudding, there's a ready-made vegan one you can get at some health food shops (Fresh and Wild), in the fridge section. You have to be careful, as the label is *really* similar to the dairy one in the same range.

For home-made, how about using vanilla soya milk? I've heard from a non-dairy friend that that works well.

Nic

[Kamagrian]

How ethical/legal would it be for someone to paste some of the splenda horror stories on this site?I suspect it would be considered a tad naughty. ;) Anyway, there are lots of other ways to get the information - just google for 'Splenda' 'testimonials' and 'health' and it spits out a fair number of informative links.

Gill x

[Steve]

How ethical/legal would it be for someone to paste some of the splenda horror stories on this site?

It would probably be better to just post links to the comments rather than put them on here.

[Twinkle]

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rice pudding that's dairy free. do you like coconut? if so then cook the rice for a little while in water then drain and finish off with a tin of cocnut milk. sweeten to taste. no reason it wouldn't work with dairy free milk as long as it doesn't split. i'd stick with the coconut milk.

Oooh, this has just reminded me of a gorgeous rice pudding my friend made for me - coconut milk, coffee and rum flavour - absolutely delicious :)

[Twinkle]

If I have any onion bahji's left over I sometimes have them in a sandwich with some mango chutney (and maybe some salad).

[Lou C]

Splendaexposed.com has quite as few testimonials. My jar of Splenda is going in the bin in the morning. Thanks to whoever brought this up, Goodness knows when I would have found out about it if it hadn't have been for this. Lou xx

[Caroloujo]

Normally have meaty sandwiches, but I also have:

Tesco Raspberry jam (sometimes with the cheesly slices)
marmite
peanut butter (Asda value for preference)
Tesco lemon curd

also have (but still pretty meaty) Tesco Coronation Chicken sandwich filler, which is milk-free and pretty yummy.

The coronation chicken you mentioned can also get it from asda......I quite like the tuna n sweetcorn....and the chicken n sweetcorn, plus it;s cheaper buying those rather than the ready made sarnies you can get....