Saw this deal on the front page: Mayvers Peanut Butter $2.50 (Was $5.00) @ Coles
I try to save money and bring sandwiches to work almost everyday. Cost me max $10 a week for my lunches. However, I’m kinda getting bored with peanut butter, can tuna, and hams. So, give me an idea of what do you put on your sandwiches?
Bonus question: do you always toast your bread, or fresh? Do you put leftover sandwich in the fridge? What kind of bread do you buy?
I just use butter usually.
Olive oil and Balsamic vinegar on bread though? Ultimate!!!
“So you put fat on bread?” Yeh, HE’S the weirdo.
Life is going to be very confusing for you if the idea of butter on bread is a hard one to understand.
@Laurenlauren: haha, good one :) I got this far, hope for the best, expect the worst.
Everyone with his choices I guess.
I don't understand it because 1 slice of bread buttered has ~200 calories. That's a lot considering doesn't satisfy the appetite too much. I get the whole brain addiction to fat, sugar, salt, but still ~200cal for a slice of bread …
he has got a point.. who started the fad of putting butter on bread it is perfectly fine without it if you give it a go.. like having broccoli with rice and soy sauce instead of a full blown deep friend stir fry meat meal.. healthy options are always available and a good one every now and then.. having said that are u ok bro.. because that ain't normal even by my social standards lol and i sometimes do some weird ships
@AlienC: what do you mean by "having said that are u ok bro.. because that ain't normal even by my social standards lol and i sometimes do some weird ships" ?
Everything is normal if you perceive it as normal although others might find it strange. I mean look at the LGBTIQQ+ :) some are married with a car, who am I to judge?
In saying that, healthier, meal, options should always favor. Nationally, we are in a crisis, with more than 70 per cent of Australian men are now considered overweight or obese.
Butter on bread is my "bread and butter" meal
People have been spreading fats on bread for thousands of years. The avocado toast trend is not really that innovative.
My sandwich fillers can sometimes include:
90% of the time it is ham and cheese, sometimes with salad.
toasted if bread is not fresh.
others that require fresh bread; peanut butter and jam or vegemite and cheese.
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Only Mayo
Toast bread, spread some hummus on one slice.
In a bowl, combine chopped cherry tomatoes, salt lightly, add a tiny amount of olive oil and add balsamic vinegar to taste. Mix.
Spoon the mixture over bread and complete sandwich.
Also, curried egg sandwich. Soft boil some eggs, pop in a bowl with a tablespoon of mayonnaise and a little curry powder.
Smash it all up and spread on sandwich. Great hangover cure too.
Excellent suggestion but please, for others' sake, have a mint after eating one of these.
After eating those it usually isn't the breath that is the problem. Though I guess you could try inserting a mint too.
A guy i used to work with used to put broccoli on his sandwich. Maybe you could try that.
Broccoli goes with everything :)
KFC Spicy Nugget pieces with Coles smokey cheese slices, with a splash of truffle mustard sauce.
Typing this while eating it.
Option 2: honey leg ham, cheese slice, tomato sauce mix with wasabi sauce. Delish.
I came here to troll that I don't eat sandwiches because I am an adult. But that sounds amazing.
It's cheaper in your local asian grocer. I just add scrambled egg or sunny side up, maybe some bacon on some days and random greens.
Edit: I think I pay around $5
wtf, chicken spread, in a jar. thats disgusting
It's with "real chicken" too! Delish /s
Hahah it only occurred to be that people's definition of "spread" is something similar to underwood. This is more like mayo type texture and we call it spread as you spread it.
Underwood, what’s that?
INGREDIENTS
Soybean Oil, Water, Sugar, Vinegar, Eggs, Pickle Relish (Cucumbers, Sugar, Vinegar, Water, Salt, Spices), Chicken Meat, Iodized Salt, Cornstarch, Modified Food Starch, Pimientos, Artificial and Natural Identical Flavors, Flavor Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Inosinate), Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate), Stabilizers (Xanthan Gum, Propylene 6), Color (Beta Carotene). Calcium Disodium EDTA Added to protect flavor.
Phenylketonurics contains Phenylalanine.
I just want chicken spread that tastes like real chicken spread!
Seriously though; the crap that people make and call "food" and the suckers that buy it.
Artificial and Natural Identical Flavors!, "chicken meat" (lol lips and a**holes) , MSG + bunch of other food derivatives.
Seriously though; the people who believe Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is less healthy than Sodium chloride (salt).
In a exposure study:
Mice were orally dosed with sodium chloride and monosodium glutamate.
The result:
"Extensive microscopic examination of brain tissue of all test animals did not show any treatment-related changes."
Further, scientific evidence correlating MSG to the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome is nonexistent.
"‘Chinese Restaurant Syndrome’ is an anecdote applied to a variety of postprandial illnesses; rigorous and realistic scientific evidence linking the syndrome to MSG could not be found."
So while MSG might be dangerous to those with allergic reactions it is relatively harmless to the remaining populus.
"chicken meat" (lol lips and a**holes)
Chickens have neither though!
Congrats, you can read a label.
"Don't eat anything that has scientific words or words you can't pronounce in the ingredients list". Jamie Oliver.
Such a wise man.
'Lovely jubbly' - Jamie Oliver
I stopped drinking dihydrogen monoxide years ago for this reason.
With a name like that I can never tell what's in it so best to avoid.
And some words mean something different to what we think. Eg vegetable oil not specified can be palm oil, natural colours can be extracts of beetle shell, vegetable soup could contain meat
65cents sardines
Gotta love Aldi. What do you eat them with?
I usually use rice (have a rice cooker) with ricotta cheese, spinach and salt / sauce / etc
straight on bread, nothing else
aldi's is 59 cents from thailand , cheaper than coles 65c vietnam
aldi also has springwater variant which coles is missing on (only tomato & oil)
springwater is abit fishy but healthier than tomato & oil
Try mashing the sardines with a fork into a tuna like consistency, add diced red salad onion, lemon juice, salt and pepper and tobasco to taste. Delish. My dad has been serving this to us since we were kids and I always get an odd look from friends who turn their nose up at sardines but I presume they've just only ever had them straight out of the can and that's boring and.
It used to be vegemite and cheese to save money but now I live walking distance from work so my sandwhiches are getting pretty creative. Currently working through some leftover sous vide Tri-Tip steak, been making cheesesteak sandwhiches with roast potatoes and mushroom sauce.
I'll be round for lunch tomorrow then!
INGREDIENTS
Soybean Oil, Water, Sugar, Vinegar, Eggs, Pickle Relish (Cucumbers, Sugar, Vinegar, Water, Salt, Spices), Chicken Meat, Iodized Salt, Cornstarch, Modified Food Starch, Pimientos, Artificial and Natural Identical Flavors, Flavor Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Inosinate), Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate), Stabilizers (Xanthan Gum, Propylene 6), Color (Beta Carotene). Calcium Disodium EDTA Added to protect flavor.
Phenylketonurics contains Phenylalanine.
Yeah pretty much like every other spread.
I cook up a chicken or a roast on the weekends and use that.
too much effort
prep
cook
wash
cut
debone
portion
storage
clean up
is it possible to get fresh chicken breast chunks from coles daily and straight into microwave ?
I literally grab a chicken, sometimes pre-seasoned and stuffed, slam it in the slow cooker - walk away and come back and cut the meat off it and throw it on a plate and cling wrap it. Clean up is just the slow cooker bowl and a knife and cutting board.
Also might need to buy a slow cooker if you don't have one :P
Costco roasted chicken $5.99
Comes with free Worms
is it possible to get fresh chicken breast chunks from coles daily and straight into microwave ?
These taste good and they come in different flavors https://www.woolworths.com.au/Shop/ProductDetails/201565/woo…
1180mg sodium per 150g slice
they sure taste good
i'll eat per pack / both slices at once … 2360mg sodium in 1 hit
1180mg sodium per 150g slice
Which is less than ham.
But nobody eats 150g of ham in one go.
You put about 50g of meat in a sandwich.
i'll eat per pack / both slices at once … 2360mg sodium in 1 hit
You might want to change your eating habits, and have some self restraint.
To much meat and to much salt is not good for you
If you are eating 300g of meat for lunch and then more meat for dinner you are eating to much meat.
i know that, i just forgot to put /s
my point is processed meat = crap
you can have 300g raw chicken breast straight into microwave or poach it and it's as healthy as you can get , much better than eating 50g of ham
and what is the health risk on 300g of naked chicken breast in 1 single meal ? - None.
processed meat = crap
High in salt, yes. Crap, no.
Can you get lower salt and nitrate free processed meat, yes you can.
Should you eat it multiple times every day all the time, no.
and what is the health risk on 300g of naked chicken breast in 1 single meal ? - None.
The health risks of a high meat diet are well known and documented.
Your single meal of 300g chicken breast is 3.75 times the recommended serving size and more than the recommended daily intake for all foods from the entire meat and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds and legumes/beans food group.
As that 300g chicken breast will not be the only thing from that food group you eat that day you are going to be eating much more than 3.75 times more than you should form that group.
The point is eat sensibly. Just because it's a chicken breast that is lower in fat/salt than ham doesn't mean you can eat all of it.
so, after all that lengthy response,
what is the health risk for eating 300g naked chicken breast again ?
enlighten me.
The health risks of a high meat diet are well known and documented.
Or you can look at Google scholar for scientific studies
Invest in a $7.50 jaffle maker from kmart for a next level work sandwich.
Also think beyond the sandwich. I can stretch a 700g jar of dolmio spaghetti sauce ($3), 500g high fibre pasta ($2), 1kg lean mince ($8, costco), pack of sliced mushrooms ($5), couple of onions ($0.50), few grated carrots ($0.50) to 10 meals. So $1.90/meal for a relatively healthy filling meal.
Bonus points for spag bol jaffles.
but that's cooking already
Sandwhich press > Jaffle maker
jaffle > squashed sandwich
Having skin on the roof of my mouth > Eating a pocket of molten lava AKA a jaffle
And where would I find a sandwich press for $7.50?
Kmart has it for around $10-15.
Just put it on a frypan and squash it with the spatula.
Or you could try the frypan plus a clothes iron….. could be interesting….
Target I think
Spotlight have them at the moment!
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/397907 that's a jaffle maker though.
Or you could try Gumtree but make sure you don't get scammed!
You lost me at 50g of pasta per serve.
Turkey + cranberry sauce.
Sundried tomatoes + pepperoni.
Roast meats (cheap after-hours from Woolies/Coles).
Throw a little bit of basil pesto on that pepperoni sandwich, trust me.
Will defs try that out.
Chicken from supermarket with spinach and some type of sauce (flavoured aioli or BBQ/mayo). I also like using flat bread and make wraps.
Yep, roast chicken, spinach, cheese, garlic aoli, pepper. My go to sandwich.
For a jaffle/toastie its roast beef, cheese, mixed dried herbs, pepper.
My own tuna mix (tuna in oil can, corn kernals, mayo, season to taste).
Don Strasburg slice with cheese.
But like others said, a sandwich press brings home made sandwiches to the next level.
bread
Ah, bread sandwiches, I remember those. The last resort of broke uni students.
The trick is to toast the filling bread
I prefer deep fried
With ketchup?
My favourite is iceberg lettuce, a few slices of tomato, a slice of cheese and seeded mustard.
I put no effort into it, so mostly same ham and cheese daily, toasted. Sometimes cheese only when ham runs out. Bread goes straight to the freezer at the end of the first day, I find it keeps it fresher.
12 slices of bread each morning for lunches means we go through a fair bit of bread.
This was me at work everday
Leftover chicken schnitzel
Rocket
Tomato
Cheese
Red onion
Slice of cheese
Avocado
Hot mustard
chips
Chip Butty!!
With tomato sauce occasionally.
Hot chips that is, not the crispy kind in a snack bag …. though come to think of it …..
Salt n Vinegar chips (the crispy kind from the bag) on buttered bread is actually pretty damn tasty.
I put just about anything nice on a sandwich, between pieces of bread or in a roll.
Eg. Leftover chinese or indian food.. I guess any left over stew type stuff (if you cook at home, which I do not) .
Butter chicken on sandwich is really really nice , 1 of my fave.
Adding cheese to any sandwich adds an extra flavour and kind of cchangesit alot in flavour.
Could try adding different sauces, since you are looking to add variety.
I used to get the premixed salad and/or coleslaw (or whatever salad you like) and add some tomato, cheese, and maybe some meat.
Meatloaf and cheese sandwhich is good also.
Summer.
Home made Greek salad and roast charcoal chicken and a slice or two of bread or put in wraps
Winter
Buy 4 x quality chicken schnitzels from Coles in a pack $9 plus 4 x Coles turkish rolls say $4
Focaccia press at work. Lettuce, 2 x cheese slices, tomatoe, cucumber and maybe avocado.
Other staff literally drool.
Do you use any sandwich spreads? Try using different ones each day, the change of taste might be refreshing.