When you were tinies and went off to Big School, did your mum ever make up a big bunch of sandwiches for you at the start of the week, then freeze em so you'd have your lunch for the week sorted all in one go? I am conducting A POLL and currently it is 10 to 1 people who think I AM A LUNY and have never heard of this practice. I know my mum is luny, but this makes sense!!
So did you lot ever experience this?
Or did you have skool dinners and do you look down on me like the OIK whot I am?
Speaking of skool dinners, I can't help but think that chips and gravy wd be better than my still half frozen cheese and cucumber butty I scoffed at 12:04 AND I STILL FEEL COLD.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)
I'd categorise this in "you bloody well categorse it, then" ;P
Ive had bread wot was frozen in lunch sangers before... bleurgh. Soggy and chewy all in one fantastic package. With kraft singles.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)
KRAFT CHEESE SLICES!! Aw dude, I want some on toast now. Trayce, not just sandwiches made from frozen bread, but the filling gets frozen too.
A whole term?! Who has a freezer that big?!
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)
But that wasn't them what did that what I said upthread.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)
my eating habits haven't changed much since then.
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)
NB: i weighed just over 100 pounds through high school, so maybe this is a good diet technique?
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)
Although tonight I will leave one in the fridge overnight to prevent such horror.
And as for sogginess, well you don't want a horrible DRY sandwich, do you!
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)
of course it's not the packed lunch kids who are the povvies, it's the FREE SCHOOL MEALS kids...
i always had school meals (always paid for though), and was discussing this with my god-mother over the weekend about how because "kids today" have packed lunches and mcdonalds and nothing else they actually CAN'T USE a knife and fork...
(i realise that last bit should be on the being old thread, but it seemed pertinent here)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)
i can admit that it makes perfect sense to do this as a way to save money.
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Steve you haf a point but if I'd acknowledged it I wd not have been able to use the word "oik". Free skool meals also = peons in our skool, oh how we lorded our "Club" bars, and "Trio" bars over their puny sponge puddings (what I wdn't give for one now though). Blue Ribands were always the cheap lunchtime bar though, but they were still a step above supermarket own brand (eg Kwik Save No Frills orange wafer flavour), but if you had the own brand ones you often got TWO and therefore the poshos with their solo "Wagon Wheel" were jealous.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)
how does this save money - you're using the same amount of food as you would do fresh and then using the energy to freeze it. it's stupid. you are just making food taste worse for no reason. uless you are buying in bulk - lorryloads of cheese and bread and storing enough sandwiches for several years at a time in industrial units - i can see this as nothing other than an act of complete idiocy.
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)
In my more boring moments I often ponder calculating how much I spend on homemade sandwiches in a week and subtract that from the cost of 5 Pret (or equivalent) sandwiches - and then see if the residual amount is less than the amount I'm willing to pay to never have to make sandwiches ever again. If so, goodbye lunchbox!
However have never actually performed this calculation, thankfully.
― clive (Clive), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)
The thing that always annoyed me was that she'd save money and the environment by using old bread bags to wrap our packed lunches and she'd put a piece of fruit in there too, so you'd get it out at lunchtime and find your rolls/sandwiches had come apart, been squashed under your Tricolore and everything stank of banana.
Our crisps were always Sainsbury's own brand in skimpy tiny packets, then she stopped giving us crisps because we started getting fat (this was actually due to our eating vast bowls of ice-cream dusted with Ovaltine and whole packs of penguins, sorry Sainsbury's Chocolage Biscuit Bars between 4pm when we arrived home and 5.30pm when she arrived home). Our drink was orange squash in a plastic bottle she'd washed up every day for two years since the last time we'd successfully begged for proper fizzy drink to take to school, please, just this once.
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)
My primary motivator for doing this is saving money; the only way in DC I could buy a meal that's cheaper than bagging is if I were to have one hot dog for lunch. Between the tedium and the health issues, that's not a good idea.
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Does anybody else freeze milk - or is this a total brainwrong?
― clive (Clive), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― clive (Clive), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Freaks.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― clive (Clive), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)
alsoalso, what clive said.
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
Who in their right mind freezes and defrosts spinach? Surely it tastes vile afterwards?
Clive- how do you defrost the frozen milk in that time? Please say you don't put it in the microwave...
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)
I've been a victim of flatmates who fill up the freezer with their stuff and leave me no room before. This is one of the reasons I now live alone (also I have no mates)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)
Frozen bread is easily transformed into toast, so no problem there.
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Actually a large part of my schooldays was spent, in a dismal holistic concept, eating compulsory (free) wholefood mush and then cleaning up afterwards. I still think making nine-year-olds manhandle 20 huge folding tables and then mop an entire canteen floor is sadistic.
xpost: frozen spinach is fine!
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Matt: we note when the milk is running low and then remove the frozen one, defrost it overnight. Obviously sometimes people forget and we do run out - but the ridiculousness of the potential argument prevents any ill-will.
― clive (Clive), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)
(i'm thinking that the emergency milk thing is a good idea, but would only need a little bit. maybe i should just buy little tiny cartons.)
how long can you freeze milk for?
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― clive (Clive), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)
it's funny because it's true :-)
I wish it was legible to be able to freeze sandwiches. I never have time to make them in the morning so I make mine before going to bed. This has caused me to gain an immense amount of weight since I always get the midnight munchies and scoff about three of the bastards whilst making them.
Starry, what kind of sandwiches did you used to have? Did they contain lettuce?
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)
*in French so is posher, obv :)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)
No lettuce.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― saza bob, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)
I also get UHT cream for the same reason (little 200ml ones). Sod freezing stuff - if you buy enough non-perishable things like canned, uht, and dried food you always have something to make dinner with.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)
i started to throw them straight in the bin, thinking my overworked mum would be hurt if i criticised them, but then a teacher caught me and told me off (this was the era of band aid, etc). so i started chucking them in my cupboard in my bedroom hen i'd get back from school, so she wouldn't find them in the kitchen dustbin and work out what had been going on.
a couple of months later, i had a full-blown mould farm brewing in my bedroom, and had to throw the whole lot out in one go. they pulsed and oozed like a Dr Who villain.
ten years later, as i waited to be put under to have an emergency appendectomy, i confessed all that i had done to my mum, who proceeded to cry on my girlfriend's shoulder all the drive home, saying she was a terrible mother (which she wasn't!).
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)
I still want a cheees and jam sandwich now though, and that's not going to change anytime soon. I want to visit a JAM SHOP.
― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)