Why do sandwich meats all taste like old newspapers? (Not that I dine on old newspapers!) Does anyone have any ideas for lunches kept in a cooler? I promised my husband I wouldn't Oscar Mayer him to death anymore and have been shopping more in the deli, but even this stuff is getting boring! He's just not a "chicken salad sandwich" kind of guy, but is also out of ideas. Help!

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no - not really.....
how about you don't do sandwiches at all?
put in some french bread (or whatever kind of bread he likes), a few pieces of different kinds of cheese, maybe some salami or choirizo, and some fruit. He can pick at it and eat it in whatever combo bites he chooses to.

or
a container full of salad and mixed veggies - along with a chunk of french bread.....

You know, when I was taking my lunch to work, although I love bologna & american cheese, I DID get tired of it after awhile! So, I bought some fresh sliced turkey breast and sliced swiss. I started making myself turkey & swiss with sliced tomato and lettuce or sprouts, and it was a nice departure from the bologna & cheese!

I did the same with cooked sliced beef & american or cheddar cheese.

There are alot of good combinations out there - be creative, and be creative with the condiments!

I work on the road... so I carry all my lunches/dinners in a cooler/cold lunch bag. I actually take anything I want to. Steak, chicken, soups, raw veggies, fruit pieces, anything. I just put them into small ziplock bags and small lidded containers. There is actually no limit to what you can make for him to take.

No one has told you why lunchmeats taste the way they do, so here's today's lesson in Food (Is it? Or is it not?) 101:

First, take a field trip to your local grocery store and ask to tour the meat department. They'll show you all kinds of gizmos for slicing, wrapping and displaying their best meats, and honestly, it is good stuff.

Then ask to see their waste bin. Every meat department has one, don't let them fool you! It will probably be a 55-gallon trash can a quarter full or so. Inside will be all the excess fats, body parts, bones, grisles, etc., that has been cut from the rib-eyes and t-bones (sorry, beef only). They wipe it out of the bottom of the ground-beef grinder, they scrape it off the cutting counters, and they scoop it out of the sinks or wherever else it lurks. (Not from the floor, though, this would be against code. It is against code, right?)

These bins are worth a lot of money. They sell it by the pound to rendering plants. (What does "rendering" mean, anyway?) I've never had the guts to see what happens to it here, someone else can investigate that.

Sausage makers buy up this lip-smacking stuff as a cheap filler for their own products. They all have their own recipes, whether they're making balogna, salami, sausage, whatever, and it's all the same. X parts filler, X parts meat, assorted spices where desired.

These are mixed and wrapped up in skins to produce 40-pound weiners. The weiners are sliced on automatic meat slicers set to the right thickness, and presto, you have bologna.

(I know this because I used to buy up those 40-pound weiners and slice my own. Now I know why bologna has the same whitish color as fat.)

So he has had all the meat....bologna,turkey,ham,salami,liverwurst??????
What do you put on his sandwhiches? You could try onions, tomatoes, lettuce, and don't forget the cheese please.....hehehehehehehehe.
Let's see something different....
Does he eat tuna fish? you could make plain tuna fish or tuna fish with onions.....yummmmmmmmmmy.
How about egg salad?
You could make little pizza's and he could take that too work.
When you have leftovers you could put them in those little ziploc bowls you can buy.
You could make macaroni and/or potato salads to go with the sandwiches....Hope this helps a little
good luck! ! ! ! ! !