Sandrolls

My children strongly dislike sandwiches.  I would almost say that they are borderline bread haters.  No. 1 will eat a sandwich only if there’s really nothing else available.  No. 2 will refuse sandwiches even though there is absolutely nothing else.  Bread is just not a popular meal in my house.

Apart from coating both sides of the bread with pure sugar, I’ve tried everything I can think of to get them to eat sandwiches or just bread in general.  I’ve tried coating the bread in egg then frying it ie. French toast.  No luck.  I’ve tried bread and butter pudding.  No luck.  Seriously.

Anyway, life would be so much easier if they would eat sandwiches.  We could have simple cheese or tuna sandwiches, chicken and sweet corn sandwiches and even a more gourmet feta cheese, roast pepper and spinach sandwich.  I could whip up a no-cook dinner in 5 minutes instead of slaving over a hot stove (or microwave!).

So in a desperate attempt to disguise the sandwiches, I presented them in a different form, what I call ‘sandrolls’!  I came across this idea somewhere on the internet, can’t remember where though.  The photos looked better on the internet, much more spirally!  Perhaps I needed a filling with a stronger contracting colour? 

I used 2 fillings: a grated cheddar cheese, cream cheese and pineapple filling and a tuna roast pepper and garlic mayonnaise filling.

Grated cheddar cheese filling:

Grate a chunk of cheddar cheese; mix with spoonfuls of cream cheese and mashed/grated pineapple.  No measurements, I just added to my taste.

Tuna filling:

Mix a tin of canned tuna, grated garlic, mayonnaise and roast pepper (chopped finely).

 Putting the rolls together:

1.       Cut the crusts off the slices of bread.
2.       Spread the filling on the bread length-wise.  Leave about 0.5 cm of space at the end of the bread.
3.       Roll roll roll.
4.       Cut the roll into 2 or 3 sections and you’re done.

After all that grating and mixing, did my children eat the “sandrolls”? 

Nope. 

They’re not that easily fooled.

Bugger.