I Like Sandwiches so much!

So you gotta start with your healthy bread: heavy wheat or rye. Rye makes for a good smaller sandwich, but I have stacked rye high!

Put on a bed of lettuce, red or romaine, they're better and healthier, or even spinach, because the lettuce is there for health and crunch. As for taste it's only a minor ingredient amongst a whole host of more potent ones. It also protects the bread from the honey mustard.

Now there are two places in the sandwich reserved for your runny ingredients and on top of the lettuce is one. Squirt on the honey mustard! Good tasty mustard of any kind is the best.

Put on your turkey... see, the turkey traps the mustard against the lettuce.

Then put on your SPROUTS. Oh yeah, a serious requirement for health and crunch and the same mild amount of vegie taste that the lettuce gives.

Put on your second runny ingredient: Ranch (full flavored) or another dressing.

Top the ranch with Honey roasted sunflower seeds! They get glued into the ranch and sprouts. This is high technology here!

Then the stacker pickles! Dill, Kosher, I never could tell the difference in a bite, but they really are essential to the full flavor. They are a big ingredient.

Then Cheese. Your choice. It traps all that taste and protects the bread from the pickle juice.

Note: some of these items can be rearranged. Like, you might want to put on the second topping at the meat/sprout layer rather than on top of the sprouts, in order that it's a little further away from the pickles, but trap the coating with the sprouts.

And another note: do not put the cheese and meat next to one another. In a simpler sandwich you should at least put the lettuce between the cheese and meat. The reason for this note is that the cheese and meat become enmeshed when they are next to one another and don't allow the full flavor of each ingredient to be completely released.

Now, I used to put two types of meat and two types of cheese on my sandwiches. Not anymore. No need.

I used to shop nothing but delis and I know the question you were asking, Indie. When I ate nothing but sandwiches, my most perishable resource were the sprouts. Turkey goes a lot quicker than any other meat. What I did was make a run about every three to four days. Now I was buying 3 cheeses and 3 meats a lot of times and getting a hefty amount of each 3/4lb. I loved the mesquite turkey, but then it did start to get slimy after 5 days.

Ramping up requires a $20 investment in Mustard (you have), some sunflower seeds, sprouts (about 4 days worth) (I never purchased 2 things of sprouts unless James was around)(they get slimy too after some days... and I always pick from the back of the grocery store stock because the store will let them go soggy too, and that was always depressing to get a bad batch), stacker pickles, bread (Sometimes I'd buy two loaves, you could easily stick to one per or every other shop).

These go great with MILK.

Of course, on the road I knew exactly how much a sandwich cost, how much ingredients cost per sandwich, etc.

Good way to go. Olives! Feta in the sprouts, trapped perfectly. I never did tomatoes, too runny and thick.