When it comes to sandwiches, baking your own bread is the easy part; deciding what to put inside it is where it gets difficult!

First thing’s first: make sure the bread you make is the best choice for you. If you’re really not a huge fan of wholemeal or seeded bread, then it’s perfectly fine and healthy to stick with white bread as long as, overall, your diet is healthy and balanced.

There are countless different sorts of filling that you could put inside your sandwich. In fact, to be honest, you can put practically anything in a sandwich, as long as it tastes good to you!

Try putting curry inside your sandwich! It could also work in a wrap or a pitta bread pouch. To make this into a nice healthy sandwich filling try using as little oil as possible when cooking the curry. There are lots of ingredients apart from chicken and meat that you could use to make a curry. Try an okra curry, a curry with potatoes, or even a simple yet tasty aubergine curry. You could also try steaming the vegetables before cooking so they will cook properly without all the excess oil. This will also reduce the amount of sauce inside the curry so it can be put inside a sandwich slightly more easily.

Roast dinner ingredients, as odd as it may sound at first, is also a popular filling to put into a sandwich, but roasted vegetables, or chicken, or potatoes mixed with some low fat yogurt with a hint of lemon and some hommous topped with tomatoes, is a nice variation to your typical roast sandwich using last night’s ingredients. So give it a try! Using leftovers from dinner and turning them into a sandwich is the best way not to waste food when you don’t have to, while it also helps to save money, time and to keep a healthy diet at this time of year!