Make your own homemade uncrustables. These frozen pb&j sandwiches are a quick and easy addition to your weekly meal prep. They are portable, great for road-trips, vacations and snacks on the go.
I’ve been looking for healthy and tasty portable food that I could do a big batch of. My daughter loves pb&j sandwiches so I wanted to find a way to make uncrustables from scratch. These uncrustables are an easy meal on the go at a fraction of the cost of store-bought ones. You get to control the ingredients making them so much healthier too.
All you need is peanut butter, jelly, bread, and this cutter/sealer. This one is awesome because it comes with two sizes along with a meat and cheese cutter. It works great to make not only pb&js but also meat and cheese sandwiches, egg salad and chicken salad. It has a dome on the top stopping your sandwich innards from getting smushed and pushed out the edge of the seal.
Any kind of sandwich bread will do. I make my own bread loafs and it fits one large or two of the smaller circle cuts. Looking for a sandwich bread recipe? Check out mine here.
The trick is all in the layering. You want to layer the jelly in between the peanut butter. The peanut butter acts as a barrier from the bread and wet jelly. This stops the bread from absorbing the jelly and gettting soggy. This goes for other sandwiches also. I use cheese as a barrier for my meat and cheese sandwiches. So the layering goes: bread>cheese>mayo>meat>mustard>cheese>bread. It really helps to keep the bread nice and firm. For egg salad, I just make them day of or the night before and haven’t had them become soggy.
You will want to flash-freeze them for a couple of hours. Make sure you use parchment paper for anything you flash freeze. If you don’t, the food will stick to whatever container you are using and you will have to let them thaw a bit before pulling them off. It is a hassle and super annoying.
I personally use either my wire cooling rack with parchment paper over it or a 9×13 baking dish with parchment paper. Any container that fits in your freezer will do.
After they are flash-frozen just store them in any freezer-safe bag. I use either Ziploc freezer bags or reusable stasher bags. I have slowly been adding Stasher Bags to my collection to stop using non-reusable bags.
What I love about the sealed sandwiches is the fact my 14-month-old can eat them on the go without making a huge mess everywhere. I feel like because they are sealed, there is less of a mess dripping out everywhere like with an unsealed sandwich.
