Cream Cheese Sandwich Spreads

This isn’t a new idea.  Consumers of bagels had this idea long ago.  Put cream cheese on a sandwich!  I adopted the idea while in college in Cleveland and have never looked back.  Cream cheese is a wonderful replacement for aged cheese on any sandwich that includes deli meat.  It’s less expensive, less fatty (especially if one uses Neufchatel), and stays on the sandwich.

Then, consider jazzing up that cream cheese.  I’ve added fresh garlic and dill; horseradish and bacon; sun dried tomatoes; or roasted peppers as savory options.  Cream cheese with cinnamon and honey goes great with banana or apple on a sandwich.  The savory cream cheese options are great paired with a nice deli meat, rolled, and sliced for an appetizer, too.

Still, my point is that a sandwich does not need to be just a sandwich.  There are many options for jazzing up the sandwiches in your brown-bag lunch.  Be the kid in the lunchroom who’s envied by the other kids, add some garlic and dill cream cheese to that canned salmon sandwich!

Editor’s Note: Going dairy free? Check out this list of vegan sandwiches.

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