How to Make Classic Afternoon Tea Sandwiches!

white bread

🥗Healthier: whole grain bread

💰Cheaper: store-brand bread

Whole grain adds fiber and nutrients.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil spread

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil spread is lower in saturated fat.

cream cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: ricotta cheese

Greek yogurt offers a tangy flavor with fewer calories.

smoked salmon

🥗Healthier: cooked salmon

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is more affordable and still provides protein.

Remove the crusts from the white sliced bread using a serrated knife.

Square off the edges of the bread to create neat sandwiches.

Use a mixture of whole meal bread and white bread for different flavors and textures.

Prepare the cucumber by peeling and cutting it into thin strips, discarding the skin and watery center.

Spread butter on both sides of two slices of white bread.

Mix cream cheese with freshly chopped mint, salt, and pepper, then set aside.

Spread the minty cream cheese on one slice of buttered bread and layer with cucumber strips, then close the sandwich and cut into fingers.

Boil eggs for 7 and a half minutes, then peel them and chop into chunks.

Mix the chopped eggs with Helman's real mayonnaise, salt, and cayenne pepper.

Spread the egg mixture on brown bread, add watercress, close the sandwich, and cut into fingers.

For the smoked salmon sandwich, mix cream cheese with lemon zest and black pepper.

Spread butter on white bread, add the lemony cream cheese, and layer with smoked salmon, then close and cut into fingers.

Prepare the beef and horseradish sandwich by thinly slicing radishes and spreading butter on white bread, then adding beef and horseradish.

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