Another Great Filling!

We rather like our new food theme, so will share with you another rather delicious sandwich filling that we enjoyed while walking in Dovedale on our recent holiday.


If you look at Yorkie's face in today's picture, you will see how much he rates butter bean in tomato sauce sandwiches. His nose is quivering with excitement and it looks as if he can't wait to get to the contents of that tin ('I couldn't', says Yorkie).

Like the dolmades, the butter beans we enjoyed that day came back from Greece in a tin but don't despair there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't make up your own batch at home. After all beans and tomato sauce are not exactly rare items.

Thinking about it, perhaps we should try a baked bean sandwich to see how that compares. It doesn't appeal quite as much but there must be similarities.

Hope to hear from you with your ideas soon.

Love George and the gang xxx

What's in Your Lunch Box?

As we had lots of days out on our Derbyshire trip we got through a lot of packed lunches. Now we don't know about you, but as regular sandwich eaters, we find it can be quite difficult to keep thinking up new and interesting fillings. At Bears Unlimited we are on a mission to dream up some new and inspirational fillings. If we get enough ideas we will publish a book to accompany the Friendly Planet Guide.

We got off to a flying start in Derbyshire with our dolmade sandwiches which we happily munched beside the High Peaks railway line. For the uninitiated dolmades are Greek vine leaves stuffed with rice and other nice things. They mght not look particularly appetising (we do realise what they look like in our photo) but they taste delicious.


There are just 2 drawbacks. Firstly, you either need to have a tinned supply brought back from a Greek holiday (as we do) or an ethnically diverse local supermarket. Secondly you need to have a Swiss Army knife, or similar, handy to flatten them, as being round there is a danger of them rolling out of your sandwich and getting lost. We should also say you need to be careful that oil from the tin doesn't get on your fur. Although it's probably good for it, it can be a bit messy.

Do write in if you've any ideas to share with us and we'll continue to share our own favourite suggestions. Better still send us a photo of you enjoying your sandwich and we'll publish it on the blog.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx