Wave Your Flag Sandwiches

Turkey, ham and cranberry sauce topped with a flag pick make a perfectly patriotic sandwich!

Add these patriotic heroes to summer picnics for red, white and blue spirit!  The cranberry sauce is easy to make using the Very Berry Cranberry Sauce recipe in The Fit Fridge for Fit Families , but if you’re pressed for time, you can substitute purchased sauce.  Check out Wild Thymes for delicious sauces that keep calories, sugar and sodium in check.  Their Original Cranberry Sauce is also free of the top 8 food allergens.

Wave Your Flag Sandwiches

Ingredients per sandwich (increase recipe as needed):

1 slice low-sodium deli style ham

1 slice low-sodium deli style turkey

1 roll or 2 slices of sandwich bread

1/2 cup romaine lettuce, washed and torn

1 teaspoon honey mustard

1 teaspoon of whole berry cranberry sauce

2 flag picks

Directions:

Place turkey and ham on one side of roll or on one slice of bread, and top with mustard.  Spread cranberry sauce over mustard, and add lettuce.  Add the remaining slice of bread or top of roll.  Cut sandwich in half, and place a flag pick in the center of each sandwich half to hold it together.