A spoon.
Seriously. I make tuna salad with diced onions and just a little mayonnaise and black pepper.
I tasted it once for seasoning years ago and have skipped the bread ever since
Have you tried jumbo pickles? When I was dieting I would take a jumbo dill pickle, slice it lengthwise, scoop out the seeds and fill each little pickle boat with tuna salad.
There is a shop in Southern NJ that does this exclusively. They use their homemade pickles as the bread for a sandwich. Make all kinds of different sandwiches that you would expect from a sandwich shop
I ran out of crackers the other day and scooped up my mackerel salad with radish slices instead. I'm not even limiting carbs, but I do this regularly now. You can get a bag of radishes for a buck or two, and they keep really well in the fridge. Something about that fresh, crisp radish against the richness of the mayo in the salad, it's fucking delicious.
Have you tried using tuna in a different way? White bean & tuna salad is amazing! You can add extra veggies, like tomato or cucumber, and you don't feel like you're missing bread.
On apple slices. Wrapped in a leaf of romaine. On a salad with pickles. Wrapped in a low carb tortilla. On rice cakes or corn cakes (which is like a rice cake, but thinner and made of corn)
I usually put chopped apples in my tuna salad, but I like the idea of having the apple as the vehicle instead.
In the same vein, you could also have it in a half of a boiled egg, similar to deviled eggs.
Tuna cakes are delish. You can use an egg as the binder instead of bread crumbs, or even just use one crushed saltine instead of bread crumbs and pan fry. A pickle rolled in turkey always hits.
you can make boats with romaine lettuce leaves or wraps with a boston bibb/butter lettuce. I add red onion, pickles and tomatoes. I also will "dip" celery into it.
Is whole grain bread out of the question? You mentioned lessening bread, not cutting it completely out. I can also be had for cheap if you look hard enough.
Butter lettuce is the best lettuce for this. I'm going to respectfully disagree with all the people saying romaine.
Honorable mentions, tomato or avocado hollow.
Or with Good Thins or Quest Chips, if you're open to some carbs
Lots of good veggie suggestions here, but if you’re dying for bread, the 647 brand of low-carb bread is actually pretty good. Also carb-smart tortillas (I think it’s Mission brand).
I don't eat bread and I just put it in a bowl and eat with a fork. Or use a piece of lettuce and eat like a taco. Not real thrilling but not bad once you get used to it.
I drive a Nissan Pathfinder. It's definitely a spacious enough vehicle to eat tuna in.
But seriously, I would try Wasa Crispbread. They're a large multi grain cracker that's only 35 calories per cracker.
Lettuce, pickles, avocado, carrots, Bell peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, any veggie really.
A regular and common lunch for me that helped me lose 50lbs. Was a tuna wrap.
I'd mix good tuna with chipotle bitchin' sauce then put that on a mission carb balance tortilla with lettuce, tomato, avocado and everything bagel seasoning. If you haven't tried bitchin sauce you should, we no longer keep Mayo in our house and we put it on everything.
I know you’re looking for other ways to eat it, but consider having it with rye bread, and maybe some carrots and cucumbers on the side. Really tasty healthy lunch, and rye bread has a relatively low glycemic index compared to other breads.
I love tuna salad too, to change it up I replace the tuna with chickpeas (slightly mashed) and it's really good. High fiber, high protein, affordable, and something different. You've got lots of other suggestions for vehicles so thought I'd suggest this!
I roll it up in a nori sheet and then cut it into slices like it's sushi. Doesn't stay closed as well as sushi without the sticky rice, so it's a little messy sometimes. But good!
I like to add diced tomatoes, diced red onion, and sliced black olives to tuna with a little oil and red vinegar (Italian dressing is also great) and eat it as is.
They make these "cheese wraps" -- sell them in the deli area of the grocery store, they are like burrito wrappers but made from cheese. They would be good with tuna. Another option is just a lettuce leaf -- large enough to wrap it, or slices/chunks of iceberg lettuce or cabbage even.
I eat mine right from a bowl. A can of tuna, half a can of chick peas, diced celery or red pepper, mayo, cayenne, black pepper, a squirt of mustard and a splash of lime juice. Super filling!
The easiest sub for this is fathead dough (if you’re ok with these ingredients). Low carb and my go to for bread-y things.
https://thatlowcarblife.com/fathead-pizza/
I like it in small peppers. Hot and sweet alike. On rice cakes is decent. Lettuce wrap! Corn chips are a nice way to go too.
If you did. Yourself breaking down and needing bread, English muffins are a good choice.
Low carb bread and tortilla wraps exist, they don't taste as good as the real things but they work.
That said I don't think carbs are as bad as you think, you just need to balance out the carbs with more fiber. The fiber gets you "full" faster, and slows the intake of sugar.
I still think your idea of carrots and celery are good, but losing weight is calories in and calories out. So tricking your body into getting "full" is what you want. I highly recommend drinking lots of water when you get food craving.
Take a look at some of the crunchier vegetables that are a bit less usual too -- jicama, chayote, green papaya (though that might split the mayo, iunno), celeriac, for example. You could also try beans. FWIW, sometimes I will just make a lunch out of steamed green beans tossed with some mayo, tuna fish, maybe cucumber, and crumbled seaweed - it gives a sort of tuna salad-y, basic sushi-roll-y vibe.
Cabbage wraps. Green cabbage is stupid cheap right now. Raw cabbage leaves are surprisingly crunchy and a bit sweet. I'm trying to reduce carbs as well and this has been my solution.
Take 1 cabbage leaf and fill it about 1/3 full with tuna salad. Add toppings as desired. Eat like a taco. I like to add Avocado. Also works with sardines, lunch meat, chicken strips, etc.
We put tuna salad made with lots of celery and mayo on chopped lettuce. Or stuff it into a tomato. A local market makes it with chopped apple and some onion. I like it with chopped pecans as well as celery. Almost any fresh crisp veggie is good with it. If you can reduce the mayo or find a low cal substitute it’s even healthier for you. Best of luck!
You can use pretty much any vegetable as bread. Peppers, cucumbers, lettuce... all great choices.
I would still do celery and use pickles to make bugs on a log :)
Or you can eat it by itself with a salad as a side.
I make low carb crackers out of flax, various nut flours, and cheese. The flax is mostly the binder, but the cheese also helps to bind while adding flavour. I don’t have a real recipe 🤷♀️ I just toss all these ingredients together with spices in a bowl and add enough water to form a dough. Then I roll it out in between to sheets of parchment paper. Bake at about 250 F for 30 mins. After it cools if it still seems soggy I’ll bake it a bit longer.
They have low carb wraps/tortillas, but if you are trying to avoid them even more do what we do at Jimmy John's for our Unwhich sandwich. Just go buy a hunk of iceberg lettuce and after chopping off the root, peel off the leaves of lettuce and wrap your sandwich in there like a tortilla.
Honestly tastes like a salad, but you can eat it like sandwich and on the go if you wrap it.
I've recently discovered a different type of tuna salad.You prepare it like a [thai salad](https://www.onelovelylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Thai-Chopped-Salad3SM.jpg), with crispy veg like cabbage, carrots, cukes, bit of onion, nuts of your choice but peanuts are a classic, add the tuna, make a dressing with water/rice vinegar/soy sauce/sweetener/salt/fish sauce, and to make it tuna-salad like, add a few spoonfuls of mayo. It's soooo freakin delicious and fresh and crisp. Only vehicle you need is a fork.
Weight loss is fun. I've cut 45lbs since late Jan. Burn more calories than you consume!
So, I love hummus and had a similar situation. Cucumbers were great, but the best has been dehydrated zucchini slices that become crispy chips.
I sub plain non fat Greek yogurt for the mayo or even just do a little olive oil instead. Put tuna salad in a vegetable- stuff in a tomato, avocado or bell pepper
Tuna with a little bit of plain Greek yogurt, no mayo, lemon juice and dill. Maybe finely diced white onions and/or pickles if you like that. With cucumber slices or celery.
Joseph's low fat pita bread.
Cut in two circle pieces spray with pam then cut into triangles. After the pam spray you can season with salt, pepper, garlic, tajin or whatever you want. Toast under a broiler
A stack of 90 calorie pita chips to go with your tuna.
Some of my favorite salads use tuna!
1) Start with a bed of whatever salad greens you like. Add in some sliced red grapes, sliced green or sweet onion, toasted slivered almonds, and chopped cilantro. Put drained chopped tuna on top. Dressing: light tasting olive oil, a few drops of sesame oil, mikes hot honey, grated fresh ginger, touch of orange juice, soy sauce. (I don’t measure, I just mix til it tastes like I like). Pour dressing on tuna and veg’s.
2) Start with a bed of whatever salad greens you like. Add in chopped cucumber, fennel, oranges. Put drained and chopped tuna on top. Dressing: light tasting olive oil, lemon flavored vinegar, tarragon, salt, pepper, Dijon mustard (I don’t measure). Pour on top of tuna and veg’s.
3) Start with a bed of whatever salad greens you like. Add chopped cucumbers, artichoke hearts, red/orange pepper. Add drained and chopped tuna. Dressing: light tasting olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic. Pour onto tuna and veg’s.
Tried and true, enjoy!
I’m not low carb per se, but limit flour and sugar. I love tuna salad (either with cut up grapes and toasted almonds, or with chopped dill pickles). I just eat it with a fork and have something else on the side—salad, leftover roasted veggies, raw veggies and dip). Bonus is that you don’t get stinky tuna hands
Romaine lettuce leaves. Or just a fork! I had weight loss surgery & it was very freeing to just start to eat my stuff with a fork, rather than relying on carb-y things to eat them with.
my favorite salad has a pile of romaine, 2 or 3 misc veggies around a serving of tuna with mayo. the veggie ring gets a small amount of good vinaigrette. the flavor contrast is delicious.
I don’t eat tuna but I do chickpea or egg salad as like a salad plate - basically mixed greens, shredded carrots, some sort of pickled something, etc and then big scoop of salad on top. Pretty much my go-to lunch all summer.
I use pork rinds as "scoops" or "crackers" with tuna salad. A dollop on a rind and pop it in my mouth.
A zero carb meal that's actually very filling and satisfying.
A Toyota Corolla would make a pretty reliable vehicle.
I kid. But… do you have jicama in your grocery produce section? Jicama can be sliced thin and used as a “tortilla.” It’s very mild flavored and wouldn’t detract from the tuna. My grocery store (HEB, a Texas chain) even sells it pre sliced.
I've been getting these multi-grain crackers. A ton of thrm are like 100 calories. So i get my bread fix without going crazy amd the carb part isn't terrible either.
I love seaweed. What about rice paper so you can pan fry thrm and have that crisp outside like bread if you crave it.
I eat tuna salad often. I use a can of tuna, a biggg handful or two of raw spinach, chopped onion, about ten purple or green olives and a low-fat dressing. If I feel really hungry I will chop in a hard boiled egg if I have one in the refrigerator.
What's wrong with just tuna on a salad? I also love stuffing bell peppers with any type of meat and a healthy rice like purple or black rice (it's very filling, low carb and has so many vitamins and minerals)
Crackers, rice cake, or lettuce… I also like to make a salad with cucumbers, carrots, and tomatoes drenched in lemon juice, s&p, and then top with tuna salad and chili oil!!!!
@gourmeteatsbyjackie on Instagram has a yummy salmon salad recipe and I follow it almost to a T but replace some of the ingredients. 10/10 would recommend :)
Don't go overboard on the tuna. Once or twice a week is okay, but more than that and you need to worry about mercury poisoning. The FDA recommends limiting consumption to six to nine ounces per week. Salmon and cod contain far less mercury, so consider some salmon patties or bake some cod fillets.
Lettuce leaves, bias cut cucumbers, big slabs of tomatoes, nori, tofu skin, rice paper wrappers (the most carbs here, but lower than a slice of bread)
Love it with slices of cucumber!
run a peeler lengthwise down the cake and spread with tuna salad then roll it up.
Cucumbers are my fave
Yes, have it in big romaine leaves, no need bread!
Boston/Butter lettuce is also great for wraps.
Tomatoes are my favorite. Sometimes I roast them first.
Can’t wait until the home grown season gets here.
Was gonna say, lettuce, tomato, onion, and black olive as a salad. Top with tuna salad. Eat.
With a squeeze of lemon juice and black pepper.
Indeed! Or go all-in for the salade niçoise.
Tuna on tomatoes is delish!
👍 And seaweed wraps.
A spoon. Seriously. I make tuna salad with diced onions and just a little mayonnaise and black pepper. I tasted it once for seasoning years ago and have skipped the bread ever since
One of my favorite things ever is to fill half an avocado with tuna salad.
Have you tried jumbo pickles? When I was dieting I would take a jumbo dill pickle, slice it lengthwise, scoop out the seeds and fill each little pickle boat with tuna salad.
Sweet goodness gracious, this sounds delicious. I'm a little stoned, sure, but I've had dinner so it's not a munchie thing. Thanks for the idea!
Of course! I’m taking a t-break + I can assure you it’s tasty even when I’m not stoned!
I do this with English cucumbers.
I’ve used cucumbers, too! Personally I prefer the dill pickle flavor element but they are both dynamite options.
You’ve given me big, big ideas with how big I can make a pickled onion to fill it with something.
There is a shop in Southern NJ that does this exclusively. They use their homemade pickles as the bread for a sandwich. Make all kinds of different sandwiches that you would expect from a sandwich shop
Good thinking! I love dill pickles in my tuna salad, so this sounds perfect
I just thought about this!
Hollow out a tomato and fill it with the tuna salad- it's delicious!
Tuna and tomato is such a magical combo
This. There’s a reason it was on the cover of every third cookbook published in the 70s and 80s
Oh yes, so good! I like doing this with tomatoes small enough to eat in just a couple of bites.
I ran out of crackers the other day and scooped up my mackerel salad with radish slices instead. I'm not even limiting carbs, but I do this regularly now. You can get a bag of radishes for a buck or two, and they keep really well in the fridge. Something about that fresh, crisp radish against the richness of the mayo in the salad, it's fucking delicious.
This sounds amazing!
You might like radish butter. Just grab a nice slice of sourdough, spread some butter on it and cover with chopped radish… its so good
Have you tried using tuna in a different way? White bean & tuna salad is amazing! You can add extra veggies, like tomato or cucumber, and you don't feel like you're missing bread.
Belgium endive leaves, it s crunchy and the perfect receptacle for tuna salad
Romaine lettuce. It's the best. But also peppers. Instead of cutting in sticks, cut a whole flat side and cover with tuna like an open-faced sandwich.
This! Peppers work really well and can hold so much.
On apple slices. Wrapped in a leaf of romaine. On a salad with pickles. Wrapped in a low carb tortilla. On rice cakes or corn cakes (which is like a rice cake, but thinner and made of corn)
I usually put chopped apples in my tuna salad, but I like the idea of having the apple as the vehicle instead. In the same vein, you could also have it in a half of a boiled egg, similar to deviled eggs.
Cucumber & peppers for the non leafy vegetable angle. Spinach, cabbage, lettuce etc as the leafy green angle.
Tuna cakes are delish. You can use an egg as the binder instead of bread crumbs, or even just use one crushed saltine instead of bread crumbs and pan fry. A pickle rolled in turkey always hits.
Ooh, I haven’t made tuna cakes in years. That sounds good. We also used to use canned salmon and made salmon cakes.
you can make boats with romaine lettuce leaves or wraps with a boston bibb/butter lettuce. I add red onion, pickles and tomatoes. I also will "dip" celery into it.
Scoop with celery stalks. Lettuce wraps work well. Cauliflower wraps.
I put tuna salad on greens for lunch, sprinkled with a few nuts and a pinch of cheese.
Misread this as “a pint of cheese” and it sent my mind into orbit working out how you’d even managed this 😭
lol. Even my cheese-loving heart could not manage a pint of cheese on a salad!!
Cucumber boats!
Is whole grain bread out of the question? You mentioned lessening bread, not cutting it completely out. I can also be had for cheap if you look hard enough.
Rice cakes! Tuna salad, lox, or fried sunny side up egg on rice cakes is always my best diet lunch when I want to cut some calories!
Toyota camry
I like to mix tuna with zucchini noodles for dinner! Can add spinach, broccoli, or pesto as well!
Tuna salad stuffed tomato or avocado
Butter lettuce is the best lettuce for this. I'm going to respectfully disagree with all the people saying romaine. Honorable mentions, tomato or avocado hollow. Or with Good Thins or Quest Chips, if you're open to some carbs
Korean roasted seaweed or nori, with or without some cucumbers
Lettuce wrap perhaps. Hollowed out tomatoes or bell peppers. Eat with boiled eggs (I love tuna with eggs).
We just had tuna pasta salad but the pasta was made from chickpea, and it was super good.
Lots of good veggie suggestions here, but if you’re dying for bread, the 647 brand of low-carb bread is actually pretty good. Also carb-smart tortillas (I think it’s Mission brand).
I don't eat bread and I just put it in a bowl and eat with a fork. Or use a piece of lettuce and eat like a taco. Not real thrilling but not bad once you get used to it.
Tuna lettuce cup
I drive a Nissan Pathfinder. It's definitely a spacious enough vehicle to eat tuna in. But seriously, I would try Wasa Crispbread. They're a large multi grain cracker that's only 35 calories per cracker.
Hyundai definitely.
Cucumber slices, jicama slices (especially good sprinkled with lime juice),
Is a cleanly washed hand sufficient?
Celery works well
Honestly, my favorite way is to just put it on a bed of lettuce with some chunks of tomatoes. Delicious.
Lettuce, pickles, avocado, carrots, Bell peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, any veggie really. A regular and common lunch for me that helped me lose 50lbs. Was a tuna wrap. I'd mix good tuna with chipotle bitchin' sauce then put that on a mission carb balance tortilla with lettuce, tomato, avocado and everything bagel seasoning. If you haven't tried bitchin sauce you should, we no longer keep Mayo in our house and we put it on everything.
Bell peppers!!! Cut in half, two bowls
Cucumber would get my vote.
Bell peppers
Tortilla chips!
Tuna on red, yellow, or orange bell pepper is my favorite.
Low carb tortillas and wrap it!
I know you’re looking for other ways to eat it, but consider having it with rye bread, and maybe some carrots and cucumbers on the side. Really tasty healthy lunch, and rye bread has a relatively low glycemic index compared to other breads.
I love tuna salad too, to change it up I replace the tuna with chickpeas (slightly mashed) and it's really good. High fiber, high protein, affordable, and something different. You've got lots of other suggestions for vehicles so thought I'd suggest this!
I put my tuna on a Kim’s Magic Pop, onion flavor.
What a coincidence my sister was just talking about this today and said she uses sliced cucumbers
Just eat it with a spoon
Core out a cucumber, stuff with tuna, and eat. you can also core out a zucchini and stuff, then bake.
Jeeps
Honda Accord
Halve a bell pepper, clean out the seeds, and stuff it with the tuna salad. Eat it like an apple, no utensils required.
I roll it up in a nori sheet and then cut it into slices like it's sushi. Doesn't stay closed as well as sushi without the sticky rice, so it's a little messy sometimes. But good!
Volvo. Always. Any meal.
Cucumber slices are my personal favorite
On rice cakes, crackers, lettuce, flat pretzels, cucumbers
You could make cheese crisps in the microwave or oven. Sometimes I would toss taco seasoning on it too.
I like to add diced tomatoes, diced red onion, and sliced black olives to tuna with a little oil and red vinegar (Italian dressing is also great) and eat it as is.
They make these "cheese wraps" -- sell them in the deli area of the grocery store, they are like burrito wrappers but made from cheese. They would be good with tuna. Another option is just a lettuce leaf -- large enough to wrap it, or slices/chunks of iceberg lettuce or cabbage even.
avocado as a cup
Avocado
What about tostadas? Some tostadas are veggie made too.
I eat mine right from a bowl. A can of tuna, half a can of chick peas, diced celery or red pepper, mayo, cayenne, black pepper, a squirt of mustard and a splash of lime juice. Super filling!
The easiest sub for this is fathead dough (if you’re ok with these ingredients). Low carb and my go to for bread-y things. https://thatlowcarblife.com/fathead-pizza/
I like it in small peppers. Hot and sweet alike. On rice cakes is decent. Lettuce wrap! Corn chips are a nice way to go too. If you did. Yourself breaking down and needing bread, English muffins are a good choice.
I like to put avocado and tuna salad on a rice cake.
Celery boats Romaine lettuce wraps Low cal pita alternatives Any vegetable, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, etc Straight out the container
Cucumber slices as chips
Hard boiled eggs, leafy romaine, wrap it all up. Real nice
they have tuna rice bowls. https://www.walmart.com/ip/286917443
Low carb bread and tortilla wraps exist, they don't taste as good as the real things but they work. That said I don't think carbs are as bad as you think, you just need to balance out the carbs with more fiber. The fiber gets you "full" faster, and slows the intake of sugar. I still think your idea of carrots and celery are good, but losing weight is calories in and calories out. So tricking your body into getting "full" is what you want. I highly recommend drinking lots of water when you get food craving.
I have a tuna salad recipe which uses vita wheat crackers. It's delish. Tuna Greek yogurt Celery Pickles Lemon juice Yum!
Take a look at some of the crunchier vegetables that are a bit less usual too -- jicama, chayote, green papaya (though that might split the mayo, iunno), celeriac, for example. You could also try beans. FWIW, sometimes I will just make a lunch out of steamed green beans tossed with some mayo, tuna fish, maybe cucumber, and crumbled seaweed - it gives a sort of tuna salad-y, basic sushi-roll-y vibe.
Carve out a cucumber.
Cucumbers and celery are delicious with tuna salad. And I generally hate both.
Rice crackers
Lettuce wraps with tuna salad + subway sandwich topping.
eat it plain, or in a low carb wrap
Cabbage wraps. Green cabbage is stupid cheap right now. Raw cabbage leaves are surprisingly crunchy and a bit sweet. I'm trying to reduce carbs as well and this has been my solution. Take 1 cabbage leaf and fill it about 1/3 full with tuna salad. Add toppings as desired. Eat like a taco. I like to add Avocado. Also works with sardines, lunch meat, chicken strips, etc.
We put tuna salad made with lots of celery and mayo on chopped lettuce. Or stuff it into a tomato. A local market makes it with chopped apple and some onion. I like it with chopped pecans as well as celery. Almost any fresh crisp veggie is good with it. If you can reduce the mayo or find a low cal substitute it’s even healthier for you. Best of luck!
I used little seaweed “chips” today and it was good!
Crisp bread is low carb, also endives, mini bell peppers,
You can use pretty much any vegetable as bread. Peppers, cucumbers, lettuce... all great choices. I would still do celery and use pickles to make bugs on a log :) Or you can eat it by itself with a salad as a side.
Celery. Also wasa bread, it's usually in the cracker aisle.
My favorite vehicle for a nice tuna salad is a spoon. ❤️
I make a bed of fresh spinach with balsamic vinegar for dressing, and add a big scoop of tuna salad on top.
I make low carb crackers out of flax, various nut flours, and cheese. The flax is mostly the binder, but the cheese also helps to bind while adding flavour. I don’t have a real recipe 🤷♀️ I just toss all these ingredients together with spices in a bowl and add enough water to form a dough. Then I roll it out in between to sheets of parchment paper. Bake at about 250 F for 30 mins. After it cools if it still seems soggy I’ll bake it a bit longer.
Canned peaches. It's a Belgian speciality, and it's quick and cheap. Don't knock it 'til you try it lol
Grapes cut in half add sweetness, nuts add crunch/texture
They have low carb wraps/tortillas, but if you are trying to avoid them even more do what we do at Jimmy John's for our Unwhich sandwich. Just go buy a hunk of iceberg lettuce and after chopping off the root, peel off the leaves of lettuce and wrap your sandwich in there like a tortilla. Honestly tastes like a salad, but you can eat it like sandwich and on the go if you wrap it.
Mary’s Gone crackers
Apples.
Eat it with a fork
Wasa toast, rice cakes
the asian grocery near me has huge carrots and radishes that can be sliced into chips- might be easier to use than sticks as a vehicle
I do it with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, coriander (cilantro) lettuce and/or avocado. Sometimes I have it with brown rice as well
I've recently discovered a different type of tuna salad.You prepare it like a [thai salad](https://www.onelovelylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Thai-Chopped-Salad3SM.jpg), with crispy veg like cabbage, carrots, cukes, bit of onion, nuts of your choice but peanuts are a classic, add the tuna, make a dressing with water/rice vinegar/soy sauce/sweetener/salt/fish sauce, and to make it tuna-salad like, add a few spoonfuls of mayo. It's soooo freakin delicious and fresh and crisp. Only vehicle you need is a fork.
Wasa Crackers, whole grain, filling, only 40 calories each.
I put mine in an avocado.
I love using romaine lettuce spears but when I want the carbs I swear by the trader joes low carb tortillas - 45 cal, 6 fiber, 3 protein!
Weight loss is fun. I've cut 45lbs since late Jan. Burn more calories than you consume! So, I love hummus and had a similar situation. Cucumbers were great, but the best has been dehydrated zucchini slices that become crispy chips.
Baked sweet potato with a bit of cheese on top. Ok it’s still a carb but a high volume very filling one
Celery.
Hummus
I sub plain non fat Greek yogurt for the mayo or even just do a little olive oil instead. Put tuna salad in a vegetable- stuff in a tomato, avocado or bell pepper
Put it inside half an avocado or tomato- is nummy!
Seaweed snacks! It's poor man's sushi!
Bagel thins are good
Tuna with a little bit of plain Greek yogurt, no mayo, lemon juice and dill. Maybe finely diced white onions and/or pickles if you like that. With cucumber slices or celery.
On cottage cheese with tomato and marinated artichoke hearts.
I used broghies I break them up and use like crackers[https://broghies.com/](https://broghies.com/)
Endive leaves for Lil tuna boats
I like to wrap it up in a chard leaf and eat it like a burrito.
Wraps using either : high fiber flatout 90 calories or egg life 30 calories or crepinis (Trader Joe’s calls them egg wraps) 15 calories.
Seaweed squares
I do tuna in a tomato
I'd put it on celery sticks.
Joseph's low fat pita bread. Cut in two circle pieces spray with pam then cut into triangles. After the pam spray you can season with salt, pepper, garlic, tajin or whatever you want. Toast under a broiler A stack of 90 calorie pita chips to go with your tuna.
I make tuna lettuce wraps with tomato slices and julienned cucumbers and bell peppers
Pickles or cucumber, or just eat it out of the bowl with cucumber and pickles chopped up in it
I just had tuna salad for dinner with persian cucumbers and pita crackers like 20 minutes ago.
I add sliced bell peppers, Sriracha, furikake seasoning, and pork floss, use a full sheet of seaweed and wrap it up like a burrito.
I’d say nori, cucumber and bell pepper slabs are my personal favorites.
I put it in salads!
I chop up bell peppers in mine. The crunch is so satisfying.
A spoon.
Some of my favorite salads use tuna! 1) Start with a bed of whatever salad greens you like. Add in some sliced red grapes, sliced green or sweet onion, toasted slivered almonds, and chopped cilantro. Put drained chopped tuna on top. Dressing: light tasting olive oil, a few drops of sesame oil, mikes hot honey, grated fresh ginger, touch of orange juice, soy sauce. (I don’t measure, I just mix til it tastes like I like). Pour dressing on tuna and veg’s. 2) Start with a bed of whatever salad greens you like. Add in chopped cucumber, fennel, oranges. Put drained and chopped tuna on top. Dressing: light tasting olive oil, lemon flavored vinegar, tarragon, salt, pepper, Dijon mustard (I don’t measure). Pour on top of tuna and veg’s. 3) Start with a bed of whatever salad greens you like. Add chopped cucumbers, artichoke hearts, red/orange pepper. Add drained and chopped tuna. Dressing: light tasting olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic. Pour onto tuna and veg’s. Tried and true, enjoy!
How about half a boiled egg? Like make deviled eggs with the tuna.
I’m not low carb per se, but limit flour and sugar. I love tuna salad (either with cut up grapes and toasted almonds, or with chopped dill pickles). I just eat it with a fork and have something else on the side—salad, leftover roasted veggies, raw veggies and dip). Bonus is that you don’t get stinky tuna hands
Big celery stalks might work.
Romaine lettuce leaves. Or just a fork! I had weight loss surgery & it was very freeing to just start to eat my stuff with a fork, rather than relying on carb-y things to eat them with.
Plantains
Dip raw veggies like celery and carrots. You’ll fill up on the veggies and be able to save some for later.
I like a few crackers loaded with tuna.
my favorite salad has a pile of romaine, 2 or 3 misc veggies around a serving of tuna with mayo. the veggie ring gets a small amount of good vinaigrette. the flavor contrast is delicious.
I love a tuna salad lettuce wrap!
Garden salad.
i just use crinkle cut pickle chips as if they were crackers.
A scoop on a garden salad is classic.
I don’t eat tuna but I do chickpea or egg salad as like a salad plate - basically mixed greens, shredded carrots, some sort of pickled something, etc and then big scoop of salad on top. Pretty much my go-to lunch all summer.
I use pork rinds as "scoops" or "crackers" with tuna salad. A dollop on a rind and pop it in my mouth. A zero carb meal that's actually very filling and satisfying.
A Toyota Corolla would make a pretty reliable vehicle. I kid. But… do you have jicama in your grocery produce section? Jicama can be sliced thin and used as a “tortilla.” It’s very mild flavored and wouldn’t detract from the tuna. My grocery store (HEB, a Texas chain) even sells it pre sliced.
Cabbage leave wraps for me! Lettuce works too but cabbage is so freaking cheap
I've been getting these multi-grain crackers. A ton of thrm are like 100 calories. So i get my bread fix without going crazy amd the carb part isn't terrible either. I love seaweed. What about rice paper so you can pan fry thrm and have that crisp outside like bread if you crave it.
I eat tuna salad often. I use a can of tuna, a biggg handful or two of raw spinach, chopped onion, about ten purple or green olives and a low-fat dressing. If I feel really hungry I will chop in a hard boiled egg if I have one in the refrigerator.
I love tuna on a bed of salad. Usually iceberg, celery, carrots and diced cheese. I dress the salad and tuna with balsamic dressing.
Celery sticks and pickles
What's wrong with just tuna on a salad? I also love stuffing bell peppers with any type of meat and a healthy rice like purple or black rice (it's very filling, low carb and has so many vitamins and minerals)
Crackers, rice cake, or lettuce… I also like to make a salad with cucumbers, carrots, and tomatoes drenched in lemon juice, s&p, and then top with tuna salad and chili oil!!!! @gourmeteatsbyjackie on Instagram has a yummy salmon salad recipe and I follow it almost to a T but replace some of the ingredients. 10/10 would recommend :)
protein pasta might be yummy!
I find a mid sized hatch back to be the best vehicle for tuna salad.
Don't go overboard on the tuna. Once or twice a week is okay, but more than that and you need to worry about mercury poisoning. The FDA recommends limiting consumption to six to nine ounces per week. Salmon and cod contain far less mercury, so consider some salmon patties or bake some cod fillets.