Tinned tuna salad worries me.

I'm trying to find a variety of healthy, low-calorie but also
convenient lunches to take to school/work. I can't afford the ton of
calories and fat in a pack of hot rods and fritos with cheese sauce.

So I found some packs involving a tin of tuna salad and some crackers
to eat it on. It was very tasty, but one thing concerned me today as I
opened the tinned tuna salad...

The tin was exactly the size and shape as the tin of Grilled Tuna Fancy
Feast that I opened for kitties' breakfast this morning.

dnr...

ROFL...I know *exactly* what you found (they sell for about $1 @ BigLots
chains) for lunch....now that would only make *me* hungrier, and never hold
me till the next meal (just a snack-size treat, it is), but I've tried it

Enfilade...

When you put in a bunch of carrot sticks and a piece of cheese and a
can of veggie juice, it's enough to keep me until the next class ends.
I find I eat three mini-meals at school instead of a breakfast and a
lunch. The challenge is to make the three mini-meals not add up to
more than 900 calories, because I'm going to have a 500 calorie dinner
and a 100 calorie cup of soy milk when I get home. My old mini-meal of
a pack of hot rods, fritos and cheese sauce, and a pepsi, was 700
calories just by itself--and did nothing to give me any veggies or
fruit.

(canned
tuna salad is not very tasty, but harmless to consume) and I don't think
- at least I hope - the cat food canners have nothing to do with the
name brand making those different-flavored little "snack" lunch things.
BTW, the one that made me nervous was the "egg salad" one (canned
egg salad? urk, I thought) but although bad-tasting, is also harmless.

Enfilade...

I never saw egg salad...these are made by Clover Leaf, teh company that
makes the tinned tuna.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)...

LOL! Just be sure you look closely at the label before you
start eating it! Although actually cat food is perfectly
wholesome and wouldn't hurt you, it's just the idea of it.
(I remember, back during the 1960's, being revolted by a
couple of hipies sitting on a bench waiting for a bus - each
with a can of dog food and a fork!)

jmcquown...

I had a recipe for homemade "cat food" which sounds like something I would
dream of making for myself. Fillet of sole, broiled, flaked then served
with a mild cheese sauce. I swear, I'd eat it with a side of linguini and a

Monique Y. Mudama...

Just don't eat tuna every day. I've heard anecdotal stories of people
losing their memory -- to the point that alzheimer's was suspected --
due to eating canned tuna as part of their daily diet. It's the
mercury ...

good white wine!

Marina...

My niece routinely eats cat kibble as a treat. She is 17 and has been
doing it most of her life. It doesn't seem to hurt her (in fact, it
probably does less damage to her than it can do to a cat). I remember

Helen Miles...

My cousins and I used to routinely eat dog Bonio biscuits as kids. We
used to take one for the dog and steal one for us. They taste OK. Bit
dry maybe... ;o)

Helen M

said niece tasting my cats' food once when she was around 3 or 4.

dnr...

ROFL, Evelyn...that was long before the stereotype of
old destitute folks eating cat food, right?
I can't stand it any longer: *what* are "hot rods"?

Wayne Mitchell...

And the Fancy Feast probably tastes just as good, too. So,
whether you're feeding yourself or your cats, it doesn't really
matter which you open. That way, you can really keep the
moochers guessing; they won't know whether they're begging for
your food or their own.

CatNipped...

As someone else here pointed out, you really shouldn't eat tuna every day.
The mercury contained in it is not enough to hurt if you eat it once in a
while (it metabolizes out of the body after a while), but if you let it
build up day after day it can cause serious damage.

William Hamblen...

When I was a child I ate tuna sandwiches practically every day at
school, which probably explains things. :) This was long before
anyone thought of mercury in fish. I still eat tuna, but not nearly
as often.

cybercat...

Anything but farm-raised fish is suspect as far as I am concerned, and
you really never know about farm-raised, either.

Enfilade...

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

I only eat tinned tuna about once a month. I will make a note to use
these tuna lunches as occasional variety, not weekly staples.

dnr...

Yeah, everything's bad for you...from week to week different
things...I will continue to drink coffee till my RB trip, thank you,
whether I have that pesky gene or not.

Christina Websell...

Gross. Could I ask why you have to buy things to take to work for lunch?
why don't you make yourself some sandwiches or home made soup or something
to take to work? What a waste of money to buy a load of rubbish to eat when
you can make something far nicer yourself in ten minutes or less and much
cheaper.

Christina Websell...

Yes, it's much nicer if you use a stock of some kind. It depends if you are
a vegetarian or not. If you aren't and have had a meat meal with gravy,
make extra for your soup. You can use stock cubes but it's not as good.
Except if they are Knorr stock cubes which are brilliant.
Throw everything in, peas, all left over vegs, half tin chick peas add veg
from freezer like leeks if you want. It's tastes nicer for a non veggie if
it has some meat\gravy blended in. You could live on this soup if you had
to.
Have a go at using your blender for soups, unless you prefer to eat soups
chunky which I do sometimes.