I love making tuna, but since I can't have bread or saltine crackers, what can I eat it on? I don't like eating it plain out of the bowl. I've tried making lettuce wraps but they arn't my favorite. Wanting to try something new! Thanks...

I fix tuna almost daily for lunch, its a great protein sourse.

I take a 6 oz can of tuna and squeeze the water out(hate the oil). I add 1 tbsp mayo, dill relish, spicy mustard(to taste). Mix well. I like to put this over 2C salad, you may need to as a touch of water to the tuna mixture to make it a little more spreadable. I dump it on my salad and I love it! When I want to add more oil to my diet, I put 1 tbsp of olive oil over the salad first. Yum!

Fix you some cheese crackers and eat it with them. Good Stuff!

Lisa

There are a few very low carb breadlike products I use:

Flat-Out Lite Wraps (usually found in the deli section of grocery) at 7 net carbs each,
GG Scandinavian Bran Crispbreads at 2 net carbs each,
Toufayan Low Carb Pita Bread, at 7 net carbs each

The second 2 I buy at netrition.
1 serving of one of these a day is the upper limit I place on myself, but in actuality, I try to keep it to 3 or 4 servings at most a week.

But if you're determined to avoid all grains, how about load a celery stick? or cucumber slices as crackers?

I like Endive leaves. They're shaped like canoes.

Don't know where you live, but here in the northeast we can get Joseph's Low Carb Pitas. Only 4 net carbs per generous (but wafer thin) pieces.

I slice them horizontally so I have a circle (saving the second half for the next day). I spread the tuna on top, add a few thinly sliced grape tomatoes, sprinkle on grated sharp cheddar and slide in the toaster oven until the cheese is bubbling. Add a kosher half-sour pickle and -- with fewer than 4 net carbs total -- it's comfort food.

Sometimes for breakfast I smear the circle with mayo, line with freshly cooked bacon, and top with cheese that also gets melted.

Lisa

Pork rinds... Great chip replacement too. I dip them in cheesy nacho dip, or spinach dip. Anything that's fairly low carb. I eat sardines with the pork rinds too.

Hope this helps.

How about a tuna melt (w/o the bread of course). Drain tuna, top with cheese, maybe a little onion or celery, and bake till cheese melts (can also do in microwave or toaster oven). I actually like the taste of "hot tuna" better than tuna at room temperature.

All great ideas. How about in 1/2 red pepper or 1/2 avocado?

Note to self: do not open up tuna threads when you don't have tuna in the house

I do like it out of a bowl! I melt cheddar cheese on top, and call it "Tuna Melt in a Bowl."

I like to make cheese chips, and use them like crackers.
I also like it on top of a salad.

Joseph's pitas are heaven in a bag, lol.
They are my alltime favorite!
In fact, I would eat those even if i wasn't a LCer.

Wow, great ideas! Thank so much I am definitely going to try these

You and me both. I was just thinking about that the other day: how now, if I had my choice between bread and Joseph's, I'd take the pita.

Btw, don't know if you've tried this already, but they make wonderful crackers for dip:

-- Slice 1 Joseph's in half horizontally, so you have two disks.

-- Brush each slice with Olive Oil. Sprinkle with sea salt & freshly ground pepper. [Optional herbs would be garlic and/or onion powder, dried basil, chipotle powder, paprika, etc -- depending on the dip you want them for]

-- Cut each disk into quarters. Cut each quarter into three wedges.

-- Put all 24 wedges onto a cookie or pizza sheet and bake for 2-5 minutes in a 350 oven or toaster oven, until light golden brown. Do two batches if you need to. My toaster oven makes them in 2 minutes, so keep an eye on them. They're so thin they can burn easily.

-- Wedges will completely crisp up within minutes as they cool.

Despite being thin, they will hold an amazing amount of dip when cool, have a great crunch, and will keep in an air-tight container for weeks. 24 wedges = 4 net carbs

Lisa