Hey, at least you don't have to share!

Thanks for the tip! I love tuna salad, but always ruin it with Miracle Whip, sweet relish and apples. Delicious, but not as healthy as it could be. :)

How much mustard do you add to a (5 oz?) can?

Agreeing with others on the mercury thing. Albacore tuna is really high up there on the list and the FDA recommends no more than 6 ounces of it per week. Light tuna has a lot less. But it still bioaccumulates as you eat more and more of it. LOL and I won't even get into the BPA in canned foods. But to reduce mercury exposure, you could alternate albacore with light tuna, salmon and chicken.

I'm cracking up because my 20 month old son Sam is the same way with food. He loves to chew up bites of apples and oranges and then open his mouth and let them fall out for the dog. He also takes food out of his mouth and hands it to me or puts it on my plate. This tuna idea sounds awesome, thank you for the tip!

That's awesome! Ok I like Tuna but with mustard, I'll leave that alone just so you can have more, sacrifice.

Heather, I was wondering if you meant what you implied about Marlo and Coco. I should have known that it wasn't an oversight - your perfectly crafted ending made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that! When one of my nieces was little she used to kiss her dog on the lips all the time. Ew.

Since everyone is focusing on the tuna and not the canine, let me join the fray. I've read that sardines, or whatever we here in the USA get that are labeled "sardines," are better in terms of mercury levels and sustainability because they're lower on the food chain . While I've eaten amazing fresh sardines in Portugal, I haven't yet been able to make the switch to the canned ones.

GingerPeach, thanks for the tip about the kale chips, they sound great!

If only you had a doghouse for Marlo to climb into and eat the dog food right out of Coco's dish!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokenblogger/37109124...

(My son at 18 months old.)

I like to have lemon juice and capers in my tuna... but I do eat tuna in moderation, due to the fishing issue and the mercury... UGH.
Monterey Bay Aquarium fish guide to the rescue!!
Okay, it's actually the Seafood Watch Program.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch...
But it means the same thing.

I applaud what you are doing with the healthy life style and all but I hate tuna, I hate fish. They never have to worry about me making any of them unsustainable. If I had tuna in my mouth, I would hope my dog would rescue me by eating it off my tongue. Did appreciate the person who mentioned turkey or chicken in a can. Must look into that. That mustard looks mighty tasty though. Will you please share a link or are you gonna make me search for it?

I too have recently discovered how yummy tuna is. I use the P90X tuna salad recipe for lunch 2X each week.

1 can chunk light tuna in water
lemon zest
squeeze of lemon
sprinkle of Mrs. Dash
1/4 shredded carrot or celery
1 tbs. light mayo

Mix together. Yum!

I love my tuna with just enough plain yogurt to make it creamy, chopped red onion, chopped cucumber, and a pinch of garlic salt and pepper to taste. I put it on a whole grain Wasa cracker. Dee-lish!

tuna's also good with a nice chunky (fat free!) salsa too!!!

http://i.imgur.com/yLRRr.jpg

This is kinda funny... Only because my mom is going to Belize next month so over the weekend she said she was going to eat tuna every day for lunch. I told her she shouldn't do that because she would get Mercury poisoning. What's that she asked. So I had to explain it to her, then I proceeded to tell her the other options such as canned chicken. hehe... So as I was reading this, It brought me back to our conversation. Now I feel bad that everyone has hounded you about your tuna intake and it's probably annoying. But I think it's all out of love. I think it's quite funny, really, not in a funny haha way, but funny queer - Everyone loves you apparently!

Dulcet's curried ketchup totally kicks butt! It isn't good on tuna - but is GREAT on all sorts of ketchupy foods.

To add to the tuna fray, EXCEPT from the opposite end:

There was a study not long ago, (sorry, don't have the link), that compared British children with American children, at 3, 5 then 7 years of age. From what I understand, Britain don't have the same warnings against mercury-containing-fish that America does, or at least, they eat more fish nonetheless. Ideally you eat fish to boost your brain power, but with the mercury Americans are avoiding it, especially during pregnancy. What to do?

According to the study, the British kids were ahead of the American kids in each of the age groups, in social, emotional, mental, intellectual development. It turns out that the Americans were unintentionally creating the scenario they were trying to avoid. It was better to eat fish (at least the safer fish) than avoid them altogether.

So I ate sushi and sashimi while I was pregnant, mostly salmon but sometimes a little tuna. (I hate canned tuna - yuck! - but love raw tuna, go figure. And I was a picky-eater-kid.) So there! Nyah! But I did try to avoid the high-mercury ones.