Your tuna salad ingredients?

[irisblue]

The stuff I add to the drained tuna varies, but the 2cats get the tuna juice.

This batch will have cubed onions, mashed boiled eggs, spicy relish and Hellman's mayo as the binder.

Whole grain bread. If I don't use eggs, I'll make a tuna melt with the second sandwich.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Central Grocery's Muffuletta Salad.

Blend a spoon in with your tuna. It was life changing.

[irisblue]

2. I had no bad food in NOLA.

Now I want another trip

[C_U_L8R]

5. Add a side of Wise potato chips

and you got a complete meal : - )

[usonian]

13. I am kind of addicted to Trader Joe's crunchy chips. I have to limit quantities.

They have such crunch. That has to be a big part of the satisfaction.

[tazkcmo]

3. Tuna

And salad!

[MontanaMama]

4. Finest diced celery and red bell pepper for crunch.

capers for a salty bite…good quality mayo with a little bit of Dijon mustard.

[XanaDUer2]

6. Dukes mayo, celery, pickle, pepper nt

[Big Blue Marble]

7. Lemon garlic olives.

Delicious: tuna, mayo, lemon garlic olives.

[Warpy]

8. Canned tuna isn't nearly as much fun without cats howling for the juice

Mine is simple: chopped celery, chopped scallion (white part), tuna, mayo, and lots of freshly ground black pepper. I don't put eggs in it because I never have them around. If I want to get fancy, I'll reconstitute some powdered egg white, microwave it, and cut it up and throw it in, but it really isn't necessary.

Hellman's is Fresh Foods out west. It's the same stuff, same colors on the label, and used to have the same annoying advertising jingle.

[liberalmuse]

9. No recipe here

I just throw in whatever suits me or whatever is available. Sometimes I'll have leftover boiled eggs and throw those in with mayo, mustard, either relish or chopped up pickles, onion, celery if I have it, fresh peppers if available or red pepper flakes and a splash of soy sauce. Dolphin safe tuna is the only meat I eat since I have issues getting enough protein at times.

[kimbutgar]

10. Mayo, and green onions and pepper salt and pepper.

[hippywife]

11. Miracle Whip...

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(I grew up with it and it's what I prefer), chopped onions and celery, chopped hard boiled eggs, sweet pickle relish and the usual salt and pepper.

I only buy mayo when I need to mix up a dip or other recipe where I don't want/need the inherent sweetness of MW. Husband grew up with mayo, but since I've been doing the cooking the past 25+ years, he prefers MW, too.

ETA: kitties have always gotten the water. Also do this with canned salmon, which I use more often than tuna. Haven't bought tuna in probably a year?

[SheltieLover]

12. Diced onion & celery, miracle whip. Topped with green pepper slices & yellow pepper rings

Pepper jack cheese.

Yummmmy!

Black olives & spinach also delic on this

[Jirel]

14. Depends on what I have on hand.

Ultimate? Egg, diced sweet onion, a little relish, good mayo, a drop of food grade lemon essential oil, dill, pepper, celery seed.

In a strange mood? Irish style - top notch tuna, minimal mayo to hold together, raw sweet corn kernels, and slapped on bread with fresh onion and tomato, and shredded cheese.

[usonian]

15. I have a celery problem.

I cook for one. Unless I can get one of those tiny "snack-packs" of celery, a bunch of celery is about 20X too much, and I don't snack on it.

I have been tempted to substitute bok choy (because you can get one small one!) but it's all a work in progress.

I once had a tuna salad (if memory serves me, which it often doesn't) with apples and dried cranberries and mayo.

Pan bagnat is the best, but not for one.

I need someone to help me consume these goodies. I'm single and only 74. Able to hold LeCreuset at arm's length.

[irisblue]

17. Would you mince & freeze celery? Make a cream of celery soup?

I use this one for celery soup

https://www.daringgourmet.com/homemade-cream-celery-soup/#recipe

I too hate throwing aged veggies out or on the compost pile

[usonian]

18. Thanks. I didn't know celery would freeze.

I will look at the soup recipe. Thanks. Celery has glutamates, and some food loads up on celery in various forms as a substitute for MSG. It's flavorful! (but natural)

I'll continue to look for the snack packs and give the baby bok choy a chance. Any remainder of either is great in soup.

[elleng]

22. Pan bagnat sure IS the BEST!

Often had it at lunch place near my old office (near Old Post Office Pavilion, near White House) and now you've reminded me!

[usonian]

24. Oh boy is it ever!

When I worked in Sunnyvale, there was a bakery that made the most wonderful Pan Bagnat sandwiches.
Naturally, it wasn't the only one, but one always has memories.

You know: tuna, green pepper, red onion, hard-boiled eggs, olives, and cucumber and/or tomato with vinaigrette. Optional anchovy. I do remember anchovy. There you go.
Tuna salad (without celery ... other veggies do the job ... ) in a baguette. Hmmmm. Next up?

Trick: order anchovy pizza and you'll have it all to yourself.

[elleng]

25. THANK YOU!

(Hold anchovies on my pizza, please.)

[GPV]

16. Parmesan cheese, onions, celery.

[tishaLA]

19. Onions, celery, mayo, sweet relish...

mayo, parsley or tarragon (if tarragon, no relish). I'm strongly anti-hard boiled eggs with ANYTHING LOL

[Luciferous]

20. I like to add onion, hardboiled eggs, mayo, salt, pepper, and a little dill

[Drum]

21. All of the above are common for me, but sometimes I add a dash of curry powder...

…also works in chicken salad.

I love reading posts in this DU Group!

[applegrove]

23. If I don't have relish can I use chopped Strub's pickles? I've

never tasted relish.

[irisblue]

26. Cut them up small and give it a try.

What could it hurt to try?

[applegrove]

27. What kind of tuna do you use. I use packed in water, not oil.

[irisblue]

28. 95% of the time water pack, calories & cost is cheaper mostly

[applegrove]

29. Thanks.

[irisblue]

30. 🫂

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

31. I'm boring. Canned tuna -- in water, why would you buy anything else?

rinsed and patted dry. Mayonnaise. And that's it. Oh, and I only use it for a sandwich on toast. Mayonnaise on the toast, of course. And potato chips. Honestly, keep it simple.

[hippywife]

32. When supply chains were disrupted...

I couldn't get tuna in water, so I bought it in oil. That's what I grew up on, so figured it wasn't too terrible. And it wasn't.

[Trailrider1951]

33. I guess I'm the weird one here, as I hate both mayo (also Miracle Whip) and boiled eggs

I make mine with water-pack tuna, diced onions and celery, diced dill pickles and red bell peppers (if I have them). Sometimes I even add thinly sliced baby carrots. Mix with lots of black pepper and ranch dressing as the binder. I like to serve it on a toasted onion roll with iced tea with lemon on the side. This makes a perfect lunch or light dinner. Now I'm hungry!

[spinbaby]

34. It depends

Kewpie mayonnaise is a must, then random crunchy veg—celery, scallions, peppers, even carrots. Hard boiled egg if I happen to have it around. Usually something in the pickled family—relish, chopped pickles, maybe olives. It’s all very freeform.

[Marthe48]

35. Onion, egg, celery, olives, mayo, seasoning

Onion, celery and eggs are chopped, either green or black olives. I'll add black pepper, garlic and onion powder. In water-packed, drained tuna.

It is a nice treat.