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I have mentioned before that lunch always seems to be the worst meal of the day for me. It is very difficult to find inspiration, as I’m somewhat of a picky eater. I prefer to avoid using meat for lunches, because I want to save that stuff for dinner. I think our grocery budget would have to be much higher if we were eating meat at least twice a day, and I don’t want to increase it!
This tuna pasta is a simple lunch recipe. Richard hates canned tuna, so I make this for myself every once in awhile. It actually tastes better if it has been sitting in the fridge for a few hours, but it’s also very tasty eaten right away.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups elbow macaroni pasta
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- dash of salt
- dash of pepper
- 1 can tuna
- sprinkle of fresh or dried parsleyInstructions:
1. Cook pasta, rinse until cool, set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, mix mayonnaise, salt, pepper, parsley and tuna.
3. Add cooked pasta to mayonnaise mixture and stir to combine.
4. Serve and enjoy!Serves 2.
I have substituted canned flake chicken instead of tuna in my pasta salad since my husband and kids do not like tuna. It taste really good.
Pasta salad is a staple at our house when vine tomatoes (or homegrown) and broccoli are on sale. Whole wheat pasta (partial to bowties but anything works!), steamed broccoli chopped roughly, tomatoes in fairsized chunks and tuna. Pour over dressing made with olive oil, vinegar, salt, garlic powder, oregano, basil and parsley. Pepper would be good too, but I can’t eat it.
By volume there would be as much non-pasta stuff as pasta ie for one 340g box of pasta I use about 8 tomatoes and 6-8 crowns of broccoli with three or four cans of tuna. We all love it the first night still warm!
You just saved me a lot of trouble having to think of what to make for lunch
Thanks!
Elie – I sometimes add a bit of celery for crunch.
I make this all the time, I just add a can of drained sweetcorn and one chopped onion for some extra crunch! Delicious!
Michelle – Oooh your tuna salad sounds yummy! I think I am going to experiment a bit with mine the next time I make it.
Lori – I always say I am going to plan our lunches and then I never do. I really need to get on that!
Made some tuna patties for lunch today.. I make tuna pasta salad too.. but add in some tomatoes, green onions, green peppers and little tomato ketchup and hot sauce.
I find lunch tricky too. More so because It’s like I have just cleaned up from breakfast and it’s like time to make lunch already and I don’t want to mess up the kitchen again. Haha – then, dinner all over again!
I plan for lunches in our meal plan, this way, I am never sitting there for minutes on end wondering what to make. As well, We buy giant bags of chicken breaded from costco which I have on hand for lazy lunches, with carrot sticks and celery. O loves it (: