Would like to see how many of you here committing in 95g @ 90c Coles tuna as lunch over 5 days.
Any ill effects so far ?
Or should i go for 185g can @ $1.60 feels fuller.. or is that too much for daily causing mercury poisoning.
90c Coles Tuna for Lunch Everyday
dcep on 02/07/2018 - 13:45
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- 15Yes! Tuna everyday = House deposit
- 27YOLO ! Smashed avo all the way.
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I've eaten tuna on brown rice, 5 days per week at work for over a decade. Stick with 95g and pad out with cherry tomatoes, avocado and walnuts.
Cheap, fast to make, super healthy and delicious.
I eat Aldi tuna which in my books is every bit as good as Ozbargain's preferred Sirena.
and pad out with cherry tomatoes, avocado and walnuts.
I'm pretty sure if OP could afford this, they'd be able to just afford smashed avo every day…
I pad out a bigger tin with chickpeas (80c), 1/2 red onion (50c), 1/2c corn (?50c) jalapeños, S&P. Serve with brown rice. Lasts 5 lunches would say about $1.20/serve.
Why not mix it up with canned salmon or chicken? I feel like tuna 5 days a week every week is risky. This is my opinion though and I actually have no idea if it’s safe or not.
Ideally, heat it up in the microwave.
At work? If I work with OP I would prefer he does not do that. or is this sarcasm I yet again fail to detect?
Surely the smell would increase the whole workplace's productivity as they imagined a tasty fish lunch.
And on the weekend they will look forward to another upcoming 5 days of fishy aroma.
Only if he takes it out of the tin first.
Skip lunch completely
You cod do better.
I can think of a better option for his budget.if you can think of a better option then let minnow
This post smells fishy. OP must be baiting.
thanks for putting OP back in his plaice oops beaten below.
But he's got no plaice for that. Life is roughy when you're on a bass salary, you have to hake each day as it comes.
all these fish puns are kraken me
They're just fishing for upvotes.
I'll see myself out 🚪🚶
Eel be alright!
You might die from embarrassment if your colleagues find out.
you should invest in some breath mints if you're going to eat that much tinned tuna
When they go on special, get Sirena tuna. Night and day difference between Coles Brand, Greenseas and John West.
They say the tins contains bpa that can leech into your foods.
I don't know enough to say whether that's true or actually harmful for your health.. But i think the recommendation is you limit your intake per week (certainly not 5 days a week)
I think tuna (baby tuna) has less mercury so that's probably less of an issue.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0265203050016367…
Sounds like we should avoid heating it in the can as this increases BPA migration.
This has been discussed here before and the truth is that nobody knows the long-term effects of anything you eat. It's easier to diagnose people that fish next door to factories than to expect your average Joe to accurately report what he's eaten for the past 20 years. You'll switch to smashed avo and find out there's a compound in Australian avocados that causes your kids to be (profanity).
Since I'm not a (profanity), I used to eat a 425g can of nasty home-brand tuna a day. Experts that consider the cheap-ass canned varieties of tuna "relatively safe" (compared to the deluxe, larger fresh ones) would still only recommend a fraction of that ONCE a week. This was in the 2000s before BPAs were a thing, so I freaked out and switched to salmon and sardines. It probably did mess me up. But everyone looks kind of messed up as well.
To play it safe you can constantly rotate what you eat but that's no guarantee either (like if there was no internet, or science, you might pointlessly switch to shark to avoid mercury or canned whatever to avoid BPAs).
But I feel I must point out that the cost savings of drained tuna aren't that impressive compared to the price of raw chicken breast for much of the year, especially when you buy the smaller cans. Not that I've done the calculations on protein density (or whatever your reasons are for killing an animal and eating it), but raw chicken might only lose 20% of its weight when cooked so it easily competes with the 70g of grey meat you get in those 90 cent cans. But of course it takes time to cook and time is money, and money buys fish, therefore time is fish.
i searched microwave chicken breast … some says 10-15mins … some says 8 minutes … some says 4 minutes
TUNA LOVELY FOR MY TUMMY YUM YUM
sodium will kill you.
Tin of sardines oil/tomato sauce. 65c aldi.. Way more healthy, way less murcury, alot cheaper and alot more tastier…
Do it right and get it done..
where's aldi's sardines from ?
coles's from vietnam
They are from Aldi.
just went to aldi
they're from thailand
just went to aldi
not sure why it has trans fat <0.1 on all 3 variants - oil/tomato/springwater
i went with springwater as sodium for drained content 270mg vs oil 350mg vs tomato 500+mg
not sure how sardine tastes in springwater though … fishy ?
how sardine tastes in springwater
Bouncy
The tomato sauce one over those tiny cups of aldi brown rice (white if u want) Is a lunch i eat alot. Tastes great
Cheap sardines always taste more fishy and salty. Sometimes bitter.
In the past we only had Brunswick as an alternative (sometimes on special). But in recent years, all the supermarkets have been stocking generic brisling sardines, which are pretty fancy (similar to John West). But at $1.40 a can it's more of a treat than a money saver.
Based on my experimentation with ALDI's, Woolworths' and Coles' cheaper sardines (59c, 65c and 65c), without sauce, the Coles brand was the least "fishy". But I suppose some people like fishiness.
You will smell like a stereotypical cat though.
If I had to eat tuna every day I'd go insane… Just reading this is depressing
Yea it sounds a bit unhealthy to eat that much tuna on a weekly basis.