High Protein Tuna Salad
This is the High Protein Tuna Salad is made without mayo rather has Greek yogurt and cottage cheese and packs 50 grams of protein. It is an excellent salad for weight loss and building muscle. You can also use this as a dip and serve with crackers if desired.
You may also like my Imitation Crab Meat Salad or Healthy Ham Salad
Why you’ll love it
My High Protein Tuna Salad is just the start of my high protein recipes; I will be sharing more over the coming months for you all. I too, have been learning to enjoy more healthier versions of the regular tuna salads in order to lose some weight and tone up.
And this salad is the ultimate healthy and high protein salad that will help you on either your weight loss or lean muscle gain journey!
You can sweeten this Best High Protein Tuna Salad with either chunks of apple if desired.
WHY EAT A HIGH PROTIEN DIET FOODS
Since protein takes longer to digest eating high protein foods, helps to aide in weight loss and at the same time build lean muscles. Which ultimately provide you will sustainable energy and fuel to take on the day!
Recommended Protein Intake for Weight Loss
- General Guidelines: Aim for 1.6 to 2.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight (or 0.73 to 1 gram per pound) per day, says NASM.
WILL HIGH PROTIEN DIET CAUSE CONSTIPATION
Yes, it can. However if you incorporate high fiber foods such as apples and drink your daily intake of water you should be doing okay!
HIGH PROTIEN TUNA SALAD FOR WEIGHT LOSS
This recipe is the ultimate salad for weight loss as the tuna, Greek yogurt and cottage cheese is high in protein and the veggies are low calorie.
How To Make High Protein Tuna Salad without Mayo
- You will want to start with a high quality sustainable can of tune
- Open and strain out all the liquid, if you have cat’s give them a little treat 🙂
- Then place the tuna into a large bowl
- Add in the cottage cheese, yogurt and mustard into the bowl
- Diced up the celery and cucumber and season well
- Toss and serve as is or with crackers or over toasted toast!
HOW LONG DOES TUNA SALAD LAST IN THE FRIDGE
You can save this in a air tight container and enjoy up to 3 days!
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High Protein Tuna Salad
Ingredients
- 1 can of tuna
- 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt
- 1 celery stalk, diced fine
- 1/4 cucumber diced fine,
- 2 tbsp mustard
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Start by staining all the liquid out of the can of tuna and place in a large bowl
- Add in the cottage cheese, yogurt and mustard into the bowl
- Diced up the celery and cucumber and season well
- Toss and serve as is or with crackers or over toasted toast!
Notes
You can sweeten this Best High Protein Tuna Salad with either chunks of apple if desired.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 215Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 48mgSodium: 1019mgCarbohydrates: 7gFiber: 1gSugar: 4gProtein: 33g
These calculations are based off Nutritionix