Tuna = The
Best Food For Bodybuilders
by Matt Ryan
Tuna is a great food, but like anything you get a little sick of it after awhile.
If you are new to bodybuilding or do not know much about nutrition, you might not realize how much protein is in tuna and how much it can benefit you. Cans of tuna vary in its nutritional value but you can find cans that contain up to about 30gms protein, 1gms carbs, 0 fats per 100gm. Look for tuna in brine or spring water, stay away from tuna in oil because that is full of fat. Also tuna is an inexpensive food, I live in Australia and a 100gm can costs about $1.30, that would be about 70 cents US. So it's cheap and an easy way of increasing your daily protein intake by adding 1 or 2 cans a day.
Here are some ideas that you may want to consider next time you open that same old can of tuna.
Tuna Ideas
1. Just eat tuna on it's own in a container either cold or warmed up in the microwave.
2. Tuna sandwiches. You can fit about 100gms of tuna on a sandwich, add some shredded lettuce, tomato, whatever vegetables you like and maybe a few shakes of pepper for a bit of spice.
3. Tuna salad. Again very simple, just put what ever amount of tuna you wish to eat into a bowl, shred some lettuce, grate some carrot, dice up some tomato and even add little chopped up pieces of cheese and add pepper if desired. Mix all this round in the bowl and you will have a great tasting tuna salad.
4. Fish cakes. This is a great one for dinner or a weekend lunch, the amount of tuna you use depends on how many fish cakes you want.
INGREDIENTS: To make about 8-10: 425gms tuna (large tuna can) 2 eggs, roughly 80-100gms cooked rice and bread crumbs.
METHOD: Mix all ingredients into a bowl - it's very similar to making burgers. You need to make sure you have a good consistency then divide up the mixture by getting small hand fulls and rolling them into balls, making sure there are no cracks, then flatten out like a burger. You have now successfully made fish cakes.
COOKING They can either be cooked under a grill or in the oven.
5. Toasted tuna sandwiches (my favorite). If you have a toasted sandwich maker it's a great quick snack or meal. Just put tuna and some grated cheese inside, this melts onto the tuna and is a very tasty sandwich.
As you can see you don't need to be a chef to make any of these meals. They are quick and simple and taste great.
Hopefully I have given you at least one new idea for preparing tuna that will keep you going and stop the boredom of plain old tuna day after day.