20 Cans of Tuna

[akcire]

Okay Everybody

Here is your challenge. Come up with some sort of recipe that I can use 10 or 20 cans of Tuna. I hate Tuna. I will never eat Tuna. I bought Starkist Tuna for 34 cents a can today, and figure I can use it to cook at the Ronald McDonald House.

So I know you Budget Minded folks will have some great ideas. If I don't get any good ideas I will just donate the Tuna to the food pantry, or give it to a teenage trick-or-treater.

thanks in advance

 

[mrsklamc]

I can only think of 3 things:

1) can tuna + cooked noodles + cream of whatever soup for tuna casserole.

2)combine tuna w/ egg and crackers into a patty and fry

3) tuna and egg salad.

 

[dzorn]

Tuna fish sandwiches only one I know I don't eat tuna either.

Denise in MI

http://starkist.com/recipe/classic-tuna-noodle-casserole?gclid=COaf2vq9oqsCFc9n5QodHQxTkQ

My MIL makes something similar to this

http://www.hellmanns.us/recipe_detail.aspx?RecipeID=2211&Version=1

 

[Tree]

we love tuna in our house. We have it as a meal 1-2 times a month.

Tuna muffins, Tuna and Tomato skillet lare favorite go to recipes.

 

[hbsprite]

Okay Everybody

Here is your challenge. Come up with some sort of recipe that I can use 10 or 20 cans of Tuna. I hate Tuna. I will never eat Tuna. I bought Starkist Tuna for 34 cents a can today, and figure I can use it to cook at the Ronald McDonald House.

So I know you Budget Minded folks will have some great ideas. If I don't get any good ideas I will just donate the Tuna to the food pantry, or give it to a teenage trick-or-treater.

thanks in advance

Where did you get tuna for $.34 per can?

 

[PatsMom]

Where did you get tuna for $.34 per can?

Great question! We love tuna fish sandwiches. And it is also a great item to donate to food pantries - canned meat and fish is in big demand.

 

[Pigeon]

I like tuna sandwiches or tuna melts, but that's about it. Tuna caserole is disgusting.

 

[Gr8t Fan]

Great question! We love tuna fish sandwiches. And it is also a great item to donate to food pantries - canned meat and fish is in big demand.

This!

 

[*pixie*dust*]

1. We drain it really well and use it in stir fry.

2. Or use tuna instead of crab to make "tuna cakes".

3. Its also great in mac & cheese

4. My co-worker makes "tuna loaf" -- same recipe as her meatloaf but with tuna instead of ground beef.

5.Make it like spinach & artichoke dip but with tuna & spinach

6. Tuna tacos -with tuna, cole or broccoli slaw and oriental dressingon corn tortillas (yum)

 

[MSSANDRA]

Remember at LOT of people hate tuna (me too) so that might not be the best choice to fix for a group of people you do not know and that will include a lot of children and even children prone to nausea. Maybe just donate the cans to the house and families that like it could fix a can or two for lunch. THUMBS up for helping out this wonderful organization!!! DS spent three months in a children's hospital and we learned what an important job these houses serve!

 

[akcire]

Remember at LOT of people hate tuna (me too) so that might not be the best choice to fix for a group of people you do not know and that will include a lot of children and even children prone to nausea. Maybe just donate the cans to the house and families that like it could fix a can or two for lunch. THUMBS up for helping out this wonderful organization!!! DS spent three months in a children's hospital and we learned what an important job these houses serve!

Don't worry as a "tuna hater" myself I would never just make a Tuna dish. I volunteer at my local house quite frequently, and the joke is that on nights I cook (about once a month) they can feed off the leftovers for the rest of the week.

I have been doing it for a long time, and have a large network of companies that donate product for the nights I cook. So I literally show up with an entire car full of food. I just thought the tuna would be something different, and just because I don't like it doesn't mean other people will not.

 

[akcire]

Where did you get tuna for $.34 per can?

Menards (a home improvement store) had a 10 can pack of Tuna for $7.98 with a $4.00 mail in rebate. They do occassional "crazy days" sale. They also had boxes of Quaker granola bars for 98 cents a box.

I bought 10 boxes (100 bars) of granola bars to hand out at Halloween. My mom went with and was so happy about the price of tuna I bought some too. My mother just eats it on sandwiches and feeds it to her cat.

 

[squirrel]

Tuna wraps to go with soup.

I'm picky about my canned tuna-has to be solid white. I like making tuna wraps, but everyone else wouldn't like mine as I don't like mayo or any dressing.

My mom mixes tuna with mayo (maybe green onion) and then speads it on a tortilla places pickles in a row and wraps. For parties she even suran wraps them whole and then the day of the party slices them into pinwheels.

 

[tinker&belle]

I agree with the poster that said it might not be something to make for the only main dish for a Ronald McDonald night since most people have a pretty strong feeling about tuna one way or the other. However it would be GREAT to bring to the Ronald McDonald House with you to leave for the families. When we stayed there with my younger DD they had a pantry with food availabe for the families to cook for themselves.

 

[Best Aunt]

Open can. Dump tuna onto plate. Put plate on floor.

- My cat's favorite tunafish recipe

 

[marmalade]

4. My co-worker makes "tuna loaf" -- same recipe as her meatloaf but with tuna instead of ground beef.

This is probably one of the grossest things I have ever heard.

 

[Evi]

Open can. Dump tuna onto plate. Put plate on floor.

- My cat's favorite tunafish recipe

I love that recipe... to bad shes not feeding cats. I also don't like tuna but I'm sure a good google search will give you some ideas.

Wait I have one recipe its not exact but you saute onions, garlic, green pepper then add soaked canneloni beans cook till soft but not mushy, drain and set to cool reserving small amount of liquid. Purree a small amount of beans with reserved liquid like you only need 2-3 tblspoons of this combo once blended. You then add capers, olives and some cherry tomatoes and the tuna blend with olive oil a splash of white or white wine vinager, salt pepper to taste toss. Serve over bed of lettuce top with slices very thing red onion and parsley.

This is one of those things my mom used to make when she was dieting when we were little. Also kind of a typical spanish way of eating tuna. Remember don't over cook the beans. Techincally you could used canned beans I just hate how canned beans taste but you are making it in large quantities so that could be easier & way faster.

 

[Sagginit]

tuna melts? my mother loves that, its a comfort food type thing. you could make that and serve it with fries, a veggie. for the people that don't want tuna you could make something that goes with it like french dip sandwiches or open face turkey sandwiches.

i don't eat tuna so i'm at a loss. i would also suggest whole living and real simple's websites for recipes.

 

[MSSANDRA]

What a great volunteer you are! I am sure there is someone there that will find tuna the exact comfort food that they needed that day!

 

[disykat]

In honor of this thread we had "tuna burgers" tonight. (basically tuna melts on a hamburger bun)