Crunchy Tuna Salad with Fiber One

In my opinion, tuna salad was made to crunch. My mom always prepared it with mayo and tons (I mean tons!) of chopped celery and onions on a sesame roll. Besides from the resulting bad breath it was great. Now out of the comforts of my childhood innocence about how many calories that sandwich contained, I've omitted the mayo and the roll, and I prefer my tuna in salads as opposed to 'tuna salad'. (To clarify, I mix tuna in a salad of mixed greens, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc). But much to my dismay, I am a horrible celery chopper. Maybe that trait skips a generation? It takes me forever, and the pieces are either too big or are too measley to add significant crunch. When I take the time and make a tuna salad for dinner I take the time to struggle through my disability (haha) but more often than not I am faced with two problems: 1. who has time all that often? 2. And many times I make the salad ahead of time, bring it to work for lunch, and add the tuna there from one of those handy dandy no-fridge-necessary packets- you can't chop celery there (it would take up my whole lunch break!) and even if you have celery in the actual salad, it doesn't really take to mixing with the tuna all that well.

Many times I sucked it up and somewhat unhappily ate my unsatisfying mushy salad (you know tuna with greens and tomatoes etc. Well, I'm sort of lying, crunchy vegs are in there such as broccoli and peppers, but it in no way makes the overall salad crunchy.) When foods don't have a certain crunch factor, I don't feel like I've eaten as much and don't feel full.

And then one day I had brought fiber one for a snack, and I decided to mix in the fiber one with my salad when I added the tuna. WOAH MAMA my problems were solved! I added 1/2 c fiber one (it was a large salad haha) and it added crunch to every bite! Plus, it added an very interesting taste that in my opinion makes the tuna taste slightly less overpowering allowing it to complement the taste of the vegetables better. The extra boost of fiber also keeps me fuller longer. And the best, best part of all is that it solves all of my problems! It's quick and easy, I can easily add it to salads at work, and I can repress the fact that I will never be able to chop celery. Since the fiber one is easily transportable in a little baggie college students can even bring it with them down to the dining hall and add it to a salad made there.

I usually only add 1/4 c of fiber one (30 calories, 7 g of fiber) for every 3 oz or so of tuna and you can either mix it all in the beginning or what I like to do is mix in half at the beginning and then half a little bit later in the eating process. It's important to add it right before eating otherwise, like most carb things, will get soggy. For all those vegans, people who don't like tuna, etc., do not fret: you can use fiber one to top any salad! Hope this makes some of you a delicious salad!