Tuna Salad Sandwich Power Up

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Transform your average tuna salad sandwich with this Power Up version. This sandwich is packed! BTW - It works perfectly for chicken salad too.

Traditional Meal: 940 calories and only 8 grams of fiber.

This typical Tuna Salad Sandwich meal has:

  • 2 slices White bread
  • 2 - 100 calorie pack StarKist Tuna Salad
  • 1 small bag Lay’s potato chips

This traditional plate total is 940 calories and 8g of fiber. It also has a 40g of fat and 1960mg of sodium. That doesn’t leave much room for other meals in the day. We can help with that!

Tuna Salad Power Up

Powered Up Meal: 513 calories and 19 grams of fiber!

Powering up the traditional pack of tuna salad is easy. Literally you are just mixing the tuna salad with avocado, cucumber, carrots and tomato. Place it on your 100% whole wheat bread and top with the lettuce. It’s that easy! We tossed in an apple to end the meal with a little something sweet. Here's a picture and list of the ingredients used to create this Power Up meal.

  • 2 slices 100% whole wheat bread
  • 1 - 100 calorie pack StarKist Tuna Salad
  • ¼ cup Cucumber
  • ¼ cup Shredded carrots
  • ¼ Avocado
  • 1 Roma tomato
  • 1 cup Spring mix lettuce
  • 1 Apple

This meal total is now 513 calories and 19g of fiber. And just in case you’re curious, the fat is down down to 14g and the sodium is now only 463mg. Nice!

8 Grams of Fiber, 940 Calories 19 Grams of Fiber, 513 Calories
 
Before Power Up After Power Up
Ingredients Fiber Grams Calories Ingredients Fiber Grams Calories
Before Power Up Total 8 940 After Power Up Total 19 513
2 slices white bread 2 280 2 slices 100% whole wheat bread 8 200
2 – 100 calorie StarKist Tuna Salad 2 200 1 – 100 calorie StarKist Tuna Salad 1 100
1 small bag Lay’s Potato Chips 4 460 1/4 avocado, diced 3 80
      ¼ cup diced cucumber & ¼ cup shredded carrots 1 15
      1 roma tomato, diced 1 16
      1 cup spring mix salad 1 7
      1 Apple 4 95

 

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