Easy Breezy Dinner Tonight: Tuna Sandwiches

Sticking with the plan/menu, we had tuna fish sandwiches tonight. Nothing fancy. No ahi. Just good old tuna from the can. We've been mixing it up between white (albacore) and light tuna so we don't mainline mercury month after month. Please check out this chart for eating tuna safely from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Apparently, since I'm no lightweight, I can eat a can of white albacore tuna once every nine days.

Lemon Tuna Salad Sandwiches
Serves 2, 1 sandwich each

1 can tuna
juice from 1/2 small lemon
1 tablespoon of Hellmann's reduced fat mayonnaise (formerly known as "Just 2 Good")*
1/8 teaspoon celery salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
6-8 slices (thin) cucumber
2 very large slices of panella bread (or four slices of any normal-sized bread)

Directions
1. Drain water from can of tuna.
2. Mix together tuna, mayo, lemon juice, pepper, and celery salt in a bowl.
3. Toast bread.
4. Spread all of the tuna onto one slice of toast.
5. Spread the cucumber slices over the tuna in one thin layer, then top with the other toast slice.
6. Cut in half and enjoy!

Nutrition Information per Serving
Calories: 272; Carbohydrates: 29 g; Protein: 25 g; Fat: 6 g;
Cals./g: 1
*Points: 4

*Oh no! I just looked at the Hellmann's Web site and could not find Hellmann's Reduced Fat Mayonnaise Dressing on the Products page. When I used the Product Locator to search for stores in my area that sell it (Reduced Fat is in the dropdown menu), it pulled up some local supermarkets, but the search had automatically changed the product to Hellmann's Low Fat Mayonnaise Dressing. The low-fat mayo is 1 g of fat per serving and the reduced fat is (or should I say "was"?) 2 g of fat per serving. Time to send off an e-mail to the folks at Hellmann's/Best Foods to see if they've discontinued the reduced-fat mayo. (I got nervous and checked the expiration date on the bottle, and it's still in the future, August 12 2008. Proof that the bottle hasn't been sitting in my refrigerator for that long.)