My daughter and I have discovered that our bodies do not react very well to the gluten in wheat products. This has meant having to alter some of our food choices... not an easy feat since bread and pasta play a pretty big role in our diet. Especially lunch. One idea that I had was instead of tuna salad sandwiches I'd try to make tuna and lettuce roll ups. I tried it last week for the first time to rave reviews from all my kids. Even my youngest who is not crazy about tuna said she really liked this.
It's an easy and healthy option to a quick lunch. I decided to make it again today.
For the tuna I used two 6 oz. cans of tuna in water with half salt, a few table spoons of no egg mayonnaise, 1 grated carrot, a quarter of a red onion chopped fine, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and black pepper to taste. Mix it all together in a bowl, spoon some of it into a piece of romaine lettuce leaf and roll it up, rolling toward the stem of the leaf. Flatten slightly so the tuna spreads to the edges of the lettuce leaf and serve. We were each able to have 3 pieces. (so that's 12 pieces)
I do not recommend having tuna more than 1x a week because of the mercury that can be found in the tuna.
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