[BellyDancer]

Tuna salad is one of the great joys of my protein-minded life. Along with chunk light tuna, I might throw in salsa, celery, red onion, dill pickle relish, fresh cilantro, curry powder, jicama, diced walnuts, chopped hard-boiled egg white, lemon juice & zest...(not all at the same time, of course!). I eat it in rolled-up lettuce leaves, on top of green salad, in dollops on top of cucumber slices.

I've never actually been a fan of mayo--I don't like the taste, and of course it is highly caloric. Until recently I have used nonfat sour cream as my tuna salad "binder"--it has 20 calories per 2 tablespoons, and basically tastes like nothing (it's much milder than full-fat sour cream). But I am trying to live a low-carb lifestyle, and I want to eliminate the carbs in most dairy products, including my nonfat sour cream, which has 3 grams of intrinsic milk sugar per serving. If I put 1/4 cup in my tuna salad, that's 6 grams right there.

Any ideas on low-cal, low-carb creamy substances to use in tuna salad?

Thanks!!

[ellis]

BellyDancer, I don't know... do you have any health food/health nut stores nearby that you can check out? I was in one briefly yesterday, and they had a lot of low-carb foods. I wasn't looking for dressings, though, so I didn't notice if they had any...

[BellyDancer]

Actually, I hadn't heard that more dairy products were now okay on SB--since nonfat yogurt is now approved, I'm pretty sure that my nonfat sour cream would be too.

Thanks, though!

[Blackberry04]

You might find this weird, but I've used cottage cheese before and enjoyed it. Perhaps you could puree the cottage cheese so it was a bit smoother. Good luck!

[QuilterInVA]

That was an old WW trick in the 60's and 70's. Works fine. However, we do need 3 servings of fat per day because some vitamins are fat soluable. A bit of may wouldn't be so bad. I shop at Kroger and they have a whole shelf devoted to low carb dressings, etc. How about some ranch dressing?