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!!

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...

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!

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!

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?