I love tuna salad. I make a batch once a week. The problem is: can I go
to a Sams club and buy a monster can of tuna , mix it up, then freeze
small portions for weekly use? This would be much cheaper.

v/r
Jim

jim wrote:
> I love tuna salad. I make a batch once a week. The problem is: can I go
> to a Sams club and buy a monster can of tuna , mix it up, then freeze
> small portions for weekly use? This would be much cheaper.
>
> v/r
> Jim

You can freeze the TUNA in "weekly portions"....just don't mix it up
with the mayo and celery etc. That won't freeze well.

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"jim" > wrote:

> I love tuna salad. I make a batch once a week. The problem is: can I go
> to a Sams club and buy a monster can of tuna , mix it up, then freeze
> small portions for weekly use? This would be much cheaper.

Budd is probably right, but for these kinds of questions, the best way
to answer them is to try it and find out for yourself. Take a half cup
of tuna, put it in a container with a tight lid and freeze it. Thaw out
the tuna one or two days later and see how it tastes to you. You may end
up liking the result, but I suspect the texture will be different than
what you're used to and you may end up hating the result. How can you
know if you don't try it for yourself? The worst that can happen is you
waste a small amount of tuna salad.

jim wrote:
> I love tuna salad. I make a batch once a week. The problem is: can I go
> to a Sams club and buy a monster can of tuna , mix it up, then freeze
> small portions for weekly use? This would be much cheaper.

Tuna salad does not freeze well. However tuna caserole or tuna
croquettes do freeze well. I sometimes make tuna burgers and freeze
those... they're actually very good cold or reheated on a bun with
tartar sauce... to eat cold defrost in fridge and eat as soon as
thawed... for reheated defrost in microwave and reheat in skillet or
oven.

I would use your monster can of tuna to make enough tuna salad for two
days and also a tuna caserole for freezing... no reason you can't make
a two day batch of tuna salad to keep in fridge.

So what is the savings you receive by buying your monster can? I
regularly find Bumble Bee solid white in the regular size 6+ ounce tins
for 99¢/ea. I typically open 3 cans, one for the cats, two for a two
day supply of salad. I actually prefer the oil pack much better but
that's becoming increasingly more difficult to find when tuna is on
sale, obviously water costs less than oil. And for those who buy water
pack to save fat calories that makes no sense if you're gonna just use
all that mayo... with oil pack simply use much less mayo. Water pack
tuna is substantially saltier... thst liquid is actually brine, and
when you pour it down the drain so goes a substantial amount of the
tuna flavor, vitamins, and minerals... water pack tuna is kind of inane
if you ask me, especially how folks use those hydrolic tuna squeezers
to extract the last drop, may as well eat tofu with fish sauce.

Scroll to chart at bottom of page:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/issues/fs_prepared.html

Of course with six cats I have no tuna storage dilemma.

Sheldon

Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan wrote:
>
> "jim" >
> ps.com:
>
> > I love tuna salad. I make a batch once a week. The problem is: can I go
> > to a Sams club and buy a monster can of tuna , mix it up, then freeze
> > small portions for weekly use? This would be much cheaper.
> >
> > v/r
> > Jim
>
> Tuna salad does not freeze well. I tried it once and it was not a pretty
> sight after thawing. I think it may be the mayo. Anyway, I've never seen
> it frozen in the stores either. A casserole with tuna should freeze just
> fine. If I were buying a monster can of tuna; I would make a batch of tuna
> salad to last me a couple three days and cook up some tuna casserole to
> freeze.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> This is just too much fun to play with. The link is too long. It's on the
> NetZero site so the Tinylink below is safe. Take a look see.
>
> http://tinylink.com/?mtHxe7qRXe

Haven't tried freezing mayo, but celery certainly doesn't freeze well at
all. If you've ever had it get lost at the back of the fridge and freeze
you know that it's ultra high water content basically blows it to bits,
all that's left when it thaws is wet mush.

Pete C.