£13.40 for two tins of tuna???

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I thought Sainsburys had made a mistake when about 7 things cost me 50 quid. But, no it's correct.
I can't stand the cheap stuff and it will form the basis of a meal....but really??

The ortiz tuna is worth every penny. It is amazing! Fish is expensive these days - especially if it is good. I'm going to try your recipe@ MoistVonL!

I think I want to try this now , tuna in olive oil sounds rather lovely .

Yep I stocked up when the glass jars of tuna were of offer for £2.50 each.

Not a daily treat by any means.

I'd love to try this tuna but I know my partner would give 1/3 to our cat!

Tuna and bean salad

• a 700g jar of butter/white/cannellini beans (the jarred beans are nicer than tinned ones if you’re having them cold)
• Ortiz tuna in olive oil (or whatever brand)
• 1 diced red onion
• large bunch of finely chopped parsley
• punnet of halved cherry tomatoes
• dressing made of 1 tbs Dijon mustard, 1 tbs white wine vinegar (or lemon juice) 3 tbs olive oil

Season to taste, obviously.
I like it in little gem lettuce leaves or with fresh bread, DH and DS prefer those big flatbreads or pitta.

I hope that satisfies all those asking for details. I’m off to buy shares in Ortiz after giving them all this free advertising.

I use the oil from the jar for dressing when I make salade nicoise - this sounds perfect for my pescatarian friend who is coming to see us soon. Thank you.

During the pandemic there was an upstart new deli in Notting Hell selling these very cans of Ortiz for £10. Profiteering. Did not buy.

Live a little!

I bet these taste no different to the 75p tins of Tuna Flakes from Iceland.

Come on this is MN.

I thought I was being extravagant buying the ready drained tuna 😂

I don't know if you are tryign to say I'm some kind of a food snob or something.

I can't stand the cheap brown stuff, it stinks.

This expensiev one os light coloured, delicious, and not smelly.

I was at how little was in the " shop" for 50 quid. ( again)

Probably because it’s in olive oil and olive oil is expensive. I hate tuna but sometimes buy it for the cat, and I’m sure there’s an option to get it in water.

But tinned salmon is wild and most fresh salmon is farmed. So that's not at all embarrassing.

You're not an embarrassment either because fresh tuna contains much more mercury than tinned...presumably because they tin the younger/smaller fish(?).

Sorry for my very autistic reply :)

Sorry but I have to agree with the poster, it really is

The high protein content will fill you easily

Tonight because I had a late lunch at 2;30pm, my dinner was half a tub of cottage cheese, a side salad and a tin of mackerel - 3 hours ago now and Im still stuffed - and Im not a competitive under eater, indeed Im a stone over weight

How big was the tub? Do you mean a measly packet from the supermarket or a tub as in a bucket?

If you do mean a packet, I can only say that tonight’s lamb chops, spuds and salad, plus sticky toffee pudding, win for (a) taste, (b) pleasure and (c) life-giving properties.

I mean as "a tub" - a 99p one - whatever size that is

Tin of mackerel in spicy tomato sauce

Im not arguing or picking a fight, Im just agreeing that some meals are really filling, and what I ate tonight has really filled me, and the recipe mentioned would also fill me

Now that's not to say I cant eat my own body weight in pasta on another night. cos if Im being lazy I can easily eat a saucepan of pasta and pesto , or better still oil and pepper. But its just carbs and an hour later Id be looking cake :)

Two sausages , mash and peas will have me looking something else later, put those sausages in a casserole filled with butter beans, Id not be wanting the mash and I wouldn't be looking for anything later

I reckon if I could afford to, I too would be buying better quality tuna , but I dont have that sort of money, so I buy mackerel

Christ! Thats too much
The Lidl tuna is grim.. even my cat won't touch it.

Cottage cheese is really filling, if I eat a pot of Longley farm which is 250g, I always feel quite stuffed, mackerel fillets are filling too, I like the spicy tomato ones

I’m now over invested in this tuna. If it’s in a jar / tin of olive oil, stupid question, but do you just lift it out and drain it off/ wipe it dry?? And where do you then put the oil?? Surely not down the sink??
this is why dealing with any type of fish at home is way too complicated….

I drain it in a sieve for about 10 minutes and then just use my (clean) fingers to separate it and put it on the salad. The oil it comes in I use to make the dressing.

Slightly off topic, but, I grew up on the sw coast of the UK, when I was a teenager having a few beers and the walk home usually involved stopping off an a fish hut, and grabbing half a dozen oysters for about £1, a by product of the small boats bringing in their catch.
Fast forward some years (more than 30 but less than 80), and the cost of oysters is astronomical, add to that we export more odd seafood to the continent and the far east, and countless governments want to abandon or fishermen, literally up the creek with out any paddles!
I've lived on the med for a while, and whilst you do have to pay a bit more for the 'proper' stuff, it is more than worth it.
I personally think, that sea food in this country is highly underrated, we have some of the best available in the world, and we do even get the odd bit turning up.
Proper sea food, is and should be expensive, it takes hard work and is incredibly dangerous at times to be out in all weathers, risking life and limb for pittance and then be double screwed over by the government.

Love tuna, and the stuff in olive oil is yum, hate octopus and sea urchin, cockles, mussels, oysters - meh! teenager fast food for me!

No one would question the OP for making a bit of expensive steak go a long way, by adding extras.

The Aldi tuna is horrible I didn't know
it could taste so bad, im.sure it was tuna scales and gills!

@MoistVonL

this sounds really nice! Which butter beans do you use? I think I’d have to think of an alternative to red onion as I can always taste it for ages after eating it which I don’t like.

@Poopeepoopee

how do you make the dressing?