Easy Salmon Salad

This recipe is so easy it’s barely a recipe! It’s basically traditional tuna salad but with canned salmon instead. 

Tuna is delicious but unfortunately it’s now a fish that is commonly contaminated with heavy metals. Eating it regularly can actually be a hazard to your health, or that of an infant or developing baby. (1, 2, 3)

But there is a really easy solution to your tuna salad dilemma and that is simply replacing it with canned salmon. Salmon is a source of protein, micronutrients and essential fatty acids that are needed for your brain and gut. (4)

Canned salmon is one of the most affordable ways to eat this nutritious fish. You can get  canned salmon that is both wild (important for nutrition and the environment) and in a non-BPA can. The brand I usually buy at my local grocery store is called Henry and Lisa’s.

Easy Salmon Salad

• 1 can Henry and Lisa’s or other 6 oz. salmon, strained

• 2 T Sir Kensington’s avocado oil mayonnaise or other clean mayonnaise 

• 1 T relish

• Salt and pepper to taste
  

Serves 3-4

I commonly eat this on a half, toasted gluten-free bagel with grass fed butter. I like the Everything bagels by Canyon Bakehouse. My son and I ate these so often during COVID stay-at-home regulations that I will forever think of it as my quarantine meal!

I always give the ‘salmon juice’ to my dogs when I drain the can. They love it!

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Bridgit Danner, LAc, FDNP, is trained in functional health coaching and has worked with thousands of women over her career since 2004. She is the founder of Women’s Wellness Collaborative llc and HormoneDetoxShop.com.

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