Healthy & Nutritious Avocado Chickpea Tuna Salad With Lemon Dressing

[♥ Lily ♥]

Avocado chickpea tuna salad with a lemon dressing is perfect for lunch or dinner!

Quick and easy for meal prep!

Healthy and filling, this Tuna Salad is not only packed with amazing flavours, it is ALSO a bowl full of protein, fibre and healthy omega-fats! Have it for lunch or dinner, as a side or main dish, this tuna salad is especially perfect in hunger emergencies.

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No cooking or boiling or baking needed. Just grab tuna straight out of the can and throw it in with the rest of your ingredients.

Only 5 main ingredients go in this tuna salad;-

Tuna → protein source with good amount of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
Chickpeas → packed with protein and fibre.
Avocados → while adding a good amount of healthy fats, the avocado adds a creaminess to the salad without needing any mayo.
Tomatoes → add a delicious texture to this tuna salad, along with a good source of vitamin C, biotin, molybdenum and vitamin K.
Cucumbers → a crispy, crunchy veg that helps keep you hydrated while flushing out toxins.

Those ingredients make the bulk of this salad, but then you have a gorgeous lemon garlic dressing adding extra nutrition.

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Tuna salad for meal prep!

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Is this tuna salad good for you?

In short, YES! Usually a (great) tuna salad contains heaps of mayo, adding an incredible amount of extra fat and calories. As mentioned above though, this tuna salad gets its creaminess from healthy avocado slices. There is NO NEED for mayo in this!

You can use tuna canned in oil, brine or spring water.

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[Bobby Martnen]

No offense Lily, but this looks gross.

I'd much rather eat this

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[♥ Lily ♥]

No offense Lily, but this looks gross.

I'd much rather eat this

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i./ That's processed and mass-produced and contains no nutritional value. (Just empty calories.)

ii./ The tuna and chickpea and avocado salad that I've shown is nutritious, cost-efficient, and it can be stored in the refrigerator to last all week.

iii./ Burgers are expensive. I've done an online search and the price of a burger is £4.69 ($6) https://uk.menuwithprice.com/mcdonalds-menu/ If you're feeding a family that would be expensive just for one meal.

iv./ Have you looked at the salmon avocado salad recipe I posted? You might like to try this: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?257191-Avocado-Salmon-Salad-Recipe

[Lenna324]

I so like this kind of salads. the combination between tuna and vegetables is grate. I usually peel the vegetables with vegetable peelers (https://my-kitchengadgets.com/collections/peelers), I don't like to serve salads with the peel of the vegetables

[farke1]

This looks soooo good. Definitely gonna try this out sometime this week. :)