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Awhile ago, like a year ago, I had all these posts planned. I had the pictures all organized, resized, and ready to upload to my blog. Then I never got around to writing the posts. The baked bean post was one of these, and so was the bird nest post. Today is the last of these post. I’m going to show you how I make a tuna fish sandwich. I’m always looking for easy, quick, and reasonably healthy meals. This isn’t meant to be the world’s greatest tuna fish sandwich. I don’t include hard boiled eggs or fancy spices. It’s just quick and tasty enough for me.

Here are the ingredients. Dill pickles, because sweet pickles make me gag. Whole wheat bread, I could write a whole post about how I picked the bread I buy. Of course it has to be whole wheat, but I read somewhere that the bread you eat should have at least 4 grams of fiber per slice. I’ve tried every brand of bread with 4 grams of fiber per slice, and they all suck. I like the bread you see here because it is whole wheat and doesn’t contain any high fructose corn syrup. I don’t believe that HFCS is inherently bad, but it does get added to way to many foods that don’t need it, and bread is one of those foods. Wow, we are really off topic here, why did you let me do that? Mayonnaise, I would go with light Mayonnaise. I like the brand in this picture because it says it contains decent amounts of omega-3 fats. Maybe all mayonnaise does, but this one brags about it, so I buy it. Finally, one can of tuna packed in water. Why you would buy tuna packed in anything other than water, I don’t know. Also, I don’t like the newer tuna in a pouch for tuna fish sandwiches. It’s probably better tuna on it’s own, but it’s too dry to mix well with the mayonnaise.Yeah, I forgot to put the tuna in the picture of ingredients for a tuna fish sandwich. I’m awesome.

These are the tools you will need to make the tuna fish sandwich. Two plates, one bowl, and a fork. The bowl is for mixing the tuna and mayonnaise together with the fork. The first plate is for eating the sandwich off of. I’ll explain the second plate in a second.

Open the can of tuna, but leave the top of the can on so that you can use it to squeeze the excess water out of the tuna. Don’t use a strainer, because then you will have dirtied another dish, and that would be inefficient, thus violating Roseyland’s best practice #17: Thou shall not unnecessarily dirty a dish. If you are reading this blog, Roseyland’s best practices do in fact apply to you.

If you have a cat, yes I’m mentioning the cat AGAIN, deal with it. If you have a cat, once you open the can of tuna, you have about 5 seconds before all hell breaks lose. My advice, don’t fight the cat, just give him what he wants. Take that second plate, put some tuna on it, and provide it to the cat as an offering on the other side of the kitchen. Like so.

Now take the remaining tuna, put it in the bowl and mix with 1 or 2 spoonfuls of mayonnaise.

Put the mixture on top of one slice of the toasted bread. Oh yeah, I forgot, toast two slices of bread, and do it like 3 steps ago. Okay, put the tuna mixture onto a slice of the toasted bread and top with dill pickles.

Finish the sandwich with the remaining slice of toasted bread. Then serve like so.

That’s funny, when I made this, I was in this phase where I had a piece of dark chocolate every night with dinner. I always want something sweet after I eat, and that piece of dark chocolate was perfect. I should start that again. Also, iced tea. I love iced tea. There you have it, now you can safely make a Roseyland brand tuna fish sandwich.