This means you can enjoy your tuna without worrying about consuming too much mercury. They thoroughly test every tuna and ensure it’s levels are the lowest and safest for children and women during pregnancy. Safe catch tuna is said to have the LOWEST mercury levels of any tuna brand. I found myself asking these questions when I became pregnant and my doctor told to not eat tuna or a few other fish as they contain high levels of mercury. Since this pasta salad has mayo it’s important to keep it chilled.ĭoes tuna have mercury? Why does tuna have mercury? Here’s a great article from Chris Kesser that eased my fears. We just mix it in with our pasta salad ingredients and then place it right into the refrigerator. So if you like a creamy tuna macaroni salad just add more mayo. You can add as much or as little mayo as you like, you can always add, but you can’t take out like my grandma said. You can use other binders like yogurt, sour cream, but mayo is our choice. It’s the binder and it’s the flavor too! We prefer real mayo for our tuna macaroni salad. There you have it! Super simple, right? 🙂 How do you make tuna pasta with mayo? Mix the pasta, chopped veggies, mayo, and salt and pepper in a large bowl until combined.While the pasta is cooking you can chop up the pepper, celery, and onion.First, start by boiling your desired amount of pasta.This is my mother’s tuna macaroni salad recipe and I haven’t changed anything aside from the red onion, it reminds me of her so much and it’s really the best tuna macaroni salad I’ve ever eaten. If the red onions are too strong for you sweet onions (sweet Vidalia onions) make a great alternative or even some sliced scallions. She used white onions, but I like to use red onions for color. We like to keep our tuna macaroni salad pretty simple and just the way my mom made it. Now if you’ve read about what foods are off-limits during pregnancy canned tuna and pregnancy don’t usually go together, but if you have to have it, you can find it with less from several brands now. Since our family loves tuna so much having less mercury is a big deal. We also make sure our canned tuna is wild caught. If you wanted to make this a healthy tuna macaroni salad you could use healthy food swaps like avocado and yogurt, but to stay true to tradition we shared my mom’s way, but we did use organic mayonnaise! 🙂 Not much has changed, aside from us purchasing canned tuna with less mercury. When you make this, you could enjoy it right away, but we prefer to enjoy our tuna macaroni salad cold.

Macaroni tuna salad