Post: #1

Smoked herring, mackrel, or any kind of fish like this that you buy in a tin, is a great protein source. Usually around 30g easy.

I like to eat it in top of a salad. Make any salad you want, crack a can of fish and put it on top. Eat your veggies and get a protein boost, no cookjning required.

Post: #2

I know a few people who eat those.

Fresh fish is the best, but tinned fish is incredibly practical.

Post: #3

I eat tinned herring and sardines all the time, have been for years but especially since I moved to landlocked Alberta where fresh fish isn't easy to get. Tinned herring are super cheap, I pay about $1.25 per tin and probably eat about 3-5 a week. I'm not sure about the mercury content, as I know that its an issue with bigger fish such as tuna, but herring are tiny.

The brand I get are called Brunswick and are from the East Coast of Canada, so unlike some other tinned fish, such as smoked oysters, they aren't raised on some shitty farm in Asia. They're also super healthy, according to the Brunswick website, "canned sardines contain many of the essential amino acids that are important in a healthy diet. Sardines are a source of omega-3 essential fatty acids, so they’re smart eating! Plus, they contain no preservatives, no artificial flavours, no artificial colours, no hydrogenated fats, no hydrolysed plant proteins or palm oils."

Good recommendation OP!

Post: #4

good post.

I used to eat a can of tuna a day. Need to get back into focusing on my diet.

Post: #5

I've heard most tuna has a mercury issue. Do you have a good source for quality meat when it comes to this?

Post: #6

I like seafood, but personally I wouldn't eat it nowadays with all the rampant pollution problems in the worlds oceans.

Post: #7

I eat smoked and fresh salmon several times a week. Nothing beats it for me, always tastes great. Combine the smoked salmon with some eggs and that's a lot of healthy stuff in one meal.

Only problem is cost, salmon is quite expensive, how do you find the smoked mackerel compared to salmon?

Post: #8

I eat some Kinda of Fish (Tuna, Salmon, Halibut,Tilapia,White Bass) at least 4-5 nights a week.

Halibut has about 36 grams of protein is the fish i get the most.

Post: #9

(10-06-2014 04:37 PM)berserk Wrote:  I eat smoked and fresh salmon several times a week. Nothing beats it for me, always tastes great. Combine the smoked salmon with some eggs and that's a lot of healthy stuff in one meal.

Only problem is cost, salmon is quite expensive, how do you find the smoked mackerel compared to salmon?

The Mackerel should definitely be cheaper than the salmon, there's tons of mackerel in the Atlantic, I used to jig them of a wharf but didn't like the taste all that much, they're pretty greasy. Salmon is awesome but don't go for the farmed Atlantic stuff, try to get wild pacific (coho, sockeye, pink, etc), I caught five huge salmon off the coast of BC in July and got 40 cans of it shipped to my door, 20 smoked, 20 regular but I paid $450 to go fishing!

(10-06-2014 06:34 PM)Intl_Rasta Wrote:  I eat some Kinda of Fish (Tuna, Salmon, Halibut,Tilapia,White Bass) at least 4-5 nights a week.

Halibut has about 36 grams of protein is the fish i get the most.

Halibut is my #1 favorite fish, cooked on the BBQ it is delicious but its not cheap, another really good one that I only started eating recently is mahi-mahi, I actually had some last night, it was frozen so not nearly as good as the ones I've caught myself but its a damn good fish to eat. Generally I prefer cold water fish and grew up on cod, haddock and halibut but I'll eat anything that comes out of the water including shell fish, crustaceans and even eels! I love fishing so much,I"m basically a fanatic, I think I'll post a fishing data sheet.

Post: #10

I eat one can of tuna mixed with 2 eggs on my workout days, that means 3 times a week.

This is the Tuna I eat:


Contains approximately 7 oz of Tuna (the one on the picture is 5oz), 33g of protein and only 153 calories, and only 1.5g of Fat, which fits perfect for my workout days.

Post: #11

Hi, my first post here.

One of the best things you can eat.

Oily fish from cold water is the best source of Omega-3 DHA -- what fish oil is made from. No need to belabor that point.

As for pollution, good luck trying to find a source of protein that is not polluted in some way. In the case of mercury, the fish that are higher up the food chain tend to have higher levels -- tuna, swordfish, salmon. The bigger the fish, the more mercury.

OTOH, the smaller fish have less mercury, and so on, down to the size of krill.

Another aspect is that wild fish like sardines are not industrially farmed fish. They forage in the ocean and pick up all nutrients and trace elements that farmed fish (and animals) do not get, and moreover, they are not raised on GMO corn and soybeans like farmed salmon, etc.

Post: #12

(10-06-2014 08:03 PM)scotian Wrote:  Halibut is my #1 favorite fish, cooked on the BBQ it is delicious but its not cheap, another really good one that I only started eating recently is mahi-mahi, I actually had some last night, it was frozen so not nearly as good as the ones I've caught myself but its a damn good fish to eat. Generally I prefer cold water fish and grew up on cod, haddock and halibut but I'll eat anything that comes out of the water including shell fish, crustaceans and even eels! I love fishing so much,I"m basically a fanatic, I think I'll post a fishing data sheet.

Mahi-mahi is great often times i bake it with jerk sauce pineapple and mango.

I am a fish fanatic as well I even have my own personal fish guy a family friend from Jamaica who used to work at the Fulton Fish Market he retireed when it moved to the Bronx. He deliveries the fish personally to my place weekly I am one of his only non commercial(restaurants) customer. Some times I have to meet him at some crazy locations to get fish my fish, the cash for fish trade off looks like some crazy 80s drug street deal.

Post: #13

I don't think mercury is a big issue since the big fish come with selenium as well. That chelates out the mercury. I won't stop eating a 1 lb of tuna a week. Tuna steaks aren't cheap though.

Small fish like sardines never really accumulate mercury due to their size.

Post: #14

Guys canned tuna is way worse than canned fillets of smaller fish.

Real tuna is kegit but canned smoked herring and mackerel, which is basically the whole fish deboned, is much better tasting. Canned tuna is so dry. With herring or mackarel it is juicy, even oily. Omega 3s.

Try it out if you only do Tuna right now.

Post: #15

Also look for canned salmon. My supermarket carries full-sized (like a can of tomatoes or condensed soup) of what claims to be wild-caught Alaska salmon for $3 or under. It has small bones and skin, I think that's why it is so cheap. You can pick out the bones or just eat them.

I recently started buying canned sardines and such. The kippered or smoked are the tastiest. Does anyone know if that type off processing makes them less healthy?

Post: #16

Would be nice to know what kind of sauces you guys put into your Tuna.

Post: #17

Alright, i've been on the hunt for new sources of protein. I always knew canned fish is loaded with protein, but I remember smelling that nasty tuna smell in lunches grade school lunch and found it repugnant. Hearing that it's loaded with mercury makes me avoid fish for the most part.

However, it sounds like that I'm just being completely irrational.

Should I be worried about mercury? I'd be eating at least a tin a day with my lunch to meet my protein requirements.

Post: #18

Once a week I do....

-2 cans of Chunk Light Tuna in water.
-2 tablespoons of regular mayo
-1 tablespoon of olive oil.

Mix together and it gets me closer to my keto macros.

Been eating canned sadrines in olive oil lately as well.

Post: #19

Damn,started to crave some smoked salmon now after reading this thread.

Regarding delicous fish besides the king of the ocean (Salmon)
I'd say that not many things beats a fresh hot smoked Omul at Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Очен вкусна.

Post: #20

If you're concerned about what is in the fish you're eating then you should check out the website of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which has a Seafood Watch Program. Its a very useful website, you just type in the name of any seafood and it will tell you all kinds of information about it, where its from, how its caught or raised and whether or not it is sourced in a sustainable manner. Definitely a good website to check out and they have an app as well.

Post: #21

never had good results with fish, fresh or canned

Post: #22

Used to get Rügenfisch and then Hawesta made it taste like cat food.

Post: #23

Haha this thread is straight to my heart! As I started to cook all my food myself I also found the joy of canned fish. Seems like the demand is rather low. Prices are awesome (costco).

I eat canned salmon (wild), sardines, and tuna. About a can or two a day. Mix it up. I don't eat canned tuna two days in a row (mercury).

I mix the salmon and sardines with brown rice. That's one of my meals at work. I uncan the cans in the office kitchen, and dump into the rice (I cook a batch for 3 or so meals every night). The canned salmon is dry, some good mustard or hot sauce makes it go down easy. The herring just needs some pepper.

The tuna I mix with majo and relish and eat as a side dish to oats.

Post: #24

I enjoy eating animals that look so innocent:



Just look at those adorable eyes!!!



Ok just kidding, I like the taste of herring a lot, and it's not significantly more expensive than sardines. It goes well with some hard cheese and sliced tomatoes.

Post: #25

I eat salmon almost religiously. The mercury problem in tuna is merely a food chain problem, is that they are close to being the apex predator in the food chain.

I watch out for swordfish more these days, as swordfish has a much higher mercury content. You can taste the metal in the fish, it's quite odd.

But I have to agree with Scotian, Halibut is close to being one of the best tasting fish in the sea. Not too fishy, but just enough. It is best served with light seasoning to bring out the flavor rather than nullify it.

I've been thinking of making a fishing/fish eating thread recently since I have so much expertise in the field.