YAAAAAY SUELA! Job!

I was in the accelerated track in a computer/math/science magnet program in middle school, and it was, hands down, the best academic years of my life. I fucking loved that school. But I got terrible grades anyway, because I was constantly losing homework assignments and I have always been a terrible test-taker. (And then at the high school I wound up at, there was no way to test out of the math classes I'd already taken, so the geometry textbook I had in tenth grade was the same one I'd used in eighth. And then I became a film major and now I can't math at all.)

I'm going to start making tuna salad to take to lunch, because I want something more filling than the pasta I've been having (or, heck, cold tuna and pasta salad). But I've heard that you shouldn't eat tuna more than twice a week or something. What's the consensus on how often you can eat tuna?

Congratulations, Consuela!

Connie, I think the main concern with tuna is mercury. It's more of an issue for pregnant women, but it's probably still not great to eat daily for anyone ( much as I like it). Could you switch it out with chicken salad or egg salad?

Mummy was electrocuted today and now her heart rhythm is A Okay. Gonna see her in a couple of weeks when oldest brother isn't there. Supposedly. The him being there, not me going to visit.

Also, I stabbed myself in the foot with a kitchen knife. So today at work was fun. (On top of coworkers telling me that if I don't go up and see my mom NOW and something awful happens I'll regret it for the rest of my life). Way to make me feel awesome when there's nothing I can do about it since she was in the middle of her procedure at the time. I think where my mum was a nurse she's a little more practical and blunt, and if she didn't have faith in the procedure, she'd be "you nee to come home beforehand". No, she's making plans for Costa Rica with my fat ass. (Note: however I misspelled that, the autocorrect was "carcass" which also seemed apt.

because I was constantly losing homework assignments and I have always been a terrible test-taker.

Sounds like a certain girl I know. For some reason, my son is an ace test taker and my daughter is an abysmal one.

Connie, the worry with canned tuna is the mercury. I think the rec is once a week. You could always alternate with chicken salad swapping in canned chicken for the tuna in your usual recipe.

Connie, the recommendations when pregnant was 12 oz a week. If you're not having the full can every day in the tuna-pasta salad, you're probably fine.

I just started eating tuna salad once a week, to get more fish in my diet (I eat salmon for dinner about once a week, so instead of eating it twice, I decided to just make one lunch a week be tuna salad). The cats are VERY happy to get the tuna water.

You could always alternate with chicken salad swapping in canned chicken for the tuna in your usual recipe.

A chicken salad recipe I like is just canned chicken, mayo, and halved red grapes. If you feel wild and crazy, add a dash of curry powder and/or slivered almonds.

I should give my friend credit: when she said she was "leaving now," it was her house around the corner, not her parents' a mile away, where I thought she was, so she was really only ~20 minutes late. And dinner was delicious! And I was home by nine. So all in all, a good one.

The most recent recommendation on tuna I've seen depended on your age, I think with older people "allowed" to have more? Where did I get that?

Huh, maybe that was some other fish, I can't find anything referencing it. But I found this [link] and this chart [link]

Now it's gonna bug me, what was the age-related dietary seafood guideline I almost remember?

Glad to hear it, Jesse.

I eat tuna salad, egg salad, chicken salad, crab salad, and shrimp salad regularly, which are all basically the same recipe just swapping the protein. And they all freeze fine, afaic,so I can make larger batches and not have to eat it all up before it goes bad. I just divy it up into single-portion-sized containers so I can pull tomorrow's lunch out of the freezer in the evening to let it start thawing, and dump it over greens (actually into the bottom of a mason jar which I then fill with greens because I am all about salads in jars these days) or into half an avocado, or maybe wrap up in a tortilla.