These simple tuna salad pita pickets are a great low-carb make-ahead lunch idea!

This post sponsored by Safe Catch Tuna. Click here to read my disclaimer on sponsored posts.

If you’re looking for a low-carb make-ahead lunch idea, your options can sometimes seem pretty limited.

But you know what’s not a limiting low-carb make-ahead lunch idea? Tuna salad.

Yeah, you heard me right. Tuna freaking salad.

I know what you’re thinking:

“Tuna salad!? So boring. And I don’t need any more boring ideas. I need GOOD ideas.”

And hey, trust me, I get it. I was raised on a steady diet of canned tuna fish in any number of iterations. It was a Midwest staple in our home growing up.

But those flavorless gas-station/snack stop/homemade tuna salad sandwiches ain’t got nothing on a Chili Lime Tuna Salad Sandwich, stuffed into a pita and bursting with actual flavor.

It’s the perfect low-carb make-ahead lunch idea.

And it is anything but boring.

Thanks to that aforementioned Midwest canned tuna diet, I do have a natural affinity for the stuff. So when Safe Catch contacted me and offered to send some of their low-mercury high-quality tuna my way, I was intrigued.

You guys know I don’t review a lot of product on this website. That’s not for lack of offers! I get them quite frequently, in fact- but very few pass the test for me to actually spend time talking about.

But what I read about Safe Catch sounded different, so I agreed. And I was so impressed by what they sent!

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First off, the thing I really liked about Safe Catch is that their tuna has the highest amount of omega-3’s than any other canned tuna brand.

How? Most tuna companies double-cook their tuna, losing a lot of the healthy natural oils in the process. Safe Catch, however, slow cooks their hand-cut tuna steaks, sealing in those oils.

That’s why they recommend not draining the oils from the can after opening; because the tuna is so well taken care of prior to packaging, it’s actually healthier to eat the tuna this way!

Plus, the tuna they sent came in an array of cool flavors; along with their plain tuna, they sent me Chili-Lime (used in the pictures and this recipe), Habanero-Mint, and Citrus-Pepper.

They also included a jar of Chosen Foods Avocado Mayonnaise, which makes this sandwich even lower in carbs, full of healthy fats, with a ton of flavor.

It means I made this chili-lime tuna salad with only three ingredients: their flavored tuna, celery, and the avo mayo. But, if you can only get your hands on plain ole’ albacore tuna and you want to jazz it up to be chili-lime, that totally works as well – I’ve included the measurements to do so in the recipe below.

So you see? Tuna Salad as a low-carb make-ahead lunch idea.

It’s a thing.

You’re gonna love it.