Canned Sardines in vegetable oil - no go?

#10

I do olive oil mackerel (and sardines/pilchards) in tomato, katsu curry, olive and herb, and mustard sauce.

These amazing and prolific fish have great health benefits, even from a tin.

(Joey) #11

… at the risk of putting too fine a point on it, I wouldn’t regard coconut, olive, nor avocado as being a vegetable :wink:

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #12

I get them water packed at Costco. Both the tuna and the sardines.

If I bought them in a veg oil, I would at least give them a good washing before consuming them.

(Allie) #13

Yeah fair point… :grin:

(Bob M) #14

Costco has sardines packed in water? The only ones I’ve seen are in olive oil. I think ones in water taste better, but they’re way more expensive not at Costco.

(Joey) #15

Same here re: Costco. But we greatly enjoy the Olive Oil-packed Costco sardines from “Season” brand.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #16

Olive oil sounds a much better choice than soybean oil, that’s for sure!

(Bob M) #17

Those are good. They are very “meaty”.

(Joey) #18

Indeed, we think they’re awesome. Typically around US$10 for a box of 6 tins.

Occasionally, they go on sale for around $7/box, at which point we buy about $100 worth of them or more. We’ve been eating these in salads for years now (and given our current supply, we’ll be eating these for years to come well after the Zombie apocalypse begins).

(Bob M) #19

I did not know they went on sale. I’ll have to look more closely at my Costco emails…

I’ve been buying meat in bulk when it goes on sale, then freezing it. Unfortunately, our freezer died and we did not realize that until too late (everything was warm). There go the savings! :wink:

Working from home to have the new one delivered. Thought about figuring out what was wrong with the old one, and fixing it if possible: I’ve fixed multiple ovens, our current fridge, washing machine, dryer, etc., like this. But this process can easily take 1-2 weekends, and at the same time, our pool light died, the remote system in basement died, the Fire TV streaming stick in the basement died, I need to finish installing the new lock system for the front door that uses a code (so it’ll automatically lock if we forget due to taking the dog out that door, but coming in the back door), the drain in my sink is totally 100% clogged (I have all the parts, just need time), the gate I put in to prevent the dog going upstairs needs to be moved down as it sucks right now… Sometimes “time” is worth more than “money”. (Unless you get a lot of money, then you just pay for everything.)

(Joey) #20

Yikes. What a “to do” list … I’d suggest selling the home, moving into a nice tent with the dog, waiting for sardines to go on sale, stock up big time, and live happily ever after. :+1:

#21

Here’s my current ‘stash’ of tinned fish…mackerel, sardines and red salmon.
Sardines are only £0.40 per tin, mackerel £0.80 per tin, and the red salmon is £3.00 per tin.
The dog and I love them, have them every other day. I don’t really bother with tuna…much rather have the tinned salmon mixed up with spring onion, grated cheddar and mayonnaise.
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#22

So what I mean is, as others have intimated…there are plenty of other options that don’t break keto, or indeed use polyunsaturated seed oils.

(Bob M) #23

Is Tesco a UK thing? That’s an impressive line of fish.

(Though I hate to bring this up…but fish oil is polyunsaturated fats. Whether that’s bad or good is a tough issue, though.)

#24

Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Waitrose, and Asda are the main players in UK, (and parts of Europe and beyond). I think Asda was once connected with Walmart, but I don’t keep up with such inconsequential nonsense.

Tesco (a UK store) has a great store near me with lots of variety.
I could go to Lidl stores (German budget stores), and I sometimes do, but that can be a lottery.

Theres much more at Tesco in the line of fish tins than I displayed…and no, I’m not an employee or advocate; just telling the truth. I nip in and out and know where the things I want are.
It could be any supermarket I guess, but this is local to me. :man_shrugging:

#25

I buy freshly caught sardines, or tinned sardines in water. There is an olive farm nearby and they make good, fresh, seasonal 100% olive oil. They even make ‘early’, ‘mid-season’, and ‘late-picked’ oils within a season. I put the ‘clean’ sardines in the local olive oil. Delicious. Also feed the same to my Labrador. Sardines are economical protein.

I do see in the canned sardines in the supermarket many are labelled “olive oil blend” where the oil is mainly polyunsaturated processed seed oils. Here it’s canola oil, or rape seed oil as it is called in the UK. I prefer to avoid the processed seed oils, as that is the stage of knowledge I’m at with ketogenic eating.

I also taste my olive oil before purchase, like old style wine tasting, and buy the nicest tasting one without any hints of rancid oxidation. Not sure if I’m an outlier with doing that? It’s tempting on visiting friends or family cooking me dinner with olive oil to ninja 🥷 into their kitchen to sniff and taste their olive oil. That’s normal to do, right?

#26

I am Carnivore into year 5 now and sometimes I eat them in oil.
I don’t care, but I prefer water packed. But if my fav brand is not on the shelf and I see some good ones I like packed in olive oil or whatever oil, yup I buy and eat. I ain’t dead yet and it suits me and I do well eating them. So for me, if I do fine after draining off that oil, giving a tad of a wipe to the sardines to get off a tad more oil, I am basically eating so little oil and I enjoy them, so yea, I am super great with it.

do you. what you feel suits you. you do great on it, like the taste and more have at it. you feel off eating them in oil, dump.

personal call on that one for each of us.

#27

LOL!
Yes, perfectly natural behaviour!

Well done sir.

:slight_smile:

#28

I like them in mustard. I’m a weirdo though…

#29

a ton of people do :wink: and all I can say is enjoy.
EWWWwww for me :rofl: