Did anyone else grow up on tuna melts? Or tuna ‘bakes’ if you were in my family, which involved an English muffin base, simple tuna salad made with mayo, green onion and maybe fresh herbs, topped with a slice of orange cheddar and baked in the oven (or possibly the toaster oven). For my sisters and me, this was way up there on the list of awesome, comforting lunches. Dairy and wheat are usually the first things to exit the diet once we start to learn about our health, and shortly after that tuna, either for its mercury content or maybe because you are trying a plant-based diet. Bizarrely enough, tuna is the easiest of the three components of a tuna melt to re-create in a healthy and convincing way.
