I know seafood is good for you, but I've never found any that I can stand to eat. Are there any alternatives that are equally healthy?

Have you tried ground flax seeds or flax seed oil? They have the Omega-3 oils as well.

I don't really care for fish either, but I will make it every once in a while just to get the Omega-3s ... I've managed to get past the gag reflex when I eat it now! lol! I still don't like it though.

What kind are you trying to eat? I make scrod but bury it in veggies, a bit of olive oil, garlic and cajun spices, some breadcrumbs and bake for 20 minutes. Tastes more like vegetable stuffing than fish.

If you have access to a Costco, I've found a delicious Tortilla/Lime/Chipotle crusted Tilapia, and an Almond Crusted sole, both made by Sea Cuisine, in the frozen section. I absolutely hate fish, but both of these options are delicious, and super-easy to prepare.

Trader Joe's has some great frozen fish that isn't very fishy tasting, if you dislike the taste. Love that store.

Canned tuna pretty much disapears in a good, flavorful curry. I recomend it highly for the anti-seafood person. I usually adore fish, but canned tuna just is so gross to me. But, it's cheap and high in protein, so into the curry it goes!

maybe you can help me josephine. i like the idea of all that protein, so i bought some canned tuna. yesterday i made sandwiches and took them with me to work. the first 2 were ok, but after that, i could hardly stand them.

i just used mayonaisse and salt. do u make sandwiches? or do u tend to eat it in things like you mentioned above?

I don't always have time to make curry, and I definitely don't bring it to work with me often (the idea of that exploding in my bag, all over my nice new work clothes, horrifies me!).

The salad bar here at my work cafeteria often has tuna from then can, so I often use it there as well. I get myself a big plate of spinach, add about 2-3 oz. of the tuna, then some black olives and bits of red and green peppers. I don't use dressing. The flavor of those veggies pretty much overpowers the taste of the tuna. The olives are especially helpful. This also has a LOT less fat and carbs than the tuna sandwich with mayo, if that's a concern for you. You could add a little cheese or basalmic dressing if you like, and still come out ahead.

I also found this great recipie in Oxygen magazine for tuna that I intend to try sometime. Haven't gotten around to it yet...

2, 6-oz cans of tuna, no salt, packed in water
1 cup apples, diced
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup fat-free mayo
2 tbsp green onion, chopped
2 tsp dijon mustard
1 tsp curry powder
4 whole wheat pitas, cut into halves
1/2 toasted walnuts, chopped
8 slices fat-free cheddar cheese

Combine first 7 ingredients in mixing bowl, mix well. Spread 1/4 cup on each slice of pita bread and sprinkle with walnuts, top with a slice of cheese. Broil until cheese is melted.

Sounds like a great dinner to me.

Good luck!

If you have access to an Asian store, you can buy Japanese-style curry. Inside the box, you'll find a single bag (retoruto pouches) that's meant to be placed in a pot of just-boiled water until it heats up.

You can just cut the pouch open, dump it in a bowl (it's fully cooked) and add the tuna. The curry pouches have a little potato, carrots, and onions but not much -- they are also made with applesauce, so they tend to be sweetish. Try one before you invest too much. It's a traditional dish for Japanese children (and the young at heart) -- kare raisu!

Oh god, I LOVE the Japanese instant curry. I also love the stuff that looks rather like a chocolate bar, but melts into this amazing, gooey, totally not indian but AMAZING curry. Heh. I think that stuff is Chinese, not sure. I've never really gone long enough without mutilating the package to get to the curry to find out.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!



Do you have a full recipe for that so I can try it? I usually just eat whatever my husband buys which is a variety between salmon, mahi mahi, swordfish, talapia, and shrimp. And I don't like any of it. Whenever he makes fish it's usually pan seered with some spices and that's it. It isn't served on anything or mixed with anything, which is why your idea is so appealing to me.

i love the idea of getting 40g of protein from one little can. i think i'll try that salad. sounds tasty.

i'll try the japanese-style curry too, if i can get my hands on some. thanks for the tips!

I'll give writing out a recipe a try. I'm mostly a "wing it" kind of cook. I definitely don't measure anything.

preheat oven to 425 degrees
spray rectangular glass baking dish with non-stick stuff

ingredients
.75 to 1.0 lbs of scrod

any vegetable you like (here are the ones I use most)

1 onion, chopped
broccoli crowns, chopped (about 1 - 2 cups?)
1 red, orange, or yellow pepper chopped
baby carrots, chopped (about 1 - 2 cups?)
2 or 3 cloves of garlic, pressed

bread crumbs (no idea how much...)
cajun spice to taste

Place the scrod in the baking dish
drizzle some olive oil over it, maybe rub it around a bit for good coverage

coat scrod with a good layer of bread crumbs

add chopped veggies. I try to get good coverage, so it's almost like layers but don't get too picky. Unless that's your thing.

shake cajun spices over the whole thing to taste.

press your garlic and sprinkle around the top.

drizzle a little more olive oil over it again.

cover dish with aluminum foil and bake for 20 minutes. Onions should be sizzling in the bottom of the dish and fish will be flaky.

That serves two adults. Sometimes there's a little left over.

It's easy to prepare (and clean up after) and always tasty. Except for the time I grabbed the ground cinnamon instead of the cajun spice. That wasn't so hot. Good laugh though.

Hope that helps.

Thanks so much Jim H! I will definately give this a try. I'll tell my husband about it too. He's a wing it kind of guy when it comes to cooking too, so he'll definately appreciate this. Thanks for the help!

I'm a vegan, so I don't eat seafood.
For Omega 3's and 6's, I use Hemp oil, Hemp protein powder, and Flax meal (ground up flax seeds) or flax oil.

Hemp protein powder, added to a smoothy, gives you lots of protein, and the omegas, without being "fishy"... and without the mercury, and the other pollutants which are very prevelant in seafood.

This recipe sounded fabulous, and I'm not a big fan of tuna....


Chopped Nicoise Salad Copyright 2005, Ellie Krieger, All rights reserved.
Show: Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger
Episode: Right On Budget

4 small red potatoes (about 1/2 pound)
1/3 pound fresh green beans, trimmed
12-ounce can light tuna packed in water, drained
1/2 cup chopped pitted Greek or Spanish olives
1/4 cup diced red onion
2 large tomatoes, seeded and diced (about 2 cups)
5 cups chopped romaine lettuce
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper

Boil water in a large pot with a fitted steamer basket. Put the potatoes in the steamer, cover and steam for 15 minutes. Add the green beans and steam for 6 minutes more. Put the cooked potatoes and beans in a dish and set in the refrigerator to cool, or plunge into a bowl of ice water to cool quickly.
Put tuna, olives, onion, tomato and lettuce in a large bowl. Dice the potatoes and green beans, add them to the bowl and toss.

In a small bowl whisk together the oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper. Pour the dressing over the salad, toss well and serve.


Nutrition Information
Nutritional Analysis per Serving Calories 267
Total Fat 10 grams Saturated Fat 1.5 grams
Protein 25 grams Carbohydrates 21 grams
Fiber 6 grams

It's great to keep trying new types of seafood, but sometimes you just have to accept that you just don't like something. I have tried tons and tons of seafood but I have yet to find any that I enjoy eating. For Omega-3's I take molecularly distilled cod liver oil (it's orange flavor, not fishy at all!) and when I make eggs, I eat the yolk too (good fats are in the yolk).

If you don't like it don't eat it.

Hmm... I'm against seafood unless it's a) salmon, b) tuna sandwich (from canned tuna) or c) halibut in fish and chips (although slowing starting to like halibut on its own).

My problem with things like shrimp, crab, lobster is the texture. I don't even really like the normal fish texture. However, salmon just works (I think because I ate it growing up), tuna doesn't have that texture when made into tuna salad for a sandwich, and neither does halibut when it's covered in a crust that you can eat with it to try and prevent the texture issue.

I just don't like the way the stuff feels in my mouth. Ugh

However, many people don't eat seafood/fish and they get along fine and healthy. It's not the end of the world if you don't eat it and it's fine if you do. Like people have listed above, there are other ways of getting the omega-3 fatty acids.

I'm not big into the trend of getting fortified foods and eating something specifically for one particular nutrient. All these nutrients/vitamins/minerals can be found in various quantities in lots of different foods. I'd rather focus on eating a variety of healthy foods in order to get it all in.

I wouldn't worry about it if you don't like it and just move on and eat something else. I'd rather 'spend' my calories on foods I can stomach, then forcing down something I don't enjoy.

Well I hate it and don't eat it.

Does anyone here actually like seafood?

There isn't an animal on this planet I would not love to convert to it's basic organic molecules as it finds it's way through my various tubes.

My favorite has got to be gigantic jumbo shrimp. But it's probably just the cocktail sauce, I swear that stuff is like mana from heaven. I'll put it on anything just to get it's deliciousness in my mouth. It probably just so happens that it finds it's way onto shrimp most often.

Second favorite, raw tuna. Call me crazy, I can feel my muscles absorbing the protein with every bit.

How come you all don't like food that comes from 70% of the earth's surface? It's so tasty. Just add cocktail sauce, trust me.

Love it, love it, love it! Shrimp and raw tuna and grilled rockfish...even greasy catfish! Gotsta have it!

I realize that's not helpful...sorry.

Silk Soy Milk now has a kind with added Omega 3 fatty acids. That's what you want from seafood anyway

I just can't stand the smell. Even FRESH seafood stinks. Go into Whole Foods and walk by the seafood counter. I turn green from the smell, and they're great about turnover and keeping things fresh. Plus, the really "fishy" taste of some of it...most fish I can only choke down fried and coated in tartar sauce, which kind of defeats the purpose of eating fish.

If it swims, it doesn't get near my mouth. I eat a lot of beans and legumes (spelling?) for protien, as well as lean meats. For the fatty acids, I just take an Omega 3-6-9 complex. I also take a multivitamin, and some other supplements because I'm nursing.

I have to second this, the chipotle crusted tilapia from Costco is amazing, and a great price. I threw a few filets in the oven a few days ago, and I honestly thought it was restaurant quality fish. Doesn't have too much of a fishy taste either; the fish is very subtle compared to the breading.

Other alternatives would be a generic white fish filet, as the fish itself has very little flavor. You may also like smoked salmon (Heavy smoked) because it tastes significantly different than most other seafoods. I think that one of the biggest reasons that people don't like seafood is because they don't get really fresh fish. One thing to remember when buying whole fish is that it should never smell fishy and should not have much of a sag when you hold it by the tail and head. If it does smell fishy and you're willing to look a bit odd to other people, lift and sniff the gills; a salty, ocean smell means it's fresh, a fishy smell means it's not. A supplemental means of judging a fish's freshness is to look at the eyes. They should look vibrant, clear, and somewhat annoyed. I prefer to buy whole fish and have them filleted, since the freshness of whole fish is much easier to detect. If you buy pre-wrapped fillets, make sure there's no brown meat, freezer burn, or a fishy smell.