Ana Kozlowsky Webboard User Reg: 01-21-2010
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Hi everybody,
I am shopping around for more variety for my animals' diet. Checked Walmart and the only thing on my shopping list they had was some strange canned sardines called "Sardines El Mexicano", 95c per 15oz can. The ingredients are "sardines, tomato sauce, spices, salt", no idea what spices or what's in the sauce. 95mg of sodium per 2oz is less than most canned fish.
Would it be safe to feed it to my dogs and cats?
Also found Bumble Bee Jack Mackerel there but it has 250mg of sodium per 2oz and costs twice as much.
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Hi everybody,
I am shopping around for more variety for my animals' diet. Checked Walmart and the only thing on my shopping list they had was some strange canned sardines called "Sardines El Mexicano", 95c per 15oz can. The ingredients are "sardines, tomato sauce, spices, salt", no idea what spices or what's in the sauce. 95mg of sodium per 2oz is less than most canned fish.
Does it say "spicy" or "hot" or anything like that on the label? If not, I'd probably go for it if the price was right and just rinse them off. I rinse most canned fish anyway.
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Anything I find for about $1 a can, I buy. Sometimes my sister finds canned wild salmon with skin and bones for $1 a can at a store called "Family Dollar," on the East Coast. Sometimes I find sardines for $1 a can on endcaps in a pharmacy/variety store.
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Thank you, Connie.
Doesn't say spicy or hot, tastes pretty bland and yucky. There is more sauce than sardines. I guess that mackerel is a better buy - almost all solid fish in the can. I'll give them both cans of sardines without the sauce today.
Where do you draw the line in terms of sodium? I've seen anything between 120mg/2oz and 350mg/2oz.
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Thank you, Connie.
Doesn't say spicy or hot, tastes pretty bland and yucky. There is more sauce than sardines. I guess that mackerel is a better buy - almost all solid fish in the can. I'll give them both cans of sardines without the sauce today.
Where do you draw the line in terms of sodium? I've seen anything between 120mg/2oz and 350mg/2oz.
I give canned fish without worrying much about sodium because I rinse it well. (The reason I'd omit the tomato sauce is because it contains most of that added sodium.)
No-salt-added is nice when I can find it, but my own preference is to get that variety into the diet even if I have to rinse it.
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Thank you very much, Connie. The evil mexican sardines are on the menu then. The cats and dogs went nuts for them, I should probably feed them fish more often, less of it being tuna.
Anything I find for about $1 a can, I buy. Sometimes my sister finds canned wild salmon with skin and bones for $1 a can at a store called "Family Dollar," on the East Coast. Sometimes I find sardines for $1 a can on endcaps in a pharmacy/variety store.
If you live near a Trader Joe's, it's the only place so far I have found sardines with no added salt. Same price as grocery story, but the $/per pound is more than I like to pay. Gotta find me a Family Dollar store.
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If you can find a fish market they will very likely have whole fresh/frozen sardines or mackerel (there are several types of mackerel). If you have an Asian neighborhood nearby, they'll have a fish market.
Price-per-pound, fresh/frozen is much cheaper than even the cheapest canned fish. And then you don't have to worry about sodium or tomato sauce, etc.
I was surprised the first time I bought whole sardines--they are bigger than you think. I was expecting minnow sized fishes. They are actually about 6-7 inches long, and as big around as a stick of butter.
I buy them in bulk 50-pound cases for 1.79 a pound.
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