5 Budget-Friendly Ways to Eat More Seafood (2024)

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5 Budget-Friendly Ways to Eat More Seafood? ›

Try canned seafood.

Tuna and canned salmon can be used in place of each other in recipes. Use water-packed tuna or salmon to reduce the amount of fat and sodium in your diet. Try making salmon patties or baked salmon loaf with canned fish. Some canned seafood may be high in sodium.

Try canned seafood.

Tuna and canned salmon can be used in place of each other in recipes. Use water-packed tuna or salmon to reduce the amount of fat and sodium in your diet. Try making salmon patties or baked salmon loaf with canned fish. Some canned seafood may be high in sodium.

Canned seafood, such as canned salmon, tuna, or sardines, makes for a delicious, easy, and healthy meal with simple cooking to no-cook steps. Keep frozen fish in the freezer as a budget-friendly option – you can cook from frozen or thaw fillets in about 15-20 minutes.

Clams, mussels, oysters, scallops: These are among the most sustainable seafood options. Some varieties (e.g. Pacific oysters, and mussels) are also high in omega-3 fatty acids.

Frozen and canned seafood can be equally nutritious and far easier on the pocketbook. Canned and leftover seafood is perfect for creating burgers, salads, and sauces. Frozen seafood and fish are another great, affordable option and is perfect for communities where fresh fish is not always so fresh.

Look for species that are in season and abundant year-round, like rockfish, lingcod, sablefish, Petrale sole, sanddabs, and white seabass. White fish is often a more affordable option — species like rockfish, lingcod, Dover sole, grenadier, and sanddabs.

Eat fish fillets and steaks with a fork and knife.

If you bite into a bone, simply pull it out of your mouth with your fingers, and set it down onto the side of your plate. Some people like to eat the skin of their fish. Other people like to peel it away first using a fork and knife.

Healthy Diet

Fish is filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins such as D and B2 (riboflavin). Fish is rich in calcium and phosphorus and a great source of minerals, such as iron, zinc, iodine, magnesium, and potassium.

Which seafood is least toxic? ›

Smaller fish—sardines, anchovies, farmed trout, fresh tilapia, arctic char—and bivalves such as scallops, clams, and oysters don't build up as many contaminants as do the large carnivores. Small fish also reproduce quickly, so their populations can recover from overfishing much more easily than the long-lived giants.

Bluefin tuna is known for being the most expensive seafood in the world.

Seafood comprises all bony fishes and the more primitive sharks, skates, rays, sawfish, sturgeons, and lampreys; crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs, shrimps, prawns, and crayfish; mollusks, including clams, oysters, co*ckles, mussels, periwinkles, whelks, snails, abalones, scallops, and limpets; the cephalopod mollusks ...

Common crustaceans that people eat include crab, lobster and shrimp while common mollusks are clams, mussels and scallops.

And within the category, there's quite a range of affordability, with species such as lobster and crabs sporting the largest price tags, and species such as tilapia and catfish priced more moderately. Salmon is considered a high-end “reach” item, whereas shrimp falls somewhere in the middle.

Get creative with seafood

Try salmon patties, a shrimp stir-fry, grilled fish tacos, or clams with whole-wheat pasta. Add variety by trying a new fish such as grilled Atlantic or Pacific mackerel, herring on a salad, or oven-baked pollock.

If you're not keen on the taste of fish, mixing it with other foods can help. Try tinned tuna in a pasta bake or in a risotto. You could try serving fish in a tomato sauce to dilute the flavour, or even make a fish curry.

Generally, pole-and-line and rod-and-reel (sometimes also known as 'line-caught') are more sustainable and less damaging. When it comes to shellfish, hand-dived or hand-harvested is often the more sustainable choice.