yup. I do Fisherman's Eggs regularly, makes for a great brunch. Trader Joes has some nice ones tinned in olive oil. watch out for the other varieties in soybean oil or canola. they're marked on the package.

i love the combo of fat and salt in sardines.. they are a nice slow-burning fatty fish, and the umami is out of this world

you can try this recipe for Fisherman's eggs. Easy and very tasty. Try them for breakfast, or pair with a leafy salad for a quick supper. Serves 4. Adapted from The Silver Spoon.

Heat the oven to 500°F and preheat an ovenproof serving dish for five minutes. Place a can of sardines, a small sliced shallot, a few sprigs of chopped parsley, and two cloves of finely chopped garlic in the warm dish. Add some black pepper and put the dish back in the oven for six minutes. Remove the dish from the oven, break four eggs into a bowl, and pour them gently on top of the sardine mixture. Season with salt and pepper and put the dish back in the oven for seven minutes, until the egg whites are cooked but still jiggly. Remove the dish and let it sit for five minutes (the eggs keep on cooking even out of the oven). Serve with hot sauce.

these complete my Sunday mornings :)

Fresh sardines.

Grilled until the skin is crispy and then drizzled with high-quality olive oil mixed with fresh garlic and chopped parsley.

True Mediterranean delight.

Eat them whole. Heads, guts, spines and all.

Thank me later.

I like sardines, but when I started following this lifestyle I accidentally grabbed anchovies at the store. I didn't notice when I got home and didn't even notice until I put a big bite in my mouth. SALT ATTACK

I eat a can of sardines every other day. love them! Just eat them straight out of the can with a carrot at the side. Since I don`t drink milk their a good source of calcium. The brand I go for is King Oscar, a norwegian brand. Sardines in extra virgin olive oil. Expensive, but totally worth it.

I once had some sardines from the lunch-buffet at my work. My co-workers gave my plate a really strange look and asked if I had found a dead snake or something and put it on my plate.. lol..I wonder what they would have said if they knew I ate offals on a regulary basis as well... :P

I love sardines. Beach Cliff sardines in water are my go to meals.

Quiz...

How do you get your co-workers to stay away from your office and leave you alone?

Answer...

Eat sardines out of the can. They hate the smell and I love the solitude!!!

It's become a joke but it's still effective for getting my work done.

I eat a few cans of Brunswick sardines in olive oil per week. They make for a convenient snack.

http://www.brunswick.ca/brunswick/usaenglish/product_specific.asp?flavourid=250

I love them too, but there is only one brand (wild planet) I know of that has BPA free tins and they're expensive so I rarely buy them.

I can get stuff from the salad bar in the cafeteria at work and put my sardines over it, then use the olive oil from the can for the dressing which avoids the canola/soybean oil in all the dressings they have there - win/win.

by far the best brand I have found is Matiz sardines - large fleshy sardines not mush in a can. MMM, sardines, I think I will go have some right now. I also love to buy fresh sardines when available and grill them whole on my charcoal grill with salt and lemon. Delightful!

I eat sardines or mackerel at least 3x/week. Vital choice also uses BPA free tins. Matiz Gallego are good too. Buy them in olive oil with the bones and skin still there.

I eat the Wild Planet brand at least once per week. The lemon and EVOO one is very good, although I am kinda desiring a spicy version and WP doesn't make one. I may branch out, which I'm bummed about bcuz WP does a LOT of things right. At $2.99 per can, I think the "premium" over the other brands pricing is well worth it. It's such an inexpensive lunch or addition to salad. And you can buy in bulk online for less than that anyway.

• High O3

• Potassium

• Magnesium

• CoQ10

• Protein

• Low mercury

• Selenium

See my other post here about it for some really good reference:

http://paleohacks.com/questions/19937/salmon-canned-wild-or-farmed/23630#23630

Definitely! I eat at least 2 cans a week. Usually on my fast/gym days I'll wake up, drink tea and water all day, then about 30 minutes before I work out, I eat a tin of either Wild Planet or King Oscar in EVO...straight from the tin with a fork, but usually with my fingers. Haha my girlfriend hates it! I always try to kiss her afterwards, and she shoo's me away.

Butter, garlic, parsley, yum !

I like to either eat them alone (Snack) or mush them with boiled eggs, or other canned fish and spices to bake into nice fish burgers.

I love especially the smoked kinds, the regular from can can be a bit blah.

I used to also eat pasta with a tomato sauce made with fried mushed smoked sardines... I have to do something like that again! (of course without the pasta)

Yes, I eat Sardines several times a week. Don't really count, some weeks may go without any. Also eat, mackerel, salmon, herring, & tuna. As a whole I usually choose wild & packed in water when I can when eating any of these. Back to sardines, packed in water, smoked, in mustard, & occasionally in olive oil or tomato sauce. I love the idea of mushing them with boiled eggs mentioned earlier in the thread. Visited an Asian market recently and found Sardines a bit cheaper there. They also had a wonder variety of sea food, which I'll have to explore.

Yes, a couple of times a week. Only packed in Olive Oil. However this caveat: I empty out, and do not consume, the olive oil in the tin before dumping the contents of the aforementioned tin onto a plate or into a salad. I obviously can't get all of it, but I make sure not to consume it all.

Reason: I live in Spain, I only consume organic extra virgen Olive Oil. I know that there are many cheaper olive oils around... as well as scams to mix olive oil with vegetable oil... They surface every so often.

But anyway, think about it, you are a manufacturer of canned sardines. Are you going to buy the most expensive, highest quality Olive Oil on the market to put into your cans? Didn't think so. The cheapest? I would. It still gets me the label that says: "SARDINES IN OLIVE OIL".

I buy from the local bulk store packed in EVOO. Love 'em with hard boiled eggs.

I prefer Herring fillets by Brunswick: http://www.brunswick.ca/brunswick/usaenglish/product_mainpage.asp. I eat a can 4-5 times a week.

Delicious posts. I do sardines from the can (usually) in water some of the time. Variety is key!

Take em' out of the can, pour sardines and their juices into a small glass tupperware. Add dash of salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and maybe some thyme (or whatever combination of spices you want), add some coconut oil or olive oil, warm it up by sitting it on top of a toaster oven, or just stick it in the oven...and devour.

I eat Wild Planet Sardines (in water) as my pre-workout meal three times per week. I mix 2 cans of sardines with Kimchi I buy from the market and enjoy.

Love me some sardines with eggs. Awesome, awesome!

Little King Oscars out of the can with hot sauce or giardiniera relish once a week. Spendy little buggers but good.

Now where's the pickled herring thread?

I love sardines. I eat atleast two cans per week.

http://mouth-full-of-sardines.blogspot.com/

I get canned sardines occasionally as snack food or pre-dinner (something quick to break the fast while cooking real dinner). Season brand is the best canned sardine I've tried, but looking around the Web, there are several competitors for the consensus top spot.

In my experience, it's always best to get plain oil-packed sardines and add flavor (mustard, hot sauce, or whatever) only if you feel like it.

Where does everyone buy their sardines? I live in orange county...so I get mine at trader joes but I'm tryin to find some kind of ethnic market to buy cheaper and/or different variety from.

I LOVE sardines and eat them at least a few times each week. The brand I buy varies often though- I'm not too picky. They are one of the best foods on the planet, I think. Full of omega-3s and very low mercury.

We do! Love Sardines! And this recipe for Fisherman's Eggs looks delicious!

I usually eat sardines at least a couple times per week. Not long ago I was visiting my brother and his family in Minneapolis. Very cold there and my hands were getting dry and cracked. Fortunately, I brought a few tins of sardines with me (because I thought I might have problems eating enough paleo foods while there) and started eating them. Within a couple of days my hands had healed significantly.