This high-protein salad features a surprising ingredient.

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Recipe: From Y’ALL EAT YET?

a side by side of Miranda Lambert and her “Nonny’s Tuna Salad” recipe

Photo:Lambert: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images. Recipe: From Y’ALL EAT YET? by Miranda Lambert with Holly Gleason. Copyright © 2023 by Miranda Lambert. Reprinted by permission of Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. EatingWell design.

by Miranda Lambert with Holly Gleason.

Copyright 2023 by Miranda Lambert.

Reprinted by permission of Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

One of them was following a high-protein, all-liquid diet for several weeks leading up to the procedure.

In the weeks directly following the procedure, it was more of the same.

And Miranda Lambert’s tuna salad recipe has been a staple in my post-gastric-bypass-surgery diet.

Something else Ive always enjoyed?

The House That Built Me singer is one of my favorite female country music singers.

Strong, fearless and totally inspirational, Lambert has long been a woman I look up to.

And in herYall Eat Yet?

The recipe starts with some familiar tuna salad ingredients like canned tuna, celery, mayonnaise and relish.

But the real star of this celebrity-endorsed tuna salad is something a bit crunchier: chopped apple.

I was surprised and intrigued by this addition.

But after just one taste I was hooked.

they asked, unsure, like me, that fruit and tuna salad would play well together.

Not only did the adults love it, but so did the teenagerseven a few of the pickier ones.

When I got home that evening, a friend texted me asking for the recipe.