Gimme some salt!

liz60625

I crave salty snacks and am looking for suggestions on your favorite, low calorie salty snacks. Right now sliced cucumbers with salt are good, but what else can replace the salt fix I usually got from chips/popcorn? Thanks!

aqualeo1

Turkey lunch meat!

Alienique

Fish fillets. Baked, boiled, or lightly fried. They're low calorie, packed with protein, and can take A LOT of salt. In fact, I don't know that salt goes with anything better than seafood (potatoes and corn on the cob notwithstanding).

xvolution

I second pickles for a low calorie salty treat. A whole kosher dill pickle has from 1-5 calories and around 840mg sodium each.

B4Rachael

These are good & there are other brands and varieties. They are chips made out of beans. beanitos.com/

kommodevaran

When I crave salt, I add more salt to my food and/or just pour some salt from the container and lick it right from my palm.

trigden1991

kommodevaran wrote: »

When I crave salt, I add more salt to my food and/or just pour some salt from the container and lick it right from my palm.

Imaging this made me laugh. Commitment!!

ladipoet

A bouillon cube dissolved in water contains lots of salt but doesn't usually taste overly salty.

sweetpea813

Watermelon with salt! Awesome.

nikinuu

Popcorn for the win! My go too dish I'm afraid

subakwa

A small packet of salty airpopped popcorn is my go to, although you said you wanted to replace popcorn? A pack is 9g and 37 calories and hits the spot.

Celery & salt, miso soup, salty crackerbread, salted seaweed thins (Itsu make some).

laur357

Salt is generally what I crave too . . .

Mostly lower cal:
Olives
Radishes sprinkled with salt
Vegetable with ranch or onion dip
Pistachios
Rice cakes with an avocado slice and salt
Cucumbers sprinkled with salt and dipped in sriracha
Hard boiled egg with hot sauce and sprinkled with salt

vespiquenn

I'm a salt person too. My go to is pickles. Nothing like the weird look you get when you bring a pickle wrapped in a paper towel to bed because you really wanted one.

Otherwise I love veggie chips. Salty enough to satisfy me but I can have twice as much as chips with the same calorie count.

lemurcat12

My favorites are covered: pickles (or pickled anything -- my green market has some great pickled green beans and I've made a quick pickled daikon radish, among other options), and radishes. Along with the radishes, turnips or kohlrabi.

subakwa

Oh - pickled chillies! How could I forget those? The kebab shop ones are good if you prefer milder.

sfcrocker

Pickles are a great salty snack ESPECIALLY if you can get them from a real deli vs. in a jar. The deli ones are much crisper and fresher. I like curtido, which is Salvadoran coleslaw made without mayo so it's got almost no calories but is nice and salty. @kommodevaran: I can relate. When I was a kid my uncle, who is a geologist, brought me a salt rock and I would lick it just for the salt.

AnnPT77

And sauerkraut or kim chi.

I also like Indian puppodums, a tortilla-sized crispy thing that tends to be very salty. I like this brand/flavor, but you may be able to get them more cheaply elsewhere:

Sharwood's Spicy Puppodums on Amazon.com

Twenty calories each, salty, spicy, crunchy (after you microwave them), and more protein than chips.

fr33sia12

I love Metcalfe's sweet & salty popcorn, hits the sweet and salty cravings in one go.

kshama2001

kommodevaran wrote: »

When I crave salt, I add more salt to my food and/or just pour some salt from the container and lick it right from my palm.

I'll eat coarse sea salt straight.



I think I'll have some cucumber and salt. My cucumber plant was a fail this year, but my mothers are producing like mad.

Chilli7777

Does anyone find that salty food halts their weight loss because of fluid retention? I would kill for a pickle!

Mavrick_RN

Beef jerky. Salty and very filling True it's not particularly low cal but a little goes a long way and I don't need to eat that much of it for my salt fix.

Gamliela

Chilli7777 wrote: »

Does anyone find that salty food halts their weight loss because of fluid retention? I would kill for a pickle!

Its funny, I used to be an avid low salt advocate, I thought it caused water retention.

Thats not happening any more and I enjoy my salt these days.

Try it out and see if its the same for you.

AnnPT77

Chilli7777 wrote: »

Does anyone find that salty food halts their weight loss because of fluid retention? I would kill for a pickle!

If I eat quite a bit more sodium (or carbs) than usual, I retain a bit more water weight. This is true at any level of sodium/carbs, even a healthy level, if it's higher than my usual.

The water weight drops off in a day or two, when I return to normal eating. During that couple of days, it can mask fat loss, but once the water drops off, I see that the fat has gone, too. So, meh.

I don't stress about it, and if I crave salt, I eat some.

This is one of the reasons I like weighing/recording daily - I've gotten very familiar with my weight fluctuations, know what causes them, and can predict when they'll drop off. After that learning period, so much less stressful!