Help! Too much sodium!

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  • ItsAnIllusion
    ItsAnIllusion Posts: 63 Member
    I monitor sodium intake, and I find the things that will make me go over 1500 are almost always processed foods, not my own cooking. I still salt food I am making, as I always have, at reasonable amounts. I do avoid soy sauce.

    So I would say go ahead and use salt on your on cooking and don't worry about it. If you want some other ideas, I love Parmesan cheese on veggies, or thyme. Fresh rosemary is also good with root veggies.
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    blaghhhh, I never add salt to anything, I love the flavors of my food already.. I must be a good cook hahahahaha....but seriously I watch my sodium intake because I don't want the water retention... makes me feel like poop, I use herbs, basil, oregano, thyme, pepper.
  • SailorKnightWing
    SailorKnightWing Posts: 875 Member
    blaghhhh, I never add salt to anything, I love the flavors of my food already.. I must be a good cook hahahahaha....
    Same. I almost never add salt to anything I cook because everything that's supposed to be salty has some kind of salty ingredient in it already, whether it be soy sauce, chicken stock, cheese, etc. I don't like most restaurant foods because they're just too salty! My mom learned how to cook without salt because of my dad's high blood pressure, so I never developed a taste for it. Which is bad because I have low blood pressure due to unrelated health problems...
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    blaghhhh, I never add salt to anything, I love the flavors of my food already.. I must be a good cook hahahahaha....
    Same. I almost never add salt to anything I cook because everything that's supposed to be salty has some kind of salty ingredient in it already, whether it be soy sauce, chicken stock, cheese, etc. I don't like most restaurant foods because they're just too salty! My mom learned how to cook without salt because of my dad's high blood pressure, so I never developed a taste for it. Which is bad because I have low blood pressure due to unrelated health problems...

    plus my sodium intake is low anyways, as I cook everything from scratch, I don't eat packaged, processed foods. If I do add any , its sea salt, and still a fraction at what is in packaged foods.
  • sobriquet84
    sobriquet84 Posts: 607 Member
    I love flavoring food with the following:

    fresh lemon juice or lemon zest
    fresh lime juice or lime zest
    garlic
    fresh ground pepper

    especially lemon. freaking love using lemon on food.

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