Help! Too much sodium!

ItsAnIllusion

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

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

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

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

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.