Gimme some salt!

liz60625
liz60625 Posts: 17 Member
edited December 3 in Health and Weight Loss
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!

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  • aqualeo1
    aqualeo1 Posts: 331 Member
    Turkey lunch meat!
  • Alienique
    Alienique Posts: 122 Member
    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
    xvolution Posts: 721 Member
    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
    B4Rachael Posts: 155 Member
    These are good & there are other brands and varieties. They are chips made out of beans. beanitos.com/
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    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
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    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
    ladipoet Posts: 4,180 Member
    A bouillon cube dissolved in water contains lots of salt but doesn't usually taste overly salty.
  • sweetpea813
    sweetpea813 Posts: 112 Member
    Watermelon with salt! Awesome.
  • nikinuu
    nikinuu Posts: 22 Member
    Popcorn for the win! My go too dish I'm afraid
  • subakwa
    subakwa Posts: 347 Member
    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
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    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
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    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
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    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
    subakwa Posts: 347 Member
    Oh - pickled chillies! How could I forget those? The kebab shop ones are good if you prefer milder.
  • sfcrocker
    sfcrocker Posts: 163 Member
    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
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    I love Metcalfe's sweet & salty popcorn, hits the sweet and salty cravings in one go.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited August 2016
    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.

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    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
    Chilli7777 Posts: 112 Member
    Does anyone find that salty food halts their weight loss because of fluid retention? I would kill for a pickle!
  • Mavrick_RN
    Mavrick_RN Posts: 439 Member
    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
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    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
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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!
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