Seasoning without salt????

I put fresh garlic, onions, or peppers in everything!!

If you have a Trader Joe's nearby - get their "21-Seasoning Salute". It's SOOO good! (And, even fooled my salt-fiend mother when she came for dinner.)

Try Mrs. Dash seasonings! There's a varieity of flavors you can try including Garlic & Herb, Lemon Pepper, Onion & Herb, and Tomato Basil Garlic. These are my favorite flavors and I use them in vegetables, chicken, turkey and fish, plus they're all salt-free!

Fresh herbs always work, but there are some salt substitutes available, if you really need that salt flavor. My father in-law uses AlsoSalt.

I use the freshest ingredients that I can find perferrably from the garden and get lots of exercise. these things make food not need so much salt to begin with. everything tastes better when you've gotten enough exercise

I use a lot of cayenne. I love spicy foods.

I use salt when cooking but not very much and not once its on the plate. I don't have any medical conditions which require limiting salt. I run also so I need my sodium - just not too much of it.

I grew up in a house with out the aid of salt we used fresh herbs garlic and peppers one that we went through the most was lemon pepper lemons and limes I never liked the taste of salt

Freshly ground peppercorns, garlic cloves (or powder) and onion or leek go a long way toward adding tasty flavours.

I also find that using fresh, freeze-dried or "wet" (the ones that come in tubes) herbs make a big taste impact when compared to dried. Fresh basil is my favourite: it works well with so many types of food! I look at a lot of Thai and Malay foods for inspiration for spice combinations, since they tend to have flavours that travel around the tongue when you savour a bite. Mmmm.

A tiny sprinkling of cayenne can add a bit of flavour without adding too much heat.

I tend to use a lot of low-sodium/MSG-free stocks in my cooking, which add a ton of flavour for very little salt (definitely check the label first, though. Some low-sodium stocks are actually pretty high in sodium.)

MInced garlic, ground cumin, fresh ground black pepper, and I'm beginning to fall in love with Mrs. Dash, especially sprinkled on sliced potatoes, then baked. YUM!

Thanks for all of the ideas guys!! I guess I just grew up in a household where salt was used heavily!! I have used the Mrs. Dash, and they just seem to smell really good, but not taste like much... I will keep trying, something will work!!

I was a heavy salt user until my teens, when I decided to swear off salt. I added salt to nothing, ate no salty snacks, and even ordered things in restaurants with no salt. By the end of 6 months, everything tasted wonderful and salt tasted like some strange chemical. I still can't eat fries with salt on them because the flavor is too strong. I recommend going "cold turkey" for a while, which will reawaken those taste buds and make it so just a little saltiness goes a long, long way.

Kris

Try just sticking with the low salt you have been doing. It's amazing how your taste buds will adjust. Soon you will taste processed foods and be disgusted with how salty they taste.
Research has shown that people actually enjoy the taste of food better, once they cut salt out.

I buy Nutrasalt from Amazon.com. It's low sodium Sea Salt. It tastes like really salt though. I love it!

are you trying to cut out sodium? My husband has high BP so we've cut adding salt and try to get low sodium things and we eat at home vs out 24/7 now. We use "NoSalt" which contains potassium chloride instead of sodium. I've never been a salt person (personally I'm a pepper gal!) but in cooking with it I can't tell a difference. I do not like it, however, when adding it to something that has already been cooked or to something cold. These salt substitutes are good for cooking with only, IMO. Its cheap and lasts forever - you can pick it up at any grocery store.

I use mrs dash (or the equivelant of) to season most things, I also switched to half salt for times when I need that flavor. I think that sauteed veggies add great flavor to almost anything. I use applecider vinegar and lemon juice a lot and never underestimate pepper, and fresh or dried spices!!

Eventually your palate will catch up to your non use of sodium and things will start tasting better.