It’s ubiquitous. They cram as much as feasibly possible into anything they can. One entree I saw had 350 calories and 85% of the daily salt allowance. I may as well just rinse it in the ocean or rub it on a salt flat. Yeah, we need salt but could they wrap a little nutrition around it first perhaps?
Am I being preserved for a long trip across the ocean in the Santa Maria like a piece of salt pork or for a future archeologist to dig up my desiccated but well preserved corpse?
I can no longer eat anything salt free. They cringe from me, screaming in abject terror. —One Really Salty Maritimer</b
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
Avoid eating out then; people want healthy, but they want tasty. So, what do we do? Instead of having fatty foods, we’ve got ultra salty foods. We’re our own worst enemy.
Go to China. I couldn’t find any salt there.
We want healthy and tasty, so why don’t they add spices and herbs to make better tasting food? Salt isn’t the only option. I think that’s one of the reasons North America is fatter on average than other places, we use salt where we should use spice.
I love salt. I love salt to much that I, too, can’t eat anything without it. It just doesn’t taste right.
I’ve always loved salt. I used to sneak it right out of the shaker when I was little…and I consistantly have normal or low blood pressure.
I hope that shit never does catch up with me because eating just isn’t worth it without salt. *sigh*
I have a blood pressure problem that was to be controled with drugs.
The Doctor, knowing my total distain for Drug Companies & their policies of creating drugs for treating diseases instead of CURING diseases, offered me the choice to go on a diet & try to be as salt free as possible.
I went for that, I went home & threw the salt shakers away, & at first it was very difficult. But its like a lot of things in life…a learning process. So here I am 10 years plus later, no drugs for my blood pressure & I’m holding my own.
I would like to point out for me anyway, that when something has too much salt in it (which is just about everything) it no longer tases good to me. It actually tastes ,in many cases spit it out gross.
Is there anyone else on a salt free kick who finds that salty foods, no longer taste good ?
I find that plain fresh celery now tastes like it has salt water in it !
i have the high bp as well, and avoiding salt makes a difference…but my whole family finds processed food too salty-we avoid it…me ma links salty food in a restaurant to smoking cooks/chefs. for treats tho i prefer salty/greasy over sweet/sugary
The same thing happened to me with sugar More. I gave it up for awhile and it didn’t take long before I could smell a sweet from across the room, and I had to switch to unsweetened soy milk because the normal stuff was far too sweet. I’ve never been a big salt adder, so I definitely find somethings are just disgustingly salty.
My kitchen skills are such that dining out becomes dining in with equal or better results than most restaurants for minimal cost. Salt is only added at the table if desired but rarely used. The same cannot be said of my mortar and pestle and the aromatic freshly ground spices it produces. A summer herb garden is a must!
most of the time, if i cook for someone else, there is no salt or shit like that added. if you want it, you put it on. and you know that most restaurant cooks, load everything with salt. probly even the fucking water or ice cream.if you don’t want it, tell them so beforehand, not later in the coast, where they will probly never read it.
Ah,…it was a grocery store entree and I put it back where I found it.
I guess I could have called the president of the company or something. Yeah, that would have worked
the boys like wings…but i make them from fresh. the bear bought prepared store wings from sobeys a couple of years back, they were so disgustingly briney he took them back demanding a manager taste them, he got the money back but he just wanted them to know how bad the product was. do not buy prepackaged or seasoned shite
I think it’s just an issue that in our culture, there’s so much prepared food. But we want “reduced fat” and “reduced calorie” foods, and without fat to make things tasty, well, you add a liberal dose of salt. For the average consumer, herbs cost too much. They’d rather spend 120 bucks a month on a cell phone bill.
Currently, I’m treating myself to some delicious alexandra’s pizza, of which I put SALT on.
That’s right: pizza with salt.
So suck it! hahaha
gimme some…
…i got the shakes going on here!
“…rub it on a salt flat.”
LOL vivid mental imagery.
the only thing I absolutely ADORE salt on is peanut butter toast.
it’s just TOO good to resist so I have it very infrequently.
other than that, it’s Mrs. Dash (sodium free) pour moi.
I’ve got enough problems without adding high blood pressure to the list.