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How do YOU Cope with Low Sodium Diet?

Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jul 28, 2018 | Replies (17)

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I rarely ADD salt to anything, and I avoid "prepared" foods. That sounds like the core problem: Packaged foods, which are full of other junk, too. I use lemon juice from FRESH lemons (the kind in plastic isn't good) to season fish and vegetables. I really like it and don't like salty things anymore at all. Cooking and eating "real foods" ends up being far tastier than packaged ones, too -- and less costly.

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Hello @soloact, How long have you been on a low sodium diet?

I don't even think of myself as being "on a low-sodium diet." I'm more conscious of not adding salt nor eating really salty things such as potato chips since my heart failure diagnosis last year, but I haven't been salting food more than a teeny bit (occasionally and depending on what kind of food) for at least a decade, probably. There are so many other things that are tastier. Salsa with eggs, for instance. Lemon juice for many green vegetables, rice vinegar for some things. You lost your taste for it after a while. And "salted caramel" and all the emphasis on salted everything and bacon with the oddest things is a disturbing trend that irritates me. It's just the sugar push all over again.

Hello @soloact, It's good that you have been conscious about not adding salt nor eating salty things much of 10 years.
Oh, salsa and eggs are really good. I really like a Spanish dish served in Texes called Huevos Rancheros. Of course we now have to make it without salt but still is very good. Basicly salsa and eggs with corn tortillas. Corn tortillas have very little sodium.
No more bacon, ham, cold cuts, do to the amount of sodium. Living in New Orleans we have acquired a taste for well seasoned food but not necessary pepper hot. My main ingredients I use is, granulated onion powder, granulated garlic, cayenne pepper (not to much), and Turmeric. Cayenne pepper adds a flavor where you don't really notice the salt is missing in some foods.
Adding ketchup to some things also works wonders when doing away with salt. I strictly cook with NO SALT.
One of the traditional meals usually served on Monday is red beans and rice. There are many different ways to cook red beans and rice depending on the amount of beans and the seasonings used. It's the one thing I have not been able to find anything to take the place of sausage or salt.

Watch out for ketchup. It is loaded with sugar.