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@jakedduck1 What is your limit on daily sodium intake? Why is it restricted? You will need to pay attention to portion size for a serving. Please tell me you don’t use an electric can opener too. Read labels carefully. Fresh is typically the best. It is up to you.

I am in heart failure, on a low-salt, low-fat, low sugar diet. My recommendation for anyone else on a low-salt diet: Fix sheet tray meals. You can buy a magazine or book on the topic. Tonight we're having roast chicken (small serving), roasted gold potatoes, with roasted carrots and onions. Easy to prepare on a jelly roll pan and seasoned with Herbs de Provence. Do not eat reduced calorie frozen meals; they're loaded with salt.

Hi, Everyone I've been trying to find salad dressings that tastes good but lower sodium. I just tried one i found and thought i would share . Its a ranch dressing

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup buttermilk or regular milk
3/4 - 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon dried chives
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/8 teaspoon finely cracked pepper
freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste approximately 1-3 teaspoons, adjust to taste

I use 2% milk and black pepper my fitness ap says for a 2 tbsp serving is 93 cal, 9 g fat, 2.5 g saturated fat, sodium 124 mg. Much better than store bought

@harriethodgson1
Good dinner suggestion. I can’t have anything packaged, canned or frozen. I have cheated though, I put some canned tomatoes in my lentils.

@jakedduck1 Canned tomatoes do come salt-free. I make spaghetti sauce with it, and with all of the other spices, we don't even notice that there is no salt in it.
JK

@jakedduck1 Are you one of those couch potato chefs?? Sounds to me like you have an aversion to things requiring effort.

@jakedduck1 Jake, your dream dinner sounds good to me. Can you have steak? We generally have beef once a week. I rarely eat starches, so baked potatoes are a Godsend to prepare for my husband, either that or a yummy roll.

I hope you have a great birthday, and that you have something to eat that you do enjoy. Does your doctor allow a very occasional splurge, if the splurge is not too bad? A small steak with a plain baked potato doesn't sound too bad to me. Forget the sour cream, the cheesecake, and all though. I can't remember the last time I had cheesecake.
My husband is in incredible health and eats whaever he wants. It's tough preparing dinner for him when I can't eat many of the things that he eats. He is reasonably trim, takes no medications and goes to the gym about 3 days a week. He's 83 so that's pretty darned good. Most people think he's in his late 60s, early 70s. He has great genes. I do not.
JK

@contentandwell
Wow, wish I had some of his genes. I’m envious of your hubby. Eats anything, no meds, healthy goes to the gym. I can have steak or any meat but only 4oz. I had some chicken and veggies (Jodee’s recipe)
Jake

@jakedduck1 I wish I had his genes too. I tell him I married him for his longevity genes. He does take ibuprofen occasionally if he has a headache, but that's pretty much it.
JK