I don’t just want salt…I’m rummaging through the kitchen looking for anything that is heavy in salt so I can consume mass quantities. It’s a little weird, because I’ve found that any cravings that I have are usually due to a lack of it in my diet - but I wouldn’t say that I normally avoid salty foods. I have a fairly healthy diet, I don’t feel I leave a lot out or go nuts either. I’m not a huge milk drinker, so occasionally I’ll go nuts with the milk (then get ill, because I’m a little lactose intolerant) - but that’s typically about it. I just really want salt for some reason…
I found a packet of chicken flavored Top Ramen (I would have prefered beef, stronger flavor) - but it seems to have hit the spot. What I really want is slightly burnt chicken breast with a little lemon pepper and salt…lots of salt. I’ll probably have that for dinner when I actually want to cook.
I just can’t help but be amused because I’ve been like this for about a week.
I’m slightly inclined to believe in reincarnation, being a deer in my last life would be a handy explanation for my adoration of salt. I’ll take salty snax over chocolate any day and live in fear of the day my doctor tells me my blood pressure’s leapt up and I have to restrict my salt intake.
I do sweat a lot, however, exercising and at work, so I drink a ton of water and figure I’m coming out about even.
Try scrubbing a whole carrot in water - don’t dry it - and sprinkling it with salt before snacking on it raw. Yummers! Salty and sweet and crunchy good-for-you veggie goodness!
Once in grade school my class went on a field trip somewhere. For the life of me I can not remember where. From this place that we went I purchased a small salt lick. This salt lick was about the size of a normal man’s fist, and I loved it. I was quite the salt whore growing up and I really enjoyed licking the lick every once in a while when I was really jonesing for some salt.
One day it disappeared. My parents said that somebody must have stolen it, but I believe that they threw it away. They were probably concerned about a 9 year old continually licking a salt lick.
I am a salt addict as well. Very good chocolate has it’s place, but I don’t have too much of a sweet tooth.
When I was a kid we kept cows, and I had a rabbit. The rabbit’s salt lick was a smallish round with a center hole for hanging in the hutch, and yeah, I used to lick the new ones. However, the cow’s salt licks were huge blocks, (!) and I would lick them a bit before we put them out for the bovine’s enjoyment.
Best of all was when we made homemade ice cream! Rock salt, stashed away by the handfuls, to be enjoyed one big crystal at a time. Until Mom found the stash, and made it dissapear!
For the record, I crave salt the week before “that time” every month in a major way!
I was eating Lawry’s Seasoning Salt for a few months. We ended up going through a couple little shakers of it in short order. Bird Man got worried about me and started hiding it in the cabinets up high. Turns out I was dehydrated. I hate water, so I started drinking Propel in pretty large quantities. I lost the craving pretty quickly after that. Have you been drinking adequate amounts of fluids?
It does sound weird, but it’s right. One of the things that goes wonky in the body when you’re dehydrated is salt levels (and other electrolytes as well.) If your body miscodes the thirst signal (or if you don’t like water so you ignore your thirst signal) it will move onto the next important thing, which is salt.
When we work the sunny Rennaisance Faire in two layers of skirts, pantalettes, a corset, a long-sleeved blouse a bodice and a hat in 110 degree heat, we’re required to drink 10 glasses of water in 10 hours and eat one salty thing (I suspect that’s why we have pickle vendors) every five hours. Keeps the visits to the First Aid shack down. And at the end of the weekend, there’s actual salt stains on my clothes from evaporated sweat.
I never crave salt so much as when I’ve been working in the sun and sweating all day.
I heard that salt craving could mean low blood pressure. This was from a person who was most definitely not a doctor, so take that with a grain of… something.
I’ve been known to drink on salty lemon juice, does that count for anything? I used to take rock salt to school too when I was a youngin’ and clandestinely suck on it all day. Yummy! Nowadays though, salted sunflower seeds are the way to go.
Pensandfeathers: Are you feeling lightheaded? Profoundly fatigued? Persistently feeling nauseated? If yes to any, and if the salt craving persists, you may wish to see a doctor.