Well I’ve decided to cut down on sodium in my diet. This is not going to be easy. I went to the grocery store yesterday, and it took me 15 minutes just to find low-sodium Saltines (yes, irony noted). I’m really trying to go for a healthier approach to my diet altogether, but sodium is my key target at the moment.
Finding ANYthing that was relatively low in sodium was a challenge. Things that I otherwise thought of as healthy were just bogged down in sodium. The biggest blow came when I got home, and looked for my traditional late night meal - a bowl of rice with a little fish sauce sprinkled on. As I reached for the fish sauce, dread hit me. Slowly I turned the bottle to find that it has a whopping 1000 mg of sodium per serving! OK, I knew the stuff was high, but still.
No more fish sauce for me.
Anyway, I bought myself some low-so crackers, some hummus (after carefully checking the various types and settling on one that had relatively little sodium per serving. Another thing that’s difficult - I have to judge the sodium content based on what I’m going to realistically eat - which is probably twice what the label claims is a serving size) Some hot pepper jam (a real weakness of mine, but fat free AND sodium free!) and lambchops - trimmed. Well, I can’t live on that diet forever. Well, I could, but I don’t intend to.
So any other low-so suggestions for food that tastes good? (Oh, already replacing table salt with Mrs. Dash.) Is there such a thing as low-so butter? (NOT margarine?) I see Nutella is sodium safe, so that makes me happy…
Anyway, forgive my incoherence. Any suggestions are welcome.