good tip about Amy's low sodium vegetarian chili. I love plain baked potatoes with unsalted butter and pepper...yum...
I've also switched breakfast cereal...found one with dried fruits and nuts and a bowl is only 45 mg of sodium, compared with 230 for my Raisin Bran! Eeek...who knew?
Given the season we are blessed with lots of fresh fruit so that's dessert at my house...in the dead of winter I guess we'll have citrus and dried...
It's humid today so will have a salad plate tonight with hard cooked eggs and fresh raw veggies. My husband gets the olives, I skip them...
I found out that Swiss cheese is not high in sodium and have bought some aged Swiss singles and chop up one slice for salads...Before I was eating feta and greek olives at lunch...zowie, talk about sodium, now wonder I had high bp!
What is interesting is how my taste buds are waking up after the deadening effect of those high sodium frozen entrees. That's a real bonus...besides those frozen items began to taste all the same after a while and that took a lot of pleasure out of eating...
The Mayo Clinic has low sodium recipes online and I've downloaded a bunch. We love fish and have it pretty abundantly here so I try to make two or three fish dinners every week.
I am thinking that I will make my own soups come fall. You can get really low sodium chicken broth and skip salt entirely. I love soup in the cold weather...
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