I can never go out to eat again! That is the number one complaint I hear from people when they are first told they must adhere to a low sodium lifestyle. In fact, during one of my hospital stays (I had many in my journey to a heart transplant), my room mate, a 50 year […]
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Making Salt Free Dill Pickles My family LOVES dill pickles. It’s kind of an obsession with us. My wife favors sweet pickles the most, but she also enjoys good dill pickles. When I first was told I needed to go low/no sodium for my heart, and I thought that would be the end of pickles.
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How To Read Nutrition Labels In my Low Sodium journey. One of the first things I discovered that I was terribly illiterate when it came to reading labels on packaged foods. I knew about looking at fat grams and calories, but pretty much glazed over any other info. Now days the first thing I do
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No Sodium Taco Seasoning One of my favorite things to eat is tacos! It was a staple in my house growing up. Especially a recipe for Taco Pie that my Mom made for us. It is the ultimate comfort food, along with the Chicken Enchiladas that she would make for us. The problem is that
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I’m a guy, which means I think I am genetically predisposed to love to cook things over fire! When I was a bachelor living in Clearwater Beach, Florida, I never turned on my oven in my years living there. I was the master of a little hibachi grill on my deck. I was blessed to
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When I was first told to begin the Low Sodium regimen, I was a bit overwhelmed. What were the rules? What could I eat? How could I prepare the food? I had some experience cooking, but really needed to get up to speed on some real life skills and understanding to empower myself to adopt
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The Best No Sodium Mustard I find that most dishes, sauces, ingredients can be made from scratch and that is great. Being realistic though, there has to be salt free products that we can incorporate into the salt free life. Every day I find several products and I am always searching for more at local
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Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching! Sweet Treats typically sabotage any good eating habits. While cruising Pinterest, we found these lovelies originally posted on MyWholeFoodLife.com, and of course had to hack the salt to have these in our life! The filling is 3 ingredients, and 2 ingredients for the dark chocolate glaze. The preparation is
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Why I Went Low Sodium When I was first diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2002, I was told that I had maybe 5 years left to live. It wasn’t an acceptable answer. I was newly married (In 2000), we had just moved into our first home (2001) and we were expecting our first child four months
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What if your heart was too big? What if your heart was too big? I have been called “big-hearted” many times through my life. Up until 2002 I took it as a compliment…a good thing. Then I caught a virus while travelling for business and wound up with an infection that settled into the enzymes
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