The Best Low Sodium Ketchup Recipe When you embark on a low sodium diet, you start to realize that salt is hidden in almost everything. Condiments are often a an easy pitfall for anyone starting out on a low sodium diet. They succeed in pulling the salt shaker off of the table and think that […]
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I’m addicted to dill pickles. I nearly cried when I first thought I would be losing them in my life once I started on the low sodium journey. Then I hacked the salt in a family recipe and started making salt free dill pickles at home. Ta-dah! I could add pickles back into the mix.
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It’s taco time! You don’t have to wait for Tuesday, especially with this guide to building the perfect low sodium taco! They are a quick food, fast food, fresh food, and typically a very affordable meal choice. It was a staple in our household growing up. Taco Night was something my brothers and I looked
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Summer is the season that screams for light dishes, light sauces, and fresh healthy ingredients. My Walnut Avocado Pesto Chicken Pasta meets all of the above criteria and is low sodium as well. As the weather heats up, I don’t know about you, but I need dishes that are lighter in flavors and ingredients so
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I am an avid student of Food Science, especially the chemistry involved in the manufacturing and cooking of food. For one simple reason really, because food science matters for low sodium. Especially for a Heart Transplant recipient like myself. It’s funny really, I was not the best and brightest of students when it came
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Low Sodium Hummus My wife introduced me to hummus. Up until that point, my Midwestern sensibilities thought it was thoroughly appropriate to just have some “dip” for your veggies. “Dip” usually translated into a cream heavy, thick dressing of some kind that had an overwhelming dill flavoring to it. Store bought hummus can be high
Kissed By The Sun Salt Free Spices Grilling season is upon us! Let us rejoice brothers and sisters! The only thing I love more than grilling up a whole mess of good eats, is when I can make them taste fantastic with salt free rubs and spices. So I was super stoked when I got
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I’m diligently pursuing a goal of being able to reclaim Asian dishes and cooking from the realm of “too much sodium” so we can regain those flavors and options in our low sodium lives. The culprit with Asian dishes is the sauces. The salt is off the charts. After mastering a low sodium soy sauce,
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Lum Taylors Low Sodium Barbecue Sauce We are heading into grilling season again. Thoughts of chicken, ribs, brisket, and pork on the grill has me excited. What has me even more excited is that I have found another pre-bottled BBQ sauce that works in our low sodium lifestyle.
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In college, when my friends and I were snarfing down Ramen Noodles cooked up in our dorm room hot pots, we began to question whether this was really the “bomb” (yeah we called things the “bomb” back then) of noodle experience. Having grown up exposed to Korean, Chinese, and Filipino cuisine, I knew we could
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