Originally Posted by
pogopossum
With the recent reports on the overuse of salt in our diet, I started thinking about how I use salt when I cook and eat.
I usually don't add much salt when I cook and I keep an eye on salt content when I use prepared products. I don't regularly by low sodium products.
At the table, I add salt only to eggs, corn, and spinach, and occasionally chicken soup. Otherwise, very rarely, and I always taste first.
How about everybody out there? Taste first? Add salt to everything? Nothiing?
PP
I very rarely add salt to dishes...only when necessary, and then only in small amounts. I have become very conscious of my salt intake over the past few years, as I have discovered that salt does some pretty bad stuff to my body. (ie: water retention, blood pressure increases).
Worst of all, frozen processed foods. The sodium amounts in that stuff are absolutely hideous. Also, beware of "fat free" or "low fat" foods. Reading the label you will find that often as the fat decreases, the amount of salt increases.