Monday, July 11, 2011

Life with less salt

One of the things that I need to do now is to reduce the sodium in my food.  Huge lifestyle change because like a lot of singles, I just don't cook that much.  Not that I don't enjoy cooking or am a bad cook.  It's just easier to either go out to eat with friends or make something quickly after work.  But I think that is going to have to change and have been preparing for that.  I have reduced my restaurant visits over the past year in order to lose weight but since the lap band surgery, I've probably gone back to bad habits a little.  My thinking was that most main dishes ended up lasting at least 3 meals because of the smaller amount of food I was eating.  So, still high salt but divided up and spread out.

While my parents were here, we did a major purge of my cupboards and got rid of everything that was high salt.  Completely filled the trash bin, and it is a pretty large trash bin.  Then, my sister and I went thru and cleaned the fridge (well, mostly SHE cleaned the fridge) and did the same thing.  So now I have been looking thru cookbooks finding recipes for lower salt recipes.  Ordered a few low salt cookbooks as well so this will be a new adventure in cooking.   If you have great low-salt recipes, feel free to share them with me.

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