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Cutting back on salt

  • 21-10-2010 3:59pm
    #1
    G-Money
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    I want to cut back on the amount of salt in my diet, and I don't just mean table salt, I mean salt hidden in other things such as sauces and spices etc.

    I read something online that things like stock cubes and curry powder can have a lot of salt. They were two things I thought you could add to food to flavour it without them being too bad.

    So how can I flavour food without adding stuff that has a lot of salt?

    Thanks,

    -GM


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  • #2
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Use things like spices and herbs and lemon and lime. Pretty much anything commercially prepared will have a lot of salt and usually a lot of sugar too.

    A good tasty marinade is some olive oil and chili powder mixed.


  • #3
    G-Money
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    EileenG wrote: »
    Use things like spices and herbs and lemon and lime. Pretty much anything commercially prepared will have a lot of salt and usually a lot of sugar too.

    A good tasty marinade is some olive oil and chili powder mixed.

    I buy all my spices dry, like the Schwartz stuff in the jars. Does that stuff have a load of salt and sugar in it?


  • #4
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Read the ingredients, but most spices don't. The ones to watch are the mixes, they sometimes do.


  • #5
    Sin a bhfuil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 153 ✭✭Sin a bhfuil


    grandmaster wrote: »
    I want to cut back on the amount of salt in my diet, and I don't just mean table salt, I mean salt hidden in other things such as sauces and spices etc.

    I read something online that things like stock cubes and curry powder can have a lot of salt. They were two things I thought you could add to food to flavour it without them being too bad.

    So how can I flavour food without adding stuff that has a lot of salt?

    Thanks,

    -GM

    I use very little salt. I grow a lot of my own herbs (most useful ones are thyme, sage, coriander, parsley, bay leaf), and also use low salt stock cubes.

    Marigold do a Swiss Vegetable Bouillion with reduced salt (per 5g serving is 0.5g). I also use Knorr Chicken Stock (no added MSG) which has 0.90g per cube which isn't too bad.

    I generally use half a cube and then fresh herbs to flavour.

    Best thing to do is to compare the salt content on the products on the supermarket shelf and use the lowest. (Avoid Oxo - a lot of salt them).


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