Salt shakers made with fewer holes 'to cut salt intake'

[Kire]

posted in LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=102

[Warpy]

1. I found the best way to do that was to stop using it in cooking

and allow myself only a few grains at the table.

Everything tasted like cardboard for a couple of weeks and then I started to taste food again instead of just salt.

Now I can't eat most prepared foods. All I can taste is the salt.

The only thing I'll use a pinch of salt in is baked goods.

Everything else is cooked without it and I rarely miss it.

Great substitutes are lemon juice and pepper.

[Lisa0825]

2. I find I use more garlic now.... other spices too, but I love garlic.

When I ran out of salt a few years back, I started using garlic salt in its place for most things, or going without altogether. When I ran out of garlic salt, I mixed my own garlic salt and made it heavier on the garlic. After a while with that mix, I hardly use any salt at home at all, and when I find I don't like something pre-packaged or at a restaurant, it is because it tastes too salty to me.

[hippywife]

4. Garlic salt

is garlic flavored salt, so it's still salt.

[Lisa0825]

5. It is a mixture of garlic powder and salt, so it is not

as much salt per volume as pure salt. It helped me cut back, and then I just increased the proportion of garlic powder in it to cut back more.

[Longhorn]

3. I remember reading that J.C. Penney would measure a potential applicant

to his company by watching whether the applicant salted his food before tasting it -- a big no-no in his view. I've also cut down salt intake by using less in cooking and only using as needed after I taste the food. But I've gotten used to less and less salt.

[MJW]

6. Mrs Dash

garlic, lemon juice ! SALT is highly over rated