I love summer time. Especially when we have fresh herbs and vegetables growing in the garden. Another thing I love is Pinterest. I found the base recipe for this salad on there. The key to the whole thing is the dressing. Once you have this dressing figured out, the actual ingredients of the salad can […]
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Make Low Sodium Spaghetti Sauce I was spoiled when I lived in Chicago and New York City. It seemed like there were excellent Italian Restaurants almost on every corner. Elsewhere in the country, we were willing to drive for miles if we heard about a place that had a “killer red sauce”, even though we
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Can I Eat Low Sodium at McDonald’s? When the majority of us are told we have to go low/no sodium, or are put on restrictions we feel that we can never go out to eat again. As you know, I am not one who believes too much in denial as an effective form of developing
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Make Salt Free Tortilla Chips And Tomatillo Salsa Chips and salsa are a regular snack or side order in many of my meals. Post heart issues if I was going to keep it in the mix I had to hack the salt and make it as salt free as possible without losing any taste. Salt
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I can never go out to eat again! That is the number one complaint I hear from people when they are first told they must adhere to a low sodium lifestyle. In fact, during one of my hospital stays (I had many in my journey to a heart transplant), my room mate, a 50 year
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Making Salt Free Dill Pickles My family LOVES dill pickles. It’s kind of an obsession with us. My wife favors sweet pickles the most, but she also enjoys good dill pickles. When I first was told I needed to go low/no sodium for my heart, and I thought that would be the end of pickles.
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How To Read Nutrition Labels In my Low Sodium journey. One of the first things I discovered that I was terribly illiterate when it came to reading labels on packaged foods. I knew about looking at fat grams and calories, but pretty much glazed over any other info. Now days the first thing I do
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No Sodium Taco Seasoning One of my favorite things to eat is tacos! It was a staple in my house growing up. Especially a recipe for Taco Pie that my Mom made for us. It is the ultimate comfort food, along with the Chicken Enchiladas that she would make for us. The problem is that
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I’m a guy, which means I think I am genetically predisposed to love to cook things over fire! When I was a bachelor living in Clearwater Beach, Florida, I never turned on my oven in my years living there. I was the master of a little hibachi grill on my deck. I was blessed to
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When I was first told to begin the Low Sodium regimen, I was a bit overwhelmed. What were the rules? What could I eat? How could I prepare the food? I had some experience cooking, but really needed to get up to speed on some real life skills and understanding to empower myself to adopt
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