Healthy eating + Salt

[sweetsal]

Hi everyone.
Just wondering if anyone knows a good substitute for salt. I use it on everything an really would like to cut back or find something else completely.

[Loosehead]

Just stop adding it and start tasting the food itself, not hard!

[Champagne]

It's a bit like giving up sugar in tea. You just have to stop. You won't like the taste at first but after a few trys you'll get used to it. After a month or two you'll never be able to have salt again!

[sweetsal]

wasnt really looking for a judgement just an answer thanks.

[sweetsal]

Just kidding cant imagine being able to give it up completely am not very good at that just wondering if there is an alternative so I can be slightly less unhealthy

[Loosehead]

Sorry didn't meant it to come out like that. Champagne is correct just stop adding it and you'll get used to it. I never add salt because most food already has it anyway. I couldn't imagine putting salt on food now. If you really need that tasete there is "Lo Salt" not sure how much better that is though.

[joko]

try herbs and some seasoning powders can be nice sprinkled on - i sometimes use a steak seasoning on veg/chips etc

i never add salt to anything, even when i am cooking from scratch.

depends on what you are doing with it really - if you just sprinkle it on meals - try oregano or a sort of seasoning that doesn't contain salt

for soups, stews etc, try the above but also stuff like onion, garlic etc to give more flavour.

don't add it at all to water when cooking pasta or vegetable - just rely on sauces etc to give flavour

you could also try measuring it rather than just shaking it over - i would think if you put that amount in a bowl it would look loads.

try shaking your average 'dose' on and empty plate and put it on a large spoon - then halve it, and in future put that amount on a spoon first before adding to your food

[Champagne]

Well you can buy low-sodium salt substitutes, but you�d still need to get used to the taste of food without salt to gradually get yourself off it. I don�t use salt in any of my cooking and my food tastes divine! And I never put salt on the dinner table when cooking for friends either. My brother is the only person who ever asks for it. But he�d put salt on salt given half the chance!

[scruffscat]

i use celery salt, it tastes just as good and i think its better for you.

[Scarlett]

I stopped eating salt as part of a detox and very quickly adapted. I used herbs, spices, garlic, chillies and pepper to flavour food. When eventually I did go back to eating processed food, I found it SO salty it was gross!
Your palatte will get used to less/no salt. Cook food from scratch and experiment with other flavours.

[RavenD]

There is a product called LO-SALT you can buy it in supermarkets now, tastes just the same as regular salt.

[Veggibear]

Check out the spices rack in the supermarket. There is this stuff called 'season all' which is nice on almost anything.