Eisboch wrote:

On Feb 1, 5:39 pm, wrote:


I decided to BBQ a chicken in lieu of the usual wings this year,
little less fat. Also found salt free chips from UTZ, they are not too
bad once you get used to them, I a have been eating them for about a
month now, pretty good...

Get yourself some Nu-Salt or No-Salt and get used to it.

Much better for you. Once I got accustom to it, I prefer it over
regular salt.
You get all the salt you need in foods.

Seriously. It's good and much better than using regular salt for
flavoring.

Eisboch

I stopped using salt and sugar more than five years ago. I try to avoid
both in foods we eat out. It's easier to avoid sugar. Nowadays, I once
in a while take a tiny nibble of some typically sweetened product, and
it just tastes far too sweet for me.

I do use a lot of pepper and some other spices. Paprika is one of my
favorites.

Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

On Feb 1, 5:39 pm, wrote:


I decided to BBQ a chicken in lieu of the usual wings this year,
little less fat. Also found salt free chips from UTZ, they are not too
bad once you get used to them, I a have been eating them for about a
month now, pretty good...

Get yourself some Nu-Salt or No-Salt and get used to it.

Much better for you. Once I got accustom to it, I prefer it over regular
salt.
You get all the salt you need in foods.

Seriously. It's good and much better than using regular salt for
flavoring.

Eisboch

I stopped using salt and sugar more than five years ago. I try to avoid
both in foods we eat out. It's easier to avoid sugar. Nowadays, I once in
a while take a tiny nibble of some typically sweetened product, and it
just tastes far too sweet for me.

I do use a lot of pepper and some other spices. Paprika is one of my
favorites.

Fast food typically is loaded with salt.



Like almost everything I do, I do it to the extreme, if I do it at all.
History of my life.

The winter I lost all the weight (2 years ago now?) I researched diets,
nutrition, exercise, etc. then put myself on a self-designed program. Food
shopping was a pain, checking labels, calories, etc., but I only bought
"good" food plus lots of veggies, and fruits. The other component was a
serious, daily exercise program. As reported before, I lost 65 lbs in 6
months, but more importantly I felt fantastic, mainly due to the exercise
and weight lifting. Everyone said I got too skinny, (maybe so) but the
good, healthy feeling wasn't simply due to weight loss. It was because of
the types of food I was eating.

Unfortunately, I've slacked off in a major way and have gained about half
the weight back.
I've also gone back to some bad food habits. The time has come to address
this again, but this time in a more reasonable way, hopefully to make it
permanent.

Eisboch

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:


Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? Damn near all food is loaded with salt. If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:


Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? Damn near all food is loaded with salt. If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.

"HK" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:


Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? Damn near all food is loaded with salt. If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.


Cheerios. Either regular or Honey Nut. Dry. No milk.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:


Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? Damn near all food is loaded with salt. If you are on a
no salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. Things I never
would have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.


Cheerios. Either regular or Honey Nut. Dry. No milk.

Eisboch

Yup. One of my all-time lifetime favorites. I like it with 1% milk or as
a dry snack.

On Feb 1, 7:13*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"HK" wrote in message

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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:

Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? *Damn near all food is loaded with salt. *If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. *Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.

Cheerios. *Either regular or Honey Nut. *Dry. *No milk.

Eisboch

Special K, Shredded wheat... a few others. But salt is the hardest
thing to avoid, even the so called "low salt" **** is full of it.. I
make a lot of chickens and put them in my 16 bean stew.. It is one of
my favs...

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"HK" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:


Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? Damn near all food is loaded with salt. If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.


Cheerios. Either regular or Honey Nut. Dry. No milk.

Eisboch

Only thing I now salt are sliced tomatoes and hard boiled eggs. We gave up
salt in 1973. Another California drought and pregnant wife. The local
water supply where we lived came out of the Sacramento river delta and the
salt had intruded up river. Health warnings for cardiac people. So we
stopped using salt in cooking. Did use some last night as was pickling some
pork butt for red beans and rice.

On Feb 1, 8:22*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message

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"HK" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:

Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? *Damn near all food is loaded with salt. *If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. *Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.

Cheerios. *Either regular or Honey Nut. *Dry. *No milk.

Eisboch

Only thing I now salt are sliced tomatoes and hard boiled eggs. *We gave up
salt in 1973. *Another California drought and pregnant wife. *The local
water supply where we lived came out of the Sacramento river delta and the
salt had intruded up river. *Health warnings for cardiac people. *So we
stopped using salt in cooking. *Did use some last night as was pickling some
pork butt for red beans and rice.- Hide quoted text -

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Couple of weeks back I picked up a BP monitor with irregular heartbeat
sensor. I write down everything I eat since I got out and track fats
and salt, I can directly relate salt to Blood Pressure, it's so
defined, I never knew that...

On Feb 1, 7:13*pm, HK wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:49:57 -0500, HK wrote:

Fast food typically is loaded with salt.

Fast food? *Damn near all food is loaded with salt. *If you are on a no
salt diet, you have to pay very close attention. *Things I never would
have expected have considerable salt content.

Yeah...it's everywhere. I'm not on a no-salt diet. I just consciously
avoid it where and when I can.

Damned hard to find a decent cereal not loaded up with sugar. I never
liked overly sweet sugary cereals.

It's not hard to find cereal with no added sugar at all.