SHORTCUTS FOR COUNTING SALT

Tired of counting every grain of salt you eat or drink? Tired of constantly doing the math in your head to figure out if you have enough room in your daily salt budget to eat one more helping of food?

Me too! Here is an easy shortcut.  I base this on an 1800 mg/day salt restriction. If yours is higher or lower, adjust accordingly.

Step 1:  Compile a recipe bank with complete meals under 500 mg of salt. For example, my pulled pork, yellow rice, and a sauted spinach is a meal under 500 mg of sodium.

Step 2: Add in some "freebie" items: vegetables, fruits, and other sides that you can prepare without sodium.

Step 3: You can eat 3 meals per day out of the above. This leaves about 300 mg of sodium per day left to play around with. Use this for drinks, snacks, desserts, etc.

Step 4: Don't forget to choose some fast-food meals to add to your arsenal. Although we try to avoid these places, sometimes they are inevitable. You need to know what you can eat at your local/favorite establishments for under 500 mg.

By doing it this way, you can simply choose what meals you want to eat and stop worrying about the counting. You know that if you eat 3 meals out of that recipe collection, you are at least under 500 mg per serving. This has saved me a lot of time. I will share these recipes with you along and along, so you can add them to your "bank".