Do you go crazy with salt?

[Berties]

I tend to avoid prepared food with hidden salt in it,but I do cook with a little salt and tend to add salt to my food ,as I exercise over two hours a day I loose salt in my sweat ,seem to have my levels right as avoided cramps since spring time

 

[Jade]

I like using as much of it as I can get away with, and it's caused me some health problems in the past, so having learned my lesson, I now use it a bit more moderately. However, old habits die hard, so whenever I find myself eating too much salty food, I just combat it by chasing it down with as much water as possible.

 

[forextraspecialstuff]

I love salt but try to not be too heavy handed when using it. I like to use it when cooking and then try to not add any additional salt. Using it when I am cooking forces me to use very little because not everyone I cook for likes salt so I don't want them to not be able to east because the food is too salty. To replace salt I try to use herbs and spices (have to check because some spice "combos" have salt mixed in) to give my food flavor.

 

[winterybella]

I'm trying to cut down on my salt intake but its hard when your used to using salt in nearly everything, l have been reducing my salt in boiled vegetables and ideally l want to stop using salt altogether but that's work in progess l'm afraid to say. Have you had the same problem?

I can so relate to that and in my case it's work in progress as well. I don't use actual salt. I use things with salt content; soy sauce, garlic salt and the like. I just like tasty food but I should hold off because I am hypertensive. I try to steam more vegetable instead of stir frying and that yummy stuff.

 

[Ella]

I use as little salt as possible in cooking and afterwards. Some people like it, but I prefer to season with herbs and sauces. Salt is hidden in many sauces already, but once I was cooking and the salt dispenser broke and too much salt came out and after that I have always been cautious about adding salt as I had to throw out the food. As they say, you can always add, but can't take out.

 

[kammy]

I suffer from hypertension which means i cook with little or no salt at all... however i use a lot of garlic seasoning in my dishes and it does taste great...anyway i've gotten use to not cooking with salt so that if i should taste something salty it would definitely throw me off.