SC - Day Boards

[Bonne of Traquair]

> . . . and, while we're mucking around with changing menus. . . .let me put
> in a word for those of us on non-normal diets - diabetics, low-sodium, 
> vegetarians, and the like. It would be occasionally nice to have a variety
> of dishes available for lunch other than nameless stew, a set of apples (usually
> Red Delicious, which are Foods of the Devil, so I always, always buy
> ones that taste good like Fujis, which are pretty comparable in price), and
> white bread. Have a meat thing, a vegetable thing, and a carb thing, and put the salt in
> a nice shaker so people can add it if they like rather than putting it all
> in when cooking. 

There is very little excuse for not providing a multiplicity of different
foods at a dayboard. A selection of different foods is just as easy to
whip up-- especially if you rely mostly on unprepared food-- as the same
quantity of food all the same. 

While I agree with you about providing a variety of food (see my dayboard 
list), and I definitely skimp on salt when I make food for groups-- I HATE
tasteless, bland prepared foods from which ALL salt has been categorically
eliminated in the name of low-sodium diets.  It's like having mushroom
dishes eliminated from all SCA foods because some people are allergic to
mushrooms.

Assuming you can find the ONE saltshaker that, of course, has immediately
wandered off, if there ever was a saltshaker to begin with (most people
assume 'the site will have one' and are wrong), food with salt added on
top is quite different in taste than that with salt added at the right
point in the cooking process.

Now, there are ways to reduce salt. Not using commercially prepared broth
is the big one. Finding foods that don't need salt is another. 

For instance, when I did the dayboard, I believe I didn't salt the
chicken, though I did season the beef. So those on low-sodium diets could
have had the chicken. Salt's like any other ingredient: not everything in
your meal should have it. 


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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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