[Sca-cooks] Re: OT: Easy low-sodium recipes needed

[Kathleen Madsen]

I've had to cook low-sodium for the last 16 or so
years, and so make most foods from scratch.  Boxed or
pre-prepared foods are usually very high in sodium as
are meals in restaurants.  An easy substitute for salt
is lemon as it has that same kind of a tangy/salty
type of flavor on the tonge.  If she has been
diagnosed with CHF she needs to steer well clear of
anything that say's "salt substitute" on the lable
because they are typically very high in potassium. 
Potassium build-up will cause the heart to stop
beating and will give you no advanced warning that
there's a problem.

One of my all-time favorite cookbooks is the Low-Salt
Cookbook put out by the American Heart Association. 
Good recipes, most of them are very easy to make, and
they actually taste good.  My friends and family don't
seem to miss the salt when they eat over, and don't
tend to reach for the salt shaker we put on the table
for their benefit.

Hope this has helped.
Eibhlin

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:46:51 EST
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT: Easy low-sodium recipes
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As a result of a recent bout of congestive heart
failure, my mother has 
had  
to go on a low sodium diet.  She is already
complaining, after 6 weeks,  
that 
she's tired of it.  There are two reasons why - 1), my
mother learned  
to cook 
and has cooked all her adult life using little more
than salt, pepper,  
onion, lemon pepper, and Worcestershire sauce as
spices.  I gave her 
some  dried 
chives from my garden for Christmas and she had no
idea what to use 
them  in.  
And 2), she is primary caretaker for my father, who
has dementia and  
must be 
constantly supervised (she does have home health aides
much of the 
day),  so 
she has neither time nor energy to go looking for new
recipes.
 

Can any of you good folks from this list send me
(privately if you  
like) 
some simple, quickly prepared low sodium recipes that
I could pass on 
to  her?  
She does not own a crockpot, but has no problem
letting something sit  
on the 
back of the stove as long as she can make sure my Dad
doesn't reach for  
it.
 
Brangwayna