WoW! Have You Checked Your Cupboards Lately For Salt?!

My co mod, Heidi and I were talking tonight about how salt and heart disease just don't make a happy

couple!  

 

From high blood pressure to heart failure we all need to watch our salt intake.  We started talking about some of the foods that we have in our cupboards and as we talked we looked and compared a few things - and holy smoke!! can you imagine that we found out that if you buy Lite 50% less than regular Soy Sauce, you are still getting 575 mg. of sodium in every single Tablespoon that you use?!  One slice of 2% cheese has 300 mg. of sodium!  Even our 'healthy' veggies contain salt naturally! 

 

So from there we started wondering how much more sodium we could find in our cupboards? and we thought we'd ask you... 

 

How Much Sodium Is In Your Cupboard?!

 

 Teri   & Heidi 

 

Oh dear, lol! I'm CAUGHT, Jeeez, and I thought I was only having 400-500.
I just checked mine & here's what I came up with even though I have no salt in my house.
115/cup milk
170/bread, per slice
190/my fave jalapeno cheese per slice
160/cup yogurt
105/6 cookies

Soooo, what I will confess to eating of the above (lately, under stress) comes to 1515mg a day.
I would say most of the time when I'm not eating ALL of the above (in addition to other stuff, non processed, therefore no content label) that I'm around 800-1000mg/day, semi-wild guess.
Did you guys notice that they base the %/daily amount on 2400 mg/day? I thought that was supposed to have been lowered to 2000/da, but that's not what the labels say.

Thanks will check out the site later on today Julia. we do have lots of salt everywhere . i cantaste food and say oh my gosh how salty this is.  I do use salt in my home made bread but it makes 36 slices. and then other things like fruit and veggies too

1 raw medium carrot=25mg

1/2 C raw broccoli=20

celery 1 stalk=35 mg

garlic raw 3 cloves=2mg

 small baked potatoe with skin and nothing on it=16mg

peas 1/2 cup=214

apples=0

small banana=1

canaloupe 1 Cup=14mg

Folks cranberry sauce plain 1/2 cup=40 mg

 lets all  watch our sodium and  Julia again thanks foir the link.

heidi

i love salt but its a no no i use the fake stuff and find i use more pepper on every thing

Thanks, Julia!!

 

Bob, that's what I do, too!!  Next we'll hear how that's no good! lol

 

Hugs, Teri

i always thought curry power was spicey that the indians use here in ga is

Bob, curry and cumin are both spicey, curry actually has cumin in it! Though, I would suppose it probably depends on who makes it.

I'm not a big fan of either - just my taste buds :) but I love pepper!

Hugs, Teri :)

Before my problems I used to eat those grilled stuffed burritos from Taco Bell 2 at a time..They have 2090 mg of sodium each!...I`ve found though that in all the "low sodium" things they replace the sodium with potassium and in excess that is bad for you also

I bought some all organic cury powder 6 months ago here are the ingredients

Cumin

Fennel

Turmetic

Fenugreek

Coriander

Mustard

Flour

Gingerroot

Black Pepper

Allspice

Cayenne

it is salt free and MSg free but all those ingredienbts in allntural Cury powder wonder whatn is in the non oprganic kind?

Like I siad  6 months. then my son told me about crazy mixed up alt that is good I say what is the doium he siad 250mg on 1/4 T I said ok enough to high for me.

Yep Sara  their is a,lot of sopdium in the fast foods I have abook that lists all the fast food places and sodium if yuo want the name of the book folks e-mail me and I will e-mail yuo the name of the book and author ok.

Heidi

Sara, are you watching too much of the Simpson's?! ROFL

Thanks for the reminder, Heidi! I used to love having graham crackers for a night time snack, but haven't had any for a while...I'll have to add that to my grocery list next time around...

 

Hugs, Teri

 

PS  I get the low - fat ones, too!

I found another excellent link to Sodium and how much is recommended for us on a daily basis -- Check it Out!

Diet - sodium (salt)

Recommendations:

Dietary sodium is measured in milligrams (mg). Table salt is 40% sodium; one teaspoon of table salt contains 2,300 mg of sodium.

http://www.dukehealth.org

/HealthLibrary/Encyclopedia/ency/article/002415rec.htm

(You may have to copy and paste this link and put it in your search bar).