It's FIVE days into 2011. ALREADY. Seriously, this year is moving even faster than last year! One of my new year resolutions (among, a 1000 others) was to decrease my salt intake. I found out in the last three months of 2010 that I was eating roughly 5000 to 6000 MILLIgrams of salt everyday. That's nearly 5x-6x times the recommended daily amount for someone my height/weight/age.
As I went around work and outside telling people about my resolution, I received many useful tips on reducing salt in my diet. I am going to document them here so that I can refer back to them when I feel like I am slipping in my resolution.
- Use lemon juice as a garnish. This is an interesting piece of advice and potentially one that might work.
- Use herb blends instead of salt -- Herbmare is expensive for just some herbs and salt in the long run. I am going to try using a lot more spices in my cooking and lessen the salt instead.
- If you like salty snacks, try celery -- okay, this is working. Celery is salty. I am going to have to look up the amount of naturally occurring salt in celery. Why should naturally occurring saltiness be any different in its physiological effects than added salt?
- Do not salt while you are cooking. Add salt in the end. This sounds like good advice. Apparently, "saltiness" gets muted as foods cook and this forces the cook to add more salt. I can actually see this happening in my kitchen because I keep tasting things as they cook and I do salt like the cook in Alice in Wonderland.
Yes, like her. Notice the baton-like salt shaker in the cook's hand.
Well... okay, according to the book, it's some potent pepper mix which makes everyone else sneeze, but that is how I add spices and salt when I cook. If anyone else is there while I am cooking, they eventually end up in a sneezing fit or tell me about how they suddenly have this intense desire to sneeze... or cry (because of all the onions I merrily chopped). Strangely, all this affects me very little or not at all.
PS: Someone actually messaged me and asked me if I eat 4000 GRAMs of salt per day. I did mean milligrams but I can't help wondering what might happen if I really ate 4000 grams of salt a day. Would people be able to use me as a salt-shaker at the cafeteria? *Patron flagging down waitress* "Hey miss, could I have
(e:tinypliny) come and dance over here please. Thanks."
I wish you were here (e:lilho), I never really got a chance to talk with you at all... well, if you don't count the five words I have said to you these past two years.
I would so go if I lived there... Dance is my new thing even though I'm no good... Yet!
You didn't come, (e:metalpeter). I was counting on you and was partnerless for a while. :(
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Kidding, but did the guilt trip work?! :-) That lovely women has some lovely arms and legs. I seriously felt I need some muscle today. Sarah told me she couldn't feel the weight of my arms at all...
So Where are the Chips???????????
Kidding that lovely women looks very lovely Oh yeah!
I'm sure you will have a great time at the classes... Learning new stuff can both be challenging and fun.....