My dad had heart disease back in the early 70s, maybe late 60s. My mother never used salt or cooked with salt except in pasta water. That's how I grew up and it's pretty much how I live today. I have a table salt shaker and fill it maybe once a year.
But last night after my binge I got to thinking. Some foods are salty. Like ham. Or potato chips. But is there that much hidden salt out there? Perhaps. It might be the key to my BP issue.
Today I was at the nail salon and they were going to Panera for breakfast sandwiches. I said sure. I got a power sandwich. I had no idea what was in it. It was multigrain bread with all kinds of nuts and seeds in it, an egg, and ham. I said to Beth, oh this is going to be high in calories and in salt. When I got home I looked it up.
The calories weren't awful. About 360. That's in line for one meal. But the salt was over 800 mg. When I looked at the chart I thought the ham was the culprit. It wasn't it was the bread!
Earlier in the week I noticed that the can of black beans was 18%! I'm going back to soaking beans. The convenience isn't worth it. I'm going to see if maybe I can freeze them.
So for the next week I'm reading the sodium content on labels. I'm going write it all down. Add it up. Could hidden salt be the simple solution to my big problem?
Hunting hidden salt will be more fun than taking my BP twice a day.
2 comments:
Bread machine are a wonderful thing. Barb made pumpkim bread yesterday and is making parsnip bread today.
yes, we have a bread machine. I love the bread from it. Nobody will eat it. It ends up as crumbs. The will only eat white bread. You know, the spongy stuff.
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