Do you think about the amount of salt you eat, either directly or indirectly via crisps, chips, Kebabs etc etc. Also do you know how much your daily limit of salt should be ?

http://www.salt.gov.uk/

Yes, i never have any on fish and chips... i don't have vinegar either, it makes things soggy.

Dunno about daily limits but i don't like too much salt anyhow, it dehydrates me.

(and doesn't it make your pee turn dark yellow?)
:)

No, because I know my diet doesn't really contain too much and I never add it to food as a condiment. But I guess knowing that suggests I must have thought about it in the past! :)

Actually, dredging my memory, the one time I had issues with salt was after a period of illness and operations when the doctors told me to use plenty of salt as I needed the sodium and other minerals. That's a pretty unusual situation though I think!

yes i do.
I never add it to anything as we already get far too much in our diet.

i dont think about it much as generally i eat healthy, i never add it when cookin or to food that is cooked.
this comes in handy as means mini sav can eat anything i have cooked.

i try to stay away from convienence foods as they have way too many additives,

I try to avoid salt as much as possible but I am sure that I must eat too much of it. I never use salt in cooking or add salt to food, and I tend to stay well clear of ready meals and the majority of processed foods.

It's the little things like crisps, bread and stir in sauces that tend to have scary amounts in. When ever I eat out I always feel really thirsty the next day so I guess much of the food you eat when out of the house contains silly amounts.

I'm really not keen on meats like gammon or too salty bacon it just tastes like sea water to me!

The only time I deliberately consume salt is if I'm dehydrated - post excercise on hot days. I make up an isotonic concoction with salt n sugar in water. Tastes quite nice actually. The quantities are 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons sugar to 1 litre water, I think. It should really be various salts but good old NaCl will do. Drinking isotonic drinks speeds up the intake of water.

I had a heart problem years ago, and things like salt etc i cut out of my diet straight away, im quite Strict on what i eat now, i even cut out all the booze and fags, and i must admit im better than ever, my heart is ok now:) but adding salt to my food makes me feel sick..:gag: theres enough crap in food if you read all the small print...

I must admit, I'm a beggar for salt on rice/pasta dishes... I just can't help it! Recently, I've cut out rice and pasta as its way too stodgy, so you've guessed it, the salt has been cut out too!

Last night, I made a Greek salad and put black pepper on it... I wanted to put salt on too, but as I hadn't filled the salt pot up, I didn't put any on, because I couldn't be bothered to fill it up! :hihi: So I guess thats my way of avoiding salt lol

Now I take meds for a blood pressure problem I do watch my salt.

Some tinned food I can't eat anymore because all you can taste is the salt.

To whoever commented that their urine was dark - that's just dehydration for you, rather than the salt.

Joe

I don't eat much processed food and I don't add salt at the dinner table (you have to add some when your cooking some things or they don't taste right) so I should be ok.

Same as Nick, I never add salt at the table , and eat as little processed food as possible. I have no heart and blood pressure problems as far as I know, but I just like to be careful. I knew a salt fanatic who even poured the stuff on toast. Sadly, he died much too young. I have no wish to emulate him.

I didnt until I made friends with a girl who was studying to be a nutritionist. She told me that every time I had a McDonald's breakfast (which was nearly everyday) I had more than my daily allowance of salt! That was pretty shocking when I found out :gag:

I only ever add salt to chips - anything else I eat as it comes.

But it's getting annoying the way they're removing more and more salt from various foods. My girlfriend has a lot of food intolerances and struggles to get enough salt at the best of times - now she's finding it harder and harder when the companies keep churning out "New improved - lower fat, lower salt" items. They just don't think about people whose problems are the opposite to the usual, like those who are desperately trying to gain weight!!

Same as Rich, i only really ever add salt to chips, but when I do, I add tonnes of it. I dont really think about how much I eat and dont really care tbh.

Originally posted by RichD
I only ever add salt to chips - anything else I eat as it comes.

But it's getting annoying the way they're removing more and more salt from various foods. My girlfriend has a lot of food intolerances and struggles to get enough salt at the best of times - now she's finding it harder and harder when the companies keep churning out "New improved - lower fat, lower salt" items. They just don't think about people whose problems are the opposite to the usual, like those who are desperately trying to gain weight!!

I really can't believe you have a problem getting enough salt? The recommended MAXIMUM is 5 grams for a woman, the actual MINIMUM is about 1.5 grams. That is hardly any at all. And if you want to gain weight, just eat lots of high carb/high fat stuff. There's not really that much low fat/ low salt stuff is there????

Surely, if your girlfriend is struggling to get enough salt she can just add it to foods?

Originally posted by RichD
But it's getting annoying the way they're removing more and more salt from various foods.

I hate the way they anounce they have lowered the salt in processed food like it's some great breakthorugh. It was them who added the huge amount of salt in the first place to hide the fact that their stuff tastes like crap.

Same with "no added sugar" or "reduced fat", they added the sugar and fat, so leaving it out is no great effort and certainly shouldn't alter the price.

Well said Nick2 - I avoid ready meals and take-aways as far as possible, with the exception of the odd kebab ;)

Have to admit though I do add salt to cooking and at the table if needs be. What can I say... salt rocks

Originally posted by tim_rutter
I really can't believe you have a problem getting enough salt? The recommended MAXIMUM is 5 grams for a woman, the actual MINIMUM is about 1.5 grams. That is hardly any at all. And if you want to gain weight, just eat lots of high carb/high fat stuff. There's not really that much low fat/ low salt stuff is there????

Surely, if your girlfriend is struggling to get enough salt she can just add it to foods?
Great in theory - but she can't eat high fat stuff because it makes her sick. Literally. I did say she had a lot of intolerances. Her diet is very restricted, and a lot of the things she can manage to eat would taste utterly revolting with salt added.

Originally posted by caprice

Last night, I made a Greek salad and put black pepper on it... I wanted to put salt on too, but as I hadn't filled the salt pot up, I didn't put any on, because I couldn't be bothered to fill it up! :hihi: So I guess thats my way of avoiding salt lol [/B]

mmm..
feta cheese is quite salty to begin with so no worries there.

I don't seem to miss salt when its not in stuff I make myself - a lot of people seem to be really sensitive to it and miss it when its not there..? Is it the more salt you consume the more you desire it - does anybody know if salt is addictive in that way?

Originally posted by RichD
Great in theory - but she can't eat high fat stuff because it makes her sick. Literally. I did say she had a lot of intolerances. Her diet is very restricted, and a lot of the things she can manage to eat would taste utterly revolting with salt added.

Perhaps isotonic drinks are the answer...you can get those that are a precise balance of all salts required. But then Im no dietician.

Originally posted by tim_rutter
Perhaps isotonic drinks are the answer...you can get those that are a precise balance of all salts required. But then Im no dietician. Might be worth a try... I'm assuming of course, that you are not referring to Lucozade Sport :D I'll have a look for some. Thanks.

Originally posted by RichD
Might be worth a try... I'm assuming of course, that you are not referring to Lucozade Sport :D I'll have a look for some. Thanks.

Not really! Ask in a chemist. You can probably get powders that you can mix with water. There may even be some that taste nice...

I don't do too badly as there's precious little in the way of processed food I can eat. I made a bolognese the other day and put far too much salt in, banging headache for hours afterward. I found I cant eat more than two rashers of bacon either but the nitrates in that make it worse.
I blame salt for my erratic memory too but damned if I can eat anything with tomato in without reaching for the saltpot
The great thing about avoiding salt though is it makes it harder to overeat, great diet tip that.
Freshly milled pepper on salads n stirfry tastes a lot better than salt anyday

Originally posted by tim_rutter
Not really! Ask in a chemist. You can probably get powders that you can mix with water. There may even be some that taste nice...

There is one called Dioralyte, that is supposed to balance your salts (and ions, whatever they are), it's to help with dehydration.