Omelet wrote:
> > �"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
>
> > After about 2 weeks you won't be craving
> > salt as you do now and you will find that most foods don't need nearly as
> > much as we thought.
>
> I agree. ;-)
>
> I found that going "cold turkey" for two weeks with no salt shaker
> allowed me to lose my taste for overly salted foods.
>
> The only drawback is that I now cannot stand a lot of foods I used to
> enjoy before, including many chain restaurant meals.
>
> Seems most Americans have a terrible overtaste for salt.

I don't add salt to most basic foods like cooked meats and cooked
veggies. But certain foods just ain't worth eating in the no added
salt and low salt versions... like pretzels, snack crackers, chips,
and roasted nuts... how anyone can enjoy unsalted roasted peanuts is
beyond me. I like Triscuits, once I tried the low salt version, they
taste like breakfast cereal, the birds got them. I also have to salt
eggs, pepper too, but just pepper is not good enough. And I like
buttered rye toast sprinkled with a smidgen of kosher salt. And I
really don't like unsalted soups and stews. The thing is it's very
judgemental as to what constitutes too much salt, especially since all
food contains salt naturally.