I do cook with kosher salt and am cutting down on the amount used. Salt stays in the kitchen.
Jenae
current weight: 148.8
219
196.75
174.5
152.25
130
SPEEDY143
SparkPoints: (87,423)
Fitness Minutes: (30,500) Posts: 8,347 11/13/12 9:06 P
No salt shaker on our table... we use a lot of pepper and if I do use salt to cook it's sea salt. Favorite go to mixed combo is lemon and pepper with garlic California Style
Exercise 1st... Spark 2nd. Works for me!
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't I give myself reasons why I can.
Tired of starting over? Stop giving up!!
NEVER QUIT =]
current weight: 263.4
326
290.25
254.5
218.75
183
ANGEL1066
SparkPoints: (55,820)
Fitness Minutes: (70,625) Posts: 2,261 11/13/12 5:04 P
No
"Mountains DO move...One stone at a time." ~Rick Beneteau Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden, Hall of Fame college basketball coach With exercise, doing some is always better than doing none. - Spark article MAKE THE BEST FOOD CHOICES YOU CAN TODAY - and then, try it again tomorrow!- Dr. John La Puma, M.D.
current weight: 247.0
260
245
230
215
200
LYNMEINDERS
SparkPoints: (108,922)
Fitness Minutes: (42,734) Posts: 10,602 11/13/12 4:50 P
I only use pepper...it is on the table but seldom used
LYN EST +19 hours NZ zone
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
Leader Meeting the Daily Challenge of Diet & Exercise team.... Co-leader Daniel Fast Team BLC 18.. Powerful Prism Panthers Team BLC 19....Powerful Prism Panthers team Summer 5% Fall 5% Challenge.... Cloverleafs team Beck Diet Solution Team 100 Days of weight Loss challenge..
5% winter into Spring Challenge... Leader of the Cloverleafs Team in 5% challenge
Pounds lost: 16.0
0
6
12
18
24
DIDI2692
Posts: 678 11/13/12 4:43 P
We use salt and pepper at my table. When I cook or marinate any protein meat, I use balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
SPARKLISE
SparkPoints: (21,323)
Fitness Minutes: (7,325) Posts: 4,291 11/13/12 4:31 P
I love salt and I actually have different salts.
current weight: 187.6
250
225
200
175
150
POPSY190
Posts: 2,259 11/13/12 3:40 P
No salt on the table or in cooking. I do need a bit of salt (low blood pressure) but I generally get enough from food itself. If I start to feel light-headed I'll eat celery or vegemite for a bit of extra salt. Thank you for the link to a very useful article.
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
NZDT New
current weight: 149.0
152
149.25
146.5
143.75
141
BONBON561
SparkPoints: (87,496)
Fitness Minutes: (111,405) Posts: 19,021 11/13/12 2:51 P
I haven't had salt on the table for 41 years, but I've just started putting pepper back on the table
Begin Orderly New Nutrition and Include Exercise, Begone Gain, Be aware Of Nutrition Be aware Of Night eating 5 servings of fruits, 6 days walking, 1 snack a day
Eastern Standard time
current weight: 203.0
203
200.75
198.5
196.25
194
POLSKARENIA
SparkPoints: (66,139)
Fitness Minutes: (22,041) Posts: 6,803 11/13/12 1:09 P
Very, very rarely, but yes to pepper!!
Renia
2 weddings to be glam for - the second will be my own in Spring 2013!! A good place to start...
2012 must surely be MY year at last!!
Pounds lost: 16.0
0
13
26
39
52
AMARILYNH
Posts: 7,430 11/13/12 12:42 P
No added salting for me - I too battle high blood pressure. I use 'lite' Mortons salt (1/2 the sodium of regular salt) for cooking - and so far neither my DH or my grands have noticed the difference!!
Marilyn in LaGrange, GA BLC21-Violet Venus -Goddess VENUS Fitbit: http://www.fitbit.com/user/23BRKM
current weight: 2.8 over
5
2.5
0
-2.5
-5
TOPCHEF2428
SparkPoints: (98,762)
Fitness Minutes: (71,853) Posts: 1,366 11/13/12 12:01 P
I, primarily, use Kosher Salt. I season as cook. I place the Salt & Pepper on the table, but we don't use them. Family tradition, I'm sure.
BOBBIENORTHERN1
SparkPoints: (38,223)
Fitness Minutes: (41,540) Posts: 5,622 11/13/12 11:06 A
We use pink Himalayin Salt instead of the processed table salt.
SparkPoints: (132,866)
Fitness Minutes: (136,697) Posts: 23,758 11/13/12 11:02 A
no do not flavor with salt, I use herbs to flavor.
Amy Colorado Mountain Time Zone
~Leader- Supporting All Touched by Cancer~
~Co Leader- Living Life on a Shoestring~
~Co Leader- Make Life Happen~
current weight: 130.0
174
155.5
137
118.5
100
NADINEL
Posts: 10,641 11/13/12 10:05 A
I do not use a salt shaker, nor do we leave it on the table, but I do eat foods that have added salt. I tend to crave salty things. Its a struggle at times. When I was growing up, my mom and grandma put part of a saltine cracker into the salt to absorb moisture. They changed it every so often also.
TINY67
Posts: 15,426 11/13/12 9:52 A
I use salt only when it's called for in the recipe I don't use the shaker at the table.
Pounds lost: 56.0
0
32.75
65.5
98.25
131
DALE73
Posts: 33 11/13/12 9:51 A
I will salt pasta while it's cooking and put salt on my popcorn, but other than that I usually use pepper, Mrs. Dash tableblend, or a spicy seasoning. Highly salted food, like in resturants, turn me off now.
Dale A. Silvertooth
current weight: 350.6
405
358.75
312.5
266.25
220
ELLENIRENE
Posts: 26,277 11/13/12 9:43 A
no
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not a single act, but a habit." - Aristotle
Don't be content with average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Cathy
Pounds lost: 12.2
0
7
14
21
28
JUDY5900
SparkPoints: (5,895)
Fitness Minutes: (76) Posts: 847 11/13/12 9:29 A
Have to have it on eggs and potatoes. That's pretty much it.
GINA180847
SparkPoints: (64,242)
Fitness Minutes: (54,308) Posts: 3,203 11/13/12 8:40 A
Mercy, I rarely use salt to cook and never at the table. High blood pressure is the family curse so I am ever so careful. Hubby does the same!!
"The world is one country and mankind its citizens" one of the many truths spoken by Baha'u'llah and "Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul."
current weight: 145.0
160
149.25
138.5
127.75
117
SIMPLY-4-ME
Posts: 378 11/13/12 8:10 A
I don't resalt anything but hubby will add extra no matter what. He doesn't even taste the food first.
!
Pounds lost: 8.8
0
23.75
47.5
71.25
95
LARRI2010
SparkPoints: (44,194)
Fitness Minutes: (16,874) Posts: 2,795 11/13/12 7:13 A
Depending on what the food is and how it has already been seasoned, I'll usually add a little salt and freshly ground pepper.
I've found the rice in the salt shaker trick does not work, either.
Lauren =^..^=
Eastern time zone (USA) (We will be on DST from March 10 to November 3, 2013.)
DONNALEE24
SparkPoints: (69,352)
Fitness Minutes: (75,697) Posts: 7,638 11/13/12 6:54 A
I do not salt at the table. I use a little sea salt when cooking. I use a lot of pepper and jalapeño. I like hot, spicy.
Edited by: DONNALEE24 at: 11/13/2012 (06:55)
In GOD We Trust Choose To Lose "If you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." -General George S Patton, U.S.Army, 1912 Olympian
May Minutes: 1,935
0
750
1500
2250
3000
GARDENCHRIS
SparkPoints: (126,097)
Fitness Minutes: (55,259) Posts: 7,180 11/13/12 6:51 A
I do eat some salt... but I rarely cook with it, it is not my friend. I retain water and salt is not kind to me so I avoid as much as possible.
I've heard that putting unpopped popcorn kernels in the shaker helps better than rice to keep salt from clumping. I don't keep a salt shaker on the table. If I taste something that needs salting, I will get up and get it for that meal. I gradually decreased the salt that I add to foods and now if my husband and I have a hot dog, we find we are dying of thirst all night long! I am not sure if I believe salt is a big problem for everyone as long as they stay well-hydrated.
Si vales, valeo.
current weight: 204.0
210
195
180
165
150
MYGOLDENBOYS3
Posts: 645 11/13/12 6:33 A
Yes salt on the table. When I cook, do not use much salt at all and allow individuals to make their own decision about how much. I try using herbs and have a chart that pairs up specific herbs to individual food items (both meats and vegetables). Thanks for the link you added, I will make a copy to use in the future.
Pounds lost: 32.0
0
12.5
25
37.5
50
LYNNWILK2
SparkPoints: (36,153)
Fitness Minutes: (28,751) Posts: 2,607 11/13/12 6:22 A
salt is up in the cabinet along with the honey, no sugar in the house... I hate salty foods, BUT I know that there are some foods that just need a small amount to enhance the flavor, perhaps it's because I have those family recipes that I am so used to salt being in them. But if food is too salty in a restaurant, a nice one, I won't pay for it, it's inedible to me.
AND when I do want to use salt, I prefer to use a potassium suppliment that comes in a shaker.
Edited by: LYNNWILK2 at: 11/13/2012 (06:23)
be authentically you... it's journey, not a one day hike.
I know I eat too much salt. I do not shake only salt though. In Africa where I usually am the salt will not come out of the shaker. It congeals together. Some put rice in their salt shaker along with the salt so that the salt will keep separated. I have not had good success with that. Instead of using simple salt I use Morton's Nature's seasons which still has salt but it also has other spices in the bottle so the salt does not stick together. BUT I do use that too much. I have high blood pressure and should not be salting my food at the table like I do.
FORUM: 
TOPIC: 
