Eat less Salt

[Freak]

This Goverment Big Brother thing was bad enough with it's
Don't Drink,
Don't Smoke,
Don't drive ya car because you're killing the dolphins bollox
Now to top it all they want us to only eat
BLAND FOOD
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[rommel]

And when did you start taking any notice if what the gov. said.............. :D :rolleyes:

[Freak]

And when did you start taking any notice if what the gov. said.............. :D :rolleyes:

Coming back from the forum party we stopped at some services. Where we
parked was a huge, in yer face billboard advert telling us to cut down our
intake of salt to 5 grams a day else we will all die. Fuck off..... just fuck off

[excalibur]

well I can't eat chips unless it looks like it's snowed on them, and what is 5 grams anyway, what's that in ounces and how many shakes of the salt pot.

[Mrs Reject]

I even put salt on toast :D

[Robin]

An excess of salt doesn't stop food being bland, it is just an easy fix used by convenience food manufactuers. Most of the salt in a modern diet is 'hidden' salt, in other words it has been thrown in to disguise the fact that you are eating mass produced cr4p. They often don't even have the balls to put it on the ingredients and hide it behind an E number (yes it does have one).

I haven't added salt to my cooking for years, and have hardly noticed the difference, all you need to do is cook the ingredients properly to let the natural flavours come through.

Mrs Robin loves the stuff though, but has been told by the doc to cut it down, so now she uses Lo-salt, which is basically mostly Calcium Chloride, instead of Sodium Chloride. Supposed to be better for you, but it is only substituting one chemical for another.

[ForestFred]

I was always taught adding salt to cooked food was an insult to the chef. :)

[Fran]

Tried some of that low sodium soup.It's ok with a bit salt! :D

[Abb]

I only use Sea Salt - table salt contains additives. I do add salt to my cooking as it is being done - it brings out flavours. That said, 5 grams of salt is a decent amount. If you eat only fresh food, you can't add 5 grams to it without killing it.

Saying that, Nutricianists say you should have 6 grams of salt per day.

[Freak]

But what about us fat folk
We Neeeeeeed lots of salt
cause we sweet a lot.
Stops cramp you know

[Maggie B]

yes-shows how much notice you took of the billboard. It says cut donw to 6g of salt a day, not 5g !


Yea-you have another gramme of salt per day than you thought you had! :D


can of soup I just had for lunch. Baxters healthy choice full can of-1.5g of salt !!!
In that alone

I'm doomed-I love salt

I bought some sea salt & a grinder pot-s'alright I suppose.

all my hangover cures involve salt-salt & vinegar crisps, oven chips with salt & vinegar :eek:

[Freak]

Yea-you have another gramme of salt per day than you thought you had! :D

woo------hoo

[Robin]

Only exception to the no-salt rule should be Tequila :D

[bill?]

I even put salt on toast :D

hot toast, pork dripping and a sprinkling of salt. mmmmmmmmm

[Robin]

Just been cooking the tea, so I looked in the cupboard :eek:

Suppose you shared a tin of beans on toast with somebody for a lunchtime snack (I did)

1/2 tin of beans =1.8g salt
2 slices of bread = 0.4g salt
2oz cheese = 2.0g salt

That is already over 60% of the reccomended daily intake, I haven't even added in the (salted) butter on the toast or the big dollop of brown sauce.

Now I'm cooking Mince and dumplings, Gods forbid that I look at the salt content of the gravy granules.


We're all DOOMED I tell you. Doomed.

[Bassman]

I was always taught adding salt to cooked food was an insult to the chef. :)

Hey mate..if the cook is anything like my missus, you'd be better off just having a plate of salt!! :( :D

[Highside]

I am aware of an ingredient that appears on food labels that you have to double to get the correct amount of salt, I believe it is when they list it as Sodium, but I cannot be sure, but it's worth checking out.
Other ingredients that may be in the food you are eating that also contain salt are:
Baking powder
Booster
Celery salt
Garlic salt
Meat or yeast extract
Onion salt
Monosodium glutamate (msg)
Rock salt
Sea salt
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium metabisulphate
Sodium nitrate/nitrite and stock cubes

So if these appear on your food label along with Sodium, that'll mean even more salt in your meal.

[iomrob]

Hey mate..if the cook is anything like my missus, you'd be better off just having a plate of salt!! :( :D

can we quote you on that :confused: :D

[Shep]

Salt is bad for slugs. :D

[haynedave]

Well I'm certainly not listening....I love dinner with my salt! :D

[InSanCen]

Well, didn't I feel all smug when I first saw those signs... I hate the fuggin stuff... (Ok, OK, I'm a freak).

Won't put it in the veggies or anything... Don't give 2 hoots about the health thing.. (Live fast, Die young, leave a rather average Corpse), just hate the bloody taste... the one exception being Pork Crackling..... Drool....

[Bassman]

can we quote you on that :confused: :D
Yep... Its nothing I havent told her before.....











Thats a lie by the way!! :o

[Jay]

FREAK, it's taken me all day but I've got a plan to help us through this.

It does involve alot of flying back and forth through different timezones though!

[Hoover]

Has a side note
Below is a link to a site with all e numbers listed
Some of it is scarey!! and we eat this crap!
e numbers (http://www.bryngollie.freeserve.co.uk/Enumbers.htm)

[Maggie B]

Just been cooking the tea, so I looked in the cupboard :eek:

Suppose you shared a tin of beans on toast with somebody for a lunchtime snack (I did)

1/2 tin of beans =1.8g salt
2 slices of bread = 0.4g salt
2oz cheese = 2.0g salt

That is already over 60% of the reccomended daily intake, I haven't even added in the (salted) butter on the toast or the big dollop of brown sauce.

Now I'm cooking Mince and dumplings, Gods forbid that I look at the salt content of the gravy granules.


We're all DOOMED I tell you. Doomed.


OMG :eek: I didn't think about cheese-its realy bad isn't it

[Highside]

Has a side note
Below is a link to a site with all e numbers listed
Some of it is scarey!! and we eat this crap!
e numbers (http://www.bryngollie.freeserve.co.uk/Enumbers.htm)

Bloody'ell, I don't about how those things affect your health, but you'd never lose a game of Scrabble with that list.

[Mrs Reject]

You can't eat any of that if you're a vegan, in fact 99.9% of supermarket food is out as I found out recently. Almost every ready made food has milk products, milk protein or banned e numbers (i.e cochineal) in it!!! Even feckin' crisps have milk proteins in them - why? At Asda I found only one packet of crisps I could eat and I didn't like them because they tasted like cardboard and left a funny after taste.
As a result me and Mitch have to make all our food from scratch from fresh ingredients. Even vegetarian products like quorn are out because they have milk proteins in! I dread to think what effect on the body all this excessive milk has - supersized folk in the USA perhaps, larger than average children? factory animals are similarly overfed (think turkeys) their bones becme brittle and their legs break because of their bloated corpulent frames. Are we being factory farmed?
(The one side effect of this nutritious diet is er.......gaseous :o)

Mrs R (paranoid) :eek:

[Dougie]

Ach you stand more chance o' gettin' hit by some feckwit in a car........

[tease]

I only use Sea Salt - table salt contains additives. I do add salt to my cooking as it is being done - it brings out flavours. That said, 5 grams of salt is a decent amount. If you eat only fresh food, you can't add 5 grams to it without killing it.

Saying that, Nutricianists say you should have 6 grams of salt per day.
I prefer sea salt myself, its a better flavor. As with ANYTHING, you need sodium, cholesterol (i had a cholesterol count that was too LOW), to survive and make the body work right.
When I was desert training I used to eat a tablespoon of salt when I woke up, your body needs it, especially if you are perspiring alot, it is what regulates your central body temp, sort of like anti-freeze.

[Maggie B]

I prefer sea salt myself, its a better flavor. As with ANYTHING, you need sodium, cholesterol (i had a cholesterol count that was too LOW), to survive and make the body work right.
When I was desert training I used to eat a tablespoon of salt when I woke up, your body needs it, especially if you are perspiring alot, it is what regulates your central body temp, sort of like anti-freeze.



mmmmmmmm

deserts :rolleyes:

[Freak]

FREAK, it's taken me all day but I've got a plan to help us through this.

It does involve alot of flying back and forth through different timezones though!

Stop it... you're scaring me :eek:

[Doro]

I never add salt to food when cooking - prefer spices n herbs

only add salt to chips (yeah and tequila lol) - prefer pepper


the worst stuff to eat is:

margarine and other 'soft' fats - except virgin olive oil

sunflower oil etc is pap - it gets plasticised and emulsified and this produces a grey gunge which they then have to colour to make it look nice - then they shove it in a tub and you lot EAT IT - yak



other worst food is healthy or fat free stuff - to get the taste back after being processed they add fat - if it's low fat then the taste is returned with sugar - loads of it - 5 table spoons in a tin of normal beans - even more in a low fat version

also cow's milk is bad (as is beef) cos of all the stuff they give the animals - antibiotics, hormones etc etc

any food which has been processed is bad for you - look at all the new illnesses and diseases which have cropped up ONLY since the 50s (the 1950s was when processed food and supermarkets became popular)


poor mrs R will have to watch out for tomatoes too cos they add genes from arctic fish so they don't go off in the fridge FFS


nope - grow your own stuff in the garden - get a goat n some chickens

Hey Tom, Barbara, room for a little one? pmsl

[madastoast]

Oh fork now you've put me off me dinner

[Robin]

you have to double to get the correct amount of salt, I believe it is when they list it as Sodium, but I cannot be sure,


Assuming that all of the sodium in a product is part of salt, the you have to almost TRIPLE it to get the true salt content.

Just proves that labeling of ingredients/food values can be easily twisted to give a false impression.

[Captain Smurf]

I was always taught adding salt to cooked food was an insult to the chef. :)
With you there :)

'fraid this is nothing new folks. Of all the government health scares (ooops, advice) this is probably the most realistic.

At sea, in hot climates, I issue re-hydration salts (mix with water and drink) NOT the old salt tablets (even though many of the crew nag at me about it)

When I failed my medical in June I was advised to cut down on salt to help reduce my blood pressure.

I passed my medical a few weeks ago.
































did I mention that I've never added salt to food, as I hate the taste of salt? I don't add it during cooking either. :D ;)

[tease]

mmmmmmmm

deserts :rolleyes:
Ummmmmmm Maggie dear? desSerts are the ones ya eat :D

[Jay]

I'm at a loss now - what can I actually safely eat?

[Mia Wallace]

I'm at a loss now - what can I actually safely eat?

Non GM Carrotts and bio-filtered water with no salt :D

lol

[Jay]

Non GM Carrotts and bio-filtered water with no salt :D

lol
or soup as we call it in Glaaaaaaaaster :D

[Maggie B]

Ummmmmmm Maggie dear? desSerts are the ones ya eat :D


Mmmmmmmmm

Desserts :D

[Maggie B]

With you there :)

'fraid this is nothing new folks. Of all the government health scares (ooops, advice) this is probably the most realistic.

At sea, in hot climates, I issue re-hydration salts (mix with water and drink) NOT the old salt tablets (even though many of the crew nag at me about it)

When I failed my medical in June I was advised to cut down on salt to help reduce my blood pressure.

I passed my medical a few weeks ago.
did I mention that I've never added salt to food, as I hate the taste of salt? I don't add it during cooking either. :D ;)

Holy sh i t, if you were over

I'm knackered

today for example:
packet crisps - 1.5g salt
soup again - 1.5g salt
3g so far, and thats not including the bread I had for breakfast, and the marg,

or my tea :eek:

[Captain Smurf]

Holy sh i t, if you were over

I'm knackered

today for example:
packet crisps - 1.5g salt
soup again - 1.5g salt
3g so far, and thats not including the bread I had for breakfast, and the marg,

or my tea :eek:
Uuuuugghhhh - you put salt in your tea? :eek:

[Shaun the Fatman]

Mrs Robin loves the stuff though, but has been told by the doc to cut it down, so now she uses Lo-salt, which is basically mostly Calcium Chloride.
(knowitall mode) it's 2/3rds Potassium Chloride.

Calcium Chloride is a salt, but is used as a de-icer for roads and those little water-absorbing packets you get in electronics packaging. OK to put on your chips as long as Intel made them.