Salt

Brinda,

YES YES YES it does have less sodium! I saw a Campbells commercial today for their Healthy Choice line of soups and they say they have replaced the salt with sea salt for LESS SODIUM. The person served the soup looks up at the "chef" and says, "I thought you said this had less salt?" so it must be thought to taste just as good. I'll have to look into this sea salt stuff myself!

Terryr,

Salt on ham. Yep, that is sick. LOL!

Bubba,

I've tried that salt free Mrs. Dash. Funny thing is, I'd like that AND salt. Bwahahaha!

I'm not much of a meat eater so the thought of ham is nasty... LOL

As I said way up there, I use a tad bit of salt when cooking but I don't salt my food at the table (unless we're talking potato) but my DH could use some sea salt as he is one that salts before even tasting!! I'll be adding it to the grocery list!

I switched to sea salt because of the tatse. I didn't know it had less sodium until a couple of months ago.

I do think salt is just getting a bad rap though. Seems like there is always the bad guy out there. It was eggs, fat, coffee, (you get the picture)
Now salt is the big villian.
I think it is fine if a person doesn't go overboard. Too much of anything is dangerous. You can kill yourself by drinking too much water.

Good points! Yep, carbs are bad for you, meat is bad for you, blah blah. We'll all go sometime as my SIL says. Least I'll die knowing I loved my salt. :)

RE:Mrs. Dash - I agree with you Tir on that - we tried that many years ago and were very dissapointed. Ours is Es Bueno. Don't want to get commercial on DG, but d-mail for more info.

Thanks Bubba.

If anyone was interested, here's the homemade recipe for Mrs. Dash.

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipedetail.asp?sessionid=&login=yes&id=178&agree=yes

Hey TNN, I have some useless info for you about the food mill! I have one. I've only ever used it for making apple sauce though. It's a really funny looking contraption, but I don't know what you'd use instead of one. It looks like a sauce pan, but the bottom of the pan has holes like a colander. There are 3 or 4 "blades" (like fan "blades") that are over top of the bottom of the pan. Then there is a handle to turn the blades. The apples get trapped between the blades and the holes, get smooshed, and all that can come out is the apple sauce....and a few seeds. A few years ago I went apple pickin' and just had to make homemade apple sauce and can it. It was the BEST apple sauce ever, and sooo easy to make. However, I looked forever for a food mill. I finally found one at our local hardware store of all places.

....and I'm just curious, but how could sea salt NOT have iodine in it? Wouldn't it have to? Maybe by "iodized" they mean that they've added more to it? I really wonder about this, the article I read about sea salt said it has natural iodine and other things in it. Anyone know for certain?

thanks for the food mill education! sounds like i could use one then!

Speaking of uses for salt, this may gross you out, and I certainly don't recommend eating it but here goes:

If you find a slug inching its way across your patio, just pour salt on it. In no time at all it will be completely dissolved. I know, I know. . . Yuck!!

Oh yeah, good use for salt! I've actually done that on slugs or grubs. Are they the same thing???

No, grubs and slugs are not the same thing. My definition of a slug is a snail without a shell. A grub is a grub. LOL

lol ah well i put salt on grubs.

Grubs will become a beetle.

Or Mole food- lol.

But they have a good time eating your garden seedlings off just below ground level

This message was edited Jan 31, 2008 12:16 PM

Let them eat salt!!! (I think a famous French queen said something like that one time and was thereafter decapitated!! OUCH!!)

I think it was "cake",
Putting a little salt in your frosting takes the "too sweet" taste away. (So you can then eat more sugar and fat) lol

mmm...cake.lol

Hi guys, hope you don't mind my posting, but I am from Grand Saline, home of Morton Salt, just fits.lol Low sodium salt is an oxymoron. Sodium IS salt. What the FDA is allowing to be called low sodium salt is actually just plain salt with higher amounts of magnesium and minerals added. An odd fact is that magnesium is a salt enhancer yet produces a bitter taste. Cambels soup tends to cover this with spicier flavors. So it you are cutting sodium, please be careful make sure it's labeled "low sodium".

Slugs also like beer. So much they will drown in it. Yick. Nasty slugs. What I like is a radish and butter sandwich with salt. Now that's good eatin'. I know a woman who likes green apricots with salt. I think that's weird.

For a minute there, roybird, I thought you were going to say "What I like is a radish and butter sandwich with a slug in between! Yucky!! but I quickly discovered that my mind outran my reading!!. LOL

Yep, cake it was and Marie Antoinette lost her head over it!

Beer poured into jar lids and placed in your flower beds will soon get rid of slugs. It is a safe way to get rid of them because many slug poisons are also poisonous to animals (dogs, cats, etc.) Of course, you also stand the chance of ending up with a drunk dog!! and this has absolutely nothing to do with salt!! LOL unless you pour salt in the beer and give the slugs a double whammy!! Oh, I am so bad!!
Oops, forgive me-- I think the latest slang is "My bad!"

roybird,
I'm with you on the radish sandwiches - DW just shakes her head - she wants her radishes whole with sea salt.

I forgot about using beer in the garden - does it work on snails, too?

Some of last years winter radishes - that a 1 ft rule - for scale.

Wow! those are some radishes, Bubba! I like radishes in salad but I'm not much for eating them by themselves (or even on sandwiches).

I don't know if the beer works on snails, too, but I don't see why it wouldn't.

I wonder if you could pour beer on a leech. They say not to use salt as they regurgitate into the wound. DH got a nasty reaction from one.
We always have beer on the river, where for some reason DH always finds a leech.

Ew, didn't know leeches WERE in Michigan waters?! WOAH!

Yes, usually in boggy areas. Not as much in the river in fast water, but DH seems to find them anyway.
I felt bad the last time. I asked him to go over by some downed trees to retrieve some beer cans someone threw in the water. (we are always picking up trash in the river).
He leaned on the tree and got the leech off the slime on the wood. His side swelled up hot and red the size of a platter. It was bad. This is NOT normal. They usually don't do anything but bite. DH must be allergic or something.

Woah! I hope you find something that gets them off the body QUICKLY. I had no idea leeches were in Michigan.

All the northern mid-west states have them. We had several species in MN and on into Canada (Lake of the Woods).

Never forget the time my grandpa and his brother called us outside, I must of been about 8. We walked outside and (great) Uncle Bill had a bucket and grandpa says "watch". So we watched as Uncle Bill stuck his hand and almost his whole arm down into the bucket. Brought his arm up and out, covered in leeches. He just took a hold of them, seems at the mouth, squeezed and they released. I've never seen any in the IL River and that's a good thing LOL

Leeches? Yeew. Slug sandwich? Please. I know I'm demented but not that much! L.O.L. Bubba, those look like mighty good radishes. I think beer works on snails, too. Altho they are usually eaten with wine. And garlic butter. I was trying to figure out if our snails were the edible kind but my D.H. really balked at the idea. He says the snails French people eat are especially raised and fed on cornmeal. Our snails eat seeds on the ground from the bird feeder, lilies and hostas. It is unusual to have snails in New Mexico because it is so dry here but ours hide in the mulch. You would think snakes would come eat them but I guess we're too urban where we live. Dang.

Hmmm...slug sandwiches? Could you put salt on them?

I think you can salt anything. ;)

Not enough salt in the world for me to eat snails. LOL

Roy, you might think you're too urban but we have garter snakes all over the place.

Can anyone eat popcorn without salt? I can't. That is right up there with eggs and potatoes for needing salt, in my view anyway.

When we lived in CA - thought I was rich - hundreds of HUGE snails - then I learned how to clean them up for harvest -- Way to much effort for me - but there was someone who did make a business out of that - solt to many of the top restaurants in SF area.

Mine here are too tiny to attempt to clean - just want them out of the garden.

Edited for spelling errors.

This message was edited Feb 1, 2008 12:16 PM

Popcorn without salt? If I couldn't have butter and salt on it there'd be no point. LOL!!!

Well, you can put caramel on it and have caramel corn. That is ok too. But even that has to have salt.

Salt on slug sandwiches would leave you with no slug--just yucky salt. LOL

Popcorn without salt and butter is unthinkable and the best way to ruin good popcorn is to put caramel on it! (IMHO)

oh yeah, carmel corn, that's good to!

L.O.L. Rich in snails! I'd sure like to have a garter snake. As for popcorn, I think it is mostly a vehicle for salt and butter. Coffee is a vehicle for half and half. Have you heard of putting a pinch of salt in a pot of coffee? Wonder why?

Have no idea why (but I have heard of the pinch of salt in the pot of coffee).

Who knew there was so much to talk about when it comes to discussing salt? LOL