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Posted in General on 09/19/2009 04:18 pm by adminTry Instant Mash Potatoes as a Thickener!
Posted in General, Low Sodium Chili on 05/03/2009 12:11 am by adminInstant mash potatoes make a great thickening agent for chili and sauces. I know, I know I had the same first thought that my chili will taste like mash potatoes but, they don’t change the flavor. They work great just don’t use too much and, most instant mash potatoes are very low in sodium, usually 20 mgs.
Try Tomato Puree for Sauces and Chili
Posted in General, Recipes on 05/02/2009 11:59 pm by adminA great tip for making low sodium chili and pasta sauces is to use tomato puree instead of tomato sauce. Tomato puree is a bit thicker, EASILY available without all the sodium and cheaper too! Almost every can you find of tomato puree will only be about 20mgs per serving on its sodium scale
Good Housekeeping Talks about Low Sodium Chips
Posted in Low Sodium Products on 03/25/2009 06:00 pm by adminSupport Groups List
Posted in Heart Disease on 03/23/2009 05:16 pm by adminThese are the support groups we have listed to date for Heart Disease Patients. Please contribute to our list.
States that we have located Support Groups in to date,
PLEASE ADD YOUR CITY AND STATE
INDIANA
Indiana Cardiac Association
Greencroft Retirement Community
1721 Greencroft Blvd., PO Box 819
Goshen, IN 46527-0819
Marion Hospital
441 N Wabash Ave.
Marion, IN 46952-2612
GEORGIA
WellStar Administration Building
805 Sandy Plains Rd.
Marietta, GA 30066
Phone: 770-792-7600
The Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta Heart Failure Center has started a support group for heart failure patients and family members.
Thanks; Danelle Bone, RN, BSN
Saint Joseph’s Heart Failure Center
5671 Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Suite 110
Atlanta, Georgia 30342
Tel: 404.851.5801
Fax: 404.851.7746
Contact
ILLINOIS
Advocate Bethany Hospital
3435 West Van Buren
Chicago, Illinois 60624
773.265.7700
Silver Cross Hospital
1200 Maple Rd.
Joliet, IL 60432
(815) 740-1100
MISSOURI
St. John’s Foundation for Community Health
1235 E. Cherokee Street
Springfield, MO 65804
MARYLAND
Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland
5601 Loch Raven Blvd.
Baltimore, Maryland 21239
410-532-8000
Michigan
Congestive Heart Failure Support Group
Meets the First Tuesday of each Month at 9:00 a.m.
Breton Health Center
Grand Rapids, Michigan
616-252-7926
Tennessee
Covenant Health Center
Knoxville, Tennessee
(865) 481-5608
Ohio
CHF Support Group
Medina Memorial Hospital
200 Ohio Street
Medina, NY 14103
The Christ Hospital,
2139 Auburn Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45219
Colorado
Heart Center of the Rockies
Poudre Valley Hospital
telephone (970) 297-6550
CHF support group meeting
Rose Medical Center
Denver, Colorado
Rose Cardiac Rehab @ (303) 320- 2996
Arizona
The Arizona Heart Hospital
1930 East Thomas Road
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Phone: (602) 532-1000 - Fax: (602) 532-2000
California
Hemet Valley Medical Center
A Facility of Valley Health System,
A California Local Health Care District,
1117 East Devonshire Avenue,
Hemet, California 92543.
(909) 652-2811, TDD (909) 6572-6173
South Carolina
Providence Hospital / Providence Heart Institute
2435 Forest Drive
Columbia, SC 29204
Providence Hospital Northeast
120 Gateway Corporate Blvd.
Columbia, SC 29203
I-77 at Farrow Road
New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Community Education
New Brunswick, New Jersey
(732) 827-0955
RWJUHCHED@aol.com
Finding a Good Support Group
Posted in Congestive Heart Failure, Dieting, Heart Disease, Support Groups on 03/23/2009 05:13 pm by adminIt is so important to locate support in your recovery from a serious heart disease, support in a life changing diet and through most any traumatic experience you may go through. Although, Low Sodium Living has offered a limited amount of information of support groups since our beginnings, we would like to greatly increase that service.
Please help us by posting a comment if you are aware of support groups for heart patients, dieters, etc in your area!
Flavored Water or Juice Drink Idea
Posted in Desserts & Treats on 03/23/2009 01:22 am by adminThought I’d share today a favorite of mine. We will kill about three birds with one stone here. This is a low sodium Low Cal treat and/or drink I think you’ll love. Start with a can of fruit. Use your favorite, canned peaches, pears, pineapple or a combination of them. Make sure they are packed in water and/or concentrate but do not use the canned fruits in heavy syrup. Put the fruit in a bowl and eat it but save the juice from the can. In a one quart pitcher or jug add the juice, water, a teaspoon of lemon concentrate and 2 to 3 TBS. of a sugar substitute such as equal. Fill the rest of pitcher with cold water and mix.
Instead of the lemon juice concentrate try a couple of tsp. on Tang. Shake until thoroughly mixed. This mixture will give you a nice flavored water that is somewhere between a flavored water and a juice. When I make my mixture I’ll then pour off a little into our popsicle maker to make some flavorful juice pops.
There you go, as they say up north. You got a nice bowl of fruit, a fruit drink and some juice pops all out of one can of canned fruit. AND, I believe on most mixtures you have only about 15mgs of sodium and depending on what you use you can maintain a very low calorie count to!
Great for the coming summer. Enjoy!
Sugar Free Pudding Pops
Posted in Desserts & Treats on 03/21/2009 09:25 pm by adminLooking for a way to enjoy a nice summer treat? How about aprox 25 calories for a nice sweet treat! If you have some popsicle sticks around or better yet a popsicle tray that you can make your own popsicles in, try making them with sugar free pudding. You’ll have a wide assortment over the standard chocolate or vanilla. there is nothing like a nice sugar free cheese cake pudding pop or a pistachio flavored treat!
hatch the sodium level on the package and make sure you divide into the number of pops you make. I’ll usually make 6 to 8 frozen treats from a package which is a lower sodium level then the four servings on the package.
Ramen Noodle Wanna-Be
Posted in Congestive Heart Failure, General on 03/21/2009 07:46 pm by admin
Just before I was diagnosed with CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) I thought I was suffering from a severe chest cold. I was so congested I would have to sleep on my knees leaning over the couch, it was the only way I could breath at night. I went on this way for probably over a week and in my stubbornness I just refused to go to the hospital, hoping and praying I would get over this bad chest cold.
Trying to treat myself, I was living on Ramen Noodle Soups. I would eat about three or four of them a day. Little did I know that I was killing myself (literally) with all the sodium they put in those things. Ramen Noodle Soups have somewhere between 1500 and 200 mgs. of sodium! Imagine if you eat three or four a day that’s like 8,000 mgs. od sodium when you should only be having about 2000. If your suffering from CHF then you know the more salt in your body the harder it is for your heart to work off the fluid and it just keeps building, until death.
Ramen Noodle has recently come out with a lower sodium version but it is only 35% less sodium. In my book, 35% of a gazillion is still a gazillion! So if you like Ramen Noodle as much as I do, your in trouble. Ramen Noodle is quick, easy, flavorful and versatile. Not to mention CHEAP!
I decided to try and come up with an alternative!
RAMEN NOODLE WANNA - BE
It’s great that Ramen Noodle is so cheap. A great alternative is to buy the Ramen Noodle and throw away the seasoning. That is were all the sodium lies. It is hard to match their noodles so just use them, there is not much sodium in their noodles at all. I like to use the Herb Ox No Sodium Chicken or Beef Broth along with the Ramen noodles. You can season up the Herb Ox with a little garlic powder, onion powder and a few drops of low sodium soy sauce for a great substitute! You can also create other dishes from the mixture using less water, vegetables, chicken, etc. just as you would with the regular Ramen Noodle.
So don’t fret now that you need to cut back on that sodium, there is an alternative to Ramen Noodle!
