Posted in Desserts & Treats on 03/21/2009 09:25 pm by admin
Looking 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.
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!
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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!
Posted in Holidays on 03/20/2009 08:54 pm by admin
We are preparing for Easter at Low Sodium Living! Easter brings back memories of great family meals together at our house. Baked ham and homade potato salad with Jewish rye bread was always the tradition on Easter. Till today I cannot eat ham and potato salad without having some wonderful holiday memories when growing up.
But we have a problem! Ham is LOADED with salt. We will be offering some ideas on how you can prepare a great ham dinner for your Easter without all the salt. we will also beoffering a Jewish Rye Bread recipe to accompany that traditional Holiday meal!
Posted in General on 03/20/2009 03:46 pm by admin
We hope you enjoy our new site. We now offer many new recipes and features. We still offer many of your favorite low sodium recipes that has made our site so popular as well as many recipes that our users have submitted. We encourage you to to submit your favorite low sodium recipe!
Our supply store offer low sodium products to help you through your diet and provides links to where you might locate hard to find low sodium products besides the products we have available at Low Sodium Living.
We still offer our “Support Group” locator to help you find support groups for heart patients especially those suffering from CHF (Congestive Heart Failure).
Our new site also offers our Low Sodium Living Blog. We would love to share with you our daily struggles and successes of dealing with heat disease and low sodium dieting. Weight loss also now will play a big part on the Low Sodium Living website as we have discovered this to be a common problem among Heart disease patients.
