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!
