Taste Test Tuesday: Stove Top Stuffing Lower Sodium
To me the lower sodium version tastes even better than the original, but then I also don't cook or eat a lot of foods with a high amount of salt. Remember, your taste preference for salt in food is developed over time based on your intake. In other words, if you eat a higher amount of salt/sodium, your taste buds become used to that amount and when you eat something low in sodium...it might taste very bland.
But, if you give your taste buds time to readjust to a lower sodium way of eating (give it about 6 weeks), they will eventually catch up and things will start tasting better to you.
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I have to admit that when it comes to holiday meals, I probably want the most tasty food and if that takes a salt shaker, then I don't even think twice about using it.
How about when you buy a pre-cooked ham or an already cooked barbeque chicken, how do you lower the salt in pre-made foods?
I find that if I leave the salt shaker off of the table, most times no one notices the lack of salt and goes to the kitchen to get it. It helps to add a lot of other flavors - fresh herbs and garlic, lemon, and pepper when appropriate. Or maybe they're just to lazy to go out the the kitchen to get it! :-)
anonymous 6:45pm,
I'm with you! I have never added salt to my food. As a kid we didn't even have a salt shaker handy. But my husband and his family seem to always think food isn't salty enough and add more, except when they're here, because I don't have a salt shaker out either.
With the right herbs and spices, salt is hardly missed.
and anonymous at the top (12:00 AM):
I try to stay away from the pre-cooked stuff. It really has way too much salt. I can almost feel my fingers swelling after eating ham on the holidays.
Once you get used to low sodium or no sodium foods...foods with lots of sodium are hard to eat.
Stove Top Stuffing is not Real Food. Might I suggest you spend the time to make real stuffing rather than write these misguided posts and articles? (Like that wronger-than-wrong 14 Scary Recipe Ingredients...I mean, com'on, actual scary ingredients would be mayonaisse not made with eggs, GMO tofu, etc.)
And, frankly, looking at this blog, how is a reader not to think you are part of Kraft's PR Dept? Real chefs don't cook or eat these processed "foods" and home cooks shouldn't be encouraged to either.
I hope some day you will learn to cook with real, healthy ingredients like organic butter from a small dairy, farmers' market vegetables, organic pastured meats, etc., and leave the world of CostCo/Safeway food behind...you know, where everyone gains weight despite eating "light" and "lo-cal" food.
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To the commenter above,
You're welcome to repost your comment without the personal attacks on others. Sorry, but those have to be removed.
Dr Davis is correct - I've done the same thing with sugar - I use WAY less of salt and sugar and now if I eat something that I haven't made, it's usually too sugary or way too salty...
I didn't say that I don't make stuffing home made!
Who are these people who are inferring all sorts of things when I blog about new products that some of the members of WebMD want to know about. I said in my blog that I probably only pick up a box of stuffing one a year. Guess what...that's because I cook homemade all the rest of the time. I actually like making my own stuffing because then I can use whole grain bread cubes.
But you didn't give me a chance to blog about that, did you. You just jumped in and started hammering away at people who might like to use boxed products every now and then.
As a nutrition expert/writer I try to serve the interests of as many people as possible. That can cover quite a range of needs and topics which is partly what I love about doing what I do.
Sorry this particular blog seemed to offend a couple of you.
--Elaine
I didn't say that I don't make stuffing home made!
Who are these people who are inferring all sorts of things when I blog about new products that some of the members of WebMD want to know about. I said in my blog that I probably only pick up a box of stuffing one a year. Guess what...that's because I cook homemade all the rest of the time. I actually like making my own stuffing because then I can use whole grain bread cubes.
But you didn't give me a chance to blog about that, did you. You just jumped in and started hammering away at people who might like to use boxed products every now and then.
As a nutrition expert/writer I try to serve the interests of as many people as possible. That can cover quite a range of needs and topics which is partly what I love about doing what I do.
Sorry this particular blog seemed to offend a couple of you.
--Elaine
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