I need a low sodium cook book, or i need some recipes, hubby can only have 2000 mil. a day. ?

need to know how to figure out how i know how to determine labels and how to break it down also.I need a low sodium cook book, or i need some recipes, hubby can only have 2000 mil. a day. ?
Sea salt can be used instead of salt so taste doesn't get sacraficed.





http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sea-sal…





How to read food labels:


http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.ht…





http://www.lifeclinic.com/focus/nutritio…





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http://www.lifeclinic.com/whatsnew/cookb…I need a low sodium cook book, or i need some recipes, hubby can only have 2000 mil. a day. ?
Here is a link to a list of low sodium cook books (this is an online food store that created a list of links to low sodium cook books and other resources):


http://www.livinglowsodium.com/links.html





Here is a link to low sodium recipes:


http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-sodium-recipes/RE00101





Here are links on nutrition facts label:


http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html


http://www.fda.gov/fdac/foodlabel/sodium.html


http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1196283027348FoodLabels.pdf





Here is a link to a guide that can help you and your hubby manage the diet:


http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf





Here is a link to a list of foods and their sodium content:


http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR17/wtrank/sr17a307.pdf





To help you food shop here is a site that lists many low sodium food manufacturers:


http://www.lowsaltfoods.com/





You can break down the 2000mg a day into four sections:


breakfast - 600mg


lunch - 600mg


dinner - 600mg


snacks - 200mg





Or if you know that you're going to have a dinner that's high in sodium you can break it down like this:


breakfast-500mg


lunch-500mg


dinner-1000mg


snacks-0mg





Whichever way you break down your diet make sure you keep count of your sodium intake. And remember to look at the serving size along with the sodium count on the nutrition facts label to determine if the product meets your dietary requirements.





Good luck with the diet!
All recipes cooked with fresh ingredients are low sodium as long as you don't add salt. It's the canned and packaged box food that is high in sodium. It is listed right on the label in mg per serving (remember to double the serving size for the average man).
http://www.healthcastle.com/high-blood-p…
Just break it down by serving size. Each label says how much sodium per serving. Basically no pre-made foods. Everything from scratch. Also don't buy those cook books basically they have all the same types of recipes in them but they just don't have salt in the ingredient list. So either leave out the salt or use a little bit of a salt sub. Also read every label. Buy no salt added canned veggies such as tomatoes, corn, peas, and green benans. There is sodium where you wouldn't think there is.





Here is something I have put together to share with other heart patients at my clinic.





Also you can e-mail me at kruisin_82@hotmail.com if you have any other questions.


My name is Krizinne and I am currently on the heart-transplant waiting list. When I was first diagnosed with cardio-myopathy, I was told I would have to follow a low sodium diet. I like my junk food and that includes salt, and at first I thought that basically all I could eat was fresh or frozen fruits and veggies, and pasta and rice (no salt in those items) so even though I craved salt I didn’t eat anything that contained salt unless it was naturally found there (i.e. carrots, milk celery etc…). This led to me breaking down and pigging out on junk food. That was when I realized that I could eat some of my old favorites I just had to eat it in a serving size that was with-in my diet guidelines. (200 mg a day -500 for breakfast, 500 for lunch, 500 for dinner, and 500 for a snack in there somewhere). I bought a small and cheap kitchen scale to weigh out my servings of chips, put them in snack sized baggie and write out the amount of sodium in that serving. That allowed me to treat my self occasionally to a junk food snack and has helped to keep me from just eating too much sodium.





I also like to cook so I started looking around on the internet and in stores for low or no sodium foods. I started making some of my favorite foods/dishes but with lower sodium amounts. I like to cook and play so it was and continues to be a fun challenge. There are a lot of no or low salt cook books but basically when I thumbed through them they have just omitted the salt from the recipe and that seemed pretty obvious to me. Pretty much everything is good when tweaked with other spices/seasonings to add more flavor and less salt. Some dishes just don’t taste right with out the salt in them so when you do add extra salt you need to keep track of how much sodium is in the dish and then figure out how much there is in each serving. Then there are some things that have so much sodium in the regular version, that a reduced sodium variety doesn’t taste all that different. (Hot dogs, some chips, salsa etc…) And then some items are low or reduced sodium and even though it may be half the sodium there is still a lot there. These things include soy sauce, teriyaki sauce and some reduced sodium soups, and broths/bullion. Just use these with caution.





The first thing to remember when you start eating low sodium is look on the label on Everything you plan to eat. Carrots, celery and a few other veggies do already have a little salt naturally but are not too bad. There is also sodium in bread, milk, cereal, yogurt, cottage cheese, other cheeses as well eggs, soda’s, hydrating drinks (Gatorade, PowerAde etc…) baking supplies (baking soda, baking powder, and self rising flour) etc… Almost everything that has different flavors or brands have different amounts of sodium per serving and sometimes the Name brand is better and sometimes the store brand has less sodium. Remember to stick to the serving size to make sure you only eat what you are allowed to in your diet. One of my fav pre-made items is macaroni and cheese in a box. Some store brands are much lower, so I eat my serving out of a measuring cup and finish with fruit and veggies. Also so diet type freezer meals are just about 500 mg of sodium per box, so you can still have that convenience stuff in the freezer.








Here are some neat websites that you can order low sodium or no salt food, and ingredients to make other yummy stuff.





www.healthyheartmarket.com





www.livinglowsodium.com





www.heartwisefood.com





This is a web-site where you can check the nutrition facts of your favorite chain restraints. This is very handy to see what you should and shouldn’t order.





http://www.fastfood.com/nutrition/defaul…





And this one is an interesting site. It is a “eat this not that” site that shows your best option out of a couple of different choices. You can also sign up for an “eat this not that” newsletter by e-mail. The site is http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/20-Sal…





The following are items I have purchased in a store or online and most of them I like a lot. Some products are different to get used to at first and some are just better if you mix it with something else to provide more flavor.








SEASONINGS:





Kirkland seasoned salt found at Costco 170 mg of sodium p