Breaking three months' quiet here to comment on the trickiness of labels and names of things...
I have here in front of me two cans of pasta sauce. One is Hunt's Thick & Rich Premium Pasta Sauce, Four Cheese flavour. The other is Primo Thick & Zesty, Original Recipe. I'm planning on making a stovetop lasagna for tonight's dinner, and wanted whichever of the two was lower in sodium since the additional ingredients in lasagna (like cheese) usually add some as well. (Although the last stovetop lasagna I made had hardly any cheese in it at all, because we had hardly any to use--and it turned out fine. So much for the gloppy restaurant versions.)
Anyway, which of the two would you guess would be lower in sodium? I'll let you think about it.
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The answer is: Thick & Rich Four Cheese. 480 mg sodium per half cup vs. 580 mg per the Thick & Zesty Original. Wouldn't you think the "four cheeses" would automatically make that one higher in sodium? Not if you can trust the labels.
Now I know you can mix either of those with unsalted tomato sauce, or unsalted tomatoes, or tomato paste, or whatever, and do all kinds of low-sodium tricks to lower the overall sodium content. Not a problem there. My point is just that you never can tell without reading the labels.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Globe and Mail sodium series continues
Here are some links from this week's paper:
Ask dietitian Leslie Beck
Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 03:45PM EDT – Salt: Hard to Shake
Ask a doctor
Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 03:46PM EDT – Salt: Hard to Shake
The taste of things to come
Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 07:12PM EDT – by Carly Weeks – Salt: Hard to Shake
As Canadians consume about 3,100 milligrams of sodium a day -- more than double the recommended intake -- food manufacturers are looking to slash the …
Salt this away
Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by Carolyn Bennett – Letters to the Editor
How Canada is losing the war on salt
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 09:32PM EDT – by André Picard – Salt: Hard to Shake
While other countries deal with the sodium threat, Ottawa has yet to produce a plan to reduce ‘the silent invader in our food supply'…
Don't pass the salt
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 07:10PM EDT – by Heather Sokoloff – Salt: Hard to Shake The Globe talks to some of the country's top food talents about their flavour-boosting tips and what home cooks can do to punch up the taste while cut…
Still married and salt-free
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by Zelda Ruth Harris – Letters to the Editor
Reach for citrus, spices and peppers instead
Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by HEATHER SOKOLOFF – Life
GOURMET V. IODIZED TABLE SALT
Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by CARLY WEEKS – Life
Ask dietitian Leslie Beck
Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 03:45PM EDT – Salt: Hard to Shake
Ask a doctor
Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 03:46PM EDT – Salt: Hard to Shake
The taste of things to come
Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 07:12PM EDT – by Carly Weeks – Salt: Hard to Shake
As Canadians consume about 3,100 milligrams of sodium a day -- more than double the recommended intake -- food manufacturers are looking to slash the …
Salt this away
Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by Carolyn Bennett – Letters to the Editor
How Canada is losing the war on salt
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 09:32PM EDT – by André Picard – Salt: Hard to Shake
While other countries deal with the sodium threat, Ottawa has yet to produce a plan to reduce ‘the silent invader in our food supply'…
Don't pass the salt
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 07:10PM EDT – by Heather Sokoloff – Salt: Hard to Shake The Globe talks to some of the country's top food talents about their flavour-boosting tips and what home cooks can do to punch up the taste while cut…
Still married and salt-free
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by Zelda Ruth Harris – Letters to the Editor
Reach for citrus, spices and peppers instead
Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by HEATHER SOKOLOFF – Life
GOURMET V. IODIZED TABLE SALT
Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 12:00AM EDT – by CARLY WEEKS – Life
Monday, June 22, 2009
The Globe and Mail sodium series
The Globe and Mail is running a series on hidden salt and the problems of trying to cut sodium in your diet--oh, like we hadn't noticed that it's really hard? Of course it's not as simple as "Don't add salt to the vegetables." Here's their article "Salt: Hard to Shake."
Thankfully, Mr. Fixit's current diet recommendations are just to "take it easy on salt"--meaning, watch out for things like convenience foods, soy sauce, the real bad stuff. He is still trying to be careful by comparing labels, and choosing the frozen fries that are lowest in sodium (the generic ones, oddly enough), Shredded Wheat over higher-sodium cereals, and so on. But that is not nearly so hard as the 1500 mg per day he was trying to do six months ago.
Anyway, here are the Globe and Mail Sodium Diaries--someone "taking the challenge." Here's a video--yes, the first bit is a commercial for accountants. Here's a quiz to take. And here's a "salt-o-meter" you can play with.
Thankfully, Mr. Fixit's current diet recommendations are just to "take it easy on salt"--meaning, watch out for things like convenience foods, soy sauce, the real bad stuff. He is still trying to be careful by comparing labels, and choosing the frozen fries that are lowest in sodium (the generic ones, oddly enough), Shredded Wheat over higher-sodium cereals, and so on. But that is not nearly so hard as the 1500 mg per day he was trying to do six months ago.
Anyway, here are the Globe and Mail Sodium Diaries--someone "taking the challenge." Here's a video--yes, the first bit is a commercial for accountants. Here's a quiz to take. And here's a "salt-o-meter" you can play with.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Italpasta Diced Tomatoes, No-Salt
Last week our local paper ran a recipe that included "no-salt canned diced tomatoes." I thought, yeah right--I've been looking since last September and haven't seen any around here.
On Saturday we went to the independent supermarket, and, lo and behold, there they were. Italpasta Diced Tomatoes, no-salt version, in 28-oz. cans, for 99 cents apiece.
So maybe I'll dig out that recipe out of the recycling bin after all.
On Saturday we went to the independent supermarket, and, lo and behold, there they were. Italpasta Diced Tomatoes, no-salt version, in 28-oz. cans, for 99 cents apiece.
So maybe I'll dig out that recipe out of the recycling bin after all.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Low-Sodium Cookbook, bargain priced
For those of you in Canada: Hampstead House Books in Toronto, a great remaindered/overstock mail order business, is currently offering Donald A. Gazzaniga's The No-Salt Lowest-Sodium Light Meals Book for $5.99 Canadian (plus GST and shipping). You can order it online here.
Good deal!
Good deal!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Ouch, this one is a no-go
I clicked on this recipe via a frugal-meal website.
Um, no. Check the nutrition box and then realize that the sodium count doesn't even include the dry salad dressing mix. Yikes. Heart-attack-in-a-Crockpot.
Mr. Fixit's nutritionist recently upped his sodium allowance--apparently because of some current controversy over just how much low-sodium diets do or don't help CHF.
Even with a bit more salt on the menu, though, I don't think that recipe's even a candidate for a makeover.
Oh well--there are other things to eat.
Um, no. Check the nutrition box and then realize that the sodium count doesn't even include the dry salad dressing mix. Yikes. Heart-attack-in-a-Crockpot.
Mr. Fixit's nutritionist recently upped his sodium allowance--apparently because of some current controversy over just how much low-sodium diets do or don't help CHF.
Even with a bit more salt on the menu, though, I don't think that recipe's even a candidate for a makeover.
Oh well--there are other things to eat.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Online low-sodium recipes
Reminder to self: even when all the library books have been returned, there are still lots of low-sodium recipes online. Sometimes it feels like we're always re-inventing the wheel, so it's nice to have an online "cookbook" to go and browse in.
Friday, January 16, 2009
One post, lots of ideas
Please, Don't Pass the Salt is trying to use up some cottage cheese (I'm envious, the no-salt stuff we have here is the texture of cotton wads).
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
SPAM in the place where you live...
(It's from a Weird Al song, in case you didn't know)
The DHM beat me to this Globe and Mail story about economically-stressed Canadians stocking up on canned stuff.
Yeah, Mama Squirrel is scratching her furry little head over this story too. We're kind of out of the loop on some of this stuff anyway, due both to Mr. Fixit's diet limitations and the fact that canned soup went way up in price this past year. But really--even in the tough times, there are other things to eat than That Stuff in the Can.
The DHM beat me to this Globe and Mail story about economically-stressed Canadians stocking up on canned stuff.
Yeah, Mama Squirrel is scratching her furry little head over this story too. We're kind of out of the loop on some of this stuff anyway, due both to Mr. Fixit's diet limitations and the fact that canned soup went way up in price this past year. But really--even in the tough times, there are other things to eat than That Stuff in the Can.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Macaroni and cheese--legally
Please, Don't Pass the Salt has posted detailed instructions for cutting the sodium in homemade macaroni and cheese.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Hey, we could do this: Maple Dijon Chicken
A recipe from A Year of Crockpotting that could easily be made low-sodium (depends on your broth).
(But I forgot to get bay leaves too!)
(But I forgot to get bay leaves too!)
Ruby's Lemon Delight: Sodium Count
I did the math on Ruby's Lemon Delight and there seem to be two factors that would make it either a yes or a no: the graham crumbs, and how big a piece you eat.
No-salt margarine, brown and white sugar, and the lemon add up to about 1 mg sodium.
A 370 can of 2% evaporated milk contains 370 mg sodium. (That was easy.)
A 4-serving box of lemon gelatin powder contains 400 mg (at least the brand I bought).
But 2 cups of graham cracker crumbs adds up to 1600 mg sodium. (UPDATE: I forgot to say that then if you cut the dessert in 8 servings (as written), each serving has roughly 300 mg of sodium. Cut in 10, each serving would have about 237 mg sodium.)
So your choices are: go with it and have a little piece; reduce the amount of crumbs (which you could do--see below); or use another kind of crumbs. I've only made this recipe a couple of times and never tried substituting; but the Sodium Count of Common Foods lists "cookie crumbs" at almost half the sodium of graham crumbs. I assume they mean something like 'Nilla Wafer crumbs? Or Arrowroot? Or homemade low-sodium cookie crumbs? (You could try Donald Gazzaniga's Homemade Low-sodium Graham Crackers too.)
You could reduce the amount of crumbs by using only the bottom part, and skipping the part you put aside for topping. Or you could just make a thinner bottom layer of crumbs--use, say, 1 1/2 cups total crumbs rather than 2 cups, and cut the butter and brown sugar a bit. I think that would turn out about as well.
Or just have a bit, and don't make a habit of it.
(P.S. Interesting: while searching for "graham crackers"+sodium, I came across a cardiac-care website that lists graham crackers as one of the acceptable snack foods on a low-salt diet. Some things I will just never understand.)
No-salt margarine, brown and white sugar, and the lemon add up to about 1 mg sodium.
A 370 can of 2% evaporated milk contains 370 mg sodium. (That was easy.)
A 4-serving box of lemon gelatin powder contains 400 mg (at least the brand I bought).
But 2 cups of graham cracker crumbs adds up to 1600 mg sodium. (UPDATE: I forgot to say that then if you cut the dessert in 8 servings (as written), each serving has roughly 300 mg of sodium. Cut in 10, each serving would have about 237 mg sodium.)
So your choices are: go with it and have a little piece; reduce the amount of crumbs (which you could do--see below); or use another kind of crumbs. I've only made this recipe a couple of times and never tried substituting; but the Sodium Count of Common Foods lists "cookie crumbs" at almost half the sodium of graham crumbs. I assume they mean something like 'Nilla Wafer crumbs? Or Arrowroot? Or homemade low-sodium cookie crumbs? (You could try Donald Gazzaniga's Homemade Low-sodium Graham Crackers too.)
You could reduce the amount of crumbs by using only the bottom part, and skipping the part you put aside for topping. Or you could just make a thinner bottom layer of crumbs--use, say, 1 1/2 cups total crumbs rather than 2 cups, and cut the butter and brown sugar a bit. I think that would turn out about as well.
Or just have a bit, and don't make a habit of it.
(P.S. Interesting: while searching for "graham crackers"+sodium, I came across a cardiac-care website that lists graham crackers as one of the acceptable snack foods on a low-salt diet. Some things I will just never understand.)
Saturday, November 29, 2008
From the supermarket: No-salt pita bread
Store: independent supermarket
Product: Zeus Flat Greek Pita, 100% Whole Wheat, baked by Breadko National Baking Limited, Mississauga, Ontario. There's a website listed on the bag, but it just goes to an error message. There is a description on The Daily Plate, though.
Ingredient: Whole wheat flour, filtered water, yeast, canola oil, calcium propionate.
Sodium Count: 5 mg sodium per half pita.
Way to go, Breadko!
Product: Zeus Flat Greek Pita, 100% Whole Wheat, baked by Breadko National Baking Limited, Mississauga, Ontario. There's a website listed on the bag, but it just goes to an error message. There is a description on The Daily Plate, though.
Ingredient: Whole wheat flour, filtered water, yeast, canola oil, calcium propionate.
Sodium Count: 5 mg sodium per half pita.
Way to go, Breadko!
Menus for this week
500 Low Sodium Recipes had to go back to the library, so this week I'm working with some other recipes. These are the plans...again, I'm planning for more than one week, just in case things change or I need some emergency meals.
Saturday: Sloppy Joes (I've been trying to adapt our house favourite), salad/vegetable. ALREADY CHANGED: we found a good deal on chicken breasts, tortillas were still 99 cents a package, so we're going with chicken fajitas instead.
Sunday: the usual Sunday meat dinner, potatoes, vegetables. Lemon Delight...I haven't figured out the sodium count on this one, but I'm hoping it's not too bad if we use no-salt margarine and go easy on the graham crumbs. Check back on that one--I'll try to come up with a count.
Monday: Cheese ravioli and spaghetti sauce, salad
Tuesday: Salmon patties (using low-sodium saltines, no salt etc.), frozen french fries, frozen corn.
Wednesday: Crockpot falafel (adapted to be lower sodium), couscous, salad and chopped vegetables, mini pitas,yogurt, clementines, figs. You may notice we're not serving the falafel IN the pitas--last time I did that nobody here seemed to be interested. So I thought I'd just serve the patties along with some mini-pitas--maybe they can make mini-falafels! (UPDATE: I couldn't find mini-pitas but we did find low-sodium whole-wheat pitas, so I'll use those.)
Thursday: "Evan's Mom's Ground Chicken Skillet" (scroll down for recipe)--made with tomato paste and milk rather than canned soup. I haven't tried this yet without salt--I might add a bit of some other kind of seasoning.
Friday: Italian Rice-cheese balls, herbed bean and pepper stir-fry, cauliflower salad, oranges or other fruit, cookies. (This was a menu I clipped a long time ago from Vegetarian Times and made a few times for semi-special occasions; most of the dishes are already quite low in sodium, and if we can find a low-sodium mozzarella that works to stuff the balls with, we're home-free. Oh--I know--we could use mini bocconcini balls! I think this recipe is an adaptation of the one I use, but there's no sodium count given. Here's another from the VT site (more recent than my clipping); sodium count is fairly high.)
Saturday #2: Sweet-potato pancakes (like latkes; homemade seasoning mix and leave out the salt), sausages (not low-sodium--small piece), sauerkraut (low-sodium kind), applesauce
Sunday #2: Honey-mustard chicken or Applesauce Chicken, noodles, peas.
Monday #2: Beef-spinach tortillas (adapted), rice, salad
Saturday: Sloppy Joes (I've been trying to adapt our house favourite), salad/vegetable. ALREADY CHANGED: we found a good deal on chicken breasts, tortillas were still 99 cents a package, so we're going with chicken fajitas instead.
Sunday: the usual Sunday meat dinner, potatoes, vegetables. Lemon Delight...I haven't figured out the sodium count on this one, but I'm hoping it's not too bad if we use no-salt margarine and go easy on the graham crumbs. Check back on that one--I'll try to come up with a count.
Monday: Cheese ravioli and spaghetti sauce, salad
Tuesday: Salmon patties (using low-sodium saltines, no salt etc.), frozen french fries, frozen corn.
Wednesday: Crockpot falafel (adapted to be lower sodium), couscous, salad and chopped vegetables, mini pitas,yogurt, clementines, figs. You may notice we're not serving the falafel IN the pitas--last time I did that nobody here seemed to be interested. So I thought I'd just serve the patties along with some mini-pitas--maybe they can make mini-falafels! (UPDATE: I couldn't find mini-pitas but we did find low-sodium whole-wheat pitas, so I'll use those.)
Thursday: "Evan's Mom's Ground Chicken Skillet" (scroll down for recipe)--made with tomato paste and milk rather than canned soup. I haven't tried this yet without salt--I might add a bit of some other kind of seasoning.
Friday: Italian Rice-cheese balls, herbed bean and pepper stir-fry, cauliflower salad, oranges or other fruit, cookies. (This was a menu I clipped a long time ago from Vegetarian Times and made a few times for semi-special occasions; most of the dishes are already quite low in sodium, and if we can find a low-sodium mozzarella that works to stuff the balls with, we're home-free. Oh--I know--we could use mini bocconcini balls! I think this recipe is an adaptation of the one I use, but there's no sodium count given. Here's another from the VT site (more recent than my clipping); sodium count is fairly high.)
Saturday #2: Sweet-potato pancakes (like latkes; homemade seasoning mix and leave out the salt), sausages (not low-sodium--small piece), sauerkraut (low-sodium kind), applesauce
Sunday #2: Honey-mustard chicken or Applesauce Chicken, noodles, peas.
Monday #2: Beef-spinach tortillas (adapted), rice, salad
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Dinner menus for this week
Most of this week's recipes are coming (again) from Dick Logue's 500 Low Sodium Recipes. I didn't plan the menus before we went shopping; we did it backwards this week, went shopping, picked up what we needed and what looked good, and decided what to do with it afterwards.
Sunday:
Pork chops & low-sodium sauerkraut, potatoes (either plain baked or instant mashed), butternut squash, bean salad (frozen beans, green pepper, kidney beans, homemade dressing), homemade pumpernickel bread, cookies, grapes. [Comment on the bean salad recipe: I used only half the recommended amount of Europe's Best green and yellow beans--otherwise it would have been way too much for us. I also left out the onion.]
Monday:
Frozen cheese ravioli, tomato sauce, salad, maybe garlic breadsticks. I was going to make Creamy Mushroom Sauce (p. 316) but realized I bought only enough mushrooms for the Pork Stew--so we'll try that another time on something that doesn't already have cheese in it.
Tuesday:
Baked fish, fries, peas, Pineapple Coleslaw (apple, green pepper, shredded cabbage, shredded carrot, crushed pineapple, vinegar, sugar)
Wednesday:
Chicken Chow Mein (chicken breasts, frozen vegetables, chicken broth, soy sauce substitute, cornstarch, water chestnuts (optional)); rice.
Thursday:
Hot dogs, canned baked beans, leftovers
Friday:
Pork Stew (pork, can no-salt tomatoes, onion, peppers, chicken broth, mushrooms, flour, seasonings); fusilli (spiral macaroni); Pineapple Sherbet (leftover pineapple and bananas, frozen and put through the food processor)
Saturday:
Beef Burritos (double the recipe) (ground beef, onion, green pepper, kidney beans, tortillas, sour cream cheese, seasonings); rice, salad, ice cream and bananas
Sunday:
Pork chops & low-sodium sauerkraut, potatoes (either plain baked or instant mashed), butternut squash, bean salad (frozen beans, green pepper, kidney beans, homemade dressing), homemade pumpernickel bread, cookies, grapes. [Comment on the bean salad recipe: I used only half the recommended amount of Europe's Best green and yellow beans--otherwise it would have been way too much for us. I also left out the onion.]
Monday:
Frozen cheese ravioli, tomato sauce, salad, maybe garlic breadsticks. I was going to make Creamy Mushroom Sauce (p. 316) but realized I bought only enough mushrooms for the Pork Stew--so we'll try that another time on something that doesn't already have cheese in it.
Tuesday:
Baked fish, fries, peas, Pineapple Coleslaw (apple, green pepper, shredded cabbage, shredded carrot, crushed pineapple, vinegar, sugar)
Wednesday:
Chicken Chow Mein (chicken breasts, frozen vegetables, chicken broth, soy sauce substitute, cornstarch, water chestnuts (optional)); rice.
Thursday:
Hot dogs, canned baked beans, leftovers
Friday:
Pork Stew (pork, can no-salt tomatoes, onion, peppers, chicken broth, mushrooms, flour, seasonings); fusilli (spiral macaroni); Pineapple Sherbet (leftover pineapple and bananas, frozen and put through the food processor)
Saturday:
Beef Burritos (double the recipe) (ground beef, onion, green pepper, kidney beans, tortillas, sour cream cheese, seasonings); rice, salad, ice cream and bananas
From the health-food store: vegetable bouillon cubes
Product: Harvest Sun Low Sodium vegetable bouillon cubes
Ingredients: (Low Sodium): Organic starch (potato, corn), yeast extract, organic non-hydrogenated palm oil, organic carrots, organic leeks, organic onions, organic lovage, organic celery leaves, organic parsley, organic garlic, organic nutmeg.
Specs: (Low-Sodium): Serving size: 1/2 cube Servings per Container: 12 Calories: 20Carbohydrates: 2.5g Fat: 0.9g Sodium: 89mg Sugars: 0g Fiber: 0.2g Protein: 0.8g
Upside: This has an even better sodium count than the Rapunzel brand that Healthy Heart Market carries. (Rapunzel has 101 mg sodium per half cube, which should make 1 cup of broth.) Also, all Harvest Sun cubes are MSG-free and gluten-free.
Downside: kind of expensive. I didn't buy any--decided to think about it first. Also the low-sodium variety comes only in vegetable flavour, not chicken or beef.
Ingredients: (Low Sodium): Organic starch (potato, corn), yeast extract, organic non-hydrogenated palm oil, organic carrots, organic leeks, organic onions, organic lovage, organic celery leaves, organic parsley, organic garlic, organic nutmeg.
Specs: (Low-Sodium): Serving size: 1/2 cube Servings per Container: 12 Calories: 20Carbohydrates: 2.5g Fat: 0.9g Sodium: 89mg Sugars: 0g Fiber: 0.2g Protein: 0.8g
Upside: This has an even better sodium count than the Rapunzel brand that Healthy Heart Market carries. (Rapunzel has 101 mg sodium per half cube, which should make 1 cup of broth.) Also, all Harvest Sun cubes are MSG-free and gluten-free.
Downside: kind of expensive. I didn't buy any--decided to think about it first. Also the low-sodium variety comes only in vegetable flavour, not chicken or beef.
From the supermarket: Taco Rio Tortillas
We found Taco Rio brand whole-wheat tortillas on sale today for 99 cents a package, and snapped up four packages.
Product: Taco Rio 100% Whole Wheat tortillas
Sodium count: 154 mg sodium per 7" tortilla (about the same as the Weight Watcher's kind we couldn't find last week)
This is one of those places where you want to watch which variety you're getting. Taco Rio also makes a low-fat white-flour version with 242 mg sodium per tortilla; that's the same sodium count as their regular white-flour tortillas.
Product: Taco Rio 100% Whole Wheat tortillas
Sodium count: 154 mg sodium per 7" tortilla (about the same as the Weight Watcher's kind we couldn't find last week)
This is one of those places where you want to watch which variety you're getting. Taco Rio also makes a low-fat white-flour version with 242 mg sodium per tortilla; that's the same sodium count as their regular white-flour tortillas.
From the supermarket: Country Harvest Plus Bread
I noticed that Country Harvest 100% Whole Grain Plus bread has only 120 mg sodium per slice.
There's more information about the bread on the Country Harvest site. (Hard to find an actual nutrition box there, though.)
If you click on their products, the website says that they've also reduced the sodium in some of their other breads--might be worth looking into!
There's more information about the bread on the Country Harvest site. (Hard to find an actual nutrition box there, though.)
If you click on their products, the website says that they've also reduced the sodium in some of their other breads--might be worth looking into!
From the supermarket: No-name Crinkle Cut Fries
Store: independent supermarket
Product: No-name Crinkle Cut French Fried Potatoes
Sodium count: 45 mg per 16 pieces; not quite as good as the shoestring fries we bought previously, but not bad (it kind of makes sense anyway, because the fries are bigger)
If you click on that link to TheDailyPlate.com, you'll be shown a box where you can request the names of "lower sodium alternatives." I clicked, and this is what it came up with--my laugh for the day.
"Tip: Try one of these other items from No Name instead of the Crinkle Cut French Fried Potatoes to consume less sodium.
Frozen Vegetables, Italian-Style(45mg less sodium)
Chocolate Hazelnut Spread(45mg less sodium)
Ice Pop(45mg less sodium)
Sugar Cone(45mg less sodium)"
Nutella is tasty, but I don't know if it's really a substitute for french fries!
Product: No-name Crinkle Cut French Fried Potatoes
Sodium count: 45 mg per 16 pieces; not quite as good as the shoestring fries we bought previously, but not bad (it kind of makes sense anyway, because the fries are bigger)
If you click on that link to TheDailyPlate.com, you'll be shown a box where you can request the names of "lower sodium alternatives." I clicked, and this is what it came up with--my laugh for the day.
"Tip: Try one of these other items from No Name instead of the Crinkle Cut French Fried Potatoes to consume less sodium.
Frozen Vegetables, Italian-Style(45mg less sodium)
Chocolate Hazelnut Spread(45mg less sodium)
Ice Pop(45mg less sodium)
Sugar Cone(45mg less sodium)"
Nutella is tasty, but I don't know if it's really a substitute for french fries!
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