Reduce your salt - use a salt mill
By shelagh77
@shelagh77 (3643)
July 19, 2007 12:57pm CST
If you are trying to reduce salt, or fighting a losing battle to encourage a family member to cut down on their salt, try using rock salt in a salt mill. It is much harder to get a lot of salt, because you have to keep twisting the mill as opposed to merely upturning the salt pot.
I have found this has worked in my family.
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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20 Nov 07
We have that here and it doesn't taste like salt over here lol. I am good, I don't use salt at all in the actual cooking and some meals I do not use salt at all, but if I do use salt, I use the mill. I think the salt tastes "softer" somehow too, it doesn't have that "bite" you get with the ordinary salt. Or maybe it is all in the mind, I don't know, but I do love my salt mill.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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22 Jan 08
Well to be honest I can't see much difference between the two mills but my partner assures me that there is a difference and so does the store, the pepper mill is more expensive than the salt mill :-) I am finding it easier to take less salt though, it doesn't just slush out of the nozzle, it has to be crunched with a bit of effort.
@rainbow (6761)
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20 Jul 07
Well done!
I rarely buy any salt, the last bag was at Christmas for the bread machine and most of that went on securing the home for the summer solstice. I put less in the bread now too and no-ones noticed, hee-hee. I never put any in my cooking and the only time it gets sprinkled on is at the chippy.
I grew up with low or no salt and really notice if anything has a lot of salt in it, mum was advised to cut salt out when I was about 8, if not before that and we got used to actually tasting the food rather than the seasoning. Shrek had to get used to it, but said he didn't mind, bless him.
This is a good money saving tip, as well as a healthy one! I know it can be hard to lower salt intake but a sly way like a tough salt grinder is brilliant.
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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20 Nov 07
You are right that you can cut down on salt without anyone noticing, I do that too :-) It is the salt they INSIST on pouring over the food you just spent all day cooking that does the damage.
I do enjoy salt on crisps, but I only buy them about once a month and it is a mixed flavour share bag so I only get about 2 bags then. One way of enjoying the flavour without going piggified lolol.
By the way, are you saying I am sly?
Moi????
:-)
@shelagh77 (3643)
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20 Nov 07
Personally I can't see much difference between the salt and pepper mills, but there is supposed to be one. I use rock salt and grind it down. When I can get the camera back from my partner I will try to get a photo on.
I should think a peppermill would be better than nothing at all for grinding. Can you actually get the rock salt where you are?
@jerritts1mom (816)
• United States
22 Jan 08
I have completely cut out the salt in my diet, but when I am cooking for guests I use a sea salt mill, I purchased it from a health food store.I have only seen rock salt come in the huge bags for making ice cream, is that type of salt even a healthy alternative,or is it just the amount that you can manage to grind what is helping your family cut back?
@Whisp1976 (488)
• United States
19 Jul 07
It's a good idea. Personally I use salt substitute because my husband has high blood pressure. He doesn't like the taste of it as much as real salt, but tough luck.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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20 Nov 07
I know, that stuff is pretty disgusting. My Father was supposed to use it too but he got on his mobility machine and bought his own salt! He used to put the stuff on his food and give such a glare, just waiting for you to say something. However, he had a stroke and was supposed to be terminal but he survived 16 years and it was only a car crash which finally carried him home.
I have high blood pressure so I wanted to reduce but not substitute. The grinder takes longer so I don't put so much on from that point of view and my doctor actually thinks I lower my salt dose per time I use it by 75%. Not perfect, but a sort of compromise.
