Salt Shaker! Do You Taste Your Food or Just Start Shaking??

....Hi maezee, Now that is a very good motto to adopt, "too much salt makes it disgusting". If I can get that into my head, perhaps I would use less salt and do myself a big favor. You are doing a very, very sensible thing. Not dealing with a salt shaker all the time. You are treating your body well, but I am sure you are aware of that. So kudos to you for being kind to yourself. Did you read the alert? We will be paid double today for our postings, the 22nd. Thanks for your comment.

I know a lot of people (my mother included) that use so much salt they can't taste anything else. I know when I eat her food all I can taste is salt. She knows I don't use it so she tries to not use so much when I will be eating there but sometimes it's a suprise. She has high blood pressure also and shouldn't be eating it.

...Hi cerebellum, As with your mother, there are many people with high blood pressure and eating so salt only makes the problem worse. If only all of us would learn that salt is not our friend, we would be so much better off. But sadly we go on day after day, shaking that salt shaker and hurting ourselves in the whole process. I have promised myself that I am going to change and change fast. Take care.

...Hi cerebellum, Well you are just about the smartest person around :o). You are helping yourself tremendously by what you are doing. It's over now and he's your ex, but it was the way he had conditioned his taste buds, it wasn't your cooking. We tend to think that the salt makes the food better, it doesn't, the salt mars the taste of the food and we are eating, the stupid salt and not the food. Shame, because the salt probably contributed to his condition. Take it easy and keep up your smart practices. Take care.

...Hi faeryoftheshire1, you said it, too much salt can turn it into something you should toss out instead of eating. That is a waste. I should change my ways and I am making a promise to myself, because I need to do, to try to not even buy salt. If it is not in the house then I can't use it. Re-conditioning is the word. Take care and thanks so much for your comment.

...There you go happy, thst's why you are happy. :o) As I said earlier on here, I am in effect consuming too much salt with my terrible habit, so I am going to ease into using less salt on my food, trying to get my taste buds to adjust, then I am going to try to forget to buy salt when I run out in a litle while. I know I am going to suffer, as I did when I stopped buying sugar, so I am going to have to psyche myself up here in some way. Going to be fun I'm sure. Take care. Oh yes, you probably read the alert, but we will be paid double for our postings today, the 22nd. Thanks for your comment.

..Hi babyfiona08, You make excellent points. What I have just decided to do, as I have been reading everyone's comments is to quit the practice I have of salting and then tasting. In fact as I said here before, I am going to try to stop buying salt, I stopped buying sugar, so I am going to tackle salt, and just see if I can win the battle with my taste buds screaming for the salt. It's worth a try, see how far we get. Thanks for your comment and suggestion. We are getting paid double today. Take care.

....rene12, hi, what a nice person you are. To pay a compliment to your friends and relatives by not putting salt on your food. I am tempted to ask you if you have eaten something cooked by your friends which tasted very bad but you ate it anyway to please them? :o) That would be so interesting for me to know. Did you read the alert? We will be paid double today, the 22nd for our postings. Pass it on. Take it easy. Thanks for your reply.

...Hi CharRay7, So do many of us and that is where we find the problem. At least you using Morton's Lite Salt and trying to help yourself. I think I am going to make a promise to myself that when this box of salt that I have in my kitchen runs out, I will not buy another box. I will see how long I can not buy or use salt.:o) You are funny. By the way, did you read the alert, we will be paid double for our postings today, the 22nd. Pass it on. Take care. Thanks.

...Hi uicbear, First, did you read the alert? We will be paid double today, the 22nd for our postings? Pass it on. You are one of the smarter ones, that is what we all should do and for sure if we did, we would consume less salt. It is a very bad habit, not just not tasting the food first, but just putting salt on our food period. For some reason a lot of us have decided that our food tastes better when we empty the salt shaker on it. We should try, me first, to retrain our taste buds to like unsalted food, it would be a new and very healthy experience. Your dad was hsving a fight with his taste buds which I can understand. Take care of yourself. Thanks for your comment.

...Hi jewels49, I think, though I do it all the time, it is a very bad habit. After I do it and taste the food which is sometimes too salty, I get angry at myself but the next time I do it again. Got to try to stop. I think we think food tastes better, but if we continued not to put the salt on our food tastes buds would adjust I do believe and our food would probably taste okay. Try putting a little note on the salt shaker, big letters, "THINK!" It may help your husband. Take care. By the way, did you read the alert, we will be paid double today, the 22nd, for our postings. Take care. Thanks for your comment.

..Hi olisaur, That would be the sensible thing to do, taste if first to see if there is salt needed. Actully if we could force ourselves to retrain our taste buds to like unsalted food, it would be a good thing, I would think in the long run. But surely a hard one, as we have conditioned ourselves and our taste buds to like the taste of salt on our food. I think I mentioned to you about the fact that we will be paid double today, the 22nd for our postings, forgive the redundancy if I did. Take care. Thanks for commenting.