What is the best way to reduce salt if we've accidentally put more salt in our food?
Well because of a recent CHF, I’ve had to reduce my sodium intake. So I can directly address some strategies regarding food and salt.The biggest recommendation is to reduce eating out. Period. Restaurants, ready-to-eat foods, and fast food places make their foods taste better with “seasonings.” Those seasonings are primarily salt. Some restaurants will try to accommodate you by cooking to order. Many of them cannot because of the pre-prepared ingredients.If you cannot eat out, then the only alternative is to cook for yourself, right? That makes it easy. Don’t put salt into your food. And when you buy food, buy no-salt-added ingredients. Tomato sauce, for example, usually comes in salt and no-salt versions.If you cook your dishes yourself, you can control how much salt makes it into your food.But, you say, when you do that the food tastes soooo bland. You do not have to eliminate the salt, you could reduce it. But if your goal is to eliminate it here are some good (but not perfect) alternatives:Balsamic vinegar. My favorite substitute. I use extra vecchio, 25-year aged Modena balsamic. Use it on pork chops instead of salt and you’ll find it is just as delicious.Lemon juice. Especially on fish and chicken dishes. It adds flavor that tends to replace the saltiness that you miss.Sugar. The idea here is to replace saltiness with sweetness (and hopefully you’re not diabetic too). For pork ribs and roasts, replacing salt with sugar works really well.No-salt seasoning like Mrs. Dash. They do all the hard work for you making a blend of seasonings that tastes pretty good and contain no saltAs a salt-conscious person, let me add one more comment. There really is no ideal substitute for salt. The best you can hope for is compromise.
CHEFS -- How much salt should I add to soup water?
put your finger into the soup towards the end of cooking. dont add salt now, because the soup is going to reduce some. the soup should be flavorful but not overly salty.
Does eating food that contains water count towards your daily water intake?
If i eat fruit that has water in it, say if i had enough apples and oranges with water percentages adding up to 10 ounces of water, would that count towards the 9 glasses a day that I need? If i ate a can of tomato soup (1 can of tomato sauce and 1 can of water) would that 1 can of water in the soup be considered a cup of water toward my fluid intake?
Can we heat V8 Vegetable Juice to make hot soup?
Yes! Here is the recipe for V8 Beef Soup <<<<<< V8 Beef Soup >>>>>> cooking time 60 mins+ Serving : 4 600 g Beef (cut into a few pieces) 1 onion, sliced 1/4 cabbage (cut into 4 quarters) 3 stalks of celery (cut into 2 inches long) 1 carrot, cut into cubes 2 tablespoons of butter 2 cloves of garlic 800 cc of V8 vegetable juice 1 litre of water 2 tablespoon of cooking wine (optional) salt & pepper 1) Boil water in a stock pot. 2) Heat a sauce pan with some cooking oil, melt butter in the pan, stir fry the onion and garlic over medium heat till fragrant, add beef into the sauce pan, stir fry quickly then pour wine in the pan, stir fry for 1 minute 3) Add the cabbage, celery, carrot and the beef mixture into the boiling water, then add V8 into the pot, bring to boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 40 minutes to 1 hour, stir occasionally 4) Add salt and pepper to taste, serve hot.
How much water for chicken noodle soup?
It has to be enough to cover the chicken and everything in the pot. ##########@ I like to use Yellow curry + Salt & Pepper
Would removing broth from Ramen Noodles reduce sodium?
I was reading the back label on the packaging of the Ramen Noodles and the sodium level is in the sky, I was wondering if after the noodles were done cooking would throwing out the broth and just eat the noodles alone would that reduce the sodium intake? Or are the noodles themself the ones with the high level of sodium.
Does adding water to a drink or food lower the calories, sugar & other nutritional content?
It depends how you go about this. If you take a can of something, let’s say you have a 250ml can of soda. You pour that into a glass and add 250ml of water. At the end of the day you are consuming 500ml of liquid, but still getting all the calories, sugar, etc, in the 250ml can of soda. It might take you 5 minutes to drink all of it rather than 2 minutes, but you’re still consuming the same amount of nutritional value.But let’s add some more variables. Maybe, throughout a period of time you drink half a liter of liquid. Now, instead of consuming 2x250ml cans of soda, you have only consumed a single 250ml can of soda and replaced the other 250ml with water. Overall, you have reduced your calorie intake.Looking at this another way… let’s say during an afternoon you usually drink 1 liter of liquid. You usually opt to drink 1 liter of soda. Now, you decide to dilute every glass 1/2 soda and 1/2 water, and you still consume 1 liter of liquid. Again, you have reduced your overall calorie intake by half while consuming the same amount of liquid.
Can coriander and lemon reduce weight?
Hi Sangeeta,I answer so many questions on requests made here everyday. But, your question is more a stress buster to me. Coriander wow… Lemon another wow…Let me first tell you that yes! These foods do help you in weight loss.How?Coriander is the best natural chelating agent. Chelating agent means it is the best thing that cleanses the body of heavy metals and toxins. There is probably no better cleanser than coriander.Coriander is also a rich source of magnesium. It also contains a good quantity of Vitamin B especially folic acid. You must be thinking why am I giving you all these descriptions when you asked about weight loss. Actually all these things are very essential for proper burning of glucose.The energy molecule of the body cannot be made unless magnesium is available to be attached with it. Therefore for the energy to burn (glucose) magnesium is absolutely important. It has also been seen that when you start burning the glucose, reactive oxygen species are produced which needs to be quenched. This function is done by anti oxidants. Coriander is a great source.Similarly, Lemon. Some of my patients take up to 25 lemons per day for a few days depending on their condition. It is just amazing. It can heal almost all problems in the body to whatever extent depending in the problem. Some patients it has been found that it can reduce sudden rise in glucose very well. Infections needs vitamin c to get cured. Lemon is the most easy source.Some tips:You can get huge quantities of coriander and mint. Pluck them and wash them. Add lot of water and grind them in a mixture. Filter them tto get the juice. Drink the juice with lemon and salt. It will taste like pani puri water. And I know girls are crazy about it. Take at least 2 glasses a day.The ramins of the fitrate, should be put back in the mixer grinder and some more coriander and mint should be added. Add some salt and lime to it. Also some green chillies. You may add onion and tomato to taste as well. Add little water and grind to make chutney. Eat a bowl full of chutney 3 times a day.This will set right a lot if problems in the body which are not visible outside.CheersNikhil