My Low-Sodium, 3-Ring Binder
Oct. 10th, 2018 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayIn order to consolidate the inroads I've recently made, towards a more healthy lifestyle, I've started a loose leaf binder with recipes I've tried, products I've found, information I've gathered. That was one of the things that I worked on today, along with finding something I could try this evening--in the time I had left to get groceries and make dinner.
But among the things I've learned--simply by reading labels--is that the plain white bread, which had been a staple of breakfast, lunch, and dinner when I was growing up, was adding 240 mg of sodium to my daily intake every time I made a sandwich of it. That's against an allowable total of 1500 mg per day.
Which may not sound like much until you realize that a slice of toast for breakfast, plus a sandwich for lunch, plus a slice of bread with dinner is the equivalent of one-third of my daily allowance of sodium. The other two-thirds being accounted for by, say, a single container of the ready-made organic soup from the local grocery, which I sometimes had for my evening meal. Topped with about two-thirds of a pack of Saltine crackers.
Which would put me WELL over the top if I at nothing else for the rest of the day. Which, of course, was not what I typically did. And much of what I ate in the interim, much of what MOST of us eat, was loaded with sodium.
And so, at 2:30 AM, having awakened to use the bathroom, I sat up and continued the research I'd started on bread machines. And by the time I had to get up again, I'd decided on make, model, and seller on Amazon and put my order in. That was around 5:30 AM and when I got back up for the day, around 7:30, I was ready to put 3 or 4 low-sodium bread recipes, which I'd also been researching, into my binder.
BTW, the 3 or 4 I'd decided on, while otherwise unremarkable in terms of nutrition, all came in at less than 10 mg per slice. And that's just a starting point, identifying and trying out recipes that are quite basic and fool-proof while learning the ins and outs of the new machine when it gets here.
Now, dinner tonight, that was another story and one that I'll save for sometime when I've gotten more that 5 hours of sleep the previous night. For now, lets just say that it left me, um, not hungry, but not satisfied either.
Hope everyone has a good night...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.10.2018
But among the things I've learned--simply by reading labels--is that the plain white bread, which had been a staple of breakfast, lunch, and dinner when I was growing up, was adding 240 mg of sodium to my daily intake every time I made a sandwich of it. That's against an allowable total of 1500 mg per day.
Which may not sound like much until you realize that a slice of toast for breakfast, plus a sandwich for lunch, plus a slice of bread with dinner is the equivalent of one-third of my daily allowance of sodium. The other two-thirds being accounted for by, say, a single container of the ready-made organic soup from the local grocery, which I sometimes had for my evening meal. Topped with about two-thirds of a pack of Saltine crackers.
Which would put me WELL over the top if I at nothing else for the rest of the day. Which, of course, was not what I typically did. And much of what I ate in the interim, much of what MOST of us eat, was loaded with sodium.
And so, at 2:30 AM, having awakened to use the bathroom, I sat up and continued the research I'd started on bread machines. And by the time I had to get up again, I'd decided on make, model, and seller on Amazon and put my order in. That was around 5:30 AM and when I got back up for the day, around 7:30, I was ready to put 3 or 4 low-sodium bread recipes, which I'd also been researching, into my binder.
BTW, the 3 or 4 I'd decided on, while otherwise unremarkable in terms of nutrition, all came in at less than 10 mg per slice. And that's just a starting point, identifying and trying out recipes that are quite basic and fool-proof while learning the ins and outs of the new machine when it gets here.
Now, dinner tonight, that was another story and one that I'll save for sometime when I've gotten more that 5 hours of sleep the previous night. For now, lets just say that it left me, um, not hungry, but not satisfied either.
Hope everyone has a good night...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.10.2018
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Date: 2018-10-22 08:27 pm (UTC)Oh yes, the required reading for shopping; my daughter gets annoyed as I'm reading labels, comparing ingredients, or putting something back.
I try to eliminate and limit the basic bad stuff - sodium, trans fats, corn syrup - and corn syrup is now often renamed something to sound more natural and okay. If I had more energy to put into our diet choices it would help us all but I do try to at least keep the worst choices out of the house.
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Date: 2018-10-24 02:25 am (UTC)LOL, the reason I know so much about "the worst choices," dietary and otherwise, is that I've made most of them. But, yeah, trying to take the time now to do a little better.
Hopefully the binder will help keep it all organized--as long as it doesn't end up buried under all the other books and papers that seem to trail after me in life...