Rosie's Favorite Lower Sodium Food List

Happy & Healthy 2023! 

My New Year's resolution is to start a personal list of my favorite low sodium, prepared foods, on my preciouscooking.blogspot.com blog, as sometimes I am too tired to cook food from scratch. Note the serving size when checking the sodium on the label. I like to check the number of servings in the product.

I don't like to bake bread in the hot summer and have had problems finding a low sodium bread that I liked. The brands that I like include some loaves of ,"Daves" and "Ezekial" In Dave's the thin-sliced, organic, sweetner is organic fruit juices, Powerseed at 1 lb 4.5 oz has 90 mg of sodium per slice compared to other brands that very from 150-250 mg sodium per slice. The Ezekial bread that I lean to at the moment is their sprouted grain bread at 75 mg sodium per thin slice.

Dave's Bread

Sodium 90 mg/slice

fat 1.5 gram

protein 3 grams per slice

Ezekiel 4:9 Fourless Sprouted Grain Bread

Sodium 75 mg/slice

fat 0.5 gram

protein 5 grams per slice

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I found the pasta sauce by browsing the pasta section at my local Marc's. 

*** Francesco Rinaldi Original Recipe No Salt Added Homemade pasta sauce recipe. (green label) by LiDestri foods, Fairport, NY ***

 Per 1/2 cup: 

Sodium - 40mg 

Calories  - 60 per serving

Fat - 1g

Potassium - 490mg

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Kuner's No Salt Added Chili Beans: Original in Chili Sauce

KunersFoods.com

Sodium 10 mg per 1/2 cup serving,  15 ounce can 3 1/2 servings, total sodium in can 35 mg

Potassium 390 mg per serving

Protein 7 g per serving 

Fat 1 mg per serving

Other Kuner's No Salt Added beans about 5 mg per 1/2 cup serving

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V8, Low Sodium Original

Sodium 98mg per serving which is a small 5 fluid ounces can

Fat 0 g

Protein 1 g

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Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce

Sodium 10 mg per 1/4 cup, 6 servings per 14 ounce can = 60 mg per can

Fat 0g

Protein 0g

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Bumble Bee SNACK ON THE RUN Tuna Salad Kit with crackers. 3.5 ounces

Sodium Tuna portion 220 mg, Crackers 130 mg -- total snack 350 mg

Calories total 300

Fat total 22g

Protein 7g

SNACK ON THE RUN also includes snacks with lower fat tuna and chicken salad options

I love the little spoon that comes with the can and the tightly wrapped crackers in the box! I tried all the tuna and chicken flavors and love them all for a snack to take to the park, eat at home, or for a quick lunch!

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The lower salt cheeses that I have found are Swiss, fresh mozarella, some goat cheeses. If eating the cheese with bread, two slices of bread can be 500 mg of sodium. I search for low sodium breads but to date the only one I like is Dave's. In the winter I bake my own!

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TV DINNERS

The lowest sodium TV dinner that I have found is Healthy Choice Margherita Balsamic Chicken at 360 mg sodium.

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Foods for Those Who Can Not Chew

What to eat when you can not chew

Us older baby boomers did not have flouride in our water and tend to have much dental work unlike my sister, a younger boomer, who has never had a cavity!

My 93 year young Mom needs to have her food pureed because her lower denture nolonger has bone to secure it. Her new upper denture is snug as a rug.

I purchased a good quality food/meat grinder and ended up throwing it out.

I had no idea that my simple Cuisinart blender that crushes ice, can be used to prepare wonderful steak soups, pureed barbecue chicken, lovely brocolli dishes whose delicate green color remind us of spring and such delicate flavored soups as green bean. I combine the vegetables with the liquid they were cooked in and either whole milk for my Mom or Almond Milk for my husband who is allergic to all dairy products as he was as a child. I add butter to most foods for my Mom but no fat for my husband.

I have added food grade thickeners, potato, noodles or whatever we are having with our dinner to the blender for Mom's meal. When Mom asked for spaghetti soup, I pondered and thought it an interesting idea. I put about 1/2 cup of cooked spaghetti sauce in the blender, added a few noodles and snuck in a small piece of white meat of chicken (a bit smaller than a deck of cards) and thinned with chicken broth to the consistency per our hospital dietitian's instruction. My Mom enjoyed the soup very much.

Barbecued chicken is also easy to puree into a smooth food. Place about 1/4 - 1/2 cup barbecue sauce (cooked) into the blender with a small piece of cooked chicken.
I added 1/2 of a small cooked potato as a filler to smooth the puree as Mom wants everything to be as smooth as possible, otherwise food bits will get under her lower denture and hurt as she eats. I made my own barbecue sauce on this occasion but think almost any barbecue sauce would work as long as it is not too hot in flavor.

Thankgoodness for "Thick-it" to thicken drinks enabling swallowing for those with dysphasia and protein powder for added protein on days when we have not met our 50-60grams of protein per day as instructed. In our case, Mom is to have 50-60 grams of protein per day.

At 93 years, we are pleased she enjoys food and for the original suggestion of what
to add to Mom's foods, a huge thanks to Stacey == Stacey my Mom loves food again because of Y O U!

Thanks to Stacey's incredible team too!

Mom will certainly enjoy her grandson Andrew's 18th birthday this December 23,
thanks to wonderful, caring dietitians.

If you need additional details don't hesitate to email me at rosa@raskinfo.com