low-sodium foods
oh my goodness! yes, way back in 2012 when I admitted I needed help and found out I had congestive heart failure (CHF), spent eleven days in the hospital, and accepted taking a class on what I needed to do with the rest of my life (so I'd have a rest of my life), one of the things I learned was that I had to eat low-sodium foods the rest of my life. what! what does that mean? oh, no salt. no problem! right! well, I made it a problem of course. what's the point of being human if you don't make life a problem you have to solve? I didn't like low-sodium, no-salt-added foods! everything tasted bland. well, that was just silly. that's what I had to eat. so I set myself to re-train my palate. it just takes time, if you co-operate. meanwhile, Lindy took them on as a challenge and found helpful places on the internet. she took on cooking low-sodium foods with zest! soon we ate low-sodium lasagna, low-sodium chili, low-sodium pasta, low-sodium waffles with maple syrup, low-sodium bean soup, low-sodium anything with tomatoes and hamburger and beans and chopped onions. goodness gracious! yes, Lindy found dozens of zesty low-sodium recipes and even made up some of her own! I learned to love spices even more than I already had, and hardly ever miss salt now. (still a human, you know.) thank you, love. thank you, palate. thank you, universe. low-sodium foods are life-stretchers!
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