So tonight we actually had the stuffed pasta shells for dinner. We bought a different brand of spaghetti sauce this time as well. It tasted much better straight from the jar when compared to the first one. This one has 25mg of sodium per serving where as the other had 10mg. I did however throw it all in a pot and add more spices. The stuffed shells turned out pretty good and tasted pretty good as well.
Thursday night we got invited over to my sister-in-law’s house for dinner where we had spaghetti. So of course we had to BYOSS (bring your own spaghetti sauce). This is something that we’ll probably have to do a lot. We’ll probably be making a lot of our stuff before we head over the parties/family get-togethers or eating before we go.
So we went on another food shopping adventure this weekend to find the no sodium beef bouillon and baking soda and powder. I was only able to find the beef bouillon at Fresh Market. This is one ingredient that I need to make our own soy sauce. I cooked rice today in our rice cooker so that it’ll be ready for fried rice tomorrow night. I’ve read that day old rice is the best for fried rice. I also have to get some red wine vinegar to make the sauce.
Oh and Clay and his brother-in-law were picking some things up at our local Kroger for dinner on Thursday night and he found some 0mg corn tortillas by Tia Rosa in the international food isle. We’ll have to get those and see if they hold up better than the ones we currently have. We also picked up the Xochitl brand tortilla chips (0mg) because Clay wanted some salsa. They taste just like the chips at most Mexican restaurants (which my husband usually puts salt on). He made his own salsa, which I didn’t like because it had too much jalapeno. He liked it and now the chips are pretty much gone.
We also made pancakes for the first time with our new mix. It’s going to take some getting used to. It’s an oat bran mix so it’s very grainy and gritty tasting, which we are not used to. The recipe also suggests that you can add berries, chopped nuts, vanilla or cinnamon. We’ll probably try the vanilla or cinnamon and possibly the nuts. I’m not big on berries or cooked fruit.
I still need to check Whole Foods for the baking soda and powder, otherwise I’ll be ordering them from this website: http://healthyheartmarket.com/. This is the brand that the author of our cookbook, Dick Logue, recommended, Hain Pure Foods.
We also had another great find this weekend. Clay has always liked Frosted Mini Wheats and we bought a three sister’s brand at Whole Foods that only had 10mg of sodium per serving (1 cup). Well it turns out that the Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats only has 5mg per serving (24 biscuits)! Which is totally great because I always have coupons for Kellogg’s cereal or Mini Wheats. The next best was corn pops, which was 120mg per serving (which was 1 cup).
This finding low to no sodium foods seems to be getting easier, but at the same time a big challenge. The one meal that is still hard for us is lunch. Mostly because you want something quick and easy and sandwiches get old quick. Plus Clay is really staring to get tired of PB&J’s. I still need to look into the sodium count for Pita’s and see if that could be an option for lunches. At least we could fill that with fresh veggies or sautéed ones, so I guess the sodium count for a pita wouldn’t really matter when what’s going in it is practically zero. We can’t just pick up Lean Pockets or Lean Cuisines because the sodium count is outrageous! Seriously, next time you head to the store pick one up and check out the sodium count, I think you’ll be shocked.
And one last thing, this container store find has totally come in handy for me and I use it ALL the time.
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