Lower Sodium…

This focus on lower sodium started a few days ago when I was in the mood for a Mexican meal and not thinking about salt or sodium at all. I’ve watched my sugar in the various products I buy and consume for a while, but never thought much about the NACL.

I was in Aldi’s and as I came to the end of an aisle, and rounded it, there were several items on shelves. They were in pretty cans and one was refried beans and the other was diced tomatoes with chilies (regular sodium). *I quickly noted that it is almost impossible to buy refried beans that are low sodium. Salty smushed beans, sell! So, I decided to buy low sodium pinto beans and smush them myself. Easy to do. *I also bought a small bag of Iceberg Lettuce Salad.

Lower Sodium “Knock Your Sprouts Off” 7 Grain Sprouted Bread (Aldis) 70 calories per slice @ 19 cents. 21 slices per loaf @ $4.
- I haven’t tried the low sodium version yet, but the regular version has good flavor. I rarely eat more than one slice of bread now, but might eat a slice with peanut butter and Agave Nectar.
Lower Sodium Oven Roasted Turkey Breast (Hillshire Farms) 70 calories per serving. About 2 oz. Four servings in an 8 oz. package that costs about $4, a dollar for one serving.
- This has good flavor and makes a good sandwich, with French’s mustard, creamy horseradish & a little sweetener (Agave Nectar, Splenda).
Blue Corn Street Taco Tortillas (Walmart) 90 calories per serving (2 tortillas – @12 cents) $2.24 per package (18 tortillas).
- Heat it in the toaster oven, and put some good refried beans, ground beef and diced tomatoes w/ green chilies on it, and it is good. But, don’t eat one of these, unheated, with nothing on it. It tastes awful. Close to flavorless, and they are a soft taco.
Blue Corn Tortilla Chips (Simple Truth -HT) 140 calories – 13 chips (@ 31 cents per serving) @ $2.79 and 9 servings per bag.
- These are delicious with the refried beans & ground beef/diced tomatoes & green chilies.
Diced Tomatoes w/ Green Chilis – No Salt – LIDL (@ .95 per can – @ .24 per serving)
- I used half a can and then only ate half of that for one meal. Is that 10 calories total per meal?
Pinto Beans – No Salt Added – LIDL (@ .86 per can – @ .43 per serving)

I don’t see the info here, but somewhere I determined that the whole, full sodium version of this meal (including the original refired beans from Aldi’s) came to over 1,400 mg and the reduced sodium version was only 84 mg. But, the 84 mg was the base amount if I added no salt while cooking, and I do add some salt to all.

Mexican Meal (Low Sodium)

Let me guestimate.