Low sodium....yeah, I know...read it anyway!

Friends,

A dear friend just had a very serious heart-attack...that was also very expensive. Now he's got to change some habits if he wants to see 50....but ****** is the point of that if he can't enjoy life? One of the things he enjoys most is food...so I'm looking for ways to help him keep enjoying food despite a need to cut back rather severely on the sodium.

I'm not looking for recipes, the interwebs are full of those, I'm looking for concepts, techniques, etc. that you may know about...esp the pros who sometimes have to deal with this in the BOH...but also any of you homecooks who are in a similar situation.

I'd appreciate any pointers, articles, books, etc. that you can share.

TIA!
Z

 

The sodium content (in mass percent) of MSG is roughly a third of the amount (12%) than in sodium chloride (39%).[17] Other salts of glutamate have been used in low-salt soups, but with a lower palatability than MSG.

Buy some msg at an asian market and put that ******** on everything in place of salt?!

 

I need to do some research on MSG...it has a really bad reputation with people...but that is unlikely to be deserved.