We immediately needed to go to the grocery store. Presuming it was an ulcer we were dealing with, we had just gone to buy bland foods. Foods we ended up giving away.
We wound our way, aisle after aisle, picking up an item, reading the nutrition label and setting it back down. It didn’t take long before it sunk in there was pretty much nothing we could buy. It was hard to watch him as he realized we had become far too dependent on “convenience” foods.
There is sodium and added salt in everything. Naturally, you think of canned vegetables, chips, and bacon. Correct. But wait—There’s more. Cereal, granola bars, mac and cheese, jelly, all condiments, baking powder and soda, all bread, anything packaged and frozen. Even the “no salt added” has sodium. Fresh meat, vegetables and fruit have very little. If its in a box, can, jar, he can’t have it. We bought what we could and went home, depressed over the loss of salt…. and hungry……… 😦
We then went to the Natural Food Store, and Nature Grocery. What did we find??? Organic does not equal salt free. There was less there at either place than the regular grocery store. Now, we are even more hungry and depressed.
PhatHen 