I’d substitute fresh chicken and sodium-free chicken stock to eliminate even more salt.
Hearty Chicken Soup
What’s Cooking?! Low-sodium, low-fat salad dressing
Making your own salad dressing can save you tons of salt and fat that comes in pre-made ones. This one sounds tasty.
What’s Cooking?! Mini-Spinach-Meatloaf
Sounds tasty, instead of the Worcestershire, I’d put in a bit of salt-free Mrs. Dash teriyaki marinade.
5 foods that are hiding all the salt
A good primer on where to look for the hidden salt in your diet. To eliminate it, look for low-salt breads, low-salt ketchup and alt-free marinades, all of which I’ve written about here: http://nosaltnofatnosugar.com/ingredients/
Stella D’oro: an old friend offers a low-fat baked good
Growing up in an Italian-American household, Italian pastries and butter cookies were regular Sunday treats for me. In between those, we also regularly bought baked goods with Italian flair to them, such as Stella D’oro cookies.
I crave anything baked these days since most baked goods don’t fit into my low-fat, low-salt needs. So I was wonderfully surprised recently to see old friend Stella D’oro come to my rescue with its anisette toast cookies. Continue reading “Stella D’oro: an old friend offers a low-fat baked good”
Beans the Magical Vegetable
Leave out the salt and you’re good to go here
Ahi tuna on the grill, with a lime twist
I’ve written before about how much I enjoy ahi tuna, something I can eat on my low-fat diet than I truly enjoy. Normally I make it with a salt-free teriyaki marinade or a lemon garlic no-salt marinade. But I recently noticed a recipe on a bag of frozen ahi I bought at Costco and decided to modify it to fit a low-fat, low-salt, low-sugar diet.
The result was tasty. I made my tuna in a frying pan, but grilling it outside would add a nice touch of smoky flavor as well. Continue reading “Ahi tuna on the grill, with a lime twist”