Reduce your salt – reduce your weight
Most people consume far too much salt without actually realizing how much. There is so much hidden salt in the average diet, most processed foods have quite a lot – bread, cheese, bacon, crackers, chips, etc etc. For some people food is bland or tasteless without salt.
Too much salt can cause all sorts of health problems not least fluid retention and shortages of other minerals, as too much sodium causes imbalances.
You can make a herbal-salt this will reduce your salt needs, helping to re-educate your taste buds.
The recipe uses celery seeds that are a natural sodium food that will help to displace sodium build-up in the body. Fennel seeds helps reduce your appetite, rosemary increases the circulation (helps detox), black pepper corns (increase metabolism) plus some fine sea salt.
I suggest if you have the need for a lot of salt then you make sure you take zinc supplements for a while, as a lot of people are short of zinc and this affects the taste buds considerably.
Herbal Salt (homemade)
4 parts celery seeds
2 parts dried rosemary
2 parts fennel seeds
2 parts black pepper corns
3 parts fine sea salt
Grind all the herbs together in a coffee ginger or spice grinder, then add the salt, and store in an airtight container. Use this mixture in the same way you would use salt.If you want to you can leave out the black pepper if you prefer to add it to your food separately.
At first you can vary the amount of salt in the recipe until you get use to having less.
This herbal salt has helped many people reduce their salt needs.
A tip for reducing salt – if you add salt while you are cooking you need to add more, than if you added once the food is on your plate. The tongue tastes the salt more when the salt is on the surface of your food.
Another tip – always always taste your food first. Sounds crazy, sound obvious! Believe me I have seen so many people, the first thing they do is add salt to their before they even try it.