Low Sodium & Diabetic recipe ideas?

[modestmaiden]

anyone here that cooks low sodium and for diabetics?
I need some more ideas.
I like making soups and meals that can be reheated the next day.
I mainly cook everything from scratch.
I have found the healthy heart website that have ideas and also they have some really good cookbooks.

One thing I found out cooking low sodium or no sodium you have to read labels of EVERYTHING. Salt is everywhere. And if you have kidney disease you must not use salt substitutes because they have potassium which is restricted. Watch for hidden salt and potassium in your foods.

[ddc101]

I don't use alot of salt but keep in mind that veggies that grow in the ground...root veggies are higher in sodium than those that grow on top of the ground such as brussell sprouts and broccolli etc.

[holinessrox]

I don't use alot of salt but keep in mind that veggies that grow in the ground...root veggies are higher in sodium than those that grow on top of the ground such as brussell sprouts and broccolli etc.
WHAT!!!???? WHERE do you get such info? My goodness I can't win for losing, it seems that one site or person, will say one thing..then the next, something quite different., I always figured whatevers grown in ones garden is so much better than canned stuff as they put tons of salt/preservatives in that.
NOW we have to bear in mind THE GROUND?? GODs own green earth, HE gave us to tend to and live off of? THIS is exasperating to say the least.

MM I will PM you later with some helpful tips and such., I have lots of experience in these categories of cooking. :D

[ddc101]

I got it from two college nutrition courses.Sorry but its true.What grows
in the garden is great just don't eat too much of what is high sodium and
don't add salt to it.

[holinessrox]

I got it from two college nutrition courses.Sorry but its true.What grows
in the garden is great just don't eat too much of what is high sodium and
don't add salt to it.
:D TRUE yes but I don't have to LIKE it, :D nor understand it, wow, I must do some research on this.

Is that why we "saints' are sometimes referred to as the "salt of the earth"?? :shifty:

:cool:

[modestmaiden]

I don't use alot of salt but keep in mind that veggies that grow in the ground...root veggies are higher in sodium than those that grow on top of the ground such as brussell sprouts and broccolli etc.


Thanks ddc101 for your comment.
I know also that the root vegetables such as potatoes, carrots have to be cleaned and cut up and "leached" in water for several hours to get a lot of the potassium or phosphorous removed(cant remember right now its 2;30 am with this answer)

I have to watch how much green vegetables my husband eats also.
Dry beans which he loves have a lot of phosphorous too, so we eat a few beans.

He cant have whole grains because of his kidney disease.

But what I might add since he was diagnosed his kidney disease is reversing itself.
I thank the LORD for this because once you have kidney disease it usually gets worse, not better.

WE keep trusting the LORD that he will be completely be healed from CKD.

[ddc101]

Modest Maiden what an awesome testimony to the healing power of God.

[modestmaiden]

Modest Maiden what an awesome testimony to the healing power of God.
Yes it is the healing power of God.

My husband also had a retinal vein occlusion in his eye
that was healed even before he started coming to our Apostolic UPCI church.
I had asked for him to first have salvation and then also for his health.

This is what God is doing in his life.
He had not been in any church since he was a young boy of age 9.
I will post the details of how the Lord worked a miracle in his salvation in a new thread. Its amazing what happened.