Food help!

[corilannam]

My mother is here visiting me for two weeks, after not having seen me for almost nine years. I have not previously mentioned this because it's been a source of immense stress for quite a while now, and every entry I started about it inevitably devolved into "ICANTDOTHISOMGWTFAAAAAARGH!"

She came on Saturday, and so far it's been okay (other than finding her sitting alone and silent in the dark when I came home from ndannais's graduation last night, because she couldn't figure out how to work the lights or TV. Other issues come and go, as expected.

The one practical issue I'm having is how to feed her. My usual fare is whatever I can make fit on my WW plan, but my mother has blood pressure problems and can't eat very much sodium. She went through my entire kitchen last night, pointing out what had too much sodium in it, and it turns out it was... pretty much everything. I can do low fat, low calorie, low carb, low flavor, but low sodium I'm having a problem with.

So, can anyone recommend any resources for tasty but low sodium foods/recipes? Preferably low fat and calorie as well? That has flavor, if that's not asking too much? I'm googling, but any recommendations for known successes (personal or secondhand) would be greatly appreciated.

Barring that, send valium (that one's for me).

Comments

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a lot of the soup I thought was pretty healthy turns out to have some pretty gruesome sodium levels. I've definitely been getting the no-salt-added canned tomatoes for spaghetti sauce and suchlike, and that seemed to go over well. I guess it's not surprising how much salt is in prepared foods in general, but I was still kind of stunned when I started paying attention to the numbers!

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I sometimes look at recipes posted to some of the cooking ljs (food_porn, cooking, etc) and add up the sodium counts from the processed foods.

It's a fun game if you try to guess based on the ingredients and then do the math...and by "fun" I mean "somewhat terrifying".

My accidentally-low-sodium diet is one that I've been eating long enough now that I actually can't eat a lot of things I used to love, because they taste too salt to me. :( It's a bit sad!