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

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends how low sodium you need, I guess. My diet is kind of by-default low sodium, because I cook almost entirely from scratch, and use only a little salt in things. (If I eat my own cooking for all three meals, my daily sodium intake is somewhat under 1000mg on average.)

Ah, hm. If you both eat meat, I suggest a tasty chili -- using either chicken breast or flank/skirt steak (whichever is cheaper in your neck of the woods), plenty of onion and peppers and spices. Beans, if you want to use them (dried is lower-sodium than canned, but a lot more work -- I'd probably leave them out).

And then most of the salt will come in with the canned crushed tomatoes, and you shouldn't need much more than that, what with other spices in & whatnot.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been trying to avoid the salty canned stuff where I can, though it's hard since I'm not so much a cook from scratch kind of person. Chili sounds really good, though, and I remember my mom cooking some when I was a kid, so that just might go over well. Thanks!