Thanks to each one of you who have answered my request for help with a very low salt diet. Jim is eating more oatmeal and eggs than ever before but we are learning. I found too much sodium in my old faithful Bush's chili hot beans for my chili. I figured out that if I cooked kidney beans from scratch and mixed a pint carton with a can of Bush's it will cut the sodium by over half. Since I had already put lots of home grown tomatoes in the freezer I'm ready to make chili. Have cooked a pound of pinto beans too. We love refried beans in our tacos but the canned ones are loaded with sodium. I talked to a good friend from Guatamala. She told me how to make them. If I use olive oil instead of lard it should be healthy for him. Haven't figured out how to season home made meat sauce for tacos, but that will come soon. We are learning. Kroger frozen hash brown potatoes have very low sodium. I've used them in soup for a long time. Glad that won't have to change. Still working on bread. Great gratitude to each of you. Marilyn Simpson -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-request@rootsweb.com To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 12:00 pm Subject: PADUTCH-LIFE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 478 ==== PADUTCH-LIFE Mailing List ==== Today's Topics: 1. Re: Diabetic Diet (don/kathy) 2. Low Sodium Diet and Heart Failure (Karen Fox) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 ate: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:49:40 -0500 rom: "don/kathy" <dlewis10@woh.rr.com> ubject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Diabetic Diet o: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com>, <padrake@sbcglobal.net> c: "JOYCE L." <joylews@aol.com> essage-ID: <DD858C7F89454FD3B70AB89DF09E83BF@Lewis> ontent-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi all, hat is an excellent idea Pam! ood thinking. :) can also post to list, if its ok with Rick, the salt free food, spices, tc that I have found in the stores and use. And, over the weekend, we found nother low salt item to use for spag. or chili etc..or a similar recipe ike that. I'll get working on that list of foods. prefer fresh food too, when I can get it. But like frozen otherwise. refer no salt added green beans in a can too. :) Not the frozen kind. y daughter in law, Joyce, said she is going to send in a few recipes too. athy iqua Ohio ----- Original Message ----- rom: <padrake@sbcglobal.net> o: <PADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com> ent: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:38 AM ubject: [PD-LIFE] Diabetic Diet i! Beside the doctor I would also talk to a dietician. That visit is paid by edicare. Also,talk to the pharmacist. Try to stay with one drug store so hey know what she's taking all the time. Good Luck! Pam in IN. ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the uotes in the subject and the body of the message ----------------------------- Message: 2 ate: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:29:39 -0600 (CST) rom: Karen Fox <karenmfox@verizon.net> ubject: [PD-LIFE] Low Sodium Diet and Heart Failure o: padutch-life@rootsweb.com essage-ID: <9363020.378085.1258439379530.JavaMail.root@vms232.mailsrvcs.net> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I was first diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure in 1986 and since Oct 2001, I have been on Social Security Disability because I am now Class III CHF. You can find lots of tried and true low sodium recipes and info about low sodium eating in general at http://www.chfpatients.com/ , along with tons of info about living with CHF. My former Heart Failure Specialist (who now practices in another geographic area).had checked out the site at my request and he said it was good solid information, and even recommended the site to some of his other patients. One thing to keep in mind with Heart Failure - even though you are restricting sodium, be aware that the patient is most probably on a fluid restricted diet as well. Typical CHF patients are under orders to take in no more than 2 liters of fluids a day in total. This not only includes drinks,but ice, broth, pudding, soup and jello count as fluids. The less fluid you drink (without dehydrating), the less blood your heart has to pump. And the less elimination necessary to prevent edema (swelling). For a CHF patient, it is imperative to keep both sodium and fluid intake in check. BTW, I was told by my Heart Failure Specialist that systolic (left side) heart failure is by far the most common presentation of heart failure in the general population. In the Pennsylvania Dutch descendants (like myself), it was found that there is a higher percentage of diastolic (right side) heart failure than in the heart failure population as a whole. Interesting, I thought. Regards, Karen from Berks County ----------------------------- To contact the PADUTCH-LIFE list administrator, send an email to ADUTCH-LIFE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the PADUTCH-LIFE mailing list, send an email to ADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com ith the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of he mail with no additional text. nd of PADUTCH-LIFE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 478 *******************************************