21 January, 2008

Ooof.

It feels like I haven't stopped moving all day...dinner's over, though, and we're in the home stretch to the bedtime hour.

I got a lot of miscellaneous errands done, and had lunch and a spot of shopping with my buddy Chrissie (waves!). I'll blog one of my purchases another time, when I have good light to work with.

Meanwhile, a little foody musing. What is UP with salt in prepared foods, and why oh why must the makers be so heavy-handed with salt? I've leaned heavily on the ready meal in the past couple of weeks, and the offerings range from terrific (the new Tesco Light Choices, with much less fat and sodium) to deeply, deeply disappointing (tonight's Tesco Steam Meal - salmon, potatoes, and veg).

The meal itself wasn't bad, actually, although the broccoli couldn't stand up to all the cooking time. However, it contained 1300-odd mg of sodium, and tasted like someone had up-ended a salt shaker over it.

What has Susie learned from this, Gentle Readers? Apart from "Cook-your-own, already!" ? Look at the sodium information, too, when picking a food. Wow, it only took me 40-odd years to come to grips with that. I'm a quick study, I am.

2 comments:

Toni said...

Do I have an experiment for you!!! How about the "no processed foods for a month" program? It's going to be interesting--canned soup is going to be hard to replace for lunch. BUT it should cut down on our salt intake. :)

Susie J. said...

remember my oh-so-favorite chicken salad I emailed you about the other day??? Yeah, as I was adding up all the nutrition info, to add it to fitday, I discovered how much sodium was in it. YIKES!!!