I use frozen vegetables in most of my home cooking.

When I refer to canned veggies I mean just canned tomatoes and canned beans.

When using the canned beans I always drain them into a colander and rinse the beans with lots of cold water.

If you must use a canned vegetable try to find one listed as (NSA) No-Salt-Added. It still has salt in it but not as much. Problem is that I can only find them in tomato products, certain corn and green beans or English peas. Even then the fresh or frozen is better.

I read somewhere years ago that if one eats away from home and automatically salts one's food before eating it, it means you've eaten there before! There are many salt substitutes on the market today and nearly none of them taste especially satisfying or even good, to me. I've found over time that using herbs and spices such as basil (in particular) does add flavour and masks the absence of salt if you leave it out at cooking. Most restaurants in this area don't salt food prior to serving it and that's a plus. But I've gotten fries at McDonalds that are gag-you salty and occasionally this happens in major eating establishments as well.

I stopped adding salt to food when cooking or eating about 30 years ago. That is when I found out I had high blood pressure. The hardest thing to not salt for me was fried eggs. But without it you can taste the eggs. Ever so often I feel the need for salt. When I do I like salted fruit. I know the body needs salt, but I like for it to tell me so. I am sure I get plenty. I use spice for flavor. CF:)

Morning, CF - I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only person I know who has to remain pretty much saltless due to high blood pressure. Every once in a while I get a yen for the stuff and then, like you, I enjoy a bit of salted fruit or perhaps some nuts or the like. Just a few, though - don't get carried away.

Here are a couple more vacation photos for your "tour" - the one is of Dublin Castle and the others are some of the sights in Holland I thought you might enjoy.

Today is hazy, hot and downright unhealthy outside, so I'm hiding out inside.
It's such a complete departure from England - except at night when the rowdies are apparently trying to burn the city down!!

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