Watching Your Salt Intake?

I’ve never paid much attention to our salt intake or the high or low sodium content in our foods. Naïve? Maybe. However awhile ago I discovered a new fascination with special salts, like fleur de sel, sea salt, pink salt, etc. A friend gave us some olive salt and I’ve heard about bacon salt (must have). Now I want to collect them like spices. [hint hint if you happen to be shopping for me]

I’ve also grown a fondness for peppers like green peppercorns and I’ve been on a hunt for pink peppercorns locally with no success.

I just find the taste is better and – this will sound odd – less salty. Seriously. And I have it in my head that sea salt is less sodium and therefore healthier for us. I don’t know if that is accurate, but I choose to believe it.

So basically, no regular table salt in our house or on our table. I prefer to offer sea salt and freshly ground pepper.

My husband would like a nut shaker on the table too. Seriously, a shaker of chopped random nuts as he thinks all dishes – especially desserts – should contain nuts.

And I am worried about our sodium intake?