When I walk around the grocery store reading the labels and looking for healthy options, everything I see is just loaded with sodium. Even tiny things that are like 1 bite worth of food have like 300mg. I'm looking for suggestions of things that have little to no sodium but MUST meet the following two criteria:

#1 Something I'd have a chance to find at a mainstream grocery store. Don't tell me to go to Whole Foods, there isn't one near me.
#2 I must be able to eat it without creating dirty dishes.

Any ideas? I already drink as much water as I can to flush it out.

Potassium supplement if you're that worried. But if you don't have high blood pressure, then what's the fuss about?

idk, what is the fuss about being healthy? not like we are in a forum designed for talking about it or anything

So you must have high blood pressure? Otherwise what's so unhealthy about it, assuming you're not adding tablespoons of salt to food?

This post was edited by tommyd323 on Jul 1 2016 06:30pm

Nothing wrong with sodium. It's excessive sodium you gotta watch out for, primarily when it causes high blood pressure like Tommy said.

Supplement potassium and drink lots of water.



Do you have HBP?

yea that's why i made the thread. If I eat 2,000 calories worth of food I bought from the store, I'll end up consuming 4 times my daily value % of sodium (based on how the label reads).

But maybe you guys are saying that's not really a problem? I could make up that difference by drinking enough water?

Adding potassium balances the sodium, which is why I mentioned it. And are you take serving sizes, etc in to consideration? What I'm saying is if you're already healthy, then you really don't need to worry about it. More important health factors are staying fairly lean and trying to exercise daily.

Helpful supplements would be a multivitamin, fish oil (1.8g of omega 3s, typically 6 capsules), and creatine (even if you don't exercise frequently).

If you don't have any health problems with high blood pressure especially, then don't worry about pretending there is one by trying to avoid extra sodium.

This post was edited by tommyd323 on Jul 1 2016 06:56pm

What foods are you buying?

4x the recommend is a shit load, idk how that's what your grocery list added up to that.

Sodium recommendations are currently a lot lower than they should be. People are saying recs should be around 5g per day not 2. Low sodium intake may actually increase cardiovascular risk and the slight slight decrease in BP from reducing sodium intake isn't worth