Showing You How To Give Up Sodium Without Giving Up Your Life
Books
Amazon.com These books are all available at Amazon.com (I've set up links to them there), although some may only be available used. and most are probably available locally in any well-stocked bookstore. A search on Amazon for low salt turned up 175 items, so you do have plenty to chose from.
Ecookbooks.com Ecookbooks.com, also know as Jessica's Biscuit. Stocks a large selection of used as well as new books. If you are looking for a copy of an out of print book, this is the place to go.
500 Low Sodium Recipes
Our very own Low Sodium Cooking ccokbook, with 500 of the best recipes that I've created over the past 8 years. Includes spice mixes, condiments, main dishes, side dishes, bread and other baed goods.
American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook
This was one of the first low salt cookbooks I bought. It has a number of good basic recipes for common main dishes, vegetables and sauces, as well as diet planning information. Different editions of it are also available in large format paperback and hardback.
Chinese Salt-Free Diet Cookbook
A great book by Merle Schell with all of your favorite Chinese recipes in low sodium form. Contains instructions on making many of the condiments and basic ingredients as well as the recipes for appetizers, soups, vegetables, main dishes and desserts. The book is currently out of print, but you still should be able to find some used copies.
American Heart Association Cookbook
HUGE collection of recipes. I haven't even begun to read all of them, but there are several favorites in here that we use regularly.
No Salt, Lowest Sodium Cookbook
Donald Gazziniga's first cookbook, full of very low sodium recipes and meal plans. Don told me recently that his publisher has contracted for a whole series of books. His next one of breads, muffins and cookies should be out around the end of the year. This link will purchase the book through Don's MegaHeart site, which donates all proceeds to heart transplant research.
The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Baking Book
Donald Gazziniga's baking book. Full of great recipes for bread, desserts and other baked good. As always with Don's recipes, they are very all very low in sodium.
The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Light Meals Book
Don's Light Meals book, loaded with recipes for salads, soups and other light fare, all very low sodium.
The Hasty Gourmet Low Salt Favorites
Another recent addition to the low sodium cookbook shelf. This one contains 300 quick and easy low salt recipes.
Cooking Without a Grain of Salt
Cooking Without a Grain of Salt is both a nutrition guide and cookbook. It's filled with tips on how to limit sodium without sacrificing flavor--as well as many recipes that will help you put your healthy, low-salt lifestyle into action.
No-Salt Cookbook: Reduce or Eliminate Salt Without Sacrificing Flavor
By David C. Anderson and Thomas D. Anderson, father and son, who have created more than 500 recipes for their Web site, saltfreelife.com.
Light Cajun and Creole cooking
For those of you who love Louisiana cuisine, this cookbook is designed to cut fat, salt and calories from the traditional Cajun and Creole recipes. Contains recipes for sidedishes, salads and desserts, as well as the typical main dishes.
Get the Salt Out
In Get the Salt Out, nationally recognized nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman reveals 501 ways to avoid excess salt intake by serving a variety of delicious low-sodium foods, taking advantage of tasty salt substitutes and steering clear of many surprising hidden sources of salt. Contains more than fifty recipes for low-sodium foods, mixed in with the other tips for getting the salt out.
No Salt, Lowest Sodium Baking
Donald Gazziniga's second ccokbook, this one covers baking, from yeast breads to quick breads and cookies. Those of us that have Don's first book have been eagerly awaiting this one.
Make Your Own Mixes and Prepared Foods
Ben Howard's excellent book on making your own mixes. They aren't intended to be low sodium, but most could easily be updated to be by using low sodium ingredients. Includes things that have appeared in the newsletter like Baking Mix and pudding mixes.
Better Homes and Gardens Low Salt
Contains a number of low salt recipes, including the soy sauce substitute that I use. Published in the early 80's, it's getting harder to find, but used copies are still available. The last time I checked, it was still available at eCookbooks.com
Pocket Guide to Low Sodium Foods
This is a wonderful source of information on sodium by Bobbie Mostyn. It opens with some general information on things like what foods are low and high in sodium and a good explanation of the U.S. nutrition label. Then it contains detailed information on the nutritional content of over 3000 foods, includingspecific brand by brand listings. After that it also has the same information on the products at a large number of quick serverestaurants. All in all, it's a wealth of information, both for people just getting started with a low sodium diet and those of us who have been at it a while.
Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook
Over 600 pages of information on heart healthy cooking and living. Many great recipes, most within the sodium range that many people can use, plus detailed written explanations of subjects such as risk factors, cholesterol and many other things that doctors sometimes don't explain very well.
Light and Tasty Magazine
Low Sodium Cooking as been featured in Taste of Home's Light and Tasty Magazine. While not specifically low sodium, the magazine contains recipes, nutritional information links and other information for people watching their diet and will be of interest to lots of low sodium people.
No Salt, No Sugar, No Fat Cookbook
Contains a variety of recipes that are not only salt free, but also sugar and fat free.
AccuChef
The software I use is called AccuChef. It's both a recipe and nutrition analysis software ... let's you print out things on index cards or cookbook sized pages etc., but it also does the institutional calculations. It will give you the figures for any of about 30 different nutrients that you ask for and can even print out a facsimile of the nutrition label. It uses the USDA nutrient database, which has about 6000 entries, but you can customize the different ingredient entries and it will both save them and remember which one you said to use. So the first time can put in a recipe that calls for canned tomatoes, it will probably match it to a regular salted entry. But if you change that to a no salt added one and change it to match the exact figures of the brand you use, it will use that from then on. You can download a trail copy that you can open 60 times or buy it for $19.95, which seemed pretty reasonable to me.