15 Easy Tips To Help You Enjoy Comfort Food Without The Guilt!

Can we bask in the delight of warm, gooey comfort food season AND eat healthfully at the same time? Yes. Yes we can.

#1 Make your own salad dressing. Just 2 tablespoons of commercial salad dressing can contain between 10 and 20% of our total daily salt budget. You can save the sodium by making your own salad dressing and it doesn’t need to be complex: 3 tablespoons olive oil + 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar + pinch of salt and pinch of pepper. Voila!

#2 Use “no salt added” canned ingredients. You probably won’t miss the extra salt, and your waistline will thank us later! If you can’t find canned ingredients with no salt added, you can always drain and rinse the contents of the can. This works great for canned beans and can reduce sodium content by up to 41%!

#3 Put away the salt shaker. When setting the table, can pepper be enough? See if people miss the salt shaker – they might not.

#4 Get your citrus on. Squeezing fresh lemon or lime onto your dish toward the end of cooking can give it a tasty kick without the sodium.

#5 Spice it up! Experiment with garlic, onion powder, cayenne, and paprika.