[Ken H]

I often include meat with my salt. Veggies go well with it, too.

[Aliska]

Sometimes with the simplest thing, I'm not sure where someone is coming from. I don't eat normally and don't eat much meat. When I do, I salt it as lightly as I can.

Canned vegetables, I buy the regular kind because they taste better but never or seldom add any salt. Fresh vegetables I don't cook too often but they need some salt. I can't eat raw and dips that look so good because I can't chew them.

So some days I just snack and right now it happens to be the bag of tortilla chips and Tostidos salsa. Some brie or brie-like cheese and saltines and so on. Often I just bake a big baked potato. Sour cream or butter and use too much of the latter but use liberal pepper and no salt. The salted butter is sufficient.

I'm on a hummus kick, doesn't need much salt. Now I'm torn because I found a recipe for two-olive hummus. Olives are very salty, and it calls for 3/4 cup Kalamata and 3/4 cup stuffed green. Yum. But too much. I will have to cut that down and rinse the olives.

I need to do something about my teeth and pain but it will be beaucoup expensive and many trips in winter where the weather is unpredictable to keep appointments. I had decided to face it all earlier this year when the weather was getting toward spring but the dr would only pull two because I guess my blood pressure and possible kidney problems, even though i have to use local anesthetic.

My blood pressure suddenly dropped a few months ago. I started skipping a day on my pills because I was feeling faint in the mornings. When I got in for my checkup, it was way lower than it had been for years. They liked it ok but when I told her what was happening, she took me off half my med for that. I'm overweight so I don't know why except when they had me scared about my kidneys, I quit the tea which has all this nasty sediment I'd drunk for years, so I hope I've cleansed my system of that.

And my ins watches my meds. I got a letter saying I should take my medicine and not skip any. It made me mad they would monitor me that closely. Now I only have until the 7th to get rid of AARP and am afraid anything else would have other expenses and problems.

Blah, blah. I know. No one to talk to.