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46 smart uses for salt (prepper ping!)
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/green/46-smart-uses-for-salt-2270681/ ^

Posted on 08/16/2010 3:42:00 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

How many ways can you use salt? According to the Salt Institute, about 14,000! The salt website has tons of handy tips for using salt around the house, and the best of the bunch -- plus my additions -- are listed below.

I can't think of another more versatile mineral. Salt is the most common and readily available nonmetallic mineral in the world. In fact, the supply of salt is inexhaustible.

For thousands of years, salt (sodium chloride) has been used to preserve food and for cleaning, and people have continued to rely on it for all kinds of nifty tricks.

So with its nontoxic friendliness and status as an endlessly abundant resource, let's swap out some toxic solutions for ample, innocuous, and inexpensive salt.

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1 posted on 08/16/2010 3:42:02 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

If we had high speed rail we could stop funding the foreign salt barrons as we reach peak salt.


2 posted on 08/16/2010 3:46:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Red in Blue PA

...I just laid in another 50 pounds today from our local feed store...they had plenty on hand...getting ready for Fall hog killing and folks salting down hams.


3 posted on 08/16/2010 3:47:27 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Red in Blue PA

If it doesn’t get outlawed by these asshats in congress.


4 posted on 08/16/2010 3:48:01 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Red in Blue PA

oops! salt is illegal in NY.


5 posted on 08/16/2010 3:48:19 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Red in Blue PA
Salt is going through a discovery phase...with all the pink salts, the black salts etc. and the grinders.

Old folks like myself know it as a preservative and iodized salt as a necessity. It was 10 cents a box 60 years ago (March of Dimes)....now it's all the way up to 50 cents!!

6 posted on 08/16/2010 3:50:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Red in Blue PA
So with its nontoxic friendliness

A woman with a foster child with eating disorders was just convicted of killing the kid because he ate the salt and died.

Everything is toxic. Everything.

If you consume enough of it.

Of course, if you completely cut out salt, you will also die.

So somewhere in there is a balance that works well for humans.

BTW, with salt water and electrolysis, you can make bleach. Salt+processing=bleach. Don't drink bleach either. But in the right quantity, it can save your life.

/johnny

7 posted on 08/16/2010 3:51:47 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Sacajaweau

I know I’ve learned to love sea salt and there are plenty of other types I would like to try.


8 posted on 08/16/2010 3:52:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
If we had high speed rail we could stop funding the foreign salt barrons as we reach peak salt.

Obamacare will outlaw salt in favor of low-sodium salt-style products approved by Mother Obama and the Progressive Anti-Salt League.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

9 posted on 08/16/2010 3:52:55 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: STONEWALLS

Mmmmmmmm, baaaay-ken! (spelling phonetically notice for the English majors out there!)


10 posted on 08/16/2010 3:53:12 PM PDT by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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To: Sacajaweau
and iodized salt as a necessity.

Yep, I bet many of the young FReepers have never seen a goiter, but they were around in abundance before Iodized salt made the scene.

11 posted on 08/16/2010 3:53:26 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Red in Blue PA

Didn’t Gandhi bring the British colonial rule in India to a halt by making salt?!


12 posted on 08/16/2010 3:53:39 PM PDT by parisa
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To: cripplecreek

Do you love the salt or the grinder?? Salt tastes like salt.


13 posted on 08/16/2010 3:54:52 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Sacajaweau

They taste different to me. In fact there are many different varieties of salt that are different flavors due to how they’re processed and where they’re mined or collected.


14 posted on 08/16/2010 3:57:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: EdReform

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15 posted on 08/16/2010 3:57:11 PM PDT by EdReform (Stop Obamacare - Join the Obamacare Class Action Suit: www.obamacareclassaction.com)
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To: Sacajaweau

Did I ever mention that I turned to salt once?


16 posted on 08/16/2010 3:57:22 PM PDT by animal172 (Where are you America?)
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17 posted on 08/16/2010 3:58:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Red in Blue PA

Salt varieties.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Salt-Varieties-and-Recipes


18 posted on 08/16/2010 4:01:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: ChocChipCookie

Ping.


19 posted on 08/16/2010 4:06:40 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Last year we put in a salt system to replace our chlorine system in our pool. I LOVE it! Much gentler on the pool liner and hoses [and skin].....and so cheap to operate the pool now!


20 posted on 08/16/2010 4:06:54 PM PDT by bohica1
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