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Keeping in mind how much salt you should be taking if you're on a low-sodium diet,

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I'm just gonna write that here: "Low sodium diet".

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I was thinking, of all the food that I typically like to consume

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and where that fits in the amount that I'm allowed in a given day.

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If I'm on a low sodium diet the amount was about 1500mg of sodium per day.

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This is sodium – not salt, remember.

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If I go through a few foods that'll be fun to figure out how much sodium is in these foods.

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Let's start out with something I had not too long ago:

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I was recently on a road trip and I stopped off on the side of the road

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and I picked up one of my favourite little snacks which was a large carton of fries.

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I had some fries and they were delicious.

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These are large fries.

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I actually love to eat fries with ketchup,

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so I had 5 ketchup packets, so this is one food item.

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Another food item I've had many many times,

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especially when I’m in a big rush and I don't have time to go out and get a proper lunch,

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I'll sit down and grab a cup of noodles.

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I'll grab a cup of noodles and if you had these,

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they are dehadrated noodles that are in here.

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If you like me you'll love them.

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This is a cup of noodles.

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This was another item that I thought would be good to look at.

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The next item or the last item is similar to the cup of noodles.

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It's another cup of noodles but the kind that you might take when you're sick.

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Whenever I'm sick one of the things I always reach for is a pot of water.

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I like to boil up the water and cook a block of noodles inside of it.

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Put the flavoring packet there and these are dehydrated noodles.

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I like to eat those, so these are my dehydrated noodles in a pot of water.

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I call that a block of noodles and I usually eat one whole block at a time with the flavoring.

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I've gotta a few things here: block of noodles, cup of noodles and also my large fries with ketchup.

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I know my limit is 1500mg in a day,

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so how far along do these things get me?

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One by one, let me just tell you the answer.

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The large fries with packets of ketchup – 5 packets, is about 900mg of sodium.

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The cup of noodles is about 1200mg of sodium.

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You can see I'm going up-up-up, so my block of noodles is actually 1600mg of sodium.

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This one puts me over the amount that I'm allowed in a whole day

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and that is usually what I would have just for lunch.

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It's an immense amount of sodium, tonnes of sodium and it got me thinking:

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how in the world, and I'm not actually on a low sodium diet, but if I was...

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How in the world would I be able to do it?

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I was browsing the Internet and I came across a website which I'm gonna share with you.

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It's from the Mayo Clinic.

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I don't want to say this is the only website,

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there'are tonnes of great websites out there,

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but this one website actually got me thinking.

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What I thought is, why don't I figure out what kind of food I could actually get?

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If I was on a low sodium diet, what would make sense?

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I picked out a few things from there

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that I thought would be tasty.

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They have one thing that's a roasted salmon – this is my salmon.

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If I eat a roasted salmon with all of oil and chives, the amount of sodium is 60mg.

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Not bad, right?

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Let's say I wanna eat that with some potatoes – I've got some roasted potatoes over here

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which I love, so does my dad.

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These roasted potatoes get me 7mg of sodium.

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Potatoes are great, salmon is great but I like my vegetables.

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What if I get some asparagus in there?

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Some roasted asparagus and other recipe for mushrooms with a roasted asparagus.

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This meal is looking better and better and if I get some asparagus with the mushrooms

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that's an additional 11mg of sodium, so that's pretty reasonable.

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Since since I'm doing so well

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I was tempted to go to their 'Dessert menu' and I grabbed one of the recipies for apple pie.

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Apple pie is an American favourite, certainly one of my favourites.

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I love to make apple pie and that gets me about 16mg of sodium.

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If I'm totaling all of this up, I've got 60+7+11+16.

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That total comes to...

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94mg of sodium.

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It's 94mg of sodium is well within my limit of 1500mg of sodium per day.

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This is one place you can go to get some good food recommendations.

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As I said there are many many others as well.