Some people need to pour on the salt for their food to be considered “salty” or “salty enough.” Other people are so sensitive to salt that they hardly ever add it.
When you’re eating, do you usually add salt to your food? We’re talking about when you’re eating it, after the food has been prepared, not while cooking. Thanks!
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Like my wonderful Granny, I like a little food with my salt. And my blood pressure and heart rate is always low.
Can not give it up.
Yes, but not until I taste it first!
Used to salt everything before we even tasted it.
One day we decided to put the salt shaker in the cupboard permanently and go cold turkey. We were amazed at how much better the food tasted. You actually could taste whatever you were eating.
And no more canned vegetables or soups.
No salt on anything. Some variety of pepper on almost everything.
Only if it needs it, or if I am preparing the food.
“Oh My Gawd, where’s the seasoning! ‘
Best Ramsey accent…
Probably out of habit I automatically add salt. Now and then I wish I had tasted it first. Live and learn I guess.
Rarely. Enough salt in all the packaged (processed) foods. Now pepper is a different story.
Low “salt” diet due to quadruple bypass.
The first of this year I stopped completely the use of salt at the table for the sake of my blood pressure. I was a heavy salt user and was sure I could never do that. I do miss the flavor that it brought out in the food. Food now tastes worse without the added salt. But we have to be responsible for our own health. So now it is bland food forever.
I only use NO-SALT to add extra flavoring
I was in the “always” group until about a year ago when health considerations caused me to stop salting. I’ve been using Costco’s “no salt” seasoning mix since then, and don’t miss all the salt one bit…
When you eat KETO lifestyle, you aren’t afraid of salt.
Despite being on 3 blood pressure meds my doctor is ok with my small salt intake. Also being on Keto my BP has come down and I may be able to reduce, come off some meds.
Why is your doctor on 3 blood pressure meds?
Oh, don’t give Marty a hard time, Michael. 😆 Sounds like he’s on the right path to getting off those meds. Keep up the good work, Marty! Y’all have a good night. 🙂 –Diane
Salt to taste! I love salt on cantaloupe
Like some of you, salt no, pepper YES!
Love my PEPPER also. None to very little salt.
Years (as in decades) ago my chief requirement for food was that it not adversely affect my running. In addition to eliminating any spicy food from my diet, I also eliminated seasonings. Fifty-five years later arthritis ended my running, but I have no wish to alter my diet aside from adding purported anti-arthritis foods and supplements.
What a timely survey. I hope this survey gets those of us who suspect they over-indulge (like me) to look into it. I’ve used salt excessively my whole life IMO. Oddly my BP meds include a potassium chloride pill which is also a form of salt. In any case, I’m going to give no-salt seasoning a try.
I add salt to french fries only, sometimes.
We usually taste it after cooking to see if it needs seasoning. It seems our food often has salt added as a preservative.
I haven’t added salt to my food since 1976 when my dad was told to cut all salt from his diet, including everything purchased at grocery store and restaurants. Not a easy thing to do. I do however use pepper and other spices to season.
Salt, pepper, butter on baked potato only and only when with steak, when going out to eat. My guilty pleasure.
Wasn’t it Henry Ford that took potential employees to dinner and he would see if they salted their food before tasting it. If tasted before salting they were good to hire. Maybe not true, but I thought interesting. It may be a “do they make assumptions” thing?
I’ve heard that said but not about Henry Ford. It was somebody hiring a person to make decisions. I use salt to enhance the flavor, not be the flavor.
I rarely do but my hubby with high BP dumps it on~ Ugh
Yes! Salt everything and enjoy it immensely! At age 74, still have low blood pressure and I live to enjoy by not being terrified of others imposed health concerns.
You’re lucky. Almost all Americans, including those who don’t salt their food, get too much salt, especially from prepared foods. Not good for you.
Quality ingredients that are well prepared RARELY need additional seasoning once they reach the table.
Only after tasting it, most of the time Salt is needed.
About the only food I salt is potatoes. Other than that I rarely add any seasoning at the table.
I do use salt on occasion but use herbs and other seasonings to flavor food more often than not.
I would like to see if there was a correlation between salt usage and high blood pressure!
Does “routinely” mean adding salt out or regularly use it? I have ate with many people who automatically reach for the salt before taking a bite. I always taste my food first with the exception of baked potatoes.
I used to salt a lot, but now I rarely do.
My husband was told by a heart doctor to cut back on salt for his health. So, we have, I do the grocery shopping and to find low sodium foods is very hard. We as a people really don’t need to salt our food. These food manufactures do it for you. Just look at the nutrition labels., anything over 140 mgs sodium is too much sodium for the body. His health has gotten better. But there is a lot of foods we can’t eat.