What are your favorite high-fat, low(ish)-sodium snacks or meals?

[Slapshot]

I'm convinced that sodium impacts me and water retention more than most, regardless of the amount of water I drink. In my job, I often find myself in court 4 or 5 hours at a time with no bathroom breaks, so while I try and drink as much water as I can, there's a window during the day where I can't drink as much as others do.

I'd appreciate recommendations for your favorite ways to keep your fats up, but without all of the sodium found in many high fat foods, such as bacon.

Thanks very much!

(Moderators: oops, I posted this in the wrong forum - I probably should have put it in the main forum - sorry about that).

[liv]

It is good to watch the salt for sure

Some suggestions
Eggs, cooked chicken dipped in mayo, avocado, veggies with cream cheese

I am sure others have more.

[em200]

my personal favourite as a treat is an ounce of cheese melted with a bit of crumbled bacon...for a low sodium option id go for cheese melted over onion

[not2late]

I really don't have an appetite for snacks anymore, so I rarely need to eat anything between meals. If I do, I go for unsalted nuts since I'm almost in Maintenance Phase.

For quick meals, I like eggs for supper----eggs baked in a tomato sauce/salsa or frittattas. Eggs baked in tomato sauce is super-duper easy----put tomato sauce/salsa into a microwave safe bowl, break in as many eggs as you want. Pierce the yolks with a fork. Then microwave until the eggs are set. Top with some extra-virgin olive oil---yummy!

[Slapshot]

Thanks for these tips, everyone. Sounds like eggs, olive oil and mayo are the way to go for me to up the fat intake without the sodium...That's what I suspected, but wanted to make sure there were no other obvious solutions out there...thanks again!

[not2late]

There are others, like chicken, pork, beef, lamb, etc. But for the fast meals, eggs are fast.

I also like sauteeing ground meat with onion and a bit of garlic. Depending how I feel, I spice it up with chili powder or a real chili like jalapeno and eat it rolled in lettuce or as a taco salad thing. Sometimes I'll add shredded cabbage, bean sprouts, celery and flavor it with ginger root and soy and roll it up a nori sheet or eat it with a fried egg on top. Sometimes I'll sautee mushrooms and onions with it and mix in sour cream for a quick stroganoff.

[Slapshot]

Hmm. Another good suggestion. I'm halfway through induction. What % ground beef would you suggest? 80? 85?

Thanks again Megs. I appreciate the chiming in...

[not2late]

Whatever percentage you like I don't pay much attention to that because I buy my ground beef from an old-time butcher and he doesn't label them any percentages.

[Slapshot]

Got it - I'll start with the 85 and go from there.

Also, re-reading this thread just gave me an obvious idea. Chicken salad! That one was staring me right in the face!

[SunnySmile501]

If you feel you are sensitive to salt, then you need to only use unprocessed sea salt with all the minerals in it. We have done to table salt what has been done to flour, vegetable oils and sugar. The harsh high-temperature processing and bleaching takes all the good stuff out, like iodine, magnesium and potassium, and leaves just the sodium.

A doctor named Henry Bieler did research and found evidence of sodium starvation in the tissues of people who consumed large amounts of refined salt.

Everyone needs some salt, but it needs to be the right kind. It's when the balance of sodium, potassium and magnesium get out of balance that there is a problem. In "unrefined" sea salt, there is still plenty of those minerals to balance the sodium chloride. Just because it says sea salt doesn't mean it hasn't been refined and had all the trace minerals removed. I only use Redmond RealSalt. I would buy the Celtic sea salt mined by the ancient methods, from the salt marshes of Brittany if I could find it.

I am one of the people that suffered from a sodium-potassium-magnesium imbalance, which caused me to store huge amounts of fluid to protect what sodium I had in my body. You can store fluid as much from low blood sodium as you will high sodium. My doctor was always telling me I needed to eat more salt, but eating more refined salt never helped. Since I started using unrefined sea salt, I have not had low blood sodium or low potassium even one time. I have blood work done every 90 days and have had for the last 10 years, so it is very well tracked.

Remember, too, that if you are doing Atkins with mostly whole, unprocessed foods, you will be consuming way less sodium, because processed foods are loaded with refined salt. You will still do well to stay away from processed foods that contain a lot of refined salt.