Yea Bren, I had to relearn how to cook and shop...cook most stuff from scratch but there ARE items that you can buy that don't have sodium in them. Otherwise you have to make stuff from scratch, but wally world is now carrying frozen and some canned veggies without salt and I found a great bread at krogers in the frozen organic isle that is 100% salt free and is really good, it is a brown bread made with 7-8 different grains but I really like it. Also salt free taco shels, and I found Frontier spices salt free spices for everything from tacos on, so I use those spices and now when I eat something salty it tastes TOO salty and I don't like it. Even my son,. bless his heart, ate my AWFUL cooking until I finally got the hang of it and now he no longer likes salty foods either. It has made a BIG difference in the swelling in my legs (old age) and if I can just get another 30 pounds off I'll feel so much better and h ave so much more energy...I sort of lost it there for a while and gained back about half of what I had lost. I'm not OCD about counting calories now, but I am definitely losing a few pounds by just "cutting back"
Now new baby calves, just the one from last fall, I need to sell her but our local cattle auction closed down, but they are going to put in a SAMs club so that is fine with me. Just have to haul them in the other direction to the only auction i n the area. I swear the dry weather the last two years wiped out the local cow herds, at 70 bucks a big bale to feed them, and with needing to feed hay starting in JULY no one could afford to keep them to raise a calf that wasn't worth $500 so folks sold out or cut way down. Local daires are about gone.
At least the plague of grasshoppers we had as well is GONE this year, have only seen ONE...don't know what wiped out this year's grass hopper hatch but I am SURE GLAD.
I've even developed a SALT FREE PORK SAUSAGE---life without pork sausage is not worth living! LOL