Good Recipe to Share with Friends on the Mend??? - Page 3

Quackeroo · ‎02-18-2011

Summer is a good time to cook extra brats, burgers or chicken on the grill and share with friends on the mend.

Then all you need to add is a nice pasta salad or baked beans or veggie salad or potato salad, etc. Cut-up watermelon makes a refreshing dessert.

~Quack

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

Many times I will send a loaf of homemade bread. Everyone loves that.

Financialgrl · ‎03-13-2010

@VaBelle35 wrote:
When a friend of mine had shoulder surgery, I made hearty soups for her in individual serving frozen FoodSaver packets so she could either microwave, boil in the bag or warm up on the stove.

None were low sodium or heart healthy so they would not work for this person.

I've done this as well. It's so easy to make soups low sodium so that shouldn't be a problem. Dad moved in with me and he was to have limited salt. Just a few changes can drastically lower sodium in homemade soups. Dad's doctor suggested these simple things:

Use fresh veggies if you can and if not in season, use frozen ones with no sauce; no canned veggies cuz those are loaded with salt. If I use frozen, I pour boiling water over them before adding to crockpot so as not to dilute the soup.

Use the powder version of all "salt spices" like garlic salt, onion salt, etc.which all have a powder form or use the real thing - real garlic, real onion, real celery, etc.

I season the flour that I dredge boneless chuck steak I've cut into cubes with salt, pepper and garlic powder and add low sodium beef stock and whatever veggies I want. In dad's case, the doctor said low salt does not mean no salt but I just needed to use it very sparingly.

vabreeze · ‎03-09-2010

@Financialgrl wrote:
@VaBelle35 wrote:
When a friend of mine had shoulder surgery, I made hearty soups for her in individual serving frozen FoodSaver packets so she could either microwave, boil in the bag or warm up on the stove.

None were low sodium or heart healthy so they would not work for this person.
I've done this as well. It's so easy to make soups low sodium so that shouldn't be a problem. Dad moved in with me and he was to have limited salt. Just a few changes can drastically lower sodium in homemade soups. Dad's doctor suggested these simple things:

Use fresh veggies if you can and if not in season, use frozen ones with no sauce; no canned veggies cuz those are loaded with salt. If I use frozen, I pour boiling water over them before adding to crockpot so as not to dilute the soup.

Use the powder version of all "salt spices" like garlic salt, onion salt, etc.which all have a powder form or use the real thing - real garlic, real onion, real celery, etc.

I season the flour that I dredge boneless chuck steak I've cut into cubes with salt, pepper and garlic powder and add low sodium beef stock and whatever veggies I want. In dad's case, the doctor said low salt does not mean no salt but I just needed to use it very sparingly.

There are quite a few canned goods that you can use in making soup that are labeled "no salt"-- corn, peas, tomatoes, green beans, black beans, etc. Without stopping to go check my pantry, off the top of my head, I know DelMonte has no-salt canned veggies.