Suggestions for *high* sodium easy recipes or snacks

[untonuggan]

*waves* Hi community! I'm looking for advice on how to fit moar sodium into my diet. I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and one of the most helpful things for me not falling down and feeling super dizzy is to eat 3-4 grams of sodium per day.

Challenges:

• As I grew up in a household that cooked a very low sodium diet, my palate is adjusted to eating about 1.5 grams of sodium per day. I am used to not salting anything in my cooking, and basically added salt usually tastes gross except for in specific contexts where I'm used to it (e.g. soy sauce with sushi, olives, etc.).
• The last time I did much (any) cooking was December, right when I was comfort cooking because my dog died. And then I got food poisoning (long story), had to go to the ER four times, and saga that lasted til early February.
• I have been wanting to go vegetarian, or at least less meat-consuming, but this is hard to do with other concerns. Also, salted meat (like jerky or salami) is an easy way to get lots of salt.
• My appetite is just...terribad. I'm not sure exactly why, if it's the POTS (which can impact appetite) or something else, but anyway. Eating more sodium will help with the POTS which will probably help with my appetite long term, but short term it is *very* hard to find anything with sodium I want to put in my mouth and chew and swallow. Or if I do, it's either potato chips (unsustainable) or the next day I no longer want to eat whatever I just ate.
• My partner has threatened to make me drink soy sauce or some horrible soy-miso concoction every day if I don't come up with some recipes or at least snacks I will eat regularly so that I get enough sodium.

With that being said, does anyone have any suggestions for SUPER EASY for someone with about zero energy recipes/mixes with salt (or where salt could be added without grossness) and/or easy snacks that are prepackaged but not full of preservatives or what have you that I can grab'n'go that will also help add salt to my diet?

Comments

[fred_mouse]

things that I can handle as being very salty: tapenade, anchovies, tomato paste, miso, (vegemite), cup-a-soup, commercial stock (can be used to 'poach' vegies in, and then drink that and eat the vegies), salad dressings, seaweed snacks (I find the best seaweed snacks are at our local Korean store, but the Japanese one has some good ones as well), all sorts of pickles (we have on average 6 types in the fridge - possibly including but not limited to beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, capers, olives, and giardiniera).

other thoughts: salted caramel? baking with bicarb soda? salt tablets? two minute noodles? dukkah made with extra salt? (we put this on everything).

I've acquired a chopped greens recipe that I'm planning on making good use of over the summer, that takes ~1 generous tsp of salt, 1/4 cup of oil, and 2-4 cups of chopped greens (whatever you can get. We mostly do kai lan or bok choy, but the book we got it from basically listed every type of leafy greens they could think of). Mix oil and salt, drop greens in a bit at a time, mash around. This counts as 'cooking' the green, so it is supposedly easier to then digest. Plus, salty.

(and I have in the past resorted to drinking salted water - for some reason I can tolerate this when I can't tolerate salted foods)