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Grilled cheese and SO much sodium?
So, I'm trying to keep my sodium intake low - well, at least below the RDA that's on all the nutrition labelling and such. Anyways, I was looking at the nutrition stuff on the bread and cheese I use, and two slices of bread have 7% of the 'recommended' sodium per slice and cheese has 9% per slice, so a typical grilled cheese sandwich has 33% of the recommended daily sodium! But I eat way more than three times that much food in a day (and I can't cut back on food consumption altogether cause I can't afford to lose any weight).
So, since my bread seems to be as low-sodium as I can find, and I barely use any butter, I was wondering what other lower-sodium cheeses I could use? FYI, I'm currently using Lactaid brand, but I could always use another brand and take the lactase supplements, and I'm also open to trying other kinds of cheese than American in my sandwich.
Thanks for the answers so far, everyone...
Joanne: I'm doing this cause my doctor suggested it to help with some health issues I have, with the kinds of food I like I'd never have thought of it on my own - and I do use idoized salt and salted butter when I cook. Although I've given up on salty snacks and stuff, grilled cheese is both cheap and easy and relatively non-flammable (my cooking skills = epic fail).
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- The Fat ManLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Don't eat the cheese.
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Source(s): ~The Fat Man - ?Lv 45 years ago
Nobody has ever died from eating a grilled cheese sandwich. Make it with wheat bread if you want, maybe use as little butter as possible and add lettuce or tomato to it if you like the taste, but don't go nuts. Just make it and enjoy it - life is too short to wonder if one grilled cheese sandwich will have a serious impact on your health. It won't, so live a little. Use two slices of cheese, drink a glass of whole milk with it. Cheese, butter, white bread - they aren't AS healthy as some other alternatives, but they are far from UN-healthy as well.
- 1 decade ago
If you're trying to keep your salt intake low, cutting out grilled cheeses would be best. If you are having trouble giving it up, I'd say just use less cheese. Part skim mozzarella has a bit less sodium. I work in nutrition in a hospital and for patients on sodium restricted diets, we give them swiss cheese.
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- JaneLv 71 decade ago
cheese in general has a lot of sodium, nature of the way it is produced. i did a google search for low sodium cheese and found many brands. you may with to do a similar search and see which brands are available in your area. or you can just pull up a chair at the cheese display at the grocery store and start reading.
- TheEditorLv 61 decade ago
The amount of salt in "salted butter" is not standardized. The same brand can vary wildly in it's concentration, let alone in different brands. Buy un-salted butter and add your own so you can control the amount.
For grilled cheese - take a tart apple or a Fuji apple and use your box-grater to cut thin slices. Put 3-4 see-through slices on the toasted cheese sandwich for crunch and a hint of sweet/tart.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Never ever stop taking salt unless your doctor tells you to. You can damage your body big time. We all need the iodine that is in salt.
What you might want to do is not add any more salt than what is already in food.