Sometimes... we just don't have the time to make everything homemade.

If the label says... LOW FAT... those who can not, or should not eat meals with salt... BE AWARE... most low fat items are higher in sodium than the regular brand. Choose the lower sodium item... but remember to conitue to watch your fat intake.

Three things in the market place today make food taste good... SALT, SUGAR and FAT. If you take one away, or lower it... they seem to increase one of the others... learn to watch the labels.

The products we've found... are lower in sodium than other brands... BUT... some are high in fat... some can be eaten... as long as you watch the amount of fat you eat. Some should only be eaten once in a great while.

Item	Brand Name	Store Found	Soduim
Baby Corn	Kame	Krogers	10mg
Bacon	Lightlife	JP Natural Foods Saline, Mich	15mg
Beans	Eden	several stores	15mg
Bread	Aunt Millie's	several stores	85mg
Breadsticks	Stella Doro	Farmer Jacks	40mg
Browning Sauce	Kitchen Bouquet	several stores	10mg
Clams	Geisha	Meijers	60mg
Cottage Cheese	Deans	Meijers - Ypsilanti Carpenter Rd	15mg
Corn Meal	Quacker	Farmer Jacks	0mg
Crackers	CVS	CVS	110mg
Crab	Crown Prince	JP Natural Foods Saline, Michigan	210mg
Dips	Home-Style Foods	Farmer Jacks	78mg
Donuts	Rich's	Krogers	40mg
Eggroll Wraps	Melissa's	Country Market Brooklyn	18mg
Flour Tortillas	Manny's	Meijers	110mg
Ketchup	Heinz	Meijers	5mg
Milk	Bareman's	Foodland Tecumseh	110mg
Mozzarella	Mozzarella	Mozzarella Co.	no salt
Mushroom Broth	Pacific	Krogers	230mg
Nuts	Krogers	Krogers	0mg
Nut Mix	Busch's	Busch's	0mg
Peanut Butter	Arrowhead Mills	Krogers	0mg
Potato Chips	Terra	Krogers Farmer Jacks	65mg
Salsa	Green Mountain	Meijers - Ypsilanti Carpenter Rd	85mg
Sardines	King Oscar	Meijers	70mg
Scallops	Ocean's Original	sorry... forgot where I bought them	140mg
Shrimp	Krogers	Krogers	70mg
Sour Cream	Breakstone	several stores	15mg
Soups	Campbells	Meijers Foodland	varies
Spaghetti Sauce	Steff	FoodTown - Milan	190mg
Soy Sauce	Angostura	Krogers	390mg
Spices	several brands	several stores	0mg
Sweet & Sour Sauce		Healthy Heart Market	50mg
Tomatoes	Del Monte	several stores	50mg
Tomato Puree	Contadina	several stores	20mg
Tomato Sauce	America's Choice	Farmer Jacks	15mg
Tuna	Star Kist	Meijers	50mg
Veggie Juice	R.W.Knudsen	Farmer Jacks	35mg
Worcestershire Sauce	Angostura	Krogers	20mg

Items listed below can be found in many shops

Promise Margarine (blue container) ... 55mg - 1 tablespoon
Promise Margarine (red container) 70mg - 1 tablespoon
I Can't Believe it's Not Butter (spary bottle) 0mg salt

Edy's Vanilla Ice Cream... 30mg sodium - 1/2 cup serving
Sherbet Ice Cream... many brands 15mg sodium - 1/2 cup serving

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables ... low in sodium
Frozen Fruits and Vegetables... many low in sodium
(those with butter, cream & sauces are high in sodium)
Canned Fruits... no salt or low salt
Jelly and Jams... no salt or low salt

Canned Vegetables - You'll find many low salt/no salt vegetables Meijers is a great place to find DelMonte and Hunts low salt - no salt brands... no salt peas (I like fresh pea pods), spinach (Popeye no salt added ... yum), corn (I like the frozen corn better), cream corn (yum), green beans (I like fresh beans better), stewed and diced tomatoes (yum) and more.

No Salt Added... this means that they did not add any salt ... but... there may be sodium found in the natural fresh foods... such as the Popeye no salt added spinach... has 35mg sodium per 1/2 cup servings.

I Can't Believe it's Not Butter spray... boil up some asparagus... and spray with the butter spray on each piece just before you eat them ... oh yum... nice and buttery tasting! Use this butter spray on other vegetables... popcorn... bread.