I'm going back to table salt

I think the key is to eat a balanced diet, preferably of fresh foods, without excess of anything. It is the hidden fats, sugars, salts etc that are the problem, many processed. prepared and junk foods are a problem. I would not eat meat without fat, it is the fat that adds flavour, topside of beef is a no no for me, rib has so much more flavour.
We don't add sugar or salt to most foods (except salt on my morning porridge)

ps we were advised not to eat fat, butter etc etc
Now they are fine and sugar is the big no-no.

We need some salt in the hot weather particularly if we react to the heat as I do.
I remember going with a friend who was going to work in Nigeria and on the list of essentials were salt tablets.
Lack of salt in hot weather can cause cramp.

I use very little salt when cooking, none at all with vegetables.

I like salt in porridge. I am happy to eat and drink all things in moderation, and enjoy many things that are no longer PC, but taste good. Each to his/her own.

Surely no more amazed than you are that people still smoke, drink too much alcohol and eat fatty and sugary foods...?

Amazed that people are still adding salt to their food after all the advice we are given

Always use Maldon sea salt, and having seen the water in the Blackwater estuary used I try not to think what may be imparting the distinctive flavour. But it was OK for the Romans, so it's ok for me.

I am sorry about any of you pink Himalayan salt fans, but that stuff looks exactly like the stuff that is dug out of the salt mines of Cheshire and poured onto the roads in icy weather.
NaCl with a few other trace elements.

"Himalayan salt is predominantly sodium chloride (95-98%), contaminated with 2–3% polyhalite and small amounts of other minerals.[2][3] The pink color is due to the presence of iron oxide.[3]"

It sounds like emporers new clothes to me.

DH is very good and doesn't add salt to anything, whereas I who also shouldn't either, love sea salt or coarse rock salt, but only on eggs or potato, try not to use it on anything else.

Don't tell him greyduster! I actually emptied out his table salt container and refilled it with Lo-salt and he never noticed! Told him after a couple of months and he had to grudgingly agree that it was acceptable. Sneaky perhaps, but trying to look out for him. He's the same with anything decaffeinated, says it's awful, can't stand it etc, but happily drinks it at DS/Dil's! Think he's just putting up last ditch grumble.

We buy a sea salt grinder from Aldi. no refilling. Just under£1.

I just bash the lumps out of the salt that I keep in a salt pig, bluebelle. It's less cloggy than it was when we first came to live in this house, which had been empty for a year. I reckon just having the house well aired and using heating in a normal way has dried things and the atmosphere out a bit.

Just thought... my salt pig is wooden (beech). I wonder if that makes a difference.

I ve put rice in the salt pot I ve put dried peas I ve tried glass salt sellers metal ones pot ones I ve kept it in the container I bought it in, I ve kept it by the microwave ( hoping it will keep dry) and nothing stops it clogging up How do you handle it Thatbags ......I don't remember it ever being like this before I live in the same house my Nan had when I was a kid and never remember cloggy salt are they missing something out or putting something in?.

My mum used to put rice in table salt!

I use cornish sea salt in grinders and in a salt 'pig' by the cooker. I have tried all sorts of grinders but find that good quality ones last longer than others. I don't actually know where the table salt is, if we have any?

The only salt I use is whatever's required for bread making and an occasional recipe where it seems essential. I've had the same tub of Saxa salt for years and years!

I use coarse sea salt in a grinder and have never had a problem with it clogging, but we were in a restaurant recently and they had to bring three different grinders before they found one that wasn't clogged. DH likes salt on his food. I have been fighting a losing battle for years to get him to stop, and he won't countenance low sodium salt. I use next to none in cooking so I'm hoping that helps! I also put rice in with table salt. It does work.

We have a pair of Crush Grind ceramic salt and pepper mills. They are several years old and have never clogged. Always use Maldon sea salt.

Just realised that what I just wrote is a tad misleading. We do use salt, on slugs and icy paths.

Glad you said that Katek, was beginning to think it was only us who don't use salt, except on chips that is. Pepper, now that's a different matter.

Aha! Thanks, chelseababy! I'll try that.

I don't add salt to anything, never have. and I've got DH on Lo-salt following his cardiac events.

In Greece they put rice in with the salt to keep it dry.

Same here re cloggy salt in old house, bluebelle. Sugar too. Just life in a wet climate where we are. Humidity is always high here.

I like Himalayan salt too but whatever I buy clogs up within a couple of days I know I m in an old Victorian house but in the middle of a hot summer I don't get it

Wiki thinks it's nearly all sodium chloride but with a few bits and bobs of "contaminants". I'll stick with the cheapo stuff then. Just another fad.