salt for curing olives?

[kaybee]

i just got a small container of fresh green olives, at whole foods of all places. i want to cure them and looked at the curing thread, but just wondering, someone mentioned pickling salt... where would i get it and is it unrefined or is it just as bad for us as table salt? just wondering because the celtic sea salt is so expensive and if you need a quarter of a cup per quart each week for at least 3 weeks, that sort of adds up...any other "safe" alternatives? sorry, just on a kinda tight budget right now.

thanks
kaybee

[lafsalot]

I'm using sea salt. Yes, it is rather expensive, but in view of what I had been paying for prepared raw olives before, I'll will be saving a lot of money in the long run. ~ Cathy

[Bananapie]

Kosher salt is non iodized. Or..I use the hain sea salt for all our home made krauts and kim chee