Today I craved salt and ate....

[sprouts2go]

I ate potato chips. OH NO!! I really wanted something crunchy and salty and I don't own a dehydrator yet. If I had been home I would have baked some natural sweet potato chips being as those probably were not as bad as store bought. What can I eat to replace this craving? Remember NO dehydrator here yet.
Jean

[Veronica01]

salt is not really a natural thing to eat by itself, maybe if you want some salt and a crunch eat celery with a home made spread or dressing, or try eating juicy sweet fruit to quelch the craving.

[RawHeaven]

Celery juice or eat celery. (you'll get both the crunch and the natural sodium). :)

try Alissa's mock salmon recipe. You will love it! you can put it on a salad, spread it on a (raw) cracker or eat it solo. if it's the sodium that you're struggling with, the flavor will help.

Over time, celery will help you heal the imbalance

And drink more water, juices.

Get Juicy.

Good luck.

[T-Bird]

I make my flax crackers in the fridge. It take about 3-5 days for them to get crisp, but since they're refrigerated - they don't spoil. I make fudgy breakfast bars in the fridge too, just takes a while....

[Coolexplosion]

I ate potato chips. OH NO!! I really wanted something crunchy and salty and I don't own a dehydrator yet. If I had been home I would have baked some natural sweet potato chips being as those probably were not as bad as store bought. What can I eat to replace this craving? Remember NO dehydrator here yet.
Jean

That's it, you're off the island.

Seriously though, it's cool. The fridge flax cracker idea is probably your best bet.

T-Bird: Recipe please?

[juliebove]

When I was a kid, my mom used to give me a whole large carrot and salt in a little cup. The object was to dip the carrot in the salt, then take a bite.

These days I use baby carrots with a little olive oil and coarse salt. Yummy!

[T-Bird]

I don't have a recipe per se.

Soak the flax overnight, allow them to feel sprouty for 24 hours,

Mix with tasty ingredients of choice: garlic, red pepper, parsley whisked up in the blender with a bit of water, or veggie bits from the juicer pulp, salt - whatever is tasty to you.

I have these nylon mesh squares, place on a tray (I have trays with holes in them...put it on whatever will give the most circulation both sides....) mix the tasty stuff with the flax really good, then spread a thin layer on the mesh with a spatula.

Put in the fridge for about 24-36 hours......

Then score into your cracker shape using a butter knife or hard spatula....

Back in the fridge for 24-36......

flip over and gently remove the mesh....this is a delicate operation!

Back in fridge until they're crunchy - could be another day or so. keep flipping - esp if you don't have really holey trays of some type, lol!

Talk about planning ahead....:cool:

[rawlight]

It may not make much sense, but when I crave potato chips, I eat a handful of pumpkin seeds and that does the trick.

[kaybee]

Dulse seaweed chewed up with brazil nuts or almonds. use the "whole pieces" of dulse so you can tear some off, not the flakes. hits the salt craving and its "good for you" form of salt because its part of the food. dulse tastes salty but not really "fishY", which is good.

[LisaCorine]

I have been craving salt and increasingly eating more of it since December. The doctor has taken blood to test my adrenal function and I waiting for the results. I haven't been well so I am really hoping this pin points the issue and will resolve the problems I've been experiencing!

*** If your salt craving continues...you might want to have yourself checked out too! ***

[sprouts2go]

T-Bird,
I don't have any fine mesh but can I use a baking stone? They draw moisture away from the foods in the oven,so maybe it would work in the fridge.Or does it need to have air from all sides? I obviously have never dehydrated before.
Thanks,
Jean

[Myca]

You know what? I am not so sure salt is not 'a natural' thing to eat. What I do believe is that Americans eat way too much of it. All that aside, I have seen people drop their sodium level. If you are craving salt, and you have not been eating salt, maybe your body needs a tad.
funny thing was, I was at Publix just yesterday staring at the chips...I know that I have not been away from sodium long enough to drop it so I finally got a grip and made myself leave them there. :p
Yesterday was a very bad day for me. Today is so much better.

So I have a question...Can we dehydrate potatoes and make our own chips?
Myca

[contessa20]

So I have a question...Can we dehydrate potatoes and make our own chips?
Myca

Yes, in the beginning I sliced plain, white potatoes, sprinkled on some salt and dehydrated them. They taste very starchy to me even when I soaked them for a few days first. My personal "chip fix" food is now kale chips massaged with just a bit of olive oil and sea salt. They are, in my opinion, 1000 times better than potato chips, popcorn or any other salty snack.

[T-Bird]

Sprouts2go,

You could try it!

the mesh is really just like screen material - I reckon you could buy some at a hardware store? Or maybe something from a fabric store?

[notwell]

matter of flax has good snacks light crackers, hummus, tomato chips. nuts u can make with salt. love force-ive made pizza with this thats really really good. i dont have a dehydrator either so i have to rely on stuff i can buy on the internet.

[sprouts2go]

NOTWELL-Those look like great sites. Thank you

[Myca]

My personal "chip fix" food is now kale chips massaged with just a bit of olive oil and sea salt. They are, in my opinion, 1000 times better than potato chips, popcorn or any other salty snack.

I'm interested in hearing more about this...Kale chips.
Could you explain how to make them please.
Starchy white potato slices do not sound appealing.

[contessa20]

I'm interested in hearing more about this...Kale chips.
Could you explain how to make them please.
Starchy white potato slices do not sound appealing.

There are lots of recipes on RFT for kale chips. I like mine simple though. All I do is take a huge bag of kale from BJ's, de-stem it and throw it in a bowl. Pour some Extra Virgin Olive Oil over the top and sprinkle on some Himalayan sea salt. You don't need much of either of these; a little really does go a long way. Now use your hands to massage it all into the kale so that each piece is lightly coated with olive oil and salt. You'll be able to easily feel it with your hands. Place the coated kale on dehydrator trays, set the dehydrator to 110 or less and let it run overnight. By morning you will have dark green and nicely crisp kale chips that are ready to eat. In my opinion, they taste like popcorn and satisfy absolutely any craving I have for chips.

I've also made raw ranch dressing and massaged that into the kale for ranch kale chips. That was good too but I really love the olive oil/salt ones the best.

[xPIXIEx]

I've also made raw ranch dressing and massaged that into the kale for ranch kale chips. That was good too but I really love the olive oil/salt ones the best.

That sounds so good. Guess I know what I'll be doing with the kale in my fridge. :D

Thanks for the tip!

[rawstrength]

I personally find that my body needs and craves salt. Try adding sea salt to all your salads and drinking miso broth. Your cravings for salty cooked foods will disappear once you have salty raw foods. take care!

[mongodelight]

i at raw 6 weeks 100%. I added seasalt. I wondered why the damn blains are still there. I read salt is the reason. I removed salt. Now i enjoy my salads much more and the blains are gone in 2 weeks time.

We re salt junkies because we re all eaten mineral deficient food for decades. Thats why we crave salt. Our body is desperate.We need to crunch that deficiency with superfoods every day.

Minerals are not found in watery light green grocery greens.

My dogma is to eat goji berries and cacao every day. And a pound of wild greens(a beech leaf contains maybe 30 minerals. Grocery lettuce contains often times 3 minerals. U dont get very far on 3 minerals(NPK-fertilizer)

[T-Bird]

Mongo,

Where do you live???

Are you foraging your wild greens? Growing them yourself? combo???

[mongodelight]

I am living in the low mountain range in mid germany, a small town, kassel. We have one attraction that is the biggest most spectacular mountain park in europe

http://www.documenta12.de/fileadmin/img/PK_Austellungsarchitektur/Bergpark_Wilhelmshoehe.JPG

http://kassel06.dpg-tagungen.de/pix/bergpark.jpg

I am living 3000 meters from that place. The park has great trees and great spots too chill out.

Its a 1000 meters walk to the forest, there are also several green edible wild foods in my garden growing. I know ca. 30 wild sources and its just the beginning. In Germany there are only 3 (grace, sunfood, beauty) books availabe. I want his knowledge. Can you learn a lot at bestdayever.com?

[Myca]

When I was a kid, my mom used to give me a whole large carrot and salt in a little cup. The object was to dip the carrot in the salt, then take a bite.

These days I use baby carrots with a little olive oil and coarse salt. Yummy!

Oh, that sounds so good!