Reply #1: The sodium content is terrible.

[Denninmi]

Both in foods cooked in restaurants and in foods I've seen chefs prepare on cooking shows. I really watch it, because my mother has heart disease and has had a couple of bouts of fluid on the lungs nows, although not serious at this point.

The other night, I was watching something on Create, I believe it was Sarah Moultin's Weeknight Meals in 30 Minutes. She was going to boil some kind of vegetable (maybe asparagus or pea pods), and she threw a TREMENDOUS fistful of salt into the cooking water. Granted, I doubt that the vegetables absorb all that much of it based on the volume of water in the pan, but it was completely unnecessary, IMO, to add ANY salt at the point.

Yes, it's pretty hard to get much in the way of healthy food when eating out, unless you specifically request it and have something done up "custom" with little or no salt, as little fat as possible, or if you do order off the menu, you are selective about just what you order and which foods or parts of foods on the plate you eat.