Today's meals were as planned. My roommate came up with a good idea for dinners and I came up with another good plan for lunch. We're near a beach and I'm going to suggest to whomever I eat lunch with that we get take out and go to the beach, where there are a lot of benches and casual restaurants. [edited: we did this every day. one day we went to a restaurant at the beach but they were totally okay with my bringing my lunch.] For dinners, if I go to a nice restaurant, I'll order a salad with nothing on it and then I'll pour my salad with apples and oranges and vinegar & ground sunflower on top. I'll pay the $15+tax+tip to keep the server from telling me I can't bring my food in. Tonight we went to a very casual restaurant and I ordered one of my companion's side dishes which she ate. I ate my salad. No one said anything. Interestingly it was a restaurant that made my favorite southern foods. My companion had red beans & rice, collard greens, and candy yams. Full of salt. I have to admit I have good memories of all this good food, especially southern fried chicken. But I don't really desire it anymore when I think about it, and I make great red beans & rice, collard greens, and sweet potatoes so I was not missing anything. And my salad was great! I feel very energetic eating all these salads.
I felt the salt from the can of beans I had on my lunch salad. My fingers swelled up. I got organic because they had less sodium than even the "low-sodium" brand. Obviously there were no no-salt cans. I didn't rinse them. The can says there's about 450 mg of sodium in a whole can (I ate a whole can every day). Fuhrman says we should consume less than 1000 mg of sodium per day, and this is well under. But I had it all in one sitting, and I must usually consume much less (natural foods have some sodium). Several hours later, I feel fine. [edited: the rest of the days I rinsed the beans and had no problems, I probably also got use to the little extra salt, but it's not much].
We went grocery shopping again and I got some curry powder and cinnamon and a peeler for my apples. And, my roommate has DHA supplements so she gave me some. Now what are the chances of that happening?