do you avoid buying breakfast cereals because they are too salty?

[pointydog]

Just wondered how many people do.

Oh, I didn't realise it was a book. Thought you were going all tabloid on our asses there!

Only buy porridge - cheaper, nutritious and low GI. What more could you want? (For smart *rses who say "flavour", porridge is gorgeous with fruit, spices, etc.)

I like salt too!!!
In the past I have tried to cut down on it and have suffered with cramps.
The salt stays!!!

BFB doesn't mention cereals in particular.

pointy salt is not a bad thing, it is nutritionlly empty, but that doesn't make it bad. As I said, our bodies need salt to live.

There is no actual scientific evidence that it contributes to high cholesterol either.

in answer to the q "which cereals are too salty?" - well that's all in the eye of the beholder I guess, but a bowl of Kellogg's cornflakes has 0.5g of salt, about the same as a packet of crisps, and about a quarter of a three year old's RDA.

That's probably on a par with a slice of toast with butter.

I should start making porridge at weekends. Devil to clean the pan though

I havn't tryed salt on bllox - does it taste good?

I love the taste of unsalted butter. I do like garlic salt though but not on my porridge....

I don't like unsalted butter either. Salt brings out the flavour.

I like my muisli to have more cereals that just oats in it, so like making it with lots of different flakes.

Soak the oats it doesn't stick as much to the pan

that's what I wondered, over. If salt isn't bad, it doesn't really matter. Salted butter I like. I don't put much salt on foods at all.

Ivy bollox are salty enough on their on

pointy just leave the pan to soak for a few hours, then the goop comes off really easily.

"It also helps to preserve the body and in 2000 years time you will be dug up and still be in one piece if you have too much salt in your diet"

Please tell me you know this isn't true Ivy?!

Salt isn't bad for you if you are healthy, but if you have high bp it increases it.

However the problem is that the palate is largely set in childhood, and you don't know whether your child, as an adult, will have a problem with blood pressure or not. If you've given them a taste for very salty food as a child they will find it hard to adjust as an adult.

Salt isn't bad for you, but cutting down on it does no harm - it's just a matter of taste. I hate eating my MIL's cooking because she uses far, far more salt than I do and all her veggies taste like they've been boiled in sea water to me.

I get sainsbury fruit museli and add porridge oats. I only make cooked/hot porridge for dd's as I dont like porridge cooked, but love it rawa and soaked with milk and blueberries

yep it doesn't really matter pointy. Just more a matter of what one is used to. It only matters with baies, who's kidneys are not developed enough to filter our the salt form the bloodstream yet. Our kidneys can manage the task just fine.

Its as true as eating e numbers will make your body glow in 2000 years time

have you always been called overmydeadbody?

Overmydeadbody, what on earth are you talking about, salt doesn't cause health problems? High blood pressure? Causing heart disease?

Why would this be wrong for instance?

at boiled in sea water. You really do need to get the salt just right don't you!

People do die from too little salt in their diets, so being over zealous with cutting it out of the diet could be harmful.

I grew up in a household where salt wasn't used, either in the cooking or on the table. So I have never used salt.

I buy unsalted butter to go with marmite sandwhiches - now that is salty

Hello marymotherofcheese did you get to paris yet?

OMDB I agree that cells need salt to function but not a lot - in fact I challenge you to find one person in the UK who has EVER died from too little salt! There is enough natural sodium in meat etc for our cells to function just fine and a great deal more than we need in the average diet, without the need to salt anything.

I'm not in teh "oo salt is evil" camp, but it's not a health food either

Mary I know what I'm talking about. Just because something's on a government sponsored website doesn't make it right.

There is no actual scientifically proven evidence that people with high salt diets are at increaed risk of heart disease. No studies have found any links either. Personally I believe what I read in medical journals where proper scientific research is published, not government websites.

"People do die from too little salt in their diets, so being over zealous with cutting it out of the diet could be harmful"

You telling us that's a serious risk in the UK?

We do porridge in this house, I like mine with a brown sugar and a bigblob dab if butter on top!