Healthy dessert

One of our favorites is the frozen banana. I cut them in half and stick a popsicle stick through the bottom. Dunk them in Stonyfield organic strawberry yogurt. Coat them with Kashi lean crunch cereal. Freeze them. They heal a sweet tooth and the kids can have them for breakfast!

All natural, low sodium pizza

I have found plenty of all natural recipes online. The problem is that sodium is a natural ingredient! Our all natural, organic, low sodium adventure started 3 months ago with a call from my husbands dental surgeon. His blood pressure had been up for the last few years. Hovering at about 150/90. Right at the beginning of needing medication. We thought that if we stopped adding salt to our meals at the dinner table we would be ok. Back in March, my husband had to have a wisdom tooth surgically removed. That night the ACTUAL DENTAL SURGEON called. He said he was concerned about Dave's blood pressure. That really got my attention. Apparently not adding salt from the shaker was not enough. That got me looking at labels. That got me noticing all of the other crap that was in there with the sodium. Then, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution aired on t.v. This all happened in the span of a couple of days. Things just happened to line up in a way that lit a fire under my butt!


All Natural, Low Sodium Pizza

Start with my recipe for crust
For the toppings
Sauce - RedPack 100% natural crushed tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano. These crushed tomatoes have the least sodium with BEST taste I have found. 90mg per 1/4 serving. I use this on our pasta as well, straight from the can with nothing else added. DELICIOUS!
Chopped FRESH veggies (nothing from a can, we do kinda miss pepper rings and black olives) - tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, red onion...
Low fat mozzarella - at about 180mg sodium per serving, it's not to bad. I just noticed that shredded swiss has alot less, 60mg per serving. The next time I make anything with shredded cheese I'm going to try to add half swiss to cut down on the sodium and see how it tastes.

Bake at 425 until cheese is nice a golden.

My son had 5 pieces when I made this! Did I mention that he is probably going to grow 9 inches this summer the way he has been eating!

All natural low sodium recipes that WORK!

It's been 3 months since my family has gone all natural, organic, low sodium. My husbands blood pressure is down! I've lost 17 Pd's.! We have a ton more energy! Quite a few people have asked about recipes. I'll try to pass on what I've learned these past months. There has been alot of trial and error. It's very frustrating when you have a recipe box full of your families favorites that have to be tweaked to fit in with your new life style. Some did not work so well. Like our FAVORITE Ravioli Soup with spinach and tomatoes. Sounds very healthy right. Not when you looked at the sodium content. I substituted with low sodium organic chicken broth, no sodium added canned tomatoes, skipped the Campbell's cream of chicken & poultry seasoning and basically ended up with ravioli, spinach, & tomato water! I've since learned that compromising on a few ingredients is ok, like the organic chicken broth that's not low sodium, and the sodium content will still be way down.

Stuffed Pepper Soup
1 pd. 96% lean ground beef or turkey
1 diced onion
4 gloves minced garlic

Brown meat with onions & garlic. Mix in all other ingredients and simmer for 30-45 minutes.

Yellow, red, green pepper - diced
1 28oz. can crushed low sodium all natural tomatoes (RedPack has a 100% natural crushed tomatoes with basil, garlic, & oregano that has 90 mg of sodium per 1/4 cup serving. It's DELICIOUS!)
2 cups organic beef broth (not the low sodium..I know, I know, but it still has far less than non organic)
2 cups water
1 cup uncooked brown rice
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 Tbsp organic cane sugar
1 Tbsp molasses
pepper, red pepper seed, ground celery salt to taste