Korma Sauce

My family would eat "rice and sauce" for dinner seven nights a week, if I let them. I like simmer sauces because they make most meals three ingredient meals -- protein, sauce, starch. (I usually add a fruit and vegetable, too!) It's hard to find lower sodium simmer sauces, but there are some out there. They are great because they have already done the thinking (how much salt? what other spices?) for you, not to mention a fast way to get dinner on the table.

My new lower sodium pantry staple is Seeds of Change Korma sauce (290 mg sodium/serving). I've made it twice, both with chicken (their website has a recipe for prawn korma that looks yummy too). It's a pretty thick gloppy sauce -- not really enough to provide gravy for your rice -- so the second time I diluted it with a can of lite coconut milk. With that addition, we had a mild, flavorful sauce that everyone liked. (The big girl ate two servings!)




nutritional information from Organic Direct.

Restaurant Success

Our neighborhood joint -- Waterloo Ice House -- is just two blocks away, and it's a weekly visit for us on days where we are to tired to cook and need someone else to take care of us, if just for one meal. While it is heavy on the fryer (the Big Girl always gets chicken tenders and fries and the Husband usually gets wings and black beans), they have a number of options that work well for the fat and calorie inclined. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to estimate the amount of sodium in restaurant food (other than "a lot"), so I'd been avoiding it.

After some thought, however, I managed to put together a meal that I think is both "countable" and low sodium: a baked potato.

I asked for it plain, no butter (and was absolutely going to send it back if it had come with butter), with the fixings in the side. What I got was a plain baked potato that I don't think they could have snuck any salt in (you tell me if I'm wrong!), and two ounce cups of sour cream, chives, cheddar cheese, and bacon bits. The cups (which were labeled "2 oz" on the bottom) meant I could estimate how much I was getting. I added all of the sour cream, cheese, and chives. I used the Daily Plate feature at Livestrong.com to figure the nutritional information: 377 mg of sodium.


Boring and not the healthiest meal, but when we go to Waterloo comfort is on the menu, and a nice carb loaded potato with fixings (and a glass of wine, natch) is just what I'm in the mood for. Added bonus? Potatoes are a good, natural source of potassium, which helps balance the sodium in your diet.

image: Potatoes Goodness Unearthed