Pizza!!!!!

So for almost a year, since I found out I had to cut back on pizza. The sodium levels in pizza crusts, pepperoni , or sausage is so high that all I can have is one piece of a veggie pizza from Pizza Hut or two from Papa Murphy's . But now, thanks to Pastorelli's no salt crust , I can make my own sauce from no salt tomato paste and spices, fresh veggies, cooked ground pork and mozzarella cheese and voila - Pizza!
If you want, you can even make a breakfast pizza with cream cheese, scrambled eggs and cooked low-sodium bacon. Top with Swiss cheese and in just 7 minutes you have pizza!
The only place I have found these crusts is World Market. They are $4.99 for three crusts.
Pick up some and see what healthy and low-sodium options you can make.

"I always buy 'brand X' and always will..." YEAH RIGHT!

If you grew up like I did, Mom and Dad always bought the same brands of anything... Hellmans Mayo,  Hienz Ketchup, and Kraft American Cheese... well now that I wear the big boy pants and am living the LOW SODIUM LIFESTYLE, I can't shop that way anymore.... by the way my mom still buys only certain brands; no matter what. Mayonaise for example; most of the national brands are higher in sodium than the store brands.... and don't buy fat free or low fat, they are always higher. Kroger Value Brand is at 75mg for 1T.   In fact OreIda brand of french fries are about 300mg per serving; whereas Kroger's Value brand of fries are 25mg for a serving. And some brands of frozen veggies... can have up to 100mg of sodium for 3oz serving. Krogers store brand has ZERO in most of their basic veggies (corn, peas, carrots and green beans and brocolli). Watch those bottles of juice too, some brands such as Ocean Spray cranberry juice can have up to 50mg of sodium a 8oz glass... but if you buy frozen and make it yourself... it usually comes in at Zero.

Kroger has a Low sodium bread, that is their brand... none of the major bread bakers seem to have one to offer... at least not at Meijer, Walmart, or Marsh.  Again, it comes down to reading labels, and knowing what you can buy and can't.