500 15-Minute Low Sodium Recipes: Fast and Flavorful Low-Salt Recipes that Save You Time, Keep You on Track, and Taste Delicious Paperback – July 1, 2012

Speaks about low sodium diets and what to look for and what to avoid. Then it has many easy recipes. I have only tried one for salad dressing and it was very good.

Very good recipes.

Good health choice meals that you can make fairly quick.

I was so happy someone recommended this book! It has normal recipes - barbecue sauce, baked beans- even Chinese food all LOW sodium! Believe me when you get a diagnosis that your life depends on lowering sodium- you do it even if you give up all the food you’ve eaten your whole life. This book gives it back to me!

Loved the variety that offer multiple selections for my picky mothers strict diet.

I've only made a couple of things from this book so far, but at least for a novice cook like me the recipes actually take much longer than 15 minutes to create. The 15 minutes is only if you have pre-made items on hand already (e.g. sauces made ahead of time in another section of the book). For example, I tried to make Shepherd's pie which I thought sounded simple enough: mix some meat with tomato sauce, add a layer of broccoli, put leftover or instant mashed potatoes on top, cover with cheese, and microwave 10 minutes. Well this would take 15 minutes except I forgot that it will take time to make the mashed potatoes, and how often are you going to have leftover mashed potatoes lying around? The book just assumes they will be on hand. I had never made instant potatoes so I thought they would be really quick based on the name, but you still have to wait for the water to boil, measure out and add milk and butter and salt and the potato mix, and then mix everything well. That could be 15 minutes right there, just to make the mashed potatoes to START making the recipe. It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to finish this seemingly simple dish. I know that more experienced chefs will have a much faster time with this, but I doubt I'm the only one that will have a lot of trouble making all of these in 15 minutes. Most of the recipes I looked at in the book require pre-making sauces or elements of the dish, so I'm not sure that it's really accurate to call them 15-minute recipes. I will say that once the dish was done it was fairly tasty so that's nice.

Great book! I've made homemade and delicious sauces, spices, and condiments using the recipes in this book and a few meals too. I just got the book a week ago and can't wait to try all the recipes. I bought it after my dad had open-heart surgery and needed a serious change in his diet. I emptied the fridge and cabinets of all condiments and prepackaged one skillet meals that had a high sodium content then looked at the cabinets wondering, what do I do now? I grew up on Mac and Cheese and 'cook meat, add water, add package contents' meals. I can roast a turkey, but that was about the extent of my home cooking skills. I had no idea what spices went into a taco seasoning, Italian seasoning, spice rub etc, etc, I'd just grab a bottle of my favorites and go. This book isn't meant to be a 'eat only this and be healthy' type of read, it's meant to ease newbies, like myself, into healthy cooking habits without taking hours out of busy day to shop, prep, brine, mix, sear, etc etc etc and also be conscious of what I'm eating (and feeding my dad). Now that I have some basic under my belt I can apply that to other types of cooking and I'll be buying more of this authors books to begin with.

I was completely blown away when I received a diagnosis of congestive heart failure last summer. When I got out of the hospital I was committed to lowering my sodium intake, but the food I was cooking tasted so bland! I found this book after searching through low sodium cookbooks for the Kindle, and at first I was a bit overwhelmed by it. I felt like I was buying out the spice section of the grocery store just to start making the "make aheads" At the beginning of the book. I was surprised by many of the things that my local supermarket had, but there are some things that seem to be harder to find, like sodium free boulion, and sodium free baking soda? (Try figuring that one out.:) Nevertheless I started with the barbecue sauce, which I made on Labor Day when we were having company. They didn't eat it, but it was delicious! Since then I have tried a few of the recipes and most of them have been good! A few are a bit on the bland side, but they are better than what I was creating on my own.I plan to find the things I am missing and try many of the recipes here. I am very excited and encouraged by the fact that they are really tasty. And, I am very happy to report, I feel really good these days and have lots of energy, so the extra trouble is worth it to me. I will really be jazzed when I have everything I need to truly make these recipes in 15 minutes.