Hold the Salt

Rule #3 and frustration is rising. Maybe we are just going through a "mood" but Rule #3 seems exceptionally hard. It is fairly similar to Rule #1, which was also hard, but maybe that was easier because it was the first rule and we were just more excited?

Yesterday, as I was scanning all the foods we cannot eat, while attempting to think of the foods we can eat, I realized Ryan's heart-healthy salt was out. This salt is half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride to reduce overall sodium intake. Sadly, those are not ingredients a normal person keeps in their house. So, we went to the store to buy normal people salt. While standing in the salt aisle, we realized that all normal people salt has anti-clumping additives, making it out as well. We decided, then and there, we would just go without salt for this week, which Ryan was happy about because he does not like salt to begin with. I must have felt motivated to agree to no salt for a week, because I am a salt lover. This said motivation came crashing down hardcore, however, when we were cooking dinner a few hours later. Stir-fry. We had no sauce to put on the veggies because all of the sauces we normally use (soy sauce, cock sauce, sweet and sour sauce, teriyaki sauce, etc. contain ingredients a normal person would not keep within their home). I test-tasted the veggies and disaster-struck. Zoe: "They need something!" Ryan: "Why? Because they actually taste like veggies instead of sauce?" Zoe: "Yes!!!!" Despite Ryan's attempt to add spices the veggies tasted like veggies, and what is wrong with that I am not sure, but it was not right (which is sad as I reflect back). I insisted we add salt, not ryan's salt, or normal people salt, but kosher salt that we had stored away. Thank god for pure kosher salt. The meal was saved thanks to salt and fresh orange juice mixed with rum.....