What kind of deli or sandwich meat should I buy? And from where?
I shop at Kroger, Meijers, Costco, and K-Mart. I'm a college student. I'll be visiting K-Mart tomorrow and what should should of deli or sandwich meat should I buy? Everything I buy has 430 or more sodium in it, like wtf. I eat turkey, roast beef, and chicken (in other words, i eat everything).
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Reuben sandwich from K-mart
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I live pretty much a low or sodium free dietary life style, and unfortunately I have yet to find lunch meat that is below the 300mg safe limit. I work in the retail food industry, and lunch meat contains extreme amounts of sodium as a preservative for longer shelf life. What I do is buy the reduced sodium lunch meats, but they can be hard to find but Meijers being your best bet. Being away from home doesn't give you many options to low sodium foods. Whole roasted chicken is an option, those do contain sodium, but not as much because their store shelf life is measure in hours. I buy the day old roasted chicken that have been refrigerated and marked down to 1/2 the cost and use it for many dishes including sandwiches. Good luck. Giant Midget should change their name to Mental Midget.
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I work in a deli so here's my advice... If you want something low on sodium it's difficult to find stuff like that. Most of the pre-ordered meats have high sodium concentrate. I would suggest stuff that's baked or cooked instore. That way there is not very much salt. If you don't mind the salt, the most common sandwich meat is Black Forest ham, it's a simple ham and is relatively cheap. If you want something with a little more flavour I would suggest smoked ham which is very tasty but usually high in salt. Honey or Old Fashioned are also common hams. Usually baked or cooked instore turkey or roast beef are the best I find because they taste like real meat, the ordered packaged stuff tastes false to me. Smoked chicken breast is also very good but again is high in salt. Fat-free stuff is another way to stay healthy with meat. Costco I've heard actually has a pretty good deli (i don't shop there), however, I've never bought any meat from there so I can't say. Hope that helped.
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