Ultimate Sodium Guide: Eat Less Salt!

The tenth Healthy Habits challenge: Eat less salt. Our simple guide to cutting back on America's favorite seasoning.

Low-Sodium Choices

Our challenge this month is to be salt-aware. Learn how to read sodium labeling and find our picks for the best low-sodium food products.

Easy Refrigerator Pickles

Web-Exclusive Lower-Sodium Recipes

See all the lower-sodium recipes featured in the Healthy Habits section of the October 2011 issue.

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Our Favorite Healthy Marinade Recipes

Healthy Marinades

Forget the bottled stuff—you can make your own delicious (and more nutritious) homemade version that won't leave you crunched for time.

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Make Your Own Lower-Sodium Condiments

Make Your Own Condiments

Avoid the hidden sodium lurking in your favorite prepared toppings by making your own lower-sodium condiments.

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Wheat Thins Hint of Salt

Top Lower-Sodium Foods

These delicious packaged items manage to dramatically slash sodium without sacrificing flavor.

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Salt Labels: What You Need to Know

How to Read Salt Labels

Labels that highlight lower sodium mean very specific, very different things.

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Cooking Light Chicken Strips

The Truth About Chicken Strips

You'd think fat would be the problem with chicken strips. Not so.

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Chicken

The Hidden Sodium in Chicken

One chicken breast could eat up 20% of your sodium limit—before you even start to cook.

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Cut Back on Hidden Sodium

How to Cut Sodium

All it takes is a little sodium savvy.

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Best Bags of Pretzels

Taste Test: Pretzels

These five options are certain to satisfy a salty snack craving without blowing your sodium budget.

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Best Ketchups

Taste Test: Our Favorite Ketchups

Just in time for grill season: America's favorite hamburger topping, rated.

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Taste Test: Stocks and Broths

Taste Test: Low-Sodium Stocks and Broths

Our food editors and Test Kitchen professionals held blind tastings of various low-sodium stocks and broths. See which brands came out on top.

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Best Dijon Mustard Brands

Taste Test: The Best Dijon Mustards

A panel of Cooking Light staffers sampled 11 traditional and 6 seeded Dijon mustards in three blind taste testings and delivered their picks for the best in the category.

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