Baking ... Sodium Free via Ener-g!!!

Sodium Free Baking - not possible, you say? Not so - read on and discover how!

Ever since "removing sodium" became a necessity for my heart health, I had been avoiding most forms of baking. Aside from the few low/no sodium bread recipes I had found and refined, it just did not seem possible to bake without sodium. Why? Well, most recipes call for a few teaspoons of baking soda and/or baking powder.

• 1 teaspoon of baking soda adds 1259mg of sodium to any recipe.
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder adds 480mg of sodium to any recipe.

So, a typical "12 serving" recipe that calls for 1 tsp of baking soda and powder starts with 1739mg of sodium (or 145mg per serving before you add the real ingredients) - ouch! With that baseline, it seemed impossible to make any low sodium baked goods.

Au contraire I recently learned. Let me introduce you to Ener-g No Sodium Baking Soda and Ener-g No Sodium Baking Powder. What do these Ener-g products offer? Basically an amazing transformation to the world of baking - any recipe calling for baking soda and/or powder can now start with a NO SODIUM baking agent! Seriously, you just use these Ener-g products instead of standard (high sodium) baking soda and/or powder and you have removed all sodium contributed by the baking agents in the recipe. Wow....

Is there a drawback or is this the greatest creation ever to hit baking? Well, the only drawback is cost. Typical (sodium packed, kill your heart) baking soda and powder costs about a penny per teaspoon. Ener-g baking soda and powder costs about 10 cents per teaspoon (see amazon, for example).

So, here's your decision to make, if you want to bake: (1) bake with traditional soda/powder at a penny a teaspoon and kill your heart; or (2) bake with Ener-g soda/powder at a dime a teaspoon and save your heart. I am not sure what you think, but I certainly think my heart and livelihood is worth 9 cents!

Look for sodium-free baking recipes to enter my heart healthy diet.