Herbs

[VGary]

Create your own blend of Seasoning Mixes to spice up your favorite foods. Store bought can get expensive so consider making your own to use or give as “gifts” from your Kitchen for family and friends. Enjoy and good eating to all!
Gary

Seasoning Mix Recipes

http://www.recipe-recipes.net/season...ning-mixes.htm

[Worth1]

I didnt go to the link yet but you are right you can make mixes for pennies on the dollar from what you get at the store.

What cooks me is if you look at most of them and their ingredients, they start with SALT.

Worth

[Granny]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I didnt go to the link yet but you are right you can make mixes for pennies on the dollar from what you get at the store.

What cooks me is if you look at most of them and their ingredients, they start with SALT.

Worth

Also remember that you can save dollars by the bushel and get fresh spices to boot by buying them from the bulk jars at your natural food store. You will be absolutely stupefied at how little most spices and herbs cost once you take off the label and use a recycled spice jar

[epiphanista]

One of my favorites is a (highly modified) recipe of Emeril's seasoning - I make it with NO SALT in it. I don't salt things in the same ratio as I spice them!

~Thalia

[AKButch]

I looked at the link for the seasoning recipes and found some pretty promising mixes. I do not use salt at all by choice and it is all but impossible to find "salt free" spice mixes.

I have found and ordered some salt free blends over the internet from a few different places claiming to do wonders for fish, pork, chicken, etc but have never found one I would re-order. They are all quite expensive also.

At least with the "do-it-yourself" recipes, it's a good place to start and you can fine tune them to your own specific taste.

Now, I'm trying to find some sodium free chicken boullion and it looks like Hormel's Herbox brand might be good but I'm having a hard time finding it locally. Guess I will have to try and order some once I find a place to do so.

[bcday]

Originally Posted by AKButch

I'm trying to find some sodium free chicken boullion and it looks like Hormel's Herbox brand might be good but I'm having a hard time finding it locally. Guess I will have to try and order some once I find a place to do so.

It is readily available here and it has zero flavor. I used mine as more of a food coloring than anything else. It does work as a good yellow food coloring for a seasoning mix that you want kept dry until you use it.

The same company also has a sodium free beef boullion. The beef boullion does have a little flavor.

[AKButch]

Thanks for the "heads up" on the chicken flavoring.

Have you found any sodium free chicken flavoring worth purchasing?

[bcday]

Originally Posted by AKButch

Have you found any sodium free chicken flavoring worth purchasing?

Not yet. Hopefully the increasing awareness of the health hazards of sodium will lead to more low-sodium or sodium-free foods on grocery store shelves.

[robin303]

Thanks VGary for the heads up. Good stuff there.

[babylark]

I buy a lot of spice mixes from The Spice House (www.thespicehouse.com) (don't leave out the "the"...it's a different type of "Spice" Store then )

I don't think their prices are bad. I LOVE the Back of the Yard's Garlic Pepper blend. I use it on just about anything that hits the grill in the Summer.

[freeze12]

VGary.... Thanks for the link...some really great mixes there!