Why Do People Sprinkle Salt On Meals That Already Have Lots Of Salt In?

[alyxowl]

I was brought up in the 90's and as you know many people lived on ready meals (a bit like today). Due to working full time my parents often had things like curry whereas I would have ready meal jacket potato with beans, cottage pie from asda etc. 

As you know they already contain a lot of salt but my dad used to sprinkle more on top. He said today he has done it with most meals as a habit. 
 

How many families do this, don't they know that ready meals are already loaded with salt. They need telling!

[ToraToraTora]

many just do it out of habit. I have never added salt, there is enough in it already. 

[-SharonA-]

Dunno how old you are, but when I was a kid my mum cooked from scratch and she worked full time. No ready meals for us!!

[10ClarionSt]

I've always used salt. Why not? But then again, there was no such things as ready meals in the 40's and 50's when we were kids. Sometimes there wasn't even kn meals!

[davebro3]

I do put a bit of salt on some things - it's a flavour enhancer. (not on ready meals tho')

[naomi24]

We don't have ready meals.  I use salt if the food needs it.

 

[barry1010]

Never had ready meals, they didn't exist when I was growing up. Mother managed despite working, as did us.

I like salt.

[Hazlinny]

Add a little salt to vegetables when boiling them or in casseroles, etc. 
No salt added to a ready meal when I have one. 

[Patsy33]

I'm always telling my OH not to add more salt as most of our meals are salty enough. His father loved a good helping of salt on his food. He was quite healthy and lived to 95.

 

[netherfield]

Here salt is used in cooking, but never is salt in the table. But mum in law read something once and gave up using it altogether, made herself poorly, your body needs some salt.

[barry1010]

Netherfield, no salt on your chips or baked potatoes?

[naomi24]

I know someone who cooks without salt.  Her food tastes awful.

[douglas9401]

Salted butter and loads of cheese on a tattie, otherwise sprinkle-free.

[barry1010]

What about chips, or don't you eat them?

[Barmaid]

I think it is habit.  

I always taste food before deciding whether it needs further salt.

[naomi24]

^Me too.  

[Old_Geezer]

Because it clearly has insufficient salt to get the taste buds working.

 

The more puzzling question is why folk need to discuss someone's reasonable application of salt.

[barry1010]

I put salt on my salads.

[Gill1941]

There is no salt in my house. I neither cook with it nor add it to food.

If you add salt to a meal you don't taste the actual food only salt.

[davebro3]

//If you add salt to a meal you don't taste the actual food only salt.//

That's probably a bonus with my cooking!🤣

[Massey65]

I use salt when cooking but never on the actual meal.