Sausages, according to the FSA, are chock full of sodium, and have got worse over the last few years, despite the trend towards healthy eating. Looking around our local supermarkets confirmed this, and Googling "low sodium sausages" etc. came back with nothing in the UK, as per usual.
So today I headed to my local farmer's market in search of low sodium sausages. I spoke to four producers, three of whom admitted to using salt-laden "ready made mixes" of spices and seasonings to make their sausages.
One stallholder admitted that the sausages he was selling were too salty for his taste. One lady selling boar products said she made her own sausage seasoning mix, but it still contained high-sounding levels of salt (although it was a quarter of what was recommended in the recipe she uses). She said, however, that she was happy to provide unseasoned sausage meat for me to use to make my own sausages, should we choose to commit ourselves to shelling out for a sausage maker, or make "patties".
The search continues...
2 comments:
Good luck with this ... we've given up sausages, although the children still eat them. If you find proper sausages which don't have too much fat as well as salt, DO let me know ;)
Very shocking that a stallholder is selling sausages he thinks are too salty ...
Joanna
Thanks Joanna - I'm not ready to give up the search for good sausages yet and will let you know if I find some! Surely someone somewhere must be making them with just meat and spices/herbs?
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