I need fake salt

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It's not in his head, he enjoys the taste of additional salt as do a lot of kids. I would advise LoSalt until he inevitably learns the bad affects of sodium and starts to care about his body (normally in their 20s).
 
mrk said:
Oh this is my last option having already had a go at him countless times. I've also tried mocking him! The next stage would be wrestling him to the ground, but I'm a bit old for that kind of stuff now :p
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Go to the other extreme then, whenever he asks for salt make his food inedible, it'll soon teach him.


Won't get you any babysitting medals though.
 
Why not just unscrew the lid a bit so it looks on but when he goes to put loads on, he gets a load on, then get him to eat it until he throws up, it will be unpleasant and it will condition his brain to keep away from salt.
 
mrk said:
Sugar? :/

Basically a placebo "salt", if that makes sense. LoSalt is still salt. I want to prove that it's just psychological.
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So you want something that is completely safe, looks, smells, tastes and feels like salt, but isn't salt.

If such a thing existed, it would be a valuable health food product and you'd have no trouble buying it. You can use potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride, but high levels of potassium chloride are also unhealthy (and possibly fatal in some people).
 
Angilion said:
So you want something that is completely safe, looks, smells, tastes and feels like salt, but isn't salt.

If such a thing existed, it would be a valuable health food product and you'd have no trouble buying it. You can use potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride, but high levels of potassium chloride are also unhealthy (and possibly fatal in some people).
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minus the taste
 
It doesn't matter about the taste, if I'm cooking then I add in moderation anyway but he doesn't know taste anyway. All he understands if if something too too hot or not (I do like to add peppers sometimes).

His salt habit is just that, a habit, not because he wants food to taste more salty but because he's just too used to adding salt every other day when he has chips or whatever else when out.
 
Angilion said:
So you want something that is completely safe, looks, smells, tastes and feels like salt, but isn't salt.

If such a thing existed, it would be a valuable health food product and you'd have no trouble buying it. You can use potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride, but high levels of potassium chloride are also unhealthy (and possibly fatal in some people).
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no, he wants something that is safe to eat, looks like salt but has no taste. i guess it would have to feel and smell like salt too, but that wouldnt be too hard

unfortunately the only legal and edible stuff i can think of that fits the white powder category would be sugar and baking soda, both of which wouldnt go down very well
 
If he craves salt to that degree, have you thought of getting a doctor's opinion? It could be he has something causing low salt levels, a symptom of a variety of things... Just a thought.
 
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