so it is Pizza then...
For certain values of "pizza".
They do have a low sodium option now.. :thumbsup:
and yes it has a long shelf life
Per the FDA labeling guides:
"Low Sodium" foods are defined as foods that are 140 mg or less per serving.
"Very Low Sodium" foods are 35 mg or less per serving.
"Reduced Sodium" or "Less Sodium" means they've cut 25% of the sodium compared to the standard food product.
"Light in Sodium" or "Lightly Salted" means they've cut 50% of the sodium in the standard food product.
"No Salt Added" or "Unsalted" means they haven't
added salt, but you still need to check if the food item in question has any sodium or not. Sometimes it doesn't have any, but that's not always the case.
"Less Sodium" Spam, then, still has 580 mg per 2 ounce serving, and a single can is 12 ounces. It's a 25% reduction, sure, but a 25% reduction in a 10 kiloton sodium explosion still leaves 7.5 kilotons behind.
And be careful thinking a single-serving packet of Spam Lite is the way to go: their serving size ends up being a bit larger, so you get 610 mg of sodium (Spam Lite and Less Sodium Spam have the same sodium content). Your best bet for Spam is actually to watch your intake of Turkey Spam, which is 520 mg per serving.
Note the recommended daily value for sodium is around 2300 mg. For some of us, though, that's a bit lower - I try, and usually fail, to do between 1200 and 1700 mg/day.
Keeping it on-topic, lower or reduced-sodium MREs are a thing, by the way. Your mileage may vary heavily in turns of taste, though. The cheese tortellini and beef ravioli I don't recall as being bad (they're basically knockoff Chef Boyardee with less sodium), and I'm interested in finding their chili mac. I think I didn't get to the veggie lasagna one, but it didn't sound particularly appetizing, and IIRC I tossed it after finding one of the seals busted near the end of it's recommended shelf life. I suspect the same YMMV is true for other specialty diet MREs.
That reminds me...I should stock up before fire season.
