Salt | 23 Household Uses {with Printable Reference}

 

Chances are, if you have been reading my site for the last 6 months, you have a ton of salt in your cabinet. From THIS deal here, to THIS deal where we scored FREE Morton….it’s probably all hiding in your cabinet.

I counted 5 today in mine…. we don’t use too much in our cooking, so it sits for rather long periods of time. Because I and a nerd (I admit… who else wears socks with flip flops?) and I love finding unique facts about things… I read today a few things I did not know about one of America’s favorite restaurant items:

• We need salt daily – but no more than 200 mg
• Salt works wonders to get stains out of carpet. Did your kids spill a big gulp? Dump (and I mean DUMP) and entire canister of salt on the stain… let it sit for 10-15 minutes and vacuum. I haven’t tried that myself but I heard it works super. 
• 90% of the salt people intake is from processed foods – not from your own cooking (Wow!)

Have a ton of salt in your cabinet like I do? Time to find another use for it… we put together 23 Household Uses for Salt – you can print, and keep as a reference, or PIN to your Pinterest Board to give you ideas next time you have an over abundance of it in the house.