Foods Teaching 2339

Charting language
SN instructed about avoid convenience foods such as canned soups, entrees, vegetables, pasta and rice mixes, frozen dinners, instant cereal and puddings, and gravy sauce mixes. Select frozen meals that contain around 600 mg sodium or less. Use fresh, frozen, no-added-salt canned vegetables, low-sodium soups, and low-sodium lunch-meats.

Reviewed September 2018

Reviewed for general reference only. Adapt to your patient, agency policy, and scope of practice.