This is an old thread but if anyone wants the flavor of real salt cured cucumber pickles, I found a listing by googling the subject. It was a patent application if I recall. What the auther tried based on a chemists perspective was that grain alcohol can be substitured molecule for molecule for salt in the curing process. He gave the formulas to use and I followed them and made a plastic crock full of wonderful dill pickles in my spare bathtub. It takes almost a month to cure fully and the pickles are nice and sour just like real deli dill and like the salt pickles my mother and father used to make in the 1930s and 49s. Sorry but I only made them once but you can find the reference by googling like I did. And no you can't drink the brine, the alcohol is all used up in the process and the brine tastes sour and full of dill.

Kandm I also don't think there's anything to substitute salt cod, which is sold here in every fish market as well as many fruit & veg shops and supermarkets. This recipe looks good and easy and I know I have also had these fillets when I lived up in Balearic Islands. I can say though that the desalting process is a really big nuisance. Can you imagine taking the cod out of the fridge four times a day to rinse it and change the water for two days? That's 8 times. I have done it and found the saltiness was still too much to bear. However it is a distinctive flavour and if you can find some you may want to try it. I would suggest you substitute it with fresh cod, although the taste won't be the same, but those fritters do look good don't they? I've had those fritters at special events and they don't last long at a buffet table. Especially when dipped in alioli (that's the Balearic spelling for garlic mayonaise). SharonCb

Air-popped popcorn with nutritional yeast instead of salt.

Thank you very much everyone! Minor rant coming. I get so aggravated at my dad. He's not senile and I am not his caretaker because no one can do it. He knows better than everyone and he just argues with me constantly. About absolutely everything. Literally every conversation with him is an argument. I try to converse with him as little as possible. He complains and whines and moans about problems that are mostly his own doing. This weekend I made him special low salt potato salad and low salt baked beans, two of his favorite foods. SO said they tasted great and I thought they were good too. Put them in see-through small individual serving containers, labeled. Today I took over some wild rice pilaf and a pork chop, and in his fridge was an opened container of canned baked beans, with my home made ones sitting right next to them! This is not a memory issue. He is only vaguely aware that other people are in the world, let alone paying attention to what someone is doing for him. Baked beans are one of the many high salt foods he insists on eating. His cleaning lady was there and she smirked when I pointed out that he opened a can of baked beans instead of eating the home made ones. Typical of my dad. Then he cries and cries when he suffers all the weakness that his congestive heart failure brings to him. His feet are all swollen and I think his kidneys are on their last legs. He cries and cries and says he wants to get better and get his strength back, and then fights with anyone who is trying to help him. Pft!! He also has a woman who he pays to cook for him. She is on a low salt diet herself! He claims she doesn't know how to cook! I personally don't care what he does, but the way he spreads his misery to me is very hard to take. It's frustrating to know that absolutely nothing does any good. Oh well. I'll get him some low salt bouillon, he will probably not use it and continue to eat the Manischevitz boxed chicken soup mix with the extremely high sodium content. I can't even eat it, it makes me sick to my stomach it is so salty. We eat low salt at home though, and will take advantage of the advice. Dad's older sister and brother had this same heart condition and managed it quite well up into their 90's. But they followed the doctor's advice on diet, and never had the awful food habits my dad has to begin with.