The problem with not using salt is that when you go out to dinner, everything tastes extra extra salty. Sort of ruins the meal. You have to watch shell fish and other sea food as they can be really high in sodium. I cook everything from scratch too and just leave out the salt. It takes a little while to settle into a no salt diet, but once you start gathering recipes and get to know what to avoid, and see how really easy it can be, it'll not be such a hassle as it was for me at first.