That's without adding any salt to these staples. Now, sticking to my own cookbook of more than 400 recipes, I never exceed 500 mg of sodium a day. I've mapped out a 28-day meal planner I follow and I am never hungry. My sweet tooth is often satisfied, too. Bread, by the way, is the one thing you could make and really help yourself.
Commercial breads are very high in sodium.
The first thing I did was sit on our deck and fool around with paint brushes and a canvas. I never painted before in my life but my children insisted I try it. I think they were trying to get me out of a funk I must have been in. So far, it's worked. Better yet, I've got my wife believing it.