Are you freakin' kidding me?

Disclaimer: This is not profound.

So every time I eat a frozen dinner, I feel I'm eating a lot of salt. Most frozen meals contain about 30% of the sodium you need in a day. I try to limit my consumption of other high-sodium foods when I eat such meals. I knew restaurant foods sometimes also had high sodium, such as my McDonald's favorite, the Filet-O-Fish (640 mg or 27% DV). But I had no idea what I was dealing with until today...

I noticed today that I've been uncommonly thirsty. I was actually sort of worried. Was something wrong with me? Why was I drinking constantly? When would it stop? Was I drinking too much?

Finally, a few minutes ago, I decided to look up the Chick-fil-a sanwich I had for dinner. (It was free because my friends and I dressed up like cows for the annual Cow Appreciation Day.) 1230 mg, or 51% of the sodium I needed for the day. Ah, it must have been that! No wonder I was so thirsty.

Still, then I was curious. I had eaten a flatbread at Cafe Carolina for lunch. Surely it was about another third of what I'd needed today, right? I suspected it was also fairly high, though perhaps not quite as extreme.

I really thought I read the screen wrong at first: 3147 mg! What % would that be? (The nutrition guide didn't say.) Working backwards from the Chick-fil-a #, it appears to be over 130% of the DV for sodium. NO WONDER I'VE BEEN SO THIRSTY!

So this is a warning-- hate on McDonald's all you want, but when it comes to sodium, at least they are REASONABLE! Perhaps that sandwich is close to a third of what you'll eat in a day and therefore appropriately about a third of your sodium. But no way is a thin-crust pizza what I'm eating for 1.3 days! And now I'm going to be drinking and peeing pretty much constantly for the next 48 hr to get rid of all the salt.

Are you freakin' kidding me? Food in the United States is simply unthinkable...