Not all salts are created equal...
I got the best opportunity last week to go visit the Redmond salt mines in of course Redmond Utah. Who is Redmond Real Salt???
Before you pick up your basic white table salt to season your meal STOP!
Table Salt also known as refined salt.
Your basic pearly white table salt is not good for you. Table salt going through so many processes before it hits the shelves at the store. Refined salt is heated and then bleached. When it goes through those processes it takes out all the minerals that comes in the salt. They then add anti-caking agents. By the time you are seasoning your food with it there is no minerals left to help balance the sodium in it, hence why we use to all be scared of sodium.
Now comes Redmond Real Salt.. Who mines their salt in Redmond Utah and hauls it to Heber Utah. Where it is bottled. It is free is additives and chemicals. Real Salt is full of 60 traces minerals and why is looks so "dirty".
So back to the mines. Redmond contacted me and asked if I'd like to come visit the mines. my response... HELL FREAKIN' YES!!! Okay I was a little more professional then that. Yes of course I'd love to!
That next Monday we were off. We met at the Redmond restaurant (Which if you're in Utah, you need to visit). We headed out with the best of Utah, Nush, Redmond and Instagram's favorite Utah couple KetoKonduct (Sandra and Roy). We all got along so well the hour and half drive down to Redmond flew by!
Redmond Utah doesn't look like there would be a salt mine out there. The Utah desert which means lots and lots of sage brush. Jordan said he was expecting mountains. When get there and sign releases.
Now its time to shoot! SAY WHAT?!?! We're at a salt mine and we're going to shoot rifles?? Yes the first thing we did when we go to Redmond is shoot rifles at dynamite. It was a Blast! I will never say no to shooting a gun.
We spent a hour shooting, eating and just getting to know each other. It is so nice to meet someone that you have been talking to on Instagram for while.
After shooting its time for the mines. We all headed into the bus and put on the hard hats. We can't be instagrammers without stopping at the mouth of the mine to snap some pictures. We weren't there if we don't have evidence right?? Into the mine we go. Its not a tiny mine, it's huge! Big enough for giant trucks going through it. These trucks are used to haul out the salt so it can go to Heber for processing.
Right when you step out of the mine and take a deep breath you can literary taste the salt the salt coming off the walls. You can see the veins on the wall of mine salt. Piles and piles of salt rock on lying on the ground. We were able to take a couple salt rocks home to remember the mine. Who knew a giant piece of salt would make a perfect house decoration.
Then came the salt licking. NO we did not lick the walls, how tempting it is. We licked our own little salt rocks we took home. You know your Keto when you find it heavenly to lick a salt rock. So spots of the wall the salt was soft and almost like salt snow.
It was the best experience to learn where and how the salt I love is mined. Redmond goes the extra mile to make sure that they are keeping minerals in their salt so we can all live a healthy lifestyle. The people that work for Redmond are amazing! IT was so fun to hang out with all of them. Salt is not our enemy, if you stick to unrefined salt like Redmond Real Salt. The minerals in Redmond help balance out the sodium and they work in perfect harmony.
If you can get out here to Utah and take a Redmond Salt tour you need to!
And as the StrongSista say #aggressivelysalt my friends!
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