I'm sure that this must a problem other people have encountered... and wonder if anyone has come up with an answer.... In trying to keep life as 'normal' as possible, and to not antagonise Mum - she is in mid stage of VAD... and my Dad has Pulmonary Hypertension,which is a chronic heart condition; Mum thinks and tells us that she is doing all the cooking, when in reality I do meals on wheels every day!, but that's ok.... but to try and keep her involved, we get her to do the vegetables, potato's and so forth... she always Salts everything.... and I mean lots...[last night she tried to add salt 12 times to the potato's in the space of 10 minutes!] 'cos of course she cannot remember whether she's done it!, we are there with her and remind her that she cannot have salt because it's so bad for Dad and for her, which of course causes friction and stress - she gets really angry. I've taken the salt away of course... and she cannot get to the shops without assistance, so cannot replace it, but it really is causing problems. SO my question is this... does anyone out there know of a placebo? a crystallised powder that looks like salt, has no taste... and is in fact nothing of significance. Your help would be most oh so gratefully received. Thanks in advance.