We have just instigated the purchase of 200 tonnes of salt in bag form which we are distributing around the parishes.

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It is much easier to assess the value of a bag of salt or a cow than a lump of metal.

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He held his pipes, high over his head at first to keep them from the wet (for while whisky was said to be good for the bag, salt water wasn't), then cradled in his arms to play.

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Other low-salt options included McDonald's four-piece chicken nuggets and fruit bag, containing 0.4g of salt, while Wimpy fish bites with salad had 0.5g.

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The first bag had the Alberger salt, the second the new 15 micron salt, the third pretzel salt, and the fourth another new crystal that Pepsi has been working on.

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He placed the fish with the oil, herbs (fresh thyme, sea salt and white pepper) and garlic in a ziplock bag and poached it in boiling water.

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Since then, each item had engraved itself in my memory, frozen in time: a bag of dried chickpeas, a cannister of salt, a withered Fuji apple, and the rock-hard stump of a baguette.

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Instead of checking in to some wildly expensive spa for a few days of wired-up analysis by teams of kinesiology eggheads with space-age machines, how about doing a some deep data-mining using the soggy, smelly, salt-stained socks and shirt and shorts in your workout bag?

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