'Your salt restriction is nonsense': Wife watches mother-in-law eat 2 family size portions of potato chips after MIL claims she can't have anything with salt and refuses to let them cook with salt

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 27, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

I love salt. I oversalt basically everything I eat. When I cook for others, I have to be really conscious about not putting too much. I probably have something severely wrong in my body, or some sort of deficiency, but that's besides the point. Salt is so good that countries used to go to war over this thing. As a salt-aholic, I also love fancy salt. The thing about salting your food, is that it can never get to similar sodium levels as you could get to if you eat anything processed or from a restaurant. Canned food, frozen food, and even "high end" restaurants are using an unbelievable amount of sodium that would shock you. 

In this story, the mother-in-law tells her DIL and son that she can't have salt. So everything they cook has to be saltless, which is genuinely disgusting. The DIL sees that her MIL is eating potato chips though, which is way more salt than if they simply sprinkled their potatoes for dinner. 

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    AITA: for pointing out how much salt my MIL consumes

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    my MIL claims she can't have a lot of salt.. as a result we're not allowed to add salt to any meals we cook. We can't have salt on
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    French fries, we can't add salt to recipes I cook and she actively makes a fuss about anything over about 500mg of salt. She is also a
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    chronic faker and if there is something wrong with you, she has it. The best example is when I was pregnant she tried to claim
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    she was having labour pains and cravings.
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    She's been staying with us for the past 2 weeks and she has eaten her way through 2 family size packs of potato chips and 6-8
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    small packs of potato chips, these are our snacks that we keep for movie nights with the kids etc.
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    they're for special occasions but I went to get some the other day and they were gone.. so she's snuck into the kitchen to take
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    them. As the kids can't reach them and my husband would just tell me if he ate them.
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    My son said the other day he wasn't feeling good he's lactose intolerant and had grabbed the wrong milk, so he had a stomach
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    ache.. she instantly saying she wasn't feeling well, so it MUST be a stomach bug and I pointed out that she probably wasn't feeling
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    well because of all the salt she had consumed over the past 2 weeks. She instantly recovered from her illness and demanded to
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    know what I meant. When I told her that she'd consumed a huge amount of salt in the multiple bags of potato chips she'd eaten.
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    she lost her mind and told me that I was an a_h_le for "tracking her food consumption”.
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    I didn't think I was in the wrong as I wasn't actively tracking anything but just noticed they were missing and she'd be the only person to eat them.
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    My SIL told me I was in the wrong for commenting on her food consumption.
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    My husband said she's pred because I indirectly pointed out her salt restriction is nonsense.
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  • This would really upset me. There's nothing more annoying than entitled ignorance. It looks so stupid to say you can't eat salt and then eat whole bags of potato chips. Plus, who doesn't salt potatoes?

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    Sooo... AITA for indirectly calling out that her salt restriction is nonsense?
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    SalttyCatty 14h ago You didn't sit there with a spreadsheet logging her sodium intake, you just noticed the chips
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    disappearing and pointed out the obvious. If she's going to police everyone else's meals over salt, she
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    can't also inhale bags of chips and expect nobody to notice. She's mad you caught her in the contradiction
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