Hanging out with friends

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As I mentioned previously, many of our close friends have adapted to the Squirrel's needs.  Saturday night was one of those times.  Our friends asked us over to hang out.  They made a Boston Butt in the treager, salad, corn on the cobb, and BBQ bread.
Now, they like to season their Boston Butt with a seasoning that contains salt, but they seem to always have a piece of fish in the freezer for the Squirrel :)  She sauted the fish in some butter, Mrs. Dash (this will become a standard on this blog!), and lemon juice.


The salad was a "make your own" style, so she could add the items she could have and leave the items out that she couldn't.  We had lettuce with a little cheese, crazons, cashews, and dressing.  I think she only ate the lettuce and dressing, but the options were there ;)

For the corn, we spread it with butter and sprinkled it with more Mrs. Dash, wrapped it in foil and threw it on the grill for a few minutes.  Now, we used Country Crock butter, which is higher in sodium.  There are a few tub butters that have 0mg sodium, but it's very hard to find them.  A picture of our favorite one is below.  I will warn that it's not as easy to spread as others, but just let it warm up a little and it's fine.
Lastly, we had the BBQ bread.  All we did was spread a little of the (Country Crock) butter on it, sprinkle with a LITTLE garlic powder, and throw it on the grill.  Again, a little note here - make sure you use garlic powder, NOT garlic salt.  The latter has salt in it (it's in the name! LOL)

Just watch what you are spreading on stuff and don't go overboard and a cookout will work for you :)

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