How many milligrams of salt should my meals contain?

Maximum recommended for a healthy adult is 2300mg per day. As a reference one slice of Kraft american cheese has about 250mg sodium.

We try to keep meals below 700mg.

It’s impossible to say without knowing a lot more about you (your weight, for example – I am not asking) and your dietary habits (that is, whether you skip meals, when you eat your main meal of the day, and whether you snack during the day, for example) what a specific meal should look like.

But take a look at the Recommended Dietary Allowances (or RDA) for “most healthy adults” and use that as a guide to daily intake. After that, individual meals (and snacks) are up to you.

We all need salt however today to many supermarket foods are overloaded with it to enhance the taste. I would say if you don’t have hypertension high blood pressure 2,000 to 2500 mg might be acceptable.