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Well, you can at least share the split pea soup with your neighbours, it's a great comfort food, specially in Winter, and to keep blood pressure levels reasonable, just do not add one grain of salt to the pot, the ham bone already has some absorbed anyway and will release most of it on boiling.
At the beginning I found it horrible to eat without salt, but in a few months I got used to it, we get used to anything I guess.
A friend said that: "salt is tongue bias" and I find it reasonable.