I also prefer frozen over canned, but I do buy some canned veggies.
You can reduce the sodium by rinsing, and you can reduce it further by soaking. Canned green beans, for example, taste WAY too salty to me, but the no salt added are just so overpriced (and my doctor tells me that I shouldn't go out of my way to eat too salt-free, because I tend towards low blood levels of sodium - not something most people have to worry about, but I've actually had to take sodium supplements before - it's a combination of the blood pressure medication I'm on, and the fact that I'm not overly fond of the taste of salt - freakish, I know)..... but anyway, I actually soak canned green beans and other overly salted canned veggies in water for 15 minutes or so, to remove more salt (the longer you soak, especially if you change the rinse water, the more salt you can remove).
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