I give our 10 month old mashed up family meals. Is this wrong?

[mrsnoah]

I cook all our meals as dd2 has dairy allergy and have always mushed up the stews/ fish pies etc for 10 month old ds who loves his dinners.

Never really considered that the stock cubes should be salt free and the vegetables unsalted.

I dont use much salt but is the small amounts he is getting still really bad for him then?

[Quootiepie]

stock I think has alot of salt. Just don't add any salt to your meals, healthier all round.

[sandcastles]

as quootiepie said. It is very good generally, but watch salt levels.

[mrsnoah]

Hardly use any really just a pinch in the boiling potatoes etc. But do use stocks.
Dh cant eat it without a bit.
Must be ignorant. What damage can it do? Is it more long term ?

[mrsnoah]

Oh blimey, found the bbc news site that states its in bread and baked beans too, which he does have!
There's me thinking he was being fed really healthy foods

[Hattie05]

You could cook without the salt and let your DH put salt on after its cooked.

I never put salt in my cooking and nobody ever complains! . You'll be surprised what little difference it makes.

Too much salt is bad for anyone, but babies bodies can only cope with really tiny amounts, otherwise it is damaging to their kidneys, and i think can lead to poor health in later life with heart disease etc.

[Hattie05]

I don't cook processed foods - majority of what we eat is all fresh, so i consider the odd stock cube or baked bean can't be too bad. Another one i forgot about was marmite. My dd loved marmite when she was first enjoying finger food - then it dawned on me thats v high in salt!!

We can only do our best can't we .

[nappyaddict]

i give ds what we eat, but we've never used salt in cooking anyway.

[nappyaddict]

hmm just looked at a can of soup we had tonight. no mention of salt in the ingredients, but on the nutrition table it says 2g of salt .. [confused emoticon] can anyone explain?

[nappyaddict]

and i would say bread is okay. bread has to have salt in it so it rises.

[mrsnoah]

cor Marmite ? I was weaned on it!
So whats an acceptable level in home cooking then? I cant go calculating salt levels per stock cube/volume of liquid. My maths is simply not that good.

[Skribble]

loads of stuff has salt in, you just have to be sensible about home much you consume, if you cook a lot of food with stock in I would consider finding a reduced salt alternative and don't add salt when cooking, everyone else can add salt once plated if prefered.

[KTeePee]

You can get low-salt stock cubes if you are concerned - Kallo do a vegetable one - but I'm not sure how flavoursome they are. Or make your own (it's not too hard to do a chicken or vegetable one...)

[mrsnoah]

Yes it does help, thank you.Feeling calmer already.
Was whizzing along with third full of self assurance and pride til I saw an article on another thread.

Went away last weekend and had to give him jar food for 3 days ! Talk about disgusting nappies! What a difference to his normal ones! And they are all orange too!?

[mrsnoah]

As for making own stock, I always end up making soup with it and freezing it. Thre's never enough for stock too. Will look for Kallo ones.Thanks.

[mrsnoah]

Orang food that is, NOT nappy contents!

[sweetkitty]

DD2 whos nearly a year has always had whatever we were having minus the salt, I don't add salt when cooking as theres already too much in other foods already mentioned here. For soup/casseroles/stews etc I use half a Kallo low salt cube for the DDs portions.

[Fillyjonk]

think its great that your ds has what you have

would be worried about the salt in bread. sliced bread has way more salt than is good for anyone really, its to hold the moisture in, I think and make it all squidgy. Or maybe its for another reason. Its also very high in fat.

There is only one solution....buy a breadmaker ! (panasonic 273)

[mrsnoah]

Deja vu Fillyjonk.

In the deep and distant past I am sure we have discussed breadmakers before (we threw our Tescos one in the skip after one too many solid grey lumps not loaves??)
I do make bread often with the kids. Its easy to leave it for ages on the aga and forget about it. Am training them up to make it for us! Dont think I can stretch to another risky breadmaker.

I was thinking about your knitted nautilus the other day. Did you ever make it for dd's birthday? Found that thread inspiration for ds's first bday coming up. Printed off that link for the sensory basket. Do you remember?

[Hulababy]

I always gave DD mashed up food, same as we were having, as soon as she was able - definitely by 10 months. I never add salt to our food anyway. I never bothered getting salt free stock, etc thoguh but made sure DD didn't get loads of it.

[Fillyjonk]

omg yes, sorry mrsn, i do remember.



panasonic is the answer though

I never did make the sodding nautie

I made a knitted crab though

nautie next, i think...

[expatinscotland]

We gave both our DD's whatever we ate, mashed up, at that age.

We don't add salt to our meals as it is.

I htink it's fine.

[schneebly]

snap here - our DSs got our food mashed from around 9 months - I dont add salt to anything but they did have the odd bit of stock etc. I just used less than usual. You can get reduced salt and sugar baked beans if he likes those.

[evilsparklystepmom]

dd is 8 months and eats whatever we eat - but not mashed up! obv it is cut into pieces that will fit into her mouth, but with only 2 teeth she does extremely well. is much easier to cope with if we are ever out - the other week she had her own jacket spud with tuna in a pub and loved every mouthful.

do watch the salt though, when at home i never cook with it (no-one notices, honest!)and cook pretty much everything from scratch.

[bambi06]

you can get a low salt version of stock in powder form called swiss vegetable bouillon by marigold in a tub from health shops plus most supermarkets sell it now..its delicious and makes great soup etc.. i use it as the base of most of my casseroles