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RealReginaPhalange · 2025-09-14T13:55:17+00:00

6.5months old baby, weaning started about 2 weeks ago, he is doing not bad so far. Been told to give him gravy (like a bisto one). Rejected the idea and i am the bad one (again). my second child so i know what i am doing. My first one ended up eating everything i serve, loving veggies etc, so not everything i do is stupid obviously…it worked before. aibu to said no? Wont be giving my ds bisto gravy?

PumpkinSparkleFairy · 14/09/2025 16:09

I wouldn’t serve Bisto to anyone I like 😂

Obviously homemade gravy is fine.

tripleginandtonic · 14/09/2025 16:09

Mine loved gravy and mash at 6 months old. Yabu.

AtomicBlondeRose · 14/09/2025 16:08

Bisto once made into gravy has about half a baby’s recommended salt limit in 50ml (0.47g salt). However, 50ml is a sizeable amount (two full tablespoons) and I’ve never known a 6 month old baby to eat that much of one thing. So a teaspoonful drizzled over their meal (5ml) wouldn’t be any problem really. But don’t give it if you don’t want to. I do think babies eat a very small amount of anything offered so it’s not worth stressing over in the great scheme of things. The oft-quoted news story above is about a very small baby being fed a large amount of very inappropriate foods. Not a weaning-age baby having a potato dipped in gravy.

GonnaeNoDaeThatJustGonnaeNo · 14/09/2025 16:03

Just watch the salt content but nothing wrong with gravy otherwise. Infact with mash it’s great spoon food and meat or other veg dipped in it it’s great messy finger food.

yum

after 6 months they can eat pretty much anything you can except whole nuts and honey

TearsForFears25 · 14/09/2025 16:02

We give my almost 12 mo low salt gravy.

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 14/09/2025 16:01

I let my one year old have about 15ml of homemade gravy on his Christmas lunch.

The salt issue can be overegged, as some babies don't eat much of anything, but as PP say, any food is interesting at that age!

I think the story about the 3m old, whilst horrifying, points to a whole host of issues if they were feeding a 3m baby anything, even if it was 1999. Public health guidance has to cater to the lowest common denominator, so has to say a maximum that is the lowest safe amount for the smallest, least mature child in that age range to receive on a daily basis.

If you occasionally go a very small amount over, no need to panic, but also not needed at this age.

FuzzyWolf · 14/09/2025 15:52

RealReginaPhalange · 14/09/2025 15:44

Laugh as much as you want. Might not give the same results, but doing it right wont harm the baby and this is what important to me. All i said i have done it once already so its not new to me, we had challenges like everyone obviously and will have different ones this time round too. What a silly comment

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I hate this assumption by some people that there are right ways and wrong ways. It’s so blinkered.

stargirl1701 · 14/09/2025 15:46

Too salty.

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RealReginaPhalange · 14/09/2025 15:44

brunettemic · 14/09/2025 15:38

Do what you want but I’m laughing at the fact you think doing exactly the same thing with food will have exactly the same results.

Laugh as much as you want. Might not give the same results, but doing it right wont harm the baby and this is what important to me. All i said i have done it once already so its not new to me, we had challenges like everyone obviously and will have different ones this time round too. What a silly comment

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brunettemic · 14/09/2025 15:38

Do what you want but I’m laughing at the fact you think doing exactly the same thing with food will have exactly the same results.

SouthLondonMum22 · 14/09/2025 15:36

Realistically, 2 weeks into weaning, they are hardly going to be eating loads of it anyway but of course it is your choice.

Mine have had all things in moderation since weaning age, including bisto gravy and eat very well too.

supersonicginandtonic · 14/09/2025 15:36

Home made gravy is fine. Bisto not so much x

MyDeftHedgehog · 14/09/2025 15:35

ErrolTheDragon · 14/09/2025 15:34

Bloody hell. Of course YANBU, doesn’t everyone know bisto is basically salt goop with no nutritional value and babies shouldn’t be given added salt? Being told you ‘should’ give a baby who is just starting weaning gravy is plain daft. The flavours of actual food will be interesting enough at this stage without requiring flavour enhancers.

It doesn't half taste good though 😅😅

ErrolTheDragon · 14/09/2025 15:34

Bloody hell. Of course YANBU, doesn’t everyone know bisto is basically salt goop with no nutritional value and babies shouldn’t be given added salt? Being told you ‘should’ give a baby who is just starting weaning gravy is plain daft. The flavours of actual food will be interesting enough at this stage without requiring flavour enhancers.

Iamthemoom · 14/09/2025 15:33

Bistro is upf and way too salty for a baby that age! If your other child eats well I’d stick to whatever you did the first time.

jettisoned · 14/09/2025 15:33

JDM625 · 14/09/2025 15:26

I can't believe some people on here think a baby can have even home made gravy!!! Why?

Why not also give him a beer and a cigar?

Why?

FuzzyWolf · 14/09/2025 15:31

Salt free gravy is absolutely fine.

TheCosyViewer · 14/09/2025 15:30

JDM625 · 14/09/2025 15:26

I can't believe some people on here think a baby can have even home made gravy!!! Why?

Why not also give him a beer and a cigar?

Why could a baby that is being weaned onto food not have home-made gravy ?? I don’t add any salt when making it ?

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 14/09/2025 15:29

Absolutely not! All that salt!

Lucky they live on the other side of the world so that you can ignore them more easily.

MyDeftHedgehog · 14/09/2025 15:26

Are they meaning just a bowl of gravy as a meal or gravy poured on the meal?
You can buy reduced salt gravy granules which im sure wouldn't harm a small child in a small anount

JDM625 · 14/09/2025 15:26

I can't believe some people on here think a baby can have even home made gravy!!! Why?

Why not also give him a beer and a cigar?

Flossflower · 14/09/2025 15:24

Absolutely not. Babies are not supposed to have salt.

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RealReginaPhalange · 14/09/2025 15:04

And they meant bisto, not homemade. Who on earth would make it at home if you can get delicious bisto (i am being ironic btw).

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RealReginaPhalange · 14/09/2025 15:01

My in-laws! Same people who told me i should let them raise my first child for a couple of years, when he was a baby, so i can work full time and recover our savings and pay debts quicker. (They live on the other side of the world and my visa was rejected so i wouldnt be able to go there in case anything happens). Got very offended when i said no, apparently i am “precious”, others do it.

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AhBiscuits · 14/09/2025 15:00

This is extreme, but gravy should not be fed to babies in anything other than minute quantities, if at all.