To give my baby some sauce from a jar?

[crazypenguinlady]

I was supposed to be making salmon with sweet potato and broccoli for dinner but I've come down with an awful cold which is affecting my asthma slightly and DS also seems to be sniffly and looks like his first tooth is coming through. He's actually in a happy mood but we've also been hit with baaaad seperation anxiety and gets cross if I so much as turn my back. I had planned on using his nap to make food but I still need to put shopping away, the house is a mess and need to sort laundry, which I will now need to do once he's asleep.

I'm already struggling as I feel so rotten. I now cannot be bothered to cook the meal I originally planned so was thinking of throwing together some pasta with a sauce from a jar. Can I give some to DS? I'm worried about the salt content.

For context, today he's not eaten much - half a slice of toast with banana, small handful of Cheerios, yoghurt with mixed berries, tiny bit of jacket potato with tuna mayo. Normally, nearly everything is homemade, even chips so only traces amount of salt.

So, AIBU to give him a tiny bit of a ready made jar of sauce for dinner? He's a few days shy of 9 months.

Oh and sorry for the novel, I also needed to vent

Mumsnet is not crazy as most posters have supported and reassured the lovely op.

Come on ladies we have all been there. By baby 5 I had a 9 year old feeding and babysitting the toddler while I dropped dc 8 to rugby class.

They are all resilient and sensible adults. One day dh and I will b too

jars of sauce usually have a strong flavour.

Most don't even have a flavour.

I did the organic homemade faff when DS was weaning until he was about 2 and became a fussy eater and then I gave up.

Same. No refined sugar, loads of organic veg etc. I was very smug.

He is now 20 months and will only eat ham, toast, yoghurt, Pom bears and chips. No exaggeration.

It's fine!

It's important to be careful of salt with babies but the odd thing here and there won't hurt. You don't need to avoid it altogether and worry about every little thing. Maybe put less sauce on his, I use a tiny bit in babie's dinners.

I live somewhere ( perfectly civilised) where salt is practically seen as a health food, so I could never get over excited about salt in the diet.

I'd far rather food tastes of something for the DC.

Don’t forget both breast milk and formula milk have salt in them.

Nothing wrong with minimising salt content in their diet, but it’s very dangerous to eliminate it completely.

Neither of my children would have eaten plain pasta... so bloody bland. And Parmesan is full of salt anyway!

The salt content will probably be too high.

The current salt witch-hunt was triggered by an horrific abuse case several years ago. Pp who recommended a sense of proportion was quite right.

Battleax I think the awareness was raised 15 yrs or so ago when my ds was a baby. A mum had been feeding her baby mashed potato and gravy pretty much daily(( due to poverty, not neglect )) and her baby died.

There was a big, awareness drive around then but as a one off no harm will be.done. It's easy to get confused when there's so much different advice out there

You can stir some egg and a tiny bit of cheese through the pasta (cooking the egg in the process obviously) if you want as an alternative