butter or not? - on toast and bread

[melarnz]

am i supposed/allowed to put butter on my 6 month dd toast. is there a healthier alternative

They actually need full fat stuff so while I don't use it much, I've always used it for ds. As they get older you can use all sorts of other stuff e.g humous, cream cheese etc. I use just a bit, to soften it and make it easier to eat.

we dont eat butter in our household as none of like it, we use marg
cant see a problem as long as it is spread thinly

butter is very healthy, well, relative to most things. What don't you like about butter?
You can put olive oil on instead, if you think it's somehow 'better'.

oh, and it's always dripping in butter, in our house. I have 3 skinny kids, btw.

i have no problem with butter. i just wanted to make sure she is old enough to eat it. there is so much stuff about weaning u can and cant do that its a little confusing at times

Butter is fine use thinly. If you are worried by the salt content you could use a low salt one.

You can get low fat/no salt butter - and it's much better for you than trans-fatty acids and all the other questionnable chemicals (some of which have been linked to cancer) that they put in some margs.

My children all love butter and would eat it on its own and frequently do if we are cake baking. I myself am addicted to the stuff and could not ever consider using anything else on my morning piece of toast. I'm sure mine were lapping it up by 6months!!

I would also like to point out that we are a skinny household too (dh excepting, but don't tell him that! besides he's not huge, just not quite as skinny as the rest of us!)

we use butter, but low salt. Much better than the crap they put in marg

Butter is only churned milk!! (and salt - but you can avoid that)

Why isn't butter healthy?

Marg is processed to make it hard and has colourings in it. It still has salt.

Buy a low salt butter, or just give her dry toast.

vestige of days when everyone was terrified of saturated fat... plus what if obesity is high in your family. Some Americans advise NO DAIRY at all before 12m, too.

Yeah, I did no dairy before 12 months too and as he wasn't having wheat either I didn't have to give dry toast. But if child is having milk etc, then no harm. Children need fat for their brains.

Having butter on your toast is not what causes obesity The amount of fat you spread on toast etc forms a very small part of your diet.

Except when you plaster the butter onto hot toast made from sliced white bread...

Went on an Open University Summer School once - part of it was to melt down butter and different margarines to see what they were made of -butter and i think Flora were the purist but some of the others - yuk

None of us eat butter, but I used to buy it specially for DD when she was younger - now she's 2, and eats Flora like the rest of us. I ate a ton of butter when I was a kid, and am allergic to it now (not as a result, I shouldn't think).