salt intake: how much do you worry about what your DCs have?

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I try to feed my DCs fairly healthy food. Our evening meal is generally home cooked, e.g. roast dinner, fish pie, home made veggie or bolognese pasta sauces etc. and I don't add salt to cooking.

I'm aware the maximum amount of salt they should have a day is 2g (DD 20mo, DS 3.10yo) and they are probably getting fairly near that most days. - Breakfast tends to be weetabix or ready brek, but cheerios or shreddies a couple of days a week. Lunch is e.g. cheese/ham/chicken sandwich, with fruit and yogurt, or something out of a heinz tin - beans or spagetti on toast, or soup. - (Despite my best efforts they won't eat my own soup, so I do go for the reduced salt variety of soups and figure if I keep adding a spoonful of my own to that and increasing the amount, eventually they'll eat it!)

With the salt that's added to spread, bread etc. it does add up throughout the day.

I waver between thinking I can't really worry about it too much, and thinking I should really try and cut it down. but they're both fairly fussy eaters, and most days I'm just glad they've eaten something. - And I really don't want to be cooking twice a day. They don't do much on salad in this weather, so that's not an option.

Just wondering what's normal???

I am very like you are.
I have two small ones and feed them generally home-made food that I add little or no salt to.
They eat little salted ready-prepared food.
I try not to worry about it too much. So long as they are getting (as far as possible) a balanced and healthy diet I don't stress.

Worrying about salt intake is a very British pastime. I am not aware of any other country where people think about it so much. Certainly not in Japan or Belgium, the two countries I have lived in for the past decade or so.
That may make me more relaxed about it than other posters.

thanks very much for your reply, reassuring to hear