salty food for young toddler

[skerriesmum]

Hi! My ds is nearly 15 months and eats pretty much what we do... just gave him fish fingers for the first time, he loved them. I'm just wondering when it's OK to give things like sausages and ham, are they too processed and/or salty? Are there low salt brands?

Skerriesmum, once they are over 1 year you can be a bit more relaxed about salt. I fed DS sausages and ham from about this age. Funnily enough, the premium brands of sausages with more meat often have a higher salt content than cheaper ones with more filler in them. However Annabel Karmel advises not to and if your DS is happy eating other stuff you may wish to avoid them. They tend to be popular and I am sure it is partly the salt content. It depends on you and your diet really - and how healthy you want to be.

By 15 months DD was eating everything that we eat and she is perfectly healthy!!

The maximum salt recommendation for children under 5 is no more than 2 grammes a day if that helps. I might actually be less for children under 2. Food advisory board might have information?

Love your chat name, mudda! Ta for the info.

Skerriesmum - here's the link I was looking for earlier - hope it helps. The rest of the site seems to have loads of healthy eating generally so I'm off to have a good nosey

Advice about salt

Thanks again! Great info. I was surprised that fish fingers, potato waffles, tinned beans don't actually have that much salt. Ds is not quite self feeding yet so I'll look at the finger food ideas thread again...

Just to say remember sodium values on tins and packets should be mutiplied by 2.5 to give salt content - they do not do it because they want their products to seem lower

oh no... here I was thinking the sodium was the same as salt! Thanks for that!

Glad to pass on info. we found out by accident because Gran had to go on low salt diet and the hospital dietian pointed it out to us