Homemade baby food and water softeners

[DixiePixie]

Don't know if anyone knows the answer to this.

I'm staying at my parent's house for a couple of days with my 10 month old dd.

They have a water softener plumbed in. They don't have any bypass on it, so all drinking water comes through the water softener.

I know that water softeners have salt added to them to make them work. Does anyone know if, when making food for 10 month old babies, it is OK to use water from a water softener (I've heard in the past that it's not a good idea for it to be used in formula or for baby's drinking water because of the salt content). I'm thinking especially of foods that absorb water like rice, quinoa and lentils (we are vegetarian). I'm wondering if I should prepare a load of food for her here first before going.

Thanks for any advice

I don't think I'd want to use it. I thought there was always meant to be a non-sofetned tap though?

I wouldn't use it for the baby. TBH I wouldn't drink it myself either. There should be a drinking water tap with unsoftened water in the house (unless it somehow works a different way from our water softener).

I thought so too. Apparently they don't though - don't know why - I'm sure they used to have a non-softened tap.

Either take food or use Evian!

How strange. I'm curious about how it works now!

You could some bottles of your own tap water with you or buy bottled water when you get there, if you want to prepare food fresh.

I don't understand it either. Apart from anything else, my mum is really scrupulous about having a low salt diet, so it seems a bit daft.

I'm a bit nervous about bottled water too. I've heard that mineral water should be avoided, again because of salt content. My sil reckons that bottled spring water that isn't mineral water is OK, but I don't know if that is right or not, because she is the only person I've heard that from.

I get so paranoid about salt. I'm naturally very neurotic as a person anyway, so I tend to get myself in a state about stuff like this . Perhaps I'd better bring a supply of my tap water along and put it in their fridge when I get there.

Evian is fine.

But bottles of your tap water is cheaper