Do you Realeat Vegemince?

[bosch]

and would you feed it to a 9 month old?

I eat this stuff a lot and dh and ds1 and 2 (age 5 and 4) love it. I don't think it's got anything horrid in it, but would appreciate anyone else's view.

In case the ingredients ring any alarm bells with anyone who doesn't buy the stuff, they are:

water, textured vegetable protein (soya flour, soya protein concentrate, wheat gluten, malt extract, wheat starch), soya flour, wheat gluten, vegetable oil, yeast extract (hydrolysed yeast, maltodextrin, yeast extract, flavourings) soya protein, malt extract, garlic powder, onion powder.

I reckon it is going to be quite salty - does it say the amount of salt per 100g

it's quite processed - that's a long list of stuff in it. I would see if I could find alternatives, for a baby?

apparently it has 0.4g sodium/100g
Babies 6mo-1yo shouldn't have more than 0.4g sodium (equivalent of 1g salt) per day - if you take into account cheese, bread, butter etc as well as processed stuff like Vegemince it's pretty easy to go over that even if you don't add actual salt to food.

What else could you use? Lentils maybe?

Mrs Badger - a little goes a long way though (a one pound (or 454g) bag makes two pounds of mince - I think it must be dried as you have to add a lot of water/stock/tomatoes when cooking.

On the pack, it says that 'typical values, cooked as per instructions, per 100g' it has 0.12g sodium, which I think is quite low?

Also, I must confess that I never season my food with salt when cooking - only ever add salt to chips and green veg on my plate! Oh, and boiled egg!

no worries - was just googling around, not judging your cooking

No problem Mrs B - just that I don't eat much salt so I notice when I do (hmm, lovely crisps!).

I've mulled over your comment that it's quite processed, F&Z, and I think that's why I posted. I try not to regularly feed the children stuff with ingredients that I couldn't buy in a shop, and most of that list doesn't mean anything to me. I'm keen to make meals that the whole family can eat, but that won't include vegemince for a while I guess.

I was veggie until quite recently and brought dd1 up as a veggie for 1st 4 years. I didn't give her Vege mince for this exact reason - too salty. I used tinned green lentils or dried orange lentils when I made 'bolognaise'. I introduced a bit of vegemince when dd1 was a bit older (over 2) but mixed it with the lentils half and half

I think if this is an occasional, very small proportion of your child's diet, which mostly consists of whole foods etc, then I would not worry about it much. If this is the thin end of the wedge and you eat a lot of processed stuff, then I would rethink the way you eat.

(sorry, should have said, you've made it clear it's the former not the latter)