Would you give your 6 month old spag bol containing...

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In 1kg mince, a generous glass of red wine and an Oxo cube?

Just wondering...

At six months old my sons were eating pasta by the handful, happily and competantly. I pureed NOTHING for ds2 - he wouldn't take a spoon anyway, and I used to enjoy the looks of amazement in cafes when people saw my dinky little baby shoveling his own food into his own mouth, chewing and swallowing, perfectly happily.

FWIW, glutamate is present naturally in many foods. Our own bodies produce about 40g of it a day. Commercially, it is stabilised with salt, hence monosodium glutamate. If it's SO bad for you, why do people in China and Japan live so long?

i went to stay with mil for six weeks when ds four months old and she kept putting salt in his puree much to my annoyance. When i confronted her about it she laughed and told me that she had put a little salt in all of her childrens dinners(she has 6) and all of her kids are strong very healthy adults. My nan also use to think the world has gone mad with what is right and wrong. My nan use to eat bread and dripping when she was a girl and lived until she was 90

TAF - Good for you!
MSG - still unnecessary crap. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

Spag bol with an oxo cube

But I do put oxos in shepards pie and DS eats that (he is 7 mths). TBH I make a huge one and he has a tiny amount so its a meh and a shrug of the shoulders from me.

No to the wine though, but only because we don't drink alcohol.

If it is unnecessary crap, why is the concentration of glutamate 10 x higher in breastmilk than in cow milk?

I think mentioning breastmilk trounces any other argument

so....why add more then? Is there an RDA for MSG I'm dangerously unaware of?
It is unnecessary crap. Food tastes great without needing liberal sprinkling thereof - can I say it any clearer?
I have no argument, I have my opinion.

It's not unnecessary and it's not crap. In my opinion.

if it's a one off then i would give it. i wouldn't use Oxo as part of her daily diet though!

we use the Kallo low-salt stock cubes, but then i have to add salt as i need a high salt diet! total PITA!

I use bouillion for when a stock cube is necessary

Wine's not a problem.Any alcohol would be boiled off anyway.
Not a fan off stock cubes but fgs, they won't kill you or your child.

"If it is unnecessary crap, why is the concentration of glutamate 10 x higher in breastmilk than in cow milk?"

That is naturally occurring glutamate, not salted, processed crap added as an extra.

Cyanide occurs naturally in apples and cherries but that doesn't mean I want it added to my spag bol.

Right, point number one, Yes I'd have given this to ds at 6 Mths (started weaning at 4 mths, but that was 8 years ago, before that was such a criminal offence). He also ate hungarian goulash, and beef stroganoff, cut into very tiny pieces of course.
Point number 2, all the alcohol will have evaporated out of the wine ages before it gets to a plate
point number 3, I doubt that the amount of salt and msg transferred from 1 oxo cube in 1 KG of meat, with th wine tomatoes and stuff, is going to harm any one. I wouldn't use Oxo in bolognese either tho'
point number 4, Why on earth would you need to puree a bolognese sauce? The meat is minced, and assuming the onions & mushrooms are fairly well chopped, and cooked until soft I wouldn't have thought it's difficult to eat. To my mind it's just likely to create problems later, getting your child used to the idea that food has texture. Like AntiFlounce, I hardly pureed anything when ds was weaning. In fact the braun puree-ing thingy we bought specially remains in it's box, hardly used.

spag bol is the best BLW food EVER!!!!!

(you have to take pics though - it's the law)

what is blw?

I didn't at 6 months, but I do now at 12 months.

anyway ud. Your ds told me he loves food more when he gets it off me!