DS and salt-when can i start adding it back into food?

[wibblyjelly]

DH is almost 11 months old, and I assume it won't be for a while yet, but just wondering when I can start to relax about adding salt to his food. TIA.

Don't. Just get used to food without salt added. You'll get used to it and your arteries will thank you for it!

As for the maximum intake guidelines:

The daily recommended maximum amount of salt children should eat depends on age:
1 to 3 years ? 2g salt a day (0.8g sodium)
4 to 6 years ? 3g salt a day (1.2g sodium)
7 to 10 years ? 5g salt a day (2g sodium)
11 years and over ? 6g salt a day (2.4g sodium)

www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/salt.aspx

I don't add salt to pasta/potatoes etc but since dc were 1yo I cook with normal stock in dishes and don't worry about it. I wouldn't give them extra salt at the table but in cooking I don't worry. And they have reg bread etc

I never went back to using salt. Ds1 was complaining the other day that he hates salt and its all my fault he cant eat McDonald's chips. He's 21 by the way.

You do get used to it, I can't even use salted butter ow because it taste so salty

Don't add salt to a child's food at any age.

We don't put salt in anything for cooking or eating and don't miss it at all. If I eat at someone's house where they put salt in cooking water for veg etc, I can't taste the food, only salt.

As the othe rooster said, let your taste buds adjust to no salt, your bady will thank you for it.

I don't add salt to veg, I do a little bit to pasta since mine were about 1YO and they eat what we do. I don't use a lot of salt though. I'm usually astonished by how salty my mum's dinners are...

We've relaxed a bit since DS turned two. I'll now occasionally use jars of pasta sauce and we had gammon the other day.

Don't bother. We don't. Now I hate too much salt in my food but I'm sure it's good for me! We have sausages and ham etc so they're used to it but not too much.

Don't! Whu would you want too?

I agree with PPs. Just don't - much better for all of you and you probably don't even miss it, just the idea of it!

DS is 13 and we still salt nothing.

I don't add salt to anything for ds 14months and I don't add it to water for cooking anything either. However he does eat some ready made stuff sometimes (he loves Jamie Oliver fish cakes for example) and I know they will have salt in them... or he might have some pizza at pizza express with us. And bread is very salty really. So I can only do so much... ! I just make sure his diet is fairly balanced with lots of fruit and veg too.

agree with all - don't add it
no need
he won't know the difference
add it to your own food (out of his sight)

I'm remembering now that as dd got older she used to see us adding salt on our food and want some and we used to pretend to salt hers but held our finger over the end so nothing came out! :)

We now add stock cubes to e.g. bolognase, but never to cooking water. The only thing I need to add salt to on the way to the table is pasta.
DS2 is 2. (DS1 is older, been doing it since he was weaned)

Thanks for the quick replies . We probably won't use it much anyway, but some jars I avoid at the moment due to the salt. It would be nice in the future to just cook with it, instead of poring over the ingredients and putting it back in the cupboard.

another vote for don't ever add salt. after years of dp complaining I now do add some salt to my cooking, but never to cooking water. I add salt to some foods on my plate, but a lot less than I used to.

I gave up putting salt in cooking as a student, I love crisps, soya sauce, salted nuts and all similar savoury bad stuff, thus I concluded the less salt I stuck in cooking the better.

You do get used to it, I don't even always salt chips.

The only salt I tend to add to cooking is stock in stew and mince/chicken stir-fry type dishes as DD2 doesn't like soya or black bean sauce and isn't mad in cream either and likes a bit of sauce to coat her rice, pasta.

Both DDs find grandma's moderate amounts of salt in spuds, rice and pasta far too much and we have to compromise at Xmas.

Dd is 27months and while I never add salt to her food I do cook with it, I also don't stress over the salt content of prepacked food anymore.

Why would you want to add salt to his food? It's not a good habit to have. I only ever put salt on my chips, I never add it to food, and I wouldn't add it to DS's food, enough food has salt in it anyway without it being added to. Just don't start.

I won't be adding salt to his food, but if I use a ready made jar for any reason, I'm just wondering when I can just use it, instead of having to put it back as the salt is too high. DH and I are used to cooking without salt now, but if we do use a prepared jar, we don't save any for ds at the moment.

Why not make a sauce instead of ready made? We made the switch and freeze batches.

I'm 38 weeks pregnant. I don't have energy to cook from scratch every night and I don't have freezer space for sauce as the freezer is filled with post-birth batch cooking. None of us are going to die from havinf the occasional jar of sauce.

No need for that tone.

I've got a non-sleeping toddler, plus a nearly 4 year old, I've not had a decent nights sleep in 20 months. I manage.