When can I give toddler proper gravy?

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Hi, ds is 16 months, I don’t give him gravy and have only given him the boots salt free baby stock cubes with alittle garlic, tomato and cornflour to make a light baby gravy. I know bisto do a 25% less salt gravy and was just wondering is this okay for under 2 year olds? I usually use bisto best and didn’t want to give this to ds as it really is packed full of salt.

I found that the own brand supermarket reduced salt gravy has less gravy in it so give that to my 1 year old every so often

Less salt I mean

Thanks user is there a particular supermarket that does this? I’ll check it out.

Make your own gravy &
don't put salt in it? Give it to toddler then add to taste for yourself?

I never worried too much about gravy. My kids don't 'mix' foods so tended to just have a bit on the side to dip and the rest of their food was never salted so I assumed they weren't actually consuming much salt.

SmiledWithTheRisingSun Thanks I don’t add salt to any food and we don’t eat it in anything apart from odd time we have gravy on a roast diner. I make ds his own baby gravy at moment but dh and I just prefer the one we have as it’s quick and easy to make. Never been that great at making the real thing!

If anybody has an easy recipe for gravy novices if appreciate it. Baring in mind I don’t always cook the meat or have meat juices to hand (sometimes just pick up a hot chicken )

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Bisto lower salt contains 0.34g of salt per 50g serving. The NHS recommends no more then 2g of salt per day per child under 3. So depending on what else you are serving and in what portions, you can then make that decision.

Personally I'd stick with the baby stock cubes until he was older.

Thanks Finn I think I will just stick with them as what he hadn’t had he won’t miss. I might wait until after 3 and then maybe go try the reduced salt one for the rare occasion we have it.

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Bisto lower salt contains 0.34g of salt per 50g serving. The NHS recommends no more then 2g of salt per day per child under 3.

I doubt very much that a 1yr old could eat 50g of gravy. Mine might have a tablespoon at that age so I'm guessing a quarter of that, so must be less than 0.1g of salt from the gravy. Unless your DS is particularly keen, it shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks karma, good to know there is an option if we go out for a carvery or roast as well ds to have a tiny drizzle. He does well with his baby gravy at home. Didn’t want to have to take my own gravy

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We always just gave gravy. The rest of their diets are homemade and low salt. My youngest is 2.5 now and I haven't thought about salt for about a year

Thanks millly, that’s it, ds’s diet content minimal to no salt and is home made so I guess if you add it up over a day or week it doesn’t add up to too much.

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