When did you stop worrying about salt content in your toddlers food?

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My 1 year old still doesnt have salt. I see mums giveing their kids wotsits, adding salt to meals etc in no way am i judging, im just curious. Anything that can cause LO to go over 1g of salt a day is a no. I usually stick to toddler snacks.
When did you add salt to your kids meals? When did you stop worrying so much about it or was it not a huge deal?

I still don’t salt pasta water and my eldest is 7! I salt the mash after I’ve taken the kids portion out.

Youngest is 3 and I don’t tend to add salt when I’m cooking and Dh and I will add it at the table but if I’m making a stew for example with gravy or stock cubes I’m not that bothered. I do buy low salt gravy granules when I can but I use normal stock cubes. Youngest doesn’t eat crisps but she’d have normal ones if she wanted them.

DD is 20 months old and we still cook without salt or only add salt once we’ve taken her portion out. We don’t give her adult snacks like crisps or breadsticks and we don’t eat them ourselves when she’s around. We sometimes give her food that contains salt like ham or small amounts of smoked fish; she is curious about new foods and we want to encourage that, especially if it’s something everyone is eating. She never eats a significant amount of the stuff anyway.

A cautionary tale from last year’s holiday. We were at the seaside and newly toddling DD got hold of some chips late afternoon, which we let her eat as a one off and because she’d worked so very hard to reach them! She certainly enjoyed the 3-4 chips she had. She woke several times that night and her sleep overall was very restless. The next night she was fine again and it wasn’t teething etc. We put this down to a much higher amount of salt than her usual level and, thinking about it, I also feel restless if I’ve had a lot of salt like from a takeaway. All this prompted us to look up the guidelines again. As others have said, it doesn’t reach adult levels til 11.