When did you start adding salt to your child’s food?

[Hope54321]

When did you start adding salt to your child’s food?

Never, we don’t add to ours.

I have never been to someone's home and had a meal where there was no salt in the food

How do you know? Do you ask? Or observe the dish being made every time?

I’ve never had anyone notice I don’t add salt. I have salt on the table, so they can add if they want. Never had anyone taste something and then add salt.

Nobody has ever refused to eat anything I cook either.

I can't imagine not adding salt to a dish. As in at the cooking stage.

"And no, i’m not “deficient”. By the time I’ve had a couple of slices of bread, some cheese, butter, mayonnaise/ketchup, and the occasional tin of soup or ready made sandwich at work, i am easily over my 5g a day"

Oh the irony.

Under 1 I was careful not to include added salt when making food. One they were 1 I just seasoned everything as normal. I have eaten at houses before where everything lacked seasoning and you can certainly tell. Of course you wouldnt say anything to the cook. I rarely add salt at the table even if it's needed because I find people take offense at that, unless it is chips

what do you do when you cook for other people or a dinner party? Do you add salt to their food? Or have salt on the table for them to add?

I make it without adding salt, and let guests know that they may want to add some. Obviously we have salt and black pepper mills on the table, doesn't everyone at least when they have guests?

I rarely add salt at the table even if it's needed because I find people take offense at that, unless it is chips

Really? How odd. Cruets don't exist just for chips!

@ErrolTheDragon

I rarely add salt at the table even if it's needed because I find people take offense at that, unless it is chips

Really? How odd. Cruets don't exist just for chips!

I've seen threads on here before where people were annoyed at dinner guests adding salt which is probably why I worry about it

Adding salt without first tasting the food may be considered rude.

@Nomoreusernames1244
Its simple, you can taste the salt fgs
And sometimes yes, we drink in the kitchen when the food is being prepared or I help prep food for them, thats how I know that salt is added
No salt in food is v v noticeable and bland

Never, I don't add salt to adults food, including my own. It's terrible for you.

Honestly if you don't use salt you don't miss it and in fact when it's been added to stuff it's obvious and not nice

You become more aware of other flavours

My husband added salt to everything and I changed that and now he can't stand it in food it ruins the taste

I struggled with a lot of soups I haven't made as often was too salty for me

It's like sugar in tea , if you don't take it and someone adds it , it's horrid.

Those who use salt, if you stopped for 6 months you soon wouldn't notice but at first your food would taste awful but over time you wouldn't notice and would taste other flavours more

I don't use it for health reasons ,I get more than enough without adding extra on my diet

No salt in food is v v noticeable and bland

Just because you think it tastes bland doesn't mean it is.

@UnshakenNeedsStirring I do have salt and pepper on the table yes, though to be honest most of my friends are far more health conscious than me and aren't likely to be adding salt to anything anyway.

@ButteryNuts

I can't believe how many people don't use salt - it's what makes food taste good!

Food tastes good without salt. I don't like salt and don't want my food to taste of it as it does in so many restaurants

This is a great bonkers food thread, makes a change to have one with no mentions of protein, gluttony, chickens or exceptionally tall children.
Excellent work.

Never. Never do to anything. Put some on my chips and when I have egg or celery and that's it.

@lifeinlimbo2020

Never. Never do to anything. Put some on my chips and when I have egg or celery and that's it.

You never do to anything, except for when you do. Righto.

@Nomoreusernames1244

I have never been to someone's home and had a meal where there was no salt in the food

How do you know? Do you ask? Or observe the dish being made every time?

I’ve never had anyone notice I don’t add salt. I have salt on the table, so they can add if they want. Never had anyone taste something and then add salt.

Nobody has ever refused to eat anything I cook either.

My mum would claim this. I thought I didn't like a whole load of foods until I left home and tried them actually cooked with seasoning - so much nicer! So it wasn't at all that I was used to salt as we never had it in cooking at home. It doesn't need to be a lot but some dishes taste a hell of a lot better with some salt in - mashed potatoes for example.

It's as if those that use salt empty the whole container when cooking. It's only a sprinkle and the container lasts for months and months. I probably buy it once a year and I cook from scratch a lot. My mil she never has salt and hasn't for over a decade due to health reasons (hypertension, cholesterol) but even she separates her food and puts a sprinkle of salt in the remainder of the food as she knows it's bland for the rest of the family.

I don't understand bland. Bland to me is rice cakes - tasteless.

My food isn't bland. To me, salt makes everything taste the same. It masks the actual natural flavour of the food. I'm a good cook and people go back for seconds when I cook, so that suggests the food is better than ok.

Reliance on salt to put flavour into food suggests no other flavours are added. When I talk about salt, I'm talking about the stuff in the shakers, not things like soy sauce, salted butter but actually adding the white stuff on top of the salt that is in other ingredients.

I also didn't like a whole bunch of food until I left home. Mum would over cook vegetables until they were mushy. I hate mushy food. Most vegetables should be lightly cooked and retain some firmness.

I'm really struggling to imagine people don't add salt or salted stock if they make soup from scratch?!? Surely it would taste horrible without salt and lots of pepper.

I add half teaspoon to potatoes for mashing but that's for a whole family. I don't use it for anything else. Lots of flavour in things like spaghetti bolognese, eg herbs tomatoes etc to not need salt.

You need salt to bring out the flavours of spices or it will be bland
I make lots of curries that get widely praised and I never add salt!