Would you give these processes food items to a one year old

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1. Baked beans
2. Tinned tuna
3. Ham
4. Salami
5. Chips
6. Ketchup or other sauces
7. Shop bought bread
8. Fruit yogurt
9. Cheerios

10 fish fingers 11. Cheese (usually slices something like cheddar or mozarella)

I had more items I wasn't sure about so might add to this thread later when I remember. For context my toddler is 14 months and we have baked beans and fish fingers aboutq once every two weeks. He's had tinned tuna and chips once and fruit yogurt a couple of times but really liked these. He has bread or toast pretty much every day, sometimes several times a day. He hasn't had any of the other items but has been eyeing them when older DC has them. he doesn't have any problems with gaining weight. On the contrary (but that's another thread).

Also when did you let your child start having take away or restaurant food?

Would you give these processes food items to a one year old

Aye

Mine had all of those except salami and also never pre sliced cheese, just proper cheese

Everything except shop bought sauces and salami, just because of the salt content.

A very easy yes to all of them.

Not ketchup

Yes to all.

Salami and chorizo on a pasta bake is a favourite in our house with my 2yo DS and 1yo DS.

And DS1 had his first McDonald's nuggets and chips around 13 months so not long after his first birthday.

Yes

To add - restaurant food whenever we were out that was age appropriate. Eg pasta or chicken nugs or pizza.

Mine didn’t have take away until about 18 months due to the high salt content.

Yep all of them, wouldn't even think twice

Also 'shop bought bread' 😂😂

Shop bought bread?

Flipping heck, i knew we were meant to be giving babies home made fruit and veg purees. But were we meant to be baking bread as well?!

My kids probably had most of what's on that list before they were a year old. Except for the salami.

I don’t really class chips as “processed”. They’re just potatoes and vegetable oil.

bread and cheese are basic staples. I think I used to try and get “better” version of stuff so plain yoghurt, deli sliced (rather than formed) ham etc.
ketchup and other condiments are such small amounts I never worried about those either.

Not the salami but yes to the rest

Ok good. I was worried that most kids at this age were having home made cottage pie or lasagne, etc. My friends all cook from scratch every meal so I feel quite guilty about giving the kids junk. Especially the little one. I worry about the high salt content too

I know bread is super common and Ds has a lot of it (as do I) but apparently it's considered highly processed and quite unhealthy.

Also at what age did you start adding salt to your toddler's food? (Either while cooking or at the table).

Well we’re vegetarian so not the meat & fish but all the rest yeah for sure. Obviously not piles of chips and ketchup for every meal but occasional chips is fine. Is it your first child? I used carefully note everything DS1 ate in a day and follow a weekly weaning plan. Don’t even know was DD (fourth) first food was. I imagine probably something from the dog bowl or some porridge she’d licked up off the floor.

As for salt I basically added it (little bit) from the start of them having food while I cooked. I still don’t add it at the table but I very rarely salt my own food either, so it’s never occurred to me to salt theirs. So not sure about that.

Could You tell me more about the deli sliced meats? What does formed mean or deli sliced? My (older) DD loves ham and salami so I'd be very happy if I could get healthier versions of them. I'm a vegetarian so don't know much about meat.

1. Baked beans - No

1. Tinned tuna - yes unless it is in brine
2. Ham - in tiny amounts / not often

1. Salami - No
2. Chips - Yes, if chunky oven chips in sunflower o
3. Ketchup or other sauces - No

1. Shop bought bread - Yes
2. Fruit yogurt - Yes occasionally, small amount
3. Cheerios - maybe

10 fish fingers - yes

11. Cheese (usually slices something like cheddar or mozarella) - yes

No, it's my second but with dc1 I had a lot more time and tried cooking more food from scratch. I sometimes feel guilty that dc2 gets more processed food.

Yeah my children have had all of those from 6 months. Most of their meals are homemade, sometimes those meals include some of the things you’ve listed. Restaurant food also from 6 months, takeaway would depend on what you are having, greasy kebab no, takeaway from a local Italian restaurant, yes.

Didn’t realise that tuna counted a a processed food? If canned in spring water I would have thought it was a good, lower salt choice of fish?

i don’t think our child has any of these items other than tuna, and obviously bread, until after his second birthday. Total PFB performance anxiety from me, but also we don’t usually eat those things anyway so it didn’t occur to me to put them on his menu.
At 2.5, he now has all of them from time to time (And cheese he probably has every other day) except ketchup because we don’t really eat it as a family anyway.

I get the bread thing though - there’s been a lot of news about ultra processed food lately, and many supermarket breads were classed this way (sliced, long life). For this reason I haven’t eaten this type of bread by choice myself in a long time, and have largely gone off it as a result, and because I don’t like it, I don’t buy this type of bread and therefore my son doesn’t have it. He has bread bought from shops, but the kind I like because that is what is available.

Not sure of your question but I think my view is watch salt content where you can, and keep yourself sane - this means don’t drive yourself crazy by holding yourself to a standard that doesn’t suit your lifestyle, but also try not make a rod for your own back by always serving “easy to like” foods. because as babies grow into toddlers they really push against boundaries, and if the habit of having every day access to “easy to like” foods is in place it can be frustrating/a cause of tension when a child refuses to eat any veg and screams for chips Etc.

the instagram account “kids eat in color” is very good on this in my view - realistic advice served with a smile!

Yes to all except the meat because we're veggie. And restaurant food from 6 months. I don't add salt to anything for the kids and I only have it on chippy chips these days.

Not salami, not sliced cheese unless it's genuine cheese and then only small amounts due to the salt.

Not ketchup, I wouldn't really care since presumably its in small quantities but it's not a food so no need.

I might give a few cheerios as a treat but they're the equivalent of a biscuit so not a bowl full as a meal.

Having said all that I wouldn't really vat an eyelid at someone feeding their kids those things, not ideal but not really damaging so long as you're careful on the salt and add in fruit and veg.

Ultra processed food is a whole different issue.

I wouldn't mind them eating any of them but some of them I wouldn't serve at home and others I'd give but not regularly.

Mine all had restaurant food at that age, usually a vegetable side dish plus food from our plates. Sometime a child's meal depending on what was available.

1.Baked beans Yes

1. Tinned tuna Yes
2. Ham No
3. Salami No
4. Chips Yes
5. Ketchup or other sauces Maybe
6. Shop bought bread No
7. Fruit yogurt No
8. Cheerios No

10 fish fingers Yes 11. Cheese (usually slices something like cheddar or mozarella) Maybe