Can I give a 12 month old food with a stock cube in?

[MotherGaGa]

Just making a stew and have put a stock cube in and was wondering if its ok to give to a 12 month old because of the salt?

Any wise MN'ers got any idea?

I was told no years ago too much salt in them.

a stock cube is about 50% salt, so you can work out from this how much your LO is getting in her portion. My guess is not much but make sure you don't give her too many other salty things with it (bread or cheese) for example

Yes it is true about the salt content but have you added any more salt? Plus how big is the stew? I.E how diluted is the stock?

I personally have given my DS stew made with stock cube but i dilute and reduce well and he only eats alittle

Mrspear is waiting to be flamed

what witch said. I'm sure they'll be fine as they'll only have a small portion of the stew. For what it's worth, I've done this with mine with no ill effects.

I haven't added anymore salt and the stew is a big pan full. Will just give her a little bit and bulk it up with lots of veg.

I had no idea cheese had salt in!

I gave my DS food with proper stock cubes in. Now I buy Kallo Low-Salt stock cubes. I bought them once to try to reduce salt intake for the whole family and both DH and I really like them, so I still buy them now.

oh they sound good tearocks, will give those a go

Another vote for Kallo low salt stockcubes here

Although they can be hard to get hold of - my local tesco adn sainsburys never have them - but Holland and Barratts always have them in stock [very poor joke...sorry!]

Have just given 7 month old risotto made with a Kallo cube - I think once it has been diluted by water and tinned tomatoes it will only be a tiny amount.

I'd just leave it out. There's enough salt hidden in other stuff we eat, I'm not adding anything. Esp not for my baby. But I might be super anal about salt.

My local Sainsburys have kallo and i have used them when cooking since i began weaning. They are more expensive but have been on offer a couple of times so I stock up when I can

Boots/Sainsbury's do stock cubes in the baby seciton that are meant to have a lower salt content (not actually looked at the quantity though)

oops I have been giving her food with them in for months now :(

Stealth I did with DS and will do again with this DC. I think I worked out that the amount of casserole/bolognese/tagine or whatever he was eating meant he was getting 0.1 or 0.2g of salt per meal, which is well under the amounts recommended for even a 6 month old.

I don't add salt to any of my cooking and he didn't have anything processed of any kind until he was about 18 months old.

There is a level of hysteria about it IMO, as long as it is part of a healthy diet and their salt intake balances over a week.

It will be fine. 2 grams per day is the maximum for 1-3 year olds anyway. 1 gram is harder to stay under (6-12 month limit) but 2 grams is easy as long as you don't rely heavily on processed food and add salt to everything. Actually the only form of meat DS will eat is processed... but I still find it easy enough to keep under 2g of salt per day.