Baked Goods for baby

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DS has a mix of finger foods and purees, he loves feeding himself. he has shop bought bread and wraps, but i'm getting into baking myself and make lots of cakes etc. Can babies have this type of thing? he is 7 months. I've asked for advice before on here and i've been told feed baby what you eat but i'm worried about sugar etc

just made this can he have a bit?

Not every day, but occasional cakes are fine.

I'd be more worried about the salt in shop bought bread - 2 slices of white bread has their entire daily salt limit.

thats one reason i want to start adding other things to his diet. Its all so daunting!

Agree with Rita, once in a while will be fine.

Why not also google some sugar free recipes? There is a good sugar free banana bread recipe my MIL makes, it has raisins and orange juice in to sweeten it. Still a treat, but feels a bit better than with sugar.

Beware honey in sugar-free recipes though - this is not ok even when cooked until 12 months.

HTH

I've read that the reason under ones shouldn't have cake is the baking powder (sodium). As they should have less than 1g of salt a day they can't really have cake. I use the breadmaker a lot and put in less salt than usual. Why not roll your own tortillas?Or fry some potato cakes or thin panckes (no bp). For my older dc I make cake and reduce the sugar, this does not seem to affect the texture of the cake. I'm a bit of an anti when it comes to salt and sugar , other people are a bit more relaxed and their dc are fine on it.

i make banana bread with little (or sometimes no) sugar and DD (10 months) loves it.

Hi MooMoo, I have never heard that about baking powder. The sodium in baking powder is sodium bicarbonate, not the same thing as sodium chloride (salt). Sodium bicarbonate is an ingredient of gripe water, but I confess I don't know how much is in it.

It's the sodium in salt that's to be avoided.I first read about this in 'Veggie cooking for kids' by Sara Lewis. it's a fab book as it tells you WHY stuff isn't suitable for under ones. I don't think that the odd bit of cake is going to do any harm as long as the rest of the days food is low in salt/sodium.