BLW and salt

[breatheslowly]

DD has decided that we will do BLW. She is 6.5 months. How can I minimise her salt intake? She seems to really like toast and cheese which are high in salt. She does eat veg and would probably just live on mango given the choice. Other people mention peanut butter, but I think it is quite salty. She does eat salt free rice cakes. What are good sources of protein which aren't salty?

I cook without salt now. Limit of half a slice of bread a day. For the amount of peanut butter they consume it won't be very much salt.

Protein - meat, beans/bean spread, lentils.

Can you use shop bought hummus or should I make my own without salt?

Ditto Rita, no salt in cooking. Tuna in spring water, roast chicken and egg are all baby favourites in this house. Picking tuna flakes out of neck folds is the best fun

Same as Rita, when we first started i limited bread to half a slice per day and now don't put salt in cooked foods/veg etc.
You could offer her lots of different things and see what she will have. you could give her strips of meat, or also things like cucumber with houmous. There is a thread on here somewhere on BLW which i recall had lots of suggestions for meals/snacks.

I give ds shop bought hummus to be honest - again I think they consume so little that the salt content isn't too much of a worry.

I don't use salt in cooking anyway as I have dc1 and 2 (age 4 and 6). I make bread in the bread maker and put in 0.5 tsp per loaf so a slice of bread has very little salt. I agree with rita about them eating only a little hummous, but we do use unsalted butter and unsalted ricecakes.Really really watch out for the salt content of wraps, crumpets and pitta which can be a lot higher then sliced bread.Also own brand bread often is less salty than branded.

They can safely eat up to 1g of salt a day. Which is about 2 slices of bread, 10 rich tea biscuits, or more than 100g of peanut butter!

You can get salt-free peanut butter at healthfood shops.

We never add salt to anything we cook and we cook all meals from scratch and that gives us a bit of slack to allow DD to eat shop bought bread, biscuits, and stuff like houmous, cheese and peanut butter.

I have taken to making my own homous as it's so easy and I can do a baby salt-free version and then add a bit of salt for the adult version. you just whiz up a tin of chickpeas, a tbsp of tahini, a bit of garlic, some lemon juice and a load of olive oil. what could be simpler?

i worry about salt too, as my ds also likes bread and cheese best. i just try to watch how much of those he has.

Have a browse in your local healthfood shop, you'll be surprised at the salt free options there. I buy salt-free cereals, peanut butter, tahini, rice cakes, corn cakes and stock cubes there.

Thanks for all the ideas. DD is so much happier at meal times now she is in control and I am too.

Marking my place on this as it's one of my concerns especially the cheese factor!