how much salt is too much?

[MamaChocoholic]

dts are 6mo and have started blw. am wary of giving them salt, so the only they've had so far is what comes in a shared slice of toast. trying to give them the food we eat, but cooking fresh each day is tough with dts and 3yo ds. tonight we are having (shop bought) pizza and salad. can give them tomatoes, cucumber, but how about a pizza crust, or even pizza slice? what is the recommended salt intake at this age?

The limit is 1g a day until 12 months.

I don't think a pizza crust would have any more salt in it than shop-bought bread. Or indeed any bread. If you try making the stuff without salt it's..... ewww. Seriously disgusting. I have a DS 8 months. I'm doing my best with the lack of salt, but a tiny bit here and there won't kill them. I'm sure the recommendations are sensible, but I can't be counting grams of salt or fretting if I give DS a tiny bit from the family pot that has salt in. They're allowed to eat bacon and cheese and things, and those have salt in. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as you're reasonably careful, surely nothing terrible will happen...

Cooking fresh every day is tough - I try to cook big batches of things and freeze in little pots so there's a quick meal on standby.

Occasional high salt meal is fine, give them plenty of water to drink with it and try to keep the rest of the day as low salt as poss. I try to think of it as 7g a week rather than 1g a day, so if you have one high salt day then make up for it the rest of the week.

Also you can try cooking without salt and adding it at the table if you need it - but I was actually quite surprised that lots of recipes taste fine without salt! If you're used to lots of salt then give it a week or so for your taste buds to adjust.

thanks, so two slices of bread is about max salt, and that's without cheese etc? hmm. we have been giving toast for breakfast. they're sharing one slice at the moment, but this is only about 10 days in.

I do like cooking, and tend to cook low salt, but finding the time to do so since the dts' arrival is hard. not good at cooking double portions, will have to try harder with that. but it doesn't work with, eg, stirfry.

need to think of better breakfasts!

Porridge made in the microwave is our standard breakfast. I do equal volume of Ready Brek and full fat milk, zap it for 2 mins and let it cool - ends up like a sticky pancake which DD can pick up lumps of and feed herself. Then she has fruit if still hungry.

Or weetabix/oatibix are quite good, I break off chunks and soak for a few seconds in warm milk to soften them.

Or mini shredded wheats, although DD seems to have temporarily gone off them.

no microwave. presume you could put in the bottom of a saucepan too though? perhaps something I could make the night before...

soaked weetabix sound good :)

I do porridge in a saucepan, its quick and easy for the amount you need to do.

Slightly soaked mini-wheats work for us, or use yoghurt instead of milk.

Fruit & yoghurt is fine too.