Salt in food

[ElphabaTheGreen]

We'll be starting weaning with DS in three weeks on his six month 'birthday'. From what I can gather he can pretty much eat what we eat after six months, although I will, of course, keep it simple to start with (veg, fruit etc). Please correct me if I've got this wrong.

I do, however, add salt to our food when cooking - not copious amounts, just seasoning. Does that mean I definitely can't give it to him, or is a little added salt OK? We're veggies, so I never cook with anything like bacon which has a high salt content anyway, and I make my own veggie stock rather than use cubes (although I do add some salt to that). I'd like to take a bit of a BLW approach because I'm bone idle and can't be bothered pureeing so it would be nice to just be able to give him finger food versions of our meals.

Thanks in advance!

Agree with iggly, just take a look at the salt levels in your breakfast cereal or bread tomorrow morning.

Iggly If the rest of your family have excess salt in their diet, then no you should not feed your baby the same food, if your family do not have excess salt in their diet, then feeding them the same food is fine.

Filling up baby on bread and breakfast cereal isn't advised either (carbohydrate being the least important macro-nutrient).

It doesn't take much salt to get to a high level for a baby, especially if you give your baby cheese and milk (eg on cereal).

The NHS advice is not to add salt.