I feel like I'm constantly checking salt levels in food, it's driving me mad. My baby is 10 months now and is a good eater, likes variety. She loves fruit and veg so I know there's no or little salt in them. But she's also a big girl (90-odd percentile height & weight) and likes quite big quantities of food and I'm trying to make sure she gets plenty of protein, fat and carbs too as I'm trying to start making the move towards getting her nutrition from food and not milk as she heads to the 12 month mark.
I read that she shouldn't have more than 1g of salt a day and it seems so hard to keep to that! I give plenty of low salt things like rice, pasta, veg, chicken, fruit, yoghurt, porridge. But one slice of toast is half her daily allowance of salt and she likes a piece of toast in the morning (I like it because she can self-feed as opposed to cereal which means I have to sit and feed her). A couple of pieces of cheese is half her allowance, a bit of ham etc, it just seems to add up so quickly. So a ham butty would be all her salt for the day and that's not accounting for what, if any, is in my milk, which she still has a lot of.
Am I being over zealous in strictly sticking to under 1g a day? Occasionally we'll go over, the other day she had a treat of 5 KFC chips with the salt licked off by me (the things you do!) so the next day I went very light on salt to compensate. Usually she doesn't have junk food like that, but it seems that even eating natural foods allows the salt to build up. I feel like I'm turning into One Of Those Mums.
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NormaStits · 29/09/2015 12:44
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