How can 9 month old DS eat what we eat?

[Twinklemegan]

I don't know if I'm just being paranoid but I'm finding it really hard to do thid whilst taking account of the guideline of

Well, I'll put my hands up and say it never occurred to me to tot up salt content, was more concerned about getting a balance of foods right. Obviously steer away from things like popadoms, didn't give Marmite till she was about twoish, but certainly don't remember this as being another blinkin' thing to get wound up about.

It's hard to keep track of, isn't it - ds is 10 months. I try to buy the bread, pitta etc with the lowest salt content but he doesn't actually eat very much of his finger foods anyway (maybe one finger of toast at a sitting - most of it goes on the floor!) so I don't think he can be having very much salt in total.

well as long as salt in't being added and you're giving lots of fresh food i wouldn't even think about it tbh.

no need to panic about every last thing

Twinklemegan, I'm so glad you said this. I worry about the salt thing too. It never occured to me to look at salt content for me and dh - we eat healthily and I don't add any salt when cooking.

But the other week I made a risotto for all three of us and suddenly had a panic about stock cubes. And ever since then I've been checking out the salt content of everything. I do try to relax and I notice most of dds food ends up on the floor or her lap but it's nice to know I'm not the only one worrying!

Our DD (now 21 months old) has shared most of her week-end breakfasts and week-end lunches with us since she was 6 months old. So we had to change our eating habits with her eating routine. We are now glad we did because we always cooked her own food and she could see us eating other foods, and she showed lots of interests sharing ours. She is now a great eater (except she doesn't like our potatoes but only the nursery one!!!), she eats mostly everything else that include mussels, all meats, fish,green veg, she loves chickpeas and she even tried oysters in France..). We don't put salt in our food,and never really thought about how much salt or sugar she was eating but only thought of the diversity of foods she will encounter in her life!!! We never praised her for eating well or made a fuss if she doesn't show interest in a particular food (like potatoe!) but just show that we are lucky to have food on the table and best to enjoy it!!! (by the way I am French..)

i don't stress much about salt tbh. i just don't add it to anything. i don't give her more than 2 pieces of bread a day, but that's as much about not giving too much fibre as it is about not giving too much salt. i don't worry about cheese at all. she eats a lot of cheese, we all do.

i'm not sure that helps you at all, i guess we all have our priorities. i mean, i don't give her organic veg all the time, she gets tesco value quite often. however, she always always has organic dairy products. that's one of my priorities.

i don't stress about salt either, tbh. we eat home-cooked food and i don't add salt, never have really. i don't use stock very much either, unless i've boiled up a chicken carcass and frozen it. i don't particularly like the taste of the cubes but will occasionally use marigold bouillon if pushed. they do a lo-salt version but it's revolting imho. wine and herbs, on the other hand, get a good airing here...

I never worried about this. I don't add salt when cooking or at the table anyway. But so long as DD was having a reasonable healthy selection of food, then I never even thought to tot up salt quantities.