Salt

[sthitch]

I’ve been really careful with salt levels in my nearly 8 month olds food, I thought I’d make some soup and went for the lazy option of buying the fresh packet already chopped up at Tesco and just add your own stock/boil/blitz... I’m using a baby stock cube as it’s low in salt but I’ve just noticed the ingredients of the vegetables has sodium metabilsulfate to keep the potato from going off - is this a high level of salt??? I genuinely have no idea and I’m really conscious of it so would like to check before giving it to her. Sorry if I sound really thick but it says 100g contains 0.7g of salt. There was me going for an easy option, I’ll know next time!

Babies should have less than 1g of salt a day so that's pretty high for one meal but if the other meals today are as close to zero salt as possible then you'll be OK for the 1g.

That being said, of course you shouldn't give your child high salt foods frequently but as you're ordinarily careful one day where there's a little more salt eaten isn't going to hurt in the long run.

Think I’m going to scrap it - thanks for your advice. It’s horrible as well (just tasted it) she had some chopped up scotch pancake and fruit for lunch so there may have been a bit of salt in that so I don’t want to give her anymore.

Would rinsing the vegetables wash some of it away? Your dd won't be having 100g of just vegetables and it will be diluted by the rest of the soup (stock and water).

I used to be absolutely crazy about monitoring salt levels but DD is now 14 months old and I've relaxed A LOT.

It's not the end of the world if they go slightly over one day, I used to try and think of it as 7g a week rather than 1g a day, so if she had some shepherds pie with us one night she would mainly have fruit/yoghurt the next day.

Thanks all! I’m not over kill but I do like to keep an eye on it. The soups been binned it was absolutely vile. I’ve got some peas, broccoli and onion so going to blitz this up with some baby stock instead!

You don't need stock at all. At this age they don't need things to be highly flavoured. Just steam and puree whatever veg you happen to have.