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Weaning

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When did you introduce your baby to chilli powder?

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dreamerkr · 09/07/2023 20:35

Just wondering! DS is 8 months old and I have no idea

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DappledThings · 09/07/2023 20:37

It wasn't a thing we specifically introduced. I know we had a baby recipe book that included mild chili powder in a couple of things so around 8 months probably.

liveforsummer · 09/07/2023 20:38

By 8 months dd were trying a bit of everything we had . They will have had it at some point around then in our cooking so anytime now is good

mynameiscalypso · 09/07/2023 20:40

DS had a bit of pizza with a jalapeño on at about 8 months.

eatdrinkandbemerry · 09/07/2023 20:42

My kids have always had a bit of everything unless it contained lots of salt.
By 8 months they loved a bit of curry and rice with naan's 😂

ShowOfHands · 09/07/2023 20:43

They ate what we ate from weaning and so probably had chilli around 7 months once they'd had a few weeks to progress reliably from chucking food at us and the floor.

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dreamerkr · 09/07/2023 20:47

Oh okay 😊 do you guys give your baby low salt foods or foods with no salt at all?

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Catladytobe · 09/07/2023 20:55

My DD has had chilli from when she was first weaned and enjoys spicy food a lot now aged 2

DappledThings · 09/07/2023 21:28

They will always have a bit of salt. It's in bread and cheese and all sorts. But we've never added salt to anything while cooking so carried on doing that and switched to low salt stock cubes. Otherwise didn't really think about it. By not adding extra salt to anything I was pretty confident they weren't going over their limit with the little of everything else they did eat.

UndercoverCop · 09/07/2023 21:34

Mild chilli and mild curry powder from weaning, then from maybe 8 months or so he grabbed a handful of my very hot prawn curry, and then tried to go back for more! He's now 4 and likes spicy food apparently I was the same.
When I was pregnant there was no such thing as too hot, I almost craved it, raw chillis, extra heat in everything. We went to Portugal and in one local restaurant the owners were laughing at me eating the piri piri oil on my food without batting an eye, they told me that's usually for the locals when I asked for something hotter, they gave me the most delicious pickled chillies, the lady told me she was the same when pregnant with her son but not her daughter and correctly predicted DS would be a boy!

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