Garlic for babies....

[Mine]

I know this may sound like a stupid question, but is it ok for babies (mine is 6 1/2 months) to have garlic in their food..?
He is eating the same foods as we do, as well as his own purees and munches on toast, apple etc but i wasn;t sure if things like garlic and herbs would be ok for them too.

We eat a lot of garlic in our food, but have omitted it since ds has been sharing our food.....

I asked the hv and she said garlic is fine, but not to give him spicy food (of course). She's been flakey with advice in the past so thought i'd ask the masses.....

Garlic is fine, as are small amounts of spices and herbs and onions

Garlic is very good for you too, don't omit it, it will be good for you ds!

The only thing I would omit would be chillies, salt and honey

No, no harm done from giving chillies, I just omitted them because DS didn't like them! If your kids like them go for it. Salt and honey are the only things that could be harmful apart form specific allergy-inducing things, but that's dependant on family history etc...

Spicy food in itself would be fine for babies, just less spice as theyare smaller obv!

if you're giving food with chilli in, watch out for chilli fingers in eyes - oh did my DD cry and cry when she did this..

The eating part was fine though!

dd (16m) loves strongly flavoured food - particularly dh's homemade mustard vinaigrette on avocado