Can I give my 6 month old sausage?

[RagingHormone]

He's well and truly weaned and I was making beef casserole for tea and doing his with baby casserole sauce, but I've forgotten to defrost the beef! So I'm making sausage casserole. Can baby have this after it's been in a food processor? Or is sausage too salty?

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You can give almost anything as a one-off imho (whether he'll eat it is another story...) just try to ensure salty foods are one-offs at this age. Once they're past one it's a lot easier. (probably teaching you to suck eggs here if you have more than one dc)

it might be too salty, depends on the sauasge. Is it proper made by a butchers or cheapo testicles sausage ?

I would say too salty. Depends on type. Personally wouldn't be keen on most shop-bought sausages cos there's such a lot of rubbish in them. But a little once off is not going to harm them.

gosh no not at 6 months

It's made by cow and gate. They do like 3 cheese sauce, casserole sauce, tomato and veg sauce. It just means it doesn't have any salt or anything like that in it.

I've never given baby anything processed and don't want to, so I thought it was an iffy area anyway. I'll just do the veg and the sauce.

sausages are not necessarily processed
are they butchers sausages?

id be careful about the skin too, take all the skin off

chhese? At 6 months?
Isn't jar food processed cos its been, umm, jarred?

It's a butcher sausage but I won't give him it. He's been weaned for a while so he's passed fruit puree stage Christiana.

James- He's my PFB

I don't give him jar food.

I think if its just a one off its fine, its not like hes having them every day.

Couldn't you microwave defrost the beef? Sorry - assuming that everyone has access to a microwave now . . .

I can't work my microwave lol. It's ridiculous. It doesn't say 'defrost' it's all codes and it's a grill and oven in one. Don't know why as I already have a grill and oven!

on the power setting push it until the number displayed is either the lowest it goes before jumping to Hi or 900/850/800 or Lo that is your defrost.

make and model and i can possibly more helpful.

You could squeeze the meat out of the casing and fry it like you would mince!

the cow and gate sauce is processed

Yes the cow and gate sauce is processed, sausages are processed that is how the meat is broken down salted mixed and compacted into the skin.
You can't give 6m old anything fried from frozen

Fine I'll just not give him casserole. But I think it's a bit precious not to use Cow and Gate Sauces- they're baby sauces!

I'll look at the make of the micro when I get home. I don't use it because the instructions were in French lol.

its so easy to make your own sauces - and more satisfying

I used the cow and Gate sauces and the Heinz baby sauces, they were great and ds loved them. We haven't all got the time to make sauces from scratch, especially not with a 6 month old baby, especially not if he's anything like my ds was at 6 months, I had to rush like buggery just to open the cow and gate sauce packets. Do what you can and don't feel pressurised to be some kind of super mum/ delia smith. Remember that a tiny bit of whatever you are eating (except honey, shellsfish, nuts etc) will not harm him. As long as the sausages are fairly good quality and he isn't having it every day. he'll be fine. You're doing great to be even making home made cassaroles IMO.

no, sausage and pork meat has too many nitrates

"I've never given baby anything processed and don't want to"

but what is in a Cow and Gate sauce? Processed stuff .

Use it by all means but don't kid yourself it's not processed! And for what it's worth IMO a big of sausage won't harm a baby as a once off.