Salt&BLW

[HerMomminess]

Wondering re salt

1.Ham: if you soak the gammon and boil it yourself is it ok to offer a small piece ie one finger food portion?

1. As for dairy: what about cheese? Isn' t that too salty?

3.If making risotto/paella/rice dishes do you use stock? I can' t be bothered to make my own stock and have been using reduced salt bouillon made up to half strength.

My poor DS has had much more salt in his diet than puree weaned DD

1. I would give the gammon personally - very occasionally. (Although I did one a while ago which tasted really salty and I probably wouldn't have given him any of that.) As long as the rest of the day balances out with not much salt.

1. Ditto cheese - as long as they're not having lots of bread/processed stuff/weetabix in a day.

1. I have got some of the Boots baby no-salt stock cubes. Apart from some wierd bits of dried carrot they're fine and you can add some salt to your portion if you feel you need it. (I put that much cheese in risotto that I don't need any extra salt!!)

I think you just have to get a balance. HTH

Thanks TPO. Agree that common sense should prevail. But beauty of BLW is that we can eat together. Have noticed how salty stuff is without adding any! Scary canary!

Boots baby no salt stock cubes!! Will investigate immediately. Mumsnet comes up trumps again, this time for dd2, for whom I will not be finding time to make my own stock as I did for dd1!