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OT - when can they have salt and sugar
I am finding it really difficult to get interesting food for the Moo
that has no salt or sugar unless I cook things myself. I want to avoid sugar but if it's low down on the ingredients list when will it be ok? Same with salt, it's in everything that isn't a special baby food and doesn't cost a fortume! Teapot |
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OT - when can they have salt and sugar
"teapot" wrote in message om... | I am finding it really difficult to get interesting food for the Moo | that has no salt or sugar unless I cook things myself. I want to | avoid sugar but if it's low down on the ingredients list when will it | be ok? Same with salt, it's in everything that isn't a special baby | food and doesn't cost a fortume! | A nutritionist told me that salt in things you buy is alright because they don't eat a lot of it. They just don't recommending salting food before giving it to baby. As for sugar, I haven't really heard anything and occasionally give DD food with sugar in it (flavoured yoghurt, arrowroot biscuits) since she was 10 months old. I don't give her a ton of sugar and salt just a little here and there. Nadene |
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Nadene ) wrote:
A nutritionist told me that salt in things you buy is alright because they don't eat a lot of it. They just don't recommending salting food before giving it to baby. I always felt almost the opposite, that processed food was apt to have a horribly high amount of salt, far more than I would put in if I were cooking it. So I would throw a trifle of salt in the Malt-o-meal or whatever I was making them, but I just wouldn't feed them something like canned soup at all. I did give them cheese, though, which is fairly high sodium (cow's milk has quite a bit of sodium naturally, plus cheese is salted). What kinds of things were you thinking of feeding him? Maybe it will turn out they're not that high in sodium, or we can brainstorm alternatives, or whatever. --Helen |
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Nadene wrote: A nutritionist told me that salt in things you buy is alright because they don't eat a lot of it. They just don't recommending salting food before giving it to baby. I always felt almost the opposite, that processed food was apt to have a horribly high amount of salt, far more than I would put in if I were cooking it. It does. A bowl of *cornflakes* has the same salt content as brine! And commercially-made adult food has a *lot* of unnecessary salt and sugar in, so people on low-sodium diets have to be very careful. I'd look for low-sodium versions of things if I was planning to give the baby anything aimed at adults. Jac |
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OT - when can they have salt and sugar
teapot wrote:
I am finding it really difficult to get interesting food for the Moo that has no salt or sugar unless I cook things myself. I want to avoid sugar but if it's low down on the ingredients list when will it be ok? Same with salt, it's in everything that isn't a special baby food and doesn't cost a fortume! I've decided that I'll keep exclusively making food for Pillbug until he's a year. He has a lifetime to eat unhealthy foods, so while I can, I'm going to make everything myself, with no salt or sugar. I have never found anything that I like (except for Gerber meats because my meats come out powdery and I do want him to get meats and there is no salt or sugar in those jars), but I do like rice cake that I break into little pieces for him. -- Anita -- -- SUCCESS FOUR FLIGHTS THURSDAY MORNING ALL AGAINST TWENTY ONE MILE WIND STARTED FROM LEVEL WITH ENGINE POWER ALONE AVERAGE SPEED THROUGH AIR THIRTY ONE MILES LONGEST 57 SECONDS INFORM PRESS HOME CHRISTMAS. |
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OT - when can they have salt and sugar
here's how I approach it, for things like cereals that often have high
salt, I buy the low salt version, for stuff like crackers which don't seem to have much salt I give them freely. Also bread. I mainly give him stuff I have prepared myself, but not specifically for him, he eats our main meals, which I do not add salt too and I avoid using any ingredients such as stock cubes. I'm sure he gets a low enough salt diet, as if I eat the same as him without adding salt at the table I need to eat a bag of crisps to avoid cramp through lack of salt. |
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