SALT!

We've just stopped adding salt to our meals too much easier than doing separate, if needed we add table salt sometimes

I like to make our food and then just add salt to our plates I still season with everything else as normal (besides spicy)

Around 9 months when he started having the meals we eat.

I just feed her whatever I eat.. salt and all.. 😅😅

We try not to put too much salt in our meals and then season to taste afterwards for ourselves but it’s hard sometimes with certain ingredients like cheese and whatnot, I wouldn’t worry too much about it as long as your not adding salt directly to their meals

I don’t add salt to meals until the kids plates are done It’s best to keep added salt out of kids diet for as long as possible

I just add salt to mine once it is on the plate instead of during cooking

From 8 months old I gave my little one the same food as us with salt just no chillies in it

Never have I separated meals and added salt to one and not another, at the end of the day salt is flavour and it’s in most things, you go out for food your not going to ask the waiter not to add salt, I have always fed my girl what we have. Never do I over do it and I am cautious but never that worried as it’s not normal to be paranoid about stuff like that you’ll drive yourself mad checking things etc

I just add salt to our plates at the end so we don’t have to separate it.

I haven’t added salt since pregnancy as I was always so thirsty so now I’m just used to it. Don’t get me wrong if we’re having a lazy tea I know that’s full of salt so wouldn’t give baby that. But I only add salt to chips, eggs etc. once it’s on the plate

8/9 months

I don’t add extra salt. But I make the same foods as we do. If it has salt in it that’s fine. And for like eggs I’ll add a little bit but I don’t just add extra salt to the meals

I sometimes dish out her portion before seasoning to reduce the amount of salt, or just add it at the table, but after reading this article I’ve been less inclined to worry about it. She’s 9 months and still barely eats anything so any salt consumption is minimal anyway. https://solidstarts.com/sodium-and-babies/

I would serve my daughters then add salt to ours. Didn't do added salt until over one cos their kidneys can't really handle it before then.

I swapped as much as possible to low/no salt options, although you do need to be careful still, e.g. reduced salt stock cubes are still quite high in salt but there are a few which are practically zero. Otherwise I'd just add salt (or soy sauce or whatever) after dishing LO's portion

I’d never put salt on my kids food 1.5.10 or 15 they don’t need it there’s enough salt in food already. I’d add your salt when you’ve dished up saves making 2 separate ones

We stopped adding salt to our meals. I usually serve hers and then add salt before serving ours.

Try to wait a year, but what I would do is just give the baby some then add it

I don’t use a lot of salt as it is. But I just made steak for my daughter added some salt and a tiny bit of garlic (pureed it after)

@kelly curious what foods already have salt in it?

I cook the meal, dish up the kids, then add the salt to the pan before I dish up for us if there is a recipe which needs salt. If not I just cook as normal. I don't use anything different and never have. I never salt our veg or potatos and will just add once it is on our plates if needed. I sometimes use a stock cube in our meals and the kids will have that. Xx

Mine will only eat food that’s seasoned, kinda stressed hearing you guys say that babies can’t handle it with their tiny kidneys. But this can’t be true because Africans?? Persians??? Foreigners also use seasoning?

Everything he eats I’m throwing Slap Ya Mama or Cajun seasoning on it 😩

@Olivia I think she probably means from like spices or other things you use to make the food and add flavor. Not just specific chicken already comes with salt type of thing. Just when you make food the salt that already is in the meal

@Liv spices are fine, it's salt that babies shouldn't have

We started feeding her whatever we eat for dinner, including salt around 10 months.

In all honestly I don't cook with salt per se, I use no sodium or fresh herbs or spices, you could add salt to your own at the table

@Gabrielle I guess wasn’t understanding the way she said it because Whole Foods don’t have salt in them, only processed foods. Hence my curiosity to the comment that food already has enough salt in it.

When I tried there baby food at like 6 months I started putting seasoning in it. My food taste good there’s should too.

I started introducing salt at around 10 months. It was just a little bit then, now they’re almost 15mo and we do the same seasoning for everyone.

A little bit is fine, I don't completely eliminate it. I just keep an eye on it. I gave her salted butter on toast this morning, as nobody likes unsalted butter!