Feeding baby HM bread?

Treacle_2-2

Another breadmaking question please!!

I'd want to try my 7 month old on HM bread rather than shop stuff, but is it safe to do so as recipes all say to add salt and I know I shouldn't be giving her salt?

pigpen

There is loads of salt in shop bread as well as other junk.. you can always leave it out anyway.. I normally do because I don't keep it in I only add salt if I have stolen some of the littel salt packets from a caf!.

She can have salt.. just in moderation.. like everything else.

ALL 8 of mine have always had whatever we have eaten and have never had any problems

Consider how little salt there would be in an individual slice anyway with a tea spoon of salt in a whole loaf.

comping_cat

Im sure your HM bread would have less salt than the shop bought - and far less adatives. I think most parents give toast/bread/sandwich as finger food, and i know i would be happy to give my children HM.

kethry

i think the only proviso against HM bread would be, if like i do, you mix seeds in with your dough. She could well choke on those, so that wouldn't be good, obviously. As for the salt issue, personally i put 2 tsp of salt in a whole loaf, often less (i don't fill the tsp all the way up). as others have said, shop bought bread would have a lot more salt in it.

keth
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MrsB_2

My little girl (18mths) loves HM bread and marmite for breakfast!! She's only started having the marmite recently but has had the bread for ages (was a great first chewy type food).

I think the general advice is actually not to ADD salt to their food as they will get enough naturally. So, in short, she'll be fine - so long as she's not eating loaves and loaves of it!!

mrcow

I only put a pinch of salt in my loaves (as I hate the taste of it), try making some without any - it may turn out alright.

A bit of salt isn't going to harm her. We need salt to keep healthy (just not loads of it!)

heather38

my dd has hm seeded bread since she was 6months old. she's been fine with it. the current advice is less than 1g of salt for under 12 months.
so long as you are not adding salt to other food i wouldn't worry about a pinch of salt in a slice of bread.

Stephen_Leak

MrsB wrote: »

My little girl (18mths) loves HM bread and marmite for breakfast!! She's only started having the marmite recently but has had the bread for ages (was a great first chewy type food).

I think the general advice is actually not to ADD salt to their food as they will get enough naturally. So, in short, she'll be fine - so long as she's not eating loaves and loaves of it!!

Please be aware that Marmite evidently does have a high percentage salt content. However, it is usually served in such small amounts that this should still be well within the RDA of 6 grams (you do need some), but this figure is for an adult.

PS. As a self-confessed Marmite addict myself, I wouldn't wish to deny Little Miss B her breakfast treat, as it contains more good stuff than bad and should train her pallette away from a "sweet tooth", which would probably cause even more problems. It just might be worthwhile checking the label, finding out what the RDA is for an 18-month-old is, doing a few sums and - if necessary - adjusting the amount.

heather38

the salt levels are less than 1g under 1 year and 2g from 1-3 years (or 0.8g sodium)

angie_loves_veg

...... so 1tsp (5g) in a loaf (say, 15 slices) is reasonable (0.3g per slice)

many shop bought loaves have approx 0.5g salt per slice

As others have said, you can always leave out the salt altogether

~Chameleon~

I think bread does need some salt (as well as sugar) to help the dough rise properly, but you should be able to get away with as little as 0.5tsp salt in a 500g loaf.