Comments on: Ten ways to keep your child’s daily salt intake down http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/ Whose idea was it to have so many children? Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:02:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Grown http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 Grown Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:24:12 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1462 Thanks for such a useful post. With a 15 month old, I am vaguely obsessed about keeping salt out of his diet, and as a result (my cooking from scratch) hubby and I have improved our own diet too. When hubby was away for the night last week, I "treat" myself to what used to be my favourite ready meal. It was salty and horrible, I threw it in the bin and heated up a frozen portion of mac & cheese I'd made from scratch a few weeks before. I can recommend this site: babyledweaning.blogware.com, for salt free recipes, and Gill Ralpley's Baby Led Weaning book for advice on salt, I find really it's for the whole family, not just the kids. If you find a good bread ercipe, let me know! Leave a comment on my blog allgrownup06.blogspot.com x Thanks for such a useful post. With a 15 month old, I am vaguely obsessed about keeping salt out of his diet, and as a result (my cooking from scratch) hubby and I have improved our own diet too. When hubby was away for the night last week, I “treat” myself to what used to be my favourite ready meal. It was salty and horrible, I threw it in the bin and heated up a frozen portion of mac & cheese I’d made from scratch a few weeks before. I can recommend this site: babyledweaning.blogware.com, for salt free recipes, and Gill Ralpley’s Baby Led Weaning book for advice on salt, I find really it’s for the whole family, not just the kids. If you find a good bread ercipe, let me know! Leave a comment on my blog allgrownup06.blogspot.com x

]]> By: ella http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1458 ella Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:27:10 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1458 Suze - thanks for the information. I hadn't heard of failsafe before so that's useful to hear about. nixdminx - I have a Hinari breadmaker but it was second hand and I can't particularly recommend it. I seem to remember lots of people recommending a Panasonic one on Amazon if that helps. Suze – thanks for the information. I hadn’t heard of failsafe before so that’s useful to hear about.

nixdminx – I have a Hinari breadmaker but it was second hand and I can’t particularly recommend it. I seem to remember lots of people recommending a Panasonic one on Amazon if that helps.

]]> By: nixdminx http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1464 nixdminx Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:00:59 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1464 Salt free food is a difficult one - I'm wheat free so share your pain. However, can you recommend a good bread making machine? Happy Easter Salt free food is a difficult one – I’m wheat free so share your pain. However, can you recommend a good bread making machine? Happy Easter

]]> By: Suze http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1459 Suze Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:42:34 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1459 I emailed Sue Dengate (author of Failsafe book) and she very kindly emailed back. I was hoping to have located butchers in the UK that would help you but she doesn't know of any. She did, however, pass on the email list for those doing failsafe diets in the UK. failsafeUK-subscribe@yahoogroups.com While it may be a pain to join up and ask (or perhaps email the moderator), it may be easier than not having sausages. HTH a bit, Suze I emailed Sue Dengate (author of Failsafe book) and she very kindly emailed back. I was hoping to have located butchers in the UK that would help you but she doesn’t know of any. She did, however, pass on the email list for those doing failsafe diets in the UK.
failsafeUK-subscribe@yahoogroups.com While it may be a pain to join up and ask (or perhaps email the moderator), it may be easier than not having sausages.
HTH a bit,
Suze

]]> By: Suze http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1461 Suze Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:36:13 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1461 Geez,butchers like that should be smacked. As if parents of kids with medical conditions have time to run around all over the place trying to do the basic stuff. That said, I suppose even around here it's a matter of knowing where to go (failsafe diets or people doing low salicylates & amines email lists tend to share this sort of information). In Australia it wouldn't be unusual to go 80+km to get to a different butcher. Good luck with it all Suze Geez,butchers like that should be smacked. As if parents of kids with medical conditions have time to run around all over the place trying to do the basic stuff.
That said, I suppose even around here it’s a matter of knowing where to go (failsafe diets or people doing low salicylates & amines email lists tend to share this sort of information). In Australia it wouldn’t be unusual to go 80+km to get to a different butcher.
Good luck with it all
Suze

]]> By: ella http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1460 ella Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:55:44 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1460 Violet - I like your idea but one of the things I have really tried to do is not make him feel different from the rest of us so I think I would only take food for him where the occasion was more important than the eating - a wedding, for instance. On the upside, I think we will start doing a lot more entertaining at home. I love a party! Suze - I asked our local butcher this already and he said no, but I will persevere a bit. Violet – I like your idea but one of the things I have really tried to do is not make him feel different from the rest of us so I think I would only take food for him where the occasion was more important than the eating – a wedding, for instance. On the upside, I think we will start doing a lot more entertaining at home. I love a party!

Suze – I asked our local butcher this already and he said no, but I will persevere a bit.

]]> By: Suze http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1465 Suze Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:09:30 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1465 Nice to see you doing well enough to blog more often. Congrat's on the diet changes. Mum's are awesome in what they can do for their kids health. I don't know if it works in the UK(from memory that's where you are?), but in Australia some local butchers will make your sausages with ingredients you provide ie. chicken sausages with chicken, some kind of rice as a filler (from memory), and parsley if desired. Different people have different requirement and different butchers will do different things. Often they wanted you do get like 5kg at a time, give x # days notice etc, them to provide the meat. Might give you a alternative. Be gentle with yourself. Suze Nice to see you doing well enough to blog more often. Congrat’s on the diet changes. Mum’s are awesome in what they can do for their kids health.

I don’t know if it works in the UK(from memory that’s where you are?), but in Australia some local butchers will make your sausages with ingredients you provide ie. chicken sausages with chicken, some kind of rice as a filler (from memory), and parsley if desired. Different people have different requirement and different butchers will do different things. Often they wanted you do get like 5kg at a time, give x # days notice etc, them to provide the meat. Might give you a alternative.

Be gentle with yourself.
Suze

]]> By: Violet http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1463 Violet Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:01:35 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1463 You might find that it's best to just make all of his food yourself, and bring it with you when you eat out. That's what my sister-in-law does for her highly-allergic daughter (she's 5 and gets anaphalaxis). Good luck to you :-) You might find that it’s best to just make all of his food yourself, and bring it with you when you eat out. That’s what my sister-in-law does for her highly-allergic daughter (she’s 5 and gets anaphalaxis). Good luck to you :-)

]]> By: More than Just a Mother http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 More than Just a Mother Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:24:17 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/04/01/ten-ways-to-keep-your-childs-salt-intake-down/#comment-1466 Well done for doing such thorough research. Some of your tips are really helpful - my children are all very young (1 is two and 2 are one, if that makes sense!) so it's important for me that they don't have too much salt. Thinking of you coping with this illness... Well done for doing such thorough research. Some of your tips are really helpful – my children are all very young (1 is two and 2 are one, if that makes sense!) so it’s important for me that they don’t have too much salt.
Thinking of you coping with this illness…

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