Is it alright for children aged 1-3 to eat food with seasoning?
by Rachel
(Singapore)
Hi everyone, I have read somewhere that children aged 1-3 should not be eating food with seasoning as it will affect their taste bud when they grow up. I am concerned that my 2 year old girl would develope to have a craving for salty and sweet stuffs when she grows up and thus had been giving her blant food. Sometimes do feel a bit "cruel". Especially that when she seems to be the only one who brings her lunch to daycare and others seems to be enjoying their 'junk' food (hopefully i am not offending anybody here - sorry if i did).
Am i the only weird mother around? I like to know what others are giving their toddlers during meal time. I am giving my girl plain porridge and stuffs without seasoning since she started taking solids. I am unsure at what age should i allow her to take outside food (which are high in seasoning content).
Not sure what other parents thinks....
Love, Rachel
Comments for
Is it alright for children aged 1-3 to eat food with seasoning?
There is no reason I know of to give toddlers bland foods. I believe you should begin giving them the same kinds of foods you eat, right from your plate as soon as they are ready for table foods. Of course you will use our judgement on hot spicy foods and sweets. This way they get used to your cooking. Also remember during your pregnancy baby was constantly swallowing amniotic fluid and some of the flavors you ate got into it and they also cross over into your breast milk if you nurse.
I am a SAHM to a 15 month old and we eat the same things pretty much. Here is what he ate today
Breakfast: Nurse (appetizer)
Omelet (made with garlic, onion, feta chees and spinach), tangerine, 1/2 slice wheat toast, milk.
Nurse (dessert)
Snack: cheerios
Lunch: Nurse (appetizer)
Leftover lasagna and garlic bread a few bites of salad.
Nurse (dessert)
Snack: Apple slices
Dinner: Nurse (apetizer)
Garlic and lemon pepper salmon, cauliflower and broccoli with butter, and mac and cheese (after he ate his mac and cheese with pepper nd salt only he ate some of mine with hot sauce and loved it)
Nurse (dessert)
He nurses first thing in the morning, with meals, at naptime and bed time and tops off sometime during the early morning hours.
As you can see his diet is no where near bland. He has ben eating like this since he was 10 months old.
Nov 22, 2007
Salt-eating baby by: charissa miller
My girl(Charissa Grace)(giftsofgrace.kids.homepagenow.com) Has a condition known as "salt wasting CAH", and what is really wierd, is that she doesn't care for candies that are sweet, like suckers and such, but loves stuff like popcorn, and chocolate, which fall into the salty side. (and it happens to be what she lacks!) from birth, she has had to have an dose of salt(1/4 tsp, broken into 4 of her bottles, per day)so I know that our bodies do NEED, and Crave some things. Another thing, is that she loves spicy stuff, but unlike my brother and I ,(who lived off pickled eggs, and just plain dill pickles, as kids), she doesn't care for sour stuff.-Doesn't even like apple juice, (which alot of babies are given).
I DO know that smoking, and living WITH smokers, will kill the tastebuds, but as for spices, as long as it's not MSG and stuff like that, but you stick to natural spices,(not garlic-it's a poisonous root), like ginger, and salt,and pepper,( I use onion powder) you can pretty sure that your baby will grow up to make healthy choices, as well as have great tastebuds. Don't worry, baby will let you know if he/she doesn't like something!
Charissa never did go for baby food in jars, nor porridge, so I've pretty much fed her macaroni(with small onions chopped up in it, as well as carrots grated into it, and a spoon of salad dressing(or you could leave it plain) and for a change, frozen peas and carrots(though she didn't go for the mixed until about 10 months(other than that,just straight peas(frozen)) you don't even need to mash them! they're soft enough for baby to gumm!
well, I hope I have given you some "Food For Thought" HA!HA!, Good Luck!
