Do you let your toddlers eat deli meats (in this case, it would be a child who is 1 year old)? I wasn't sure if there was too much sodium or some other reason to restrict it.
A bit here and there. It is the sodium that would worry me, but my kid is such a non-eater that I'll give him anything he wants as he won't eat enough to really matter.
I do. He doesn't really eat that much of it and I do buy nitrate-free about half the time. He typically only eats the equivalent of a 1/4 of a slice or less.
DS is almost 3, so a bit older, but he eats deli turkey several days a week for lunch. He gets one slice on his 1/2 sandwich. I do buy Applegate for him so that it has fewer additives, but beyond that I don't worry about it.
The nitrate free stuff still has nitrates - the celery powder is full of it.
I didn't at 12 months, I think I started around 2? I buy a packet of ham about every second week, between two children. I would like not to use it, for health and ethical reason (pigs live hellish lives and the slaughter is horribly done) but my kids adore it and they don't eat a lot of meat. In between ham I use roasted chicken or lamb which I keep in the fridge. A rotisserie chicken is easy if you're not into pre-roasting things.
I have to pack lunches for my kids' school every day, and they take turkey and cheese on WW as their main course once a week. It is tough to come up with easy things they will eat that pack well in lunches. My kids are 5 and 2.5. I can't recall when we first gave them deli meat.
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Nov 3, 2012 15:25:01 GMT -5
Yes, definitely. I think starting around a year. I buy the Boars Head low sodium turkey breast. There were periods where that was the only protein DD would eat.