Uh oh!! I'm also guilty of giving ham and stras!!! Sould I be worried....I didn't know and now I feel terrible, I was looking for variety for lunch time ideas. Am finding it hard to give 'variety' especially at lunch time. She doesn't eat meat in chunks yet so still make sort of part puree for dinners but thought I was on a winner for lunch with ham and stras It's so hard to constantly think of 'new' things for them to eat
The first rule is that thou shalt not feel guilt - especially about that which thou dost not know!!!!
I am sure there are folk who think it's fine and you'll hear the old: "you had it as a kid and it did you know harm..."
It's just something that is advised due to a) the high salt content of ham and manufactured meat b) the high nitrite content which is pretty icky c) meats like devon are highly processed and highly processed foods (manufactured ham like soccerball etc also fall into this category) are best avoided by all of us but especially developing babies.
I find that I offer a platter to my kids and my baby - carrot sticks and hommus are a big hit - I make my own hommus & it's easy and yummy, yoghurt, capsicum sticks, celery sticks, a range of chopped fruits, I offer gluten free bread and they dip that into the hommus, sometimes they have home made fish sticks (I make a big batch and crumb them with stale gluten free bread and freeze them - are really quick to bake in the oven), I bake fruit muffins and freeze then individually (you know the mini muffin pans I use them) my kids are gluten free so I just use gluten free bread and I use apple puree instead of sugar or rapadura it's yummy! Sometimes they just have avocado on toast & that is yummy too with some fruit after...
There are lots of choices beside the really manufactured ones -- though sometimes it seems hard to think of them I know...
Of course - sorry I didn't realise people didn't know what they are.
Sodium Nitrate is a preservative that is used in ham, bacon, hot dogs, processed meats among other things. It is recommended that the intake is kept to a minimum due to the strong link with early ingestion or frequent ingestion and cancer - mostly colorectal cancer, pancreatic and stomach cancer. I think in some studies frequent eating of these products increased the cancer risk by up to 50 percent for colorectal cancer.
As with all things there is a duality. Some say it's not a problem but more and more nutritionalists and dieticians are suggesting that we steer clear of these products due to these links. Also the high salt level in these products affects arterial development.
Madissun - maybe try chevapi's instead of hotdogs? Yum, yum.
Flowerchild - I did know about the nitrates/salt etc so don't give to DD (But I still eat ham and salad sandwiches - I figure I'm pretty big and just tiny slices of shaved ham naughty, naughty). Anyhoo, quick question you will probably know - what about leg of ham/ham on the bone - does that have the nitrates/as much??
2 x 425g can of organic chick peas drained
lemon juice and rind of one lemon
2 tablespoons of tahini
olive oil 2 tablespoons
4 cloves of garlic
heat oil in a small pan, when hot add crushed garlic and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
remove and cool
combine chickpeas, garlic and lemon into a food processor and blend (I use a bamix)
process until smooth
add tahini and process
serve as you desire
keeps for a week!
yummy!!!!
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Sould I be worried....I didn't know and now I feel terrible, I was looking for variety for lunch time ideas. Am finding it hard to give 'variety' especially at lunch time. She doesn't eat meat in chunks yet so still make sort of part puree for dinners but thought I was on a winner for lunch with ham and stras
It's so hard to constantly think of 'new' things for them to eat
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