Salt

To begin with, in the first month or so of blw I was super concious about salt then, when I thought through how much goes into our home-cooked food vs. how much he was actually eating, I relaxed again, the reality was that the volume of food he was eating was so small there was only so much he could actually be ingesting.

Now, as The Boy's consumption of 'real people food' increases and he's more and more able to eat exactly what we eat I'm becoming more concious of the salt content of what he's eating again.

I have to be realistic, food has salt in it, you can't make bread or cheese without it and The Boy likes both very much. I also can't control how much salt he has when we eat out, I try to make good choices for him from the menu but who knows how much salt really went into that pasta sauce or those sweetcorn fritters.

I have to concentrate on what I can control which is the food he gets at home. We make a point of not adding pure salt to anything while we're cooking it so all the salt he gets comes from cheese, stock cubes or ham etc.. that are cooked into the recipe.

I also bought two new cookbooks the BBC Good Food; 101 More Low Fat Feasts and Healthy Eats in the same series. Not that I'm sponsored by the BBC or anything but I have found them really good, they are all tested recipes and they really do turn out like the pictures (!) and the have some very tasty ways of adding flavour without adding salt.

As a saltaholic honestly, I sometimes miss the salt but I like that we have 'the salt thing' under control and I guess I like that The Boy is forcing us to be a bit more healthy!