Do you watch/limit the sodium in the food you give your LO?

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Yes. I follow several registered dieticians on social media, and I'm kind of obsessed with baby and toddler nutrition, and one of the main things they stress is *no added salt or sugar.* Sugar is fairly easy, but sodium is more tricky. Anything I cook for my LO I leave the salt out, but if I'm using ingredients or a premade item that has sodium already in it, I actually count it all out.
The recommendation under 1 is no more than 400mg of sodium per day, 200 of which comes from formula or breast milk, so that leaves 200mg to come from food. That's really not much! A single piece of bread can easily have 140mg or more, cheeses are notoriously high, and so are things like pasta sauce, butter, etc. So it's very easy to go over the daily limit in a single meal. 
They say not to freak out about it, but if you do give your LO something that has higher sodium (like a piece of bread, for example), then to let that be their "high sodium item" for the day, and keep everything else at a minimum to balance it out. 
I'm a salt lover personally, so it's been a little bit of a challenge for me, learning to make foods taste good with no salt. And I definitely check the nutrition labels more diligently at the grocery store if it's something I know she's going to be eating.

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Children under 1: Less than 1g salt or 0.4g sodium daily

Do you watch/limit the sodium in the food you give your LO?

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