I wouldn’t worry so much about the salt - the negative effects of a high-salt diet may be overrated.
Just my $0.02.
Thank you for that link. It does say that any mechanism between sodium and cardiovascular illness (including hypertension) is purely theoretical, and that only a minority of people who have a predisposition to hypertension or kidney malfunction really need to limit their sodium intake. Her chances, assuming simplified genetics, are about 50/50 - I have low blood pressure, and her father’s father has severe hypertension and sodium excretion problems. He is on an insanely sodium restricted diet for real medical reasons. My husband seems fine so far, but it’s possible it might show up later in life, and further possible she’s inherited the problem from him. So I won’t feed her at that salt lick, but I’m not going to freak out over it, either.
Side note: our first day at play group was yesterday. There were two boys and her and when snack time came around, the moms opened their purses to bring out snacks from home. Boy 1 had: Hi-C punch, candy coated “fruit” bits and Nabisco sugar wafers. Boy 2 had: Gatorade, Cheez-its and Vanilla wafers.
I looked at her Larabar* and glass of water and suddenly felt a little silly for this thread!
*ingredients: dates, walnuts, unsweetened apples, almonds, raisins, cinnamon - that’s it. No starch, no preservatives, no binders. Everything is just dried enough to get sticky and ground small enough to be pressed into a bar shape. Plus the fine grind means no choking hazards for toddlers! They’re less than a dollar apiece at Costco. These things are awesome purse snacks!
You’re a good mommy!
The caramel color is caramel. They say color because they use it for color, but it’s still semi-burnt glucose in water.
Acetic acid is not vinegar. It’s its main component, but vinegar has other things (tannins, water). I hope you wouldn’t say that “ethanol=wine”!
Citric acid is not vitamin C. Vitamin C is L-ascorbic acid.
The base of most diet drinks is not any kind of protein, it’s the modified starches. Usually, partially-hydrolized: this leads to getting a fast sugar high (from the bits of sugar that have been broken off from the starch) while still having enough complex sugars that the high doesn’t go back down in fifteen minutes. Partially hydrolized starch is often listed in diet drinks as “maltodextrine”.
Thanks, Nava!
I realized after the post that I was thinking of weight *gain *drinks based on whey protein powder, not weight *loss *drinks. The whey protein is pushed to bodybuilders who desire more protein in a small glass.
Not to mention that drinks like Ensure or the weight loss drinks do wonders at adding calorie count/vitamins if needed without a tremendous amount of bulk.*
*So sayeth the woman who had to put on 2lbs a week the last month of her pregnancy and still delivered a 4lb 12oz-er.
WhyNot (you know, I’m starting to feel like I’m stalking you), are Larabars generally available at Costco? They look absolutely perfect. If I can get my husband to eat them.
Sorry for the hijack.
I found them at the Costco in Niles in the same aisle as the Bucket O’ Pretzel pieces, the 18 packs of M&M’s and other crap food that`
Ah! Sorry. Baby hit Submit somehow.
…the same crap food that looks like it’s intended for small business to resell by the piece.
To re-hijack, I just bought some. None at my local Costco, but my local hippie granola store sells them individually. The two I’ve tried are very good. I may have to find someone who’ll sell them by the box.