Recipe?

My 13 mo old loves the stir fried rice we make with left over brown rice from the night before in a hot skillet lil evoo or avocado oil, peas, carrots green onion a little liquid aminos(salt) and sesame oil and sesame seeds, rice vinegar and stir in an egg at the last minute or two..sometimes if we have left over pork chop or a little bacon i throw that in there too or other veggies. You can do the same with whole wheat noodles and marinara and stir in steamed chopped veggies....you want to hide them for your kiddo? Check out skinnytaste.com lots of healthy kid friendly easy recipes!

Rice freezes fine, no problem there. Regarding sodium: we get a majority of the sodium in our diet from preprocessed foods, and the research I've seen suggests there's a genetic component to sodium sensitivity. I've found my blood pressure responds to gaining and losing weight, but there's not much response to the amount of salt/sodium I consume. But that's me, and I've known others whose blood pressure is sensitive to the amount of salt they consume.

We don't need the amount of sodium we're getting in our diets from preprocessed foods, and your kids certainly don't need it. If it were me, I'd think twice before pumping the kids full of an element they don't need at high levels for health. For most of our history on this planet, salt and sugar were expensive luxuries ... and we didn't evolve to need the levels we find in preprocessed foods today.

You'll ingest less sodium by adding salt from a shaker or salt cellar at the table than by cooking huge amounts of it into your food ... you get the taste, and much less sodium overall in your diet (they add so much to processed food because it has less of an effect on the taste buds when it's cooked in). I seldom cook with salt, and add good quality grey French sea salt to taste at the table.