Running out of quick yet healthful meal ideas for your babies? Or probably thinking how to creatively introduce fruits and vegetables to your child? This article is very timely for you!
Proper nutrition within the first 1000 days of life scope is very crucial in attaining the optimum growth and development needed by the baby to reach its full capacity. One of the reasons why the Philippines has increased malnutrition prevalence rates over the years was due to improper and ineffective way of giving complementary foods to children.
Do not worry! NNC MIMAROPA will help you in making complementary feeding effortlessly fun! Did you know that you can prepare a single serving nutritious meal for as low P13.50? Here are some of the single and transition recipes parents, and caretakers can prepare to guarantee that adequate nutritional requirements of the child are sustained, while continuing breastfeeding:
Recipe 1: Munggo Fried Rice
Recipe 2: Kamote-Malunggay Pesto Pasta
Recipe 3: Scrambled Egg with Tofu and Sigarilyas
Recipe 4: Meaty-Veggie Patty
Recipe 5: Pesang Bangus
Transition Recipe Samples
Recipes abovementioned can be modified with additional healthy and fresh ingredients as desired. Alternative ingredients can be used depending on the preference, availability within the locality, and budget allocation for food.
Effective and age-appropriate complementary feeding, along with breastfeeding, is one of the straightforward strategic interventions everyone can do to save Filipino children from all forms of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. NNC MIMAROPA hopes that this article may widely contribute in sustained decrease of over- and undernutrition prevalence rates within region. Always remember, “Tamang pagpapakain kay baby ay easy, lalo na kung ito ay hango sa pagkain ng family!”
To understand more about complementary feeding, watch this: https://fb.watch/8NfSxsgT5_/
Written by: NO I Nichole Kate S. Loyola
Reference:
Department of Science and Technology – Food and Nutrition Research Insititute. (2021). 2021 Menu Guide Calendar. Accessed from https://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/images/images/standardtools/MenuGuideCalendar/MGC2021.pdf