Spending a few hours at Mara’s Organic Market (MOM) in the Legazpi Sunday Market is fun and fulfilling for families.
It is where you get to meet up with new and old friends, jam with the mainstay musicians, eat quality homegrown food, buy organic produce for your house, and support the livelihood of local farmers at the same time.
Here’s a list of healthy food and beverages that you may make your kids happy.
- Grass-Fed Cow’s Greek Yogurt and Homemade Cheese by Tio Luca Artisanal Dairy
Yogurt and cheese are a common favourite of kids.
Good thing that there is Tio Luca Artisanal Dairy, which makes Greek Yogurt and Cheeses with certified organic grass-fed cow’s milk.
These delicious dairies are all made from home, with no preservatives, antibiotics, enhancers, sugar, powdered milk and the usual chemicals.
The Greek Yogurt is made purely with milk and live cultures, while the Cheeses are with milk and vegetal renet.
The kids love Tio Luca’s Greek Yogurt with Blueberry Jam, and with Honey, as well as all the Cheeses.
Sample Tio Luca’s artisanal dairies like Greek Yogurts, which also come as Plain and Extra Thick, and Cheeses like Fresh and Baked Ricotta, and Caciotta Semi-Hard Cheese.
2. Sugar Cane Juice
Kids love the genuine sweetness of sugar cane juice.
A glass of this freshly-squeezed crop gives your child many benefits, such as Vitamins B and C, Iron and Potassium.
3. Kale Mix Chips Vegan Cheeze by Take Root
Children likes to munch on this crunchy green chips because of its salty and slightly sweet flavour.
This healthy “chichiria” is packed with organically grown kale, tree nuts, bell pepper, nutritional yeast, sea salt, herbs and spices, dehydrated to maintain the food’s minerals, enzymes, vitamins and distinct flavours.
Other kiddie favourites are Take Root‘s sweet items, such as Dark Chocolate Brownie Bliss Balls, Homemade Peanut Butter Bliss Balls, Banana Bread Granola with Flaxseed, and Burnt Honey Granola with Cranberries.
4. Wild Mushroom Soup
Soups are always a good compromise for our picky-eaters.
Thank God that there’s a vendor that sells organic mushroom soup that children can really enjoy.
Other favourites are Creamy Pumpkin Soup, Red Rice Arroz Caldo and multi-grain gourmet sandwiches.
You can find these across from Down To Earth (at the end of MOM).
5. Super Food Choco Bars by Leaf Kitchen
These delicious and highly nutritious chocolate goodies are lovingly crafted by Leaf Kitchen Founder and Raw Food Chef, Asha Peri to give choco-loving kids a healthy boost.
A piece of these guilt-free bars consists of coconut, pili, sunflower, dates, carob, cacao, spirulina, malunggay, flaxs meal, and hemp protein.
So with these super foods, your kids are guaranteed joy, energy and nutrition.
6. Mulberry Juice
This is another nutritious juice that comes very handy for kids.
Proven as a medicine, Mulberry contains plentiful nutritious elements, such as minerals and vitamins, and can cure several health problems, including the flu, indigestion and constipation.
You can find this healthy juice at near the plant vendors.
7. Multi-Grain Mixed Vegetable Siopao
If your child likes siopao, then they will like this multi-grain siopao stuffed with carrots, onions, mushrooms and bean sprouts. Yum!!!
Other variants that your child will like is the Multi-Grain Mushroom Siopao, and Spinach Dumplings.
Find these yummy siopaos near the Sugar Cane vendor.
8. Goat’s Milk
Are you trying to wean your toddler off your breast? Then maybe you can try to substitute your milk with fresh goat’s milk.
Goat’s milk has essential fatty acids, linoleic and arachnodonic acids, in addition to a higher proportion of short-chain and medium-chain fatty acids, stuff that are easier for our child’s intestinal enzymes to digest.
You can look find Elsie’s Goat’s Milk beside the sugar cane vendor.
9. Fresh Fruit Juices by Chlorophyll Manila
At the end of MOM is Chlorophyll Manila, a booth that sells an assortment of nutritious organic products including wheat grass, nuts, Himalayan sea salt, and an assortment of fresh fruit juices that children would definitely like.
Their kid-stopping juices are Blueberry, Guyabano, Avocado, Guava and Mixed Berries.
Let your kids take a swig off their samples and see what they’ll like.
10. Green Smoothies by Rawlicious
Do you want to ensure that your child is taking her daily dosage of greens? Then try these healthy and naturally sweet drinks by Rawlicious.
They mix organic greens with pure coconut water, mangoes, bananas, celery, parsley, goji berries, wild homey and ginger, packed in different blends.
Let your kids try the Hella Green, a blend of pure coconut water, organic greens, banana and ripe mango.
11. Free-Range Bacon by Down To Earth
Bacon is every child’s comfort meal.
With Down To Earth’s free-range pork, you can now feed your child with bacon, made from happy and healthy pigs.
The free-range pigs raised by Down To Earth are raised in spacious outdoor pens under the sun and with fresh air, and they are nourished with coconut cake, whey and probiotics.
12. Carabao Milk by Shahani Farm
Strawberry regular and chocolate milk in bottles with striped straws isolated on white
For your child’s stronger bones, how about giving carabao milk a try.
Carabao milk is high in fat, low in cholesterol, and rich in calcium and minerals.
Here, it is sold plain and with different flavours like chocolate and strawberry, which your child might really like.
With these healthy food for our kids, and also for us, let’s make Sundays a fun and fulfilling day with MOM.
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