By Jaime Marroquin | Aldea Maya Manager
In the last several months, Aldea Maya has been involved in some exciting seminars and competitions. We were asked to be part of a nutrition think tank. We were one of several NGO's to be involved in developing ideas to increase the nutritional status of indigenous Mayans. It was awesome to be included as we are definitely the little fish in the big sea.
Out of this seminar the local hospital decided to run a nutritional cooking competition and asked 7 NGO's to compete. We were given one day to get ready for this event. We had to develop and cook 4 recipes. The criteria was that the food had to be excellent for: a 6 month to 9 month child, a 9 month to one year old child, a one to 2 year old child and a pregnant woman.
Our infant meals all included chaya and our pregnant woman recipe was a delcious citrus, red pepper ,cilantro, onion avocado salsa which is high in Folic acid, an essential nutrient in the early days of pregnancy. We were the only group to put chaya in our meals. Not only did we win the competition but have now been asked to help develop a nutritional cook book with the hospital.
Our little staff was beaming as we accepted our prize of 2 new large cooking pots.
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