The month of July is celebrated as the Nutrition month in the Philippines. I don’t know how other schools are celebrating the event but in my youngest son’s school, they encourage students to eat healthy and nutritious food.

My son’s science lesson this week is about nutrients that our body needs. Their adviser also encouraging the class to bring nutritious packed lunch, vegetables if possible and no junk foods. Actually, they don’t sell junk foods in school canteen although I don’t buy chips for recess. Anyway, I don’t have problem with my kids eating habits, they eat vegetables. My son’s assignment tomorrow is to have vegetable for their lunch. I was thinking of cooking burger steak with corn and carrots but my son asked for his favorite, stir fried baguio beans. Sometimes, parents learned something from their children. I was thinking of a “show-off” meal but here he is asking for a simple meal.

Then I went to palengke (market) to buy ingredients. And I saw the very long line of people waiting for their turn to buy NFA rice. I thought, there’s no rice shortage already? NFA rice now costs php18.25 per kilo. How come fancy rice price becomes even higher. We used to buy sinandomeng last month for php32 per kilo, now its php38-42 per kilo. I don’t know what rice we are cooking now, it is 34 per kilo. With the high price of rice, gasoline, electricity, water… together with unemployment, no salary increase… What will happen now to nutrition of our fellow Filipinos?

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