Healthy baon ideas that adhere to dep ed nutrition guidelines

I have been sharing photos of my eldest’s baon for about two years already and some of the comments I get from our FB Page is that some schools implement stricter guidelines on what baon or snacks students can bring. Healthy baon ideas are what they need. Not that what we are posting are unhealthy, but it is not nutritious enough to meet the Dep Ed guidelines according to the moms.

Healthy baon ideas

According to these moms, most of the rules reflect the Department of Education’s memorandum no. 13 series of 2017 issued March last year. While the department order generally refers to food made available in school canteens, some schools chose to adopt the food guidelines as their “baon” guidelines as well.

So what can the students pack for snack and what snacks are prohibited? The list is long but it generally disallows children from bringing processed food (hotdog, nuggets, bacon, pancit canton), heavily salted food, sweets (including pastries, donuts, pies, cakes, chocolates and sweets), deep-fried food like french fries, fish balls etc., and any type of sugary beverage including chocolate milk, sweet milk, yogurt drink, and juices except real fresh buco juice and those that have a very low level of sugar content.

And while this is good news for us parents, it also means that we have to take more time to plan and prepare our little one’s baons.

Healthy school baon guide

So to help newbie mommies map out their school kid’s baon I took this challenge and prepared school snacks that adhere to the Dep-ed guidelines. Yes it is hard, but it is doable. It is for our children’s good anyway.

Hope you can check out the album in our FB Page @happypinaymommy.com or check out this album link:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1035757419919835&id=415333231962260

Here by the way are some baon samples from that album:

Healthy baon idea: boiled egg, suman muron, and cashew nuts

Colorful homemade palitaw on a bed of niyog, and extra binangkal bread

Cheesy marble potatoes and toasted wheat bread

Chicken sandwich, boiled egg and mini tikoy.

Bihon guisado, quail eggs and toasted bread.

Boiled sweet kamote, plain pandesal, and quail eggs

Also if you have long been following our weekly baonserye, you may notice that some of the baon boxes i shared are already in the baon ideas album. I did not mean to be redundant, i just want our Pasado sa Dep Ed Baon Series to be more organised for moms who would only need these specific baon ideas.

Thanks and happy baon prepping!

A happy homemaker is a happypinaymommy!