Gang Pangkur

Ketika memberitahu teman, bahwa rumahku di Gang Pangkur Jalan Kaliurang KM 5 Sleman Jogjakarta, banyak yang mengernyitkan dahi. Hanya sedikit saja yang tahu dimana Gang Pangkur tersebut.

Nah di sini aku kasih peta yang bisa menjadi ''panduan'' jika kawan2ku mau tahu dan mau datang ke rumahku yang ada di gang pangkur tersebut.




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[Rabu 9 April 2008] PSPG UGM Kembangkan Ubi Ganyong sebagai Bahan Biskuit Bayi; Sangat Baik untuk Memperkuat Tulang dan Gigi

Krisis pangan yang terjadi beberapa tahun terakhir telah menginspirasi ilmuwan kampus untuk lebih kreatif membantu masyarakat. Salah satunya dilakukan para peneliti dari Pusat Studi Pangan dan Gizi (PSPG) UGM yang membuat ubi ganyong menjadi biskuit bayi.

LAILA ROCHMATIN, Jogja

Ubi ganyong (canna edulis) yang mengandung protein dan mineral bisa dimanfaatkan sebagai makanan alternatif untuk mengatasi gizi buruk pada balita. Salah seorang peneliti yang sekaligus Ketua PSPG UGM Dr Ir Eni Harmayani MSc mengatakan, ganyong merupakan salah satu bahan pangan nonberas bergizi cukup tinggi. Terutama karena kandungan kalsium, fosfor, dan karbohidratnya.
Di antara komoditas ubi-ubian, ganyong memang belum sepopuler seperti ubi jalar atau ubi kayu. Padahal, ubi ganyong dapat diproduksi menjadi makanan yang bervariasi dan lebih mudah dikonsumsi. ‘’Tentunya setelah diubah menjadi tepung. Menariknya, meski sudah menjadi tepung kandungan gizinya tidak berubah. Untuk itu, kami terinspirasi untuk membuat biskuit bayi dari ubi ganyong ini,’’ ujar Eny.
Pemanfaatan ganyong untuk makanan balita, bisa dibuat dalam bentuk biskuit, bubur, atau sereal. Manfaat akan optimal jika dicampur dengan tempe atau ikan. “Ini alternatif saja bagi biskuit bayi dengan memanfaatkan makanan lokal,” tambahnya.
Menurut Eni, dalam ubi ganyong terdapat kandungan kalsium dan fosfor yang lebih banyak apabila dibandingkan pada ubi jalar, padi, jagung, dan kentang. Sehingga, ganyong sangat baik untuk pertumbuhan tulang dan gigi balita.
‘’Untuk bayi yang belum memiliki tulang yang kuat dan gigi, perlu mengonsumsi makanan yang banyak mengandung fosfor dan kalsium. Salah satu makanan yang mengandung fosfor dan kalsium dalam jumlah banyak, ya ganyong ini,” ungkapnya.
Berdasarkan data Direktorat Gizi Depkes, kandungan gizi ganyong tiap 100 gram terdiri atas kalori 95,00 kalori, protein 1,00 gram, lemak 0,11 gram, karbohidrat 22,60 gram, kalsium 21,00 gram, fosfor 70,00 gram, zat besi 1,90 mg, vitamin B1 0,10 mg, vitamin C 10,00 mg, dan air 75,00 gram.
Menurut Eny, pemanfatan ganyong sebenarnya merupakan hasil penelitian tentang sumber pangan lokal di Gunungkidul. Ini karena di daerah tersebut ganyong banyak untuk bahan minuman cendol. “Di Gunugkidul banyak ditemukan ganyong, terutama di daerah tanah marginal. Namun masih dimanfaatkan untuk minuman cendol,” imbuhnya.
Untuk mengembangkan inovasi ubi gayong sebagai alternatif pangan, PSPG sedang menjalin kerja sama dengan LIPI. ‘’Kami tengah meneruskan penelitian ubi ganyong sebagai bahan biskuit balita Insdonesia pada masa datang,” ujarnya.
Staf pengajar di Fakultas Teknologi Pertanian UGM ini berharap ganyong bisa menjadi makanan alternatif bagi balita. Eny mengaku prihatin dengan kasus gizi buruk yang mencuat di berbagai daerah akhir-akhir ini. Menurutnya, penyebab gizi buruk pada balita disebabkan masih rendahnya tingkat pengetahuan masyarakat tentang gizi dan sumber pangan.
‘’Kasus gizi buruk disebabkan pengetahuan masyarakat terhadap gizi yang sangat rendah akibat akses pendidikan yang rendah. Selain itu, kondisi taraf hidup yang memprihatinkan menyebabkan kemampuan daya beli mereka juga menurun. Sebaiknya pemerintah bersama masyarakat menggalakkan kembali pemanfaatan sumber pangan lokal yang justru lebih murah, mudah dijangkau dengan kandungan gizi yang tidak kalah baiknya,” saran Eny. ***




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[Senin 7 April 2008] Lomba Pidato Tiga Bahasa untuk SMA

JOGJA – Pimpinan Ranting Ikatan Remaja Muhammadiyah (PR IRM) Mu`allimin akan mengadakan acara Emgain Language Competition (Galaction) 2008 untuk tingkat SMA/MA. Acara yang digelar pada 18 dan 25 April ini mengundang seluruh siswa-siswi SMA/MA maupun yang sederajat baik negeri maupun swasta se-DIJ. Rangkaian acara di antaranya berupa lomba debat bahasa Inggris dan pidato tiga bahasa (Inggris, Arab, dan Indonesia).
Lomba-lomba tersebut akan digelar di Kampus Madrasah Mu’allimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Jalan Letjen S. Parman No. 68, Wirobrajan. Dengan mengambil tema Let’s Recharge Your Spirit to Reach Your Great, acara ini diharapkan bisa menjadi suatu wadah bagi generasi penerus bangsa untuk menyalurkan bakatnya dalam berbahasa.
Formulir pendaftaran dapat diambil di kampus setempat dengan mengganti biaya cetak sebesar Rp 30 ribu untuk lomba pidato dan Rp 60 ribu untuk lomba debat. Batas akhir pengumpulan formulir pada 15 April. Informasi lebih lanjut bisa menghubungi Hadian Rizani di 085292696348. (m6)



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Getting Kids to Eat Vegetables and Fruits

National 5 A Day Week has an important goal, getting people to eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Meeting this goal will help you stay within the Food Guide Pyramid guidelines of eating 3-5 servings of vegetables and 2-4 servings of fruit. But how do you get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, especially when they may only want to eat chicken nuggets and french fries and you are not supposed to force kids to ‘clean their plate’ or make meals a power struggle?

It can help to start early, offering your toddler lots of different types of foods and letting them see you eat and enjoy a variety of foods, especially fruits and vegetables. Although infants often get a lot of fruit and vegetable baby foods, once they start eating table food, what you eat is going to be a big influence on what your kids like to eat. If you rarely serve vegetables with meals or eat fruit, don’t be surprised if your kids develop the same tastes.

According to one study1, ‘children’s food preferences and food-intake patterns may be shaped largely by the foods parents choose to make available to children and persistence in presenting a food that initially is rejected.’

So offer your toddler and preschool age child a lot of different foods, even if he is neophobic, or quick to reject new foods, as it can help him learn to like a variety of foods. Remember that ‘if children have repeated opportunities to sample new foods, then at least some of them will be accepted.’ That may mean that you have to offer a small tablespoon size portion of green beans 10-15 times before your child will even try it.

The above study also found that ‘picky eaters were breastfed for fewer than 6 months,’ so breastfeeding for longer than 6 months may have the additional benefit of preventing kids from being picky eaters.

What if you didn’t teach your toddler to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables?

Is it too late?

Probably. Another report2 has shown that the ‘number of foods kids like does not change much from the age of two or three to age eight’ and that ‘new foods are often more likely accepted at age two to four than at four to eight.’

That doesn’t mean that it is too late to get your older kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, but rather that they won’t do it on their own and that you are going to have to work at it.
5 A Day for Kids

One trick that often works for both fruits and vegetables is to find foods that your kids already like to eat, like smoothies, muffins, yogurt, etc., and find recipes that allow you to add fruits or vegetables to them, like banana or zucchini muffins.

The easiest way to get some fruit into your child is to switch from soda and fruit drinks to 100% fruit juice. Although eating whole fruit is better because it also has fiber, 4-6 oz of 100% fruit juice for children 1-6 years old and 8-12 ounces for older children is an easy way to ‘eat’ 1-2 servings of fruit.

Remember that fruit snacks, even those made with ‘real’ fruit, fruit drinks and other snacks with artificial fruit don’t count as a serving of fruit.

Other helpful tips might be to:

* let your kids pick the fruits they want to eat when you go shopping
* mix fruit pieces in with yogurt or serve them with a dip
* make fruit smoothies
* offer a fruit salad, with a mix of watermelon, grapes, strawberries, etc. as a dessert or snack
* make a snack mix with raisins, nuts and cereal
* add chopped fruit, especially berries and bananas, to your child’s cereal
* try dried fruits
* mix in some chopped fruit with jell-o

Fruit isn’t usually the big problem though. Getting kids to eat their veggies is usually the bigger challenge.

Creative ways to get your kids to eat more vegetables can include camouflaging them in with other foods, like chopping up and mixing vegetables in with pasta sauces, lasagna, casseroles, soup, chili, omelets, etc. or adding veggie toppings to pizza. You can even find recipes for things like banana raisin pancakes, carrot beef meatballs or zucchini cookies, that your kids might enjoy.

It might also help to:

* offer chopped veggies with a dip, like ranch dressing
* serve vegetables as a stir-fry
* let your child help prepare the meal
* start a vegetable garden at home so your kids can eat the vegetables they grow or visit a farm or farmer’s market.

What about popcorn? Although often thought of as a grain, it is really just popped corn, which is a vegetable, right? Maybe. But popcorn is usually thought of as a starch or gain and doesn’t count as a serving of vegetables.

Getting kids to eat well, and especially eat fruits and vegetables is a challenge for many parents. To help prevent your child from becoming a picky eater, you should:

* start early by offering a large variety of foods to your toddler
* make mealtimes fun and don’t try to force your kids to eat things they don’t want
* look for creative ways to offer your kids fruits and vegetables

If all else fails, consider offering a multi-vitamin and talk to your Pediatrician.

It can also help to learn about the serving sizes of fruits and vegetables so that your expectations aren’t too high. For toddlers, a serving of vegetables may be as small as a tablespoon per year of age and a 1/2 piece of fresh fruit. Older kids should eat 1 whole fruit, 1/2 cup of cooked vegetables or 1 cup of raw vegetables to count as a serving.



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How can I get my kids to eat more fruits and vegetables?

I can appreciate what a challenge it is getting kids to eat fruits and vegetables--especially in the winter. (Children don't love turnips and brussels sprouts.) Here are a few strategies that have worked well for my family:

1. Expand your fruit and vegetable repertoire. Look beyond peas and carrots and offer a variety of tasty fruits and vegetables such as kiwi, mango, papaya, pea pods, jicama and mashed sweet potatoes. There are so many to choose from that you're sure to find some they like.

2. Get cooking. Look for new ways to prepare and serve vegetables. Stir-fry green beans with a pinch of oregano; steam frozen mixed vegetables and add a dash of soy sauce; lightly boil broccoli in chicken broth and sprinkle with lemon pepper. If your child likes ketchup, offer ketchup as a dip for broccoli. And what child could resist crunchy baby carrots served chilled and with a yogurt dill dip?

3. Pique their interest. Let them plan and grow their own vegetable garden, pick their own apples or pears in an orchard, or investigate the origin of different fruits and vegetables at the library or on the Internet.

4. Be a good role model. If you eat vegetables, so will your children.

5. Let the kids give you a hand. Get your children involved in the food preparation, and chances are they will be interested in eating what they cook. Have them peel bananas, shuck corn, or scoop watermelon into balls. Here are a few quick recipes you can make with your kids:

TROPICAL FRUIT SALAD
Ingredients
2 cups seedless red grapes
1 cup cubed, peeled papaya
1 cup sliced carambola (star fruit)
3 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
3 tbsp. lime juice
2 tbsp. honey
1 cup sliced banana

Directions
Combine grapes, papaya, carambola and kiwi in a bowl; toss gently. Combine lime juice and honey in a small bowl, stirring with a whisk until blended. Pour over fruit; toss gently to coat. Cover and chill. Just before serving, add banana; toss gently. Makes 6 to 8 servings.

CORN SALAD
Ingredients

1 16-ounce can black beans, drained
1 10-ounce can corn kernels, drained
1/2 green pepper, chopped
1/2 red pepper, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
1 tbsp. corn oil
2 tbsp. lime juice

Directions
Toss together all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate. Makes 10-12 servings.



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