Babies can have cow's milk with foods such as mashed vegetables or porridge, she said.

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Empanada making and eating is followed by a main course of thick cut fillet steak, mashed potato and roasted vegetables.

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Winding through the hills, the surrounding forest enclosed the road in a verdant canopy, with roadside kiosks sprouting out of it to sell empanadas (meat and potato-filled fried pastries), mofongo (mashed plantains filled with meat and vegetables, served in savoury sauce) and beach towels bearing graphics of bikini-clad women.

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