frant26
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I started making a list of healthy places & foods around Mexico City. So why not share them instead? The plan is to keep adding them to this log.
I LOVE this city! Food in general is amazing and super tasty. Anyone else living here?
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GROCERIES
Fruits that Peat would eat
- Easily available in markets, supermarkets, fruit stands, and trucks that come to the city to sell fruit
- OJ: If I can't get fresh, Jumex Unico Fresco sin pulpa (no pulp) pasteurized is good
- Oranges, guavas (guayaba), tangerines - most available year-round? some months maybe less quality like less sweet oranges around September. A lot of them canned too, like guayabas (I managed to find cans without citric acid as preservative)
- Watermelon & papayas - easy to find ripe all year
- Guanábana, "tuna", chirimoya, zapote: pretty easy to find when in season
- Lychees: Not very popular but occasionally see them and I think they grow them here in Mexico
- Cherries: Most if not all are imported, expensive
- Mangoes: Ataulfo & Manila varieties are very sweet and little fibre (available March-August) in supermarkets and street stands everywhere; SO tasty
Meats
- Some supermarkets carry the SuKarne beef liver (500g), like La Comer
- Cañada de la Virgen (in Guanajuato) has grass-fed liver and other cuts - can be bought at The Green Corner online shop
- Bone Broth, Serendipity brand: can be found at Ingredienta online shop
Ice Cream
- Haagen Dazs available almost everywhere
Crackers
- Sanissimo Salmas are baked corn crackers, ingredients: nixtamalized corn, salt, tocopherols. No fat.
Butter
- Lot of rubbish in this area. Lala has real butter.
Coca Cola
- Watch out for cans and plastic bottles, regular doesn't contain just sugar anymore. I believe glass bottled "medio litros" and such are still made with sugar cane
EATING OUT
Oysters
- Lots of oysters bars around the city. I trust the freshness of Fisher's
Liver
- La Flautería has soups with molleja (sweetbreads) and liver – both from chicken I believe. They also have a very tasty guanábana juice
- Some taco stands have liver: hígado encebollado
Oxtail
- I found it at a restaurant called Padella in San Miguel Chapultepec. The dish is potato gnocchi with oxtail (cooked 8+ hours) with parmesan. Delicious. Costs around 9 USD, and the restaurant has a lot of really "hearty food" like boeuf bourgignon, etc. My top pick for Peaty food here.
Potatoes
- El Papón in Condesa has baked potatoes stuffed with meat and cheese, just awesome. They also have glass Coke
Meat
- Look for "al carbón" or "grill". El Farolito in Polanco is a good one, but most northern (i.e. Sonora) grills too
Barbacoa tacos (usually beef or lamb)
- Random stands, most have maciza (muscle meat) or surtida (mixed offal, brains, cheek, etc). There's one in front of the 7 eleven in Mariano Escobedo and Rubén Darío; everything including tortillas is cooked steamed
WEATHER
- Elevation: 2,250 m (7,380 ft)
- December and January are cold, mostly felt due to general lack of heating, but extremely sunny, which warms up at noon. It can be freezing sometimes at 5am.
- February, March, April: ALWAYS sunny in the AM. After 1-2pm it starts to get cloudy and it probably rains
- May: Hottest month
- July, August: ***t load of rain, but usually sunny in the morning
- September, October: Cloudiest weather, even though there still is some sun
- November: Still some clouds but sunnier, this combination makes for some very pleasant warm days. Temps slowly decreasing.
CHEMICALS
- Thyroid: OTC
- Aspirin: non coated is popular
- Antibiotics: Big pharmacies (chains) will not sell without prescription. Some like Farmacias del Ahorro have a doctor on site, who can make the prescription for a very low fee. I got minocycline when the doctor was away so the lady just scanned some number through the system and sold it to me. I think smaller farmacias, especially in other parts of the country aren't as strict
- Farmacia del Niño (online): They have sold penicillin, erythromycin, clarythromicin no questions asked
I LOVE this city! Food in general is amazing and super tasty. Anyone else living here?
===
GROCERIES
Fruits that Peat would eat
- Easily available in markets, supermarkets, fruit stands, and trucks that come to the city to sell fruit
- OJ: If I can't get fresh, Jumex Unico Fresco sin pulpa (no pulp) pasteurized is good
- Oranges, guavas (guayaba), tangerines - most available year-round? some months maybe less quality like less sweet oranges around September. A lot of them canned too, like guayabas (I managed to find cans without citric acid as preservative)
- Watermelon & papayas - easy to find ripe all year
- Guanábana, "tuna", chirimoya, zapote: pretty easy to find when in season
- Lychees: Not very popular but occasionally see them and I think they grow them here in Mexico
- Cherries: Most if not all are imported, expensive
- Mangoes: Ataulfo & Manila varieties are very sweet and little fibre (available March-August) in supermarkets and street stands everywhere; SO tasty
Meats
- Some supermarkets carry the SuKarne beef liver (500g), like La Comer
- Cañada de la Virgen (in Guanajuato) has grass-fed liver and other cuts - can be bought at The Green Corner online shop
- Bone Broth, Serendipity brand: can be found at Ingredienta online shop
Ice Cream
- Haagen Dazs available almost everywhere
Crackers
- Sanissimo Salmas are baked corn crackers, ingredients: nixtamalized corn, salt, tocopherols. No fat.
Butter
- Lot of rubbish in this area. Lala has real butter.
Coca Cola
- Watch out for cans and plastic bottles, regular doesn't contain just sugar anymore. I believe glass bottled "medio litros" and such are still made with sugar cane
EATING OUT
Oysters
- Lots of oysters bars around the city. I trust the freshness of Fisher's
Liver
- La Flautería has soups with molleja (sweetbreads) and liver – both from chicken I believe. They also have a very tasty guanábana juice
- Some taco stands have liver: hígado encebollado
Oxtail
- I found it at a restaurant called Padella in San Miguel Chapultepec. The dish is potato gnocchi with oxtail (cooked 8+ hours) with parmesan. Delicious. Costs around 9 USD, and the restaurant has a lot of really "hearty food" like boeuf bourgignon, etc. My top pick for Peaty food here.
Potatoes
- El Papón in Condesa has baked potatoes stuffed with meat and cheese, just awesome. They also have glass Coke
Meat
- Look for "al carbón" or "grill". El Farolito in Polanco is a good one, but most northern (i.e. Sonora) grills too
Barbacoa tacos (usually beef or lamb)
- Random stands, most have maciza (muscle meat) or surtida (mixed offal, brains, cheek, etc). There's one in front of the 7 eleven in Mariano Escobedo and Rubén Darío; everything including tortillas is cooked steamed
WEATHER
- Elevation: 2,250 m (7,380 ft)
- December and January are cold, mostly felt due to general lack of heating, but extremely sunny, which warms up at noon. It can be freezing sometimes at 5am.
- February, March, April: ALWAYS sunny in the AM. After 1-2pm it starts to get cloudy and it probably rains
- May: Hottest month
- July, August: ***t load of rain, but usually sunny in the morning
- September, October: Cloudiest weather, even though there still is some sun
- November: Still some clouds but sunnier, this combination makes for some very pleasant warm days. Temps slowly decreasing.
CHEMICALS
- Thyroid: OTC
- Aspirin: non coated is popular
- Antibiotics: Big pharmacies (chains) will not sell without prescription. Some like Farmacias del Ahorro have a doctor on site, who can make the prescription for a very low fee. I got minocycline when the doctor was away so the lady just scanned some number through the system and sold it to me. I think smaller farmacias, especially in other parts of the country aren't as strict
- Farmacia del Niño (online): They have sold penicillin, erythromycin, clarythromicin no questions asked
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