/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I love Mexico. One of my favorite travel destinations. It is dirty and dangerous as fuck. In Mexico you need to know where and when you are going places, then plan accordingly. If you are staying in resorts with a little tourista here and there then it's safer in most places than US cities.

>>16825325
Has never been to Mexico.
>>16825395
>passports
Hasn't either and naively thinks everyone but them is racist because they're an ignorant faggot. Please kys before you harm more innocents in the name of unearned moral preening. Mexicans can be really fucking racist too you dumb faggot.

Mexico has major sanitation issues and you can get a case of dysentery to enjoy for a few months if you are not careful. Smart travelers will check on water filtration as they go. This is also advertised aggressively and should be easy to access. You will find varying degrees of sanitation and often the places you want to be are not in the areas where the little infrastructure they have for sanitation management or oversight exists. You will need to plan accordingly.

Or at least drink enough tequila to sanitize your gullet. It's science.

That being said most metro areas will have water filtration as a standard. Mexicans know they have poor infrastructure and compensate for it. Almost every restaurant will have filtration if they think they will be serving tourists. They still may have poor sanitation and no food handling regs, etc. Still cleaner than wagie spit.

Break down your shopping into protein (pb, eggs, meats, fish), carbs (pasta, bread, flour), veg, herbs/spices, and grocery (soap etc). Then bookmark the ad pages of every store within range. Every week pop open the ads and see what the sales are. Over time you will get a sense of the real price of foods and what is a deal to spend on.

Some tips:

>Buy in bulk at the lowest price then shop for smaller amounts as you go
>find the discount aisles in each store you visit, they all have at least one area
>Immigrant markets are your FRIEND. Find where they are and get their ads.
>You can buy some food and toiletries online cheaper, and at higher quality (e.g., bulk bags of good rice, paper, etc)
>If you have the room freeze your on-sale protein and get your veg fresh
>Potatoes, onions, and carrots sell dirt cheap in bulk bags. Learn to cook with these.
>Rice is a staple and there are a thousand ways to eat it
>Learn recipes that stretch out proteins with vegetables, rice, and pastas
>search for deals on herbs and spices like a thirsty simp and over a long period of time you will build a formidable spice collection
>Buddy up with the deli and butcher personnel and they will hook you up

>>16257277
>lard
Came here to post this. They really do know what they are doing with food, too. But mostly because LOL ayyy can we put more calories on it?
>adds more lard
not enough calories
>reinvents mozarella cheese
ayyy cabron more calories
>throws it all on a sack of doritos pours five types of sauces on top including fucking mayonaisse and then adds some fruit because no reason

bananas keep for at least a week OP where the fuck do you get your produce

I really want to branch out past cooking chicken. What are some good veggie dishes? Side dishes or main dishes, or anything complemented by them.

>>14521444
Yeah I don't know man. They grow a lot of the food that we eat in Estados Unidos. There isn't a food shortage there and they're fatter than we are a lot of the time. I think a lot of Mexico is farm to table as their infrastructure is not as developed as most Western countries. Although that is finally changing.

Mexican markets are packed with produce. I see more fruit and strange items I've never seen anywhere else there. Including vegetables that I don't know the name of. And you can see in pic related they have asparagus.

Mexican cuisine has nuances from different regions and coastlines too. It's a big country and you can't really generalize it down to beans and rice with choice of meat.