Food in Mexico Part 1

I have some bad news. After my last photo shoot with the girls on the swings, I put the camera down on the kitchen table and Curious Charlie pulled it down onto the tile floor. We lucked out and only the lens cap was broken, but the edge of the lens was also dented, so we couldn't put a new cap on. So I've been pretty much banned from using the camera for the last week and thus, no new pictures or posts. Dave is in Denver right now and is going to try to get the lens fixed while he's there, so I might be allowed to use it again when he gets back.

But I have been meaning to do a post on some of the new food that we've tried thus far in Mexico and happen to already have a few pictures. I figure every few months I'll do a new food segment.

First, eating here has not been as hard as it might be for us in some other foreign countries, but we have had to make a few adjustments. The time schedule for Mexican eating is not like ours. Breakfast (Desayuno) is customarily at about 10am. Since kids go to school at about 8am, I don't really know how this works for them, but adults usually eat breakfast at work.

I haven't actually figured out the proper word for lunch, but on menus it usually says Comida (the word for food). This is the Mexican main meal and is eaten between 2-5pm. Some Mexicans still observe the siesta after lunch and I frequently see construction or landscaping crews napping under trees. During this time most small shops are also closed and it reminds me of BYU on Tuesdays during Devotional. I never did get the hang of it there and probably won't here. At about 5pm some of the shops reopen and work recommences.

Dinner or Cena is sometime after 7:30 or 8pm, later in the summer. It is a small meal or snack.

We have adopted a later lunch time, about 2:30, after the kids get home from school, but it's still a normal lunch. And our dinner we put off till about 7 or 7:30pm, but any later and bedtime gets messed up.

Here are a few of the foods we've tried and liked. Come to think of it, there hasn't been much we haven't liked, but these we especially do.

This is tamarindo. We first tried a tamarindo ice cream, and didn't care for it much, but picked up some of these pods at the grocery store and I like them. Only drawback; a lot of work. You have to take off the outer husk and then there is a thin layer of the fruit before you hit the seed pod inside. I think they taste like a sour apricot fruit leather.


This is a soup that they sell occasionally at various restaurants and taco stands. It's called pozole. It tastes somewhat like a tortilla soup, but no tortillas. There is pork (including bones) and bloated corn. Apparently they clean the corn with lye, and then soak it for days before cooking it in this soup for another day. Muy bueno!


This is a yogurt drink that the kids love. It comes in several brands, this one is Yakult (pronounce jakool). The kids favorite is LaLaKult. It tastes like key lime pie and supposedly has millions of yogurt cultures. Good for the tummy.


This is one of our newest finds. This is fresh squeezed naranja verde (green orange). It is very good and inexpensive. I get about 7 lbs of oranges for a little over $1 at the tianguis. Luckily the house we rented came with an electric juicer.



Well, I'll continue to take more pictures of the food we love here (provided I get my camera privileges back) and you can look forward to seeing Chocoflan, tacos pastaur, roast chicken and more in another post.

By the way, found a few more of the songs I like from the radio and put them on my playlist, take a listen.