I like shopping, I like food, I like cooking. I actually find washing dishes kind of theraputic. We cook a fair amount, and its more like 40 minutes total, including cleanup.
There are several good home delivery weekly organic produce and vegetable services, where you get 10 kilos or more of fresh high quality stuff for not that much money.
For most people, the city supported Ferias de la ciudad are great- they are over 40 different locations, of pop up trailers selling food. The one in our neighborhood, on Sundays, on Cerrito between Marcelo T and Paraguay, usually has one carrito of fresh meat, one of fresh fish, one selling freshly baked bread, one that is more seeds and spices and condiments and rice an grains, two that are verdulerias, one that is mainly eggs, and one that is a fiambrera with cheeses and deli meats.
Each of these has reasonably priced fresh products.
The fruits and vegetables are fresh, as they are picked up that morning at the Mercado Central, and the seleciton and prices are great. On sunday I spent under 20,000 pesos for probably close to ten kilos of salad greens, chauchas, ripe melon and papaya, great ajo, and more.
You do not need to go to five different vedulerias, or buy stale and rotten produce.
They are in your neighborhood, look em up on the map here-
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as far as meat goes, I have no idea what the cow ate- I just judge by the taste.
And I find if you buy at the quality carnicerias, not a chain stores or supermarkets, you get great tasting meat.
Converso is great- old fashioned, they have what they have, and they sell it in the size pieces they have- no 21st century million choices- but we just bought 1.3 kilos of Lomo, (thats how big the piece was) cut into steaks, for 26,000 a kilo. I can get one 200 gram steak for that price at a similiar meat market in the US.
NO, its not as cheap as 15 years ago, but in this market, its a deal. They make their own in house burgers, milanesa, chorizos, and its all excellent and reasonable, and they will deliver for a few thousand pesos more.
Similarly, I shop at Corte, near barrio Chino, or Piaf, across from the Mercado de las Pulgas on Dorrego.
Each is family owned, high quality, great selection, and beats any supermercado in town.
We have a freezer, we make an order, and eat meat a couple times a week.
Similar places exist for free range chicken, for instance there is a place in Mercado Salguero, right near plaza guemes in Barrio Norte, which sells chicken burgers, milanesas, brochetas, and whole chickens. He is a bit quirky, you would need to go in person the first time, after that you can get delivery, and there are places like that in many barrios, you have to do a bit of work to find them, but once you do, its easy.
Santi cheese, which aint cheap but is very high quality, will deliver as well, with all kinds of stuff you cant get in the chino.
The city is full of places like this, fresh pasta, bread, premade lasagnas or berenjena dishes- the quality is out there, but its not to be found at carrefour or the chino.
