Newbie needing food advice :)

[FerLiu]

Also, slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd chime in regarding this:



I've never personally known this to be true. I buy all my dairy products from Chinese-owned supermarkets and I've never had rancid anything, nor have I ever spoken to anyone who has personally experienced this. It's my impression that this is just a very widespread rumor, of the sort that typically crops up when a society is confronted with a new immigrant group. Source (in Spanish): El Diario Argentino

"Some" do, mostly don't.

 

[Ana Luisa]

Also, slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd chime in regarding this:



I've never personally known this to be true. I buy all my dairy products from Chinese-owned supermarkets and I've never had rancid anything, nor have I ever spoken to anyone who has personally experienced this. It's my impression that this is just a very widespread rumor, of the sort that typically crops up when a society is confronted with a new immigrant group. Source (in Spanish): El Diario Argentino

I actually wish you were 100% accurate on this! Prejudice is disgusting and should be pointed out whenever possible. I've experienced it MANY times in different chinos. In San Telmo and Microcentro at least.

I've never heard of people mentioning anything of that sort about Chinatown for instance. Which I guess rules out the ethnic component.

To try to provide myself with something I could actually regard as proof, while going to the nearest chino to get other items, walked passed the dairy aisle to find a bunch of yogurt pots in an open box on the floor.

I made sure to meticulously create a photographic memory of the exact disposition of the yogurts in the box and of the box on the floor. I'm pretty sure whoever's reading this already understood what I was trying to achieve with my obsessive behaviour towards observing a box.

Was back there the next day to find everything in the exact same order.

It's proof of disregard towards the need of refrigerating. That, associated with yogurt that tasted like cheese and the rotten pasturized Citric juice I've gotten at the same place makes me believe it's more than a rumor.

 

[katti]

No added sugar?!?!? How very dare you!

Good luck and if you find any, please let me know (I haven't, but I've only been here 5 years).

in Disco they have them, they are not large, but they have no added sugar!

 

[jyi]

I've actually found hummus in the import sections of Discos and Carrefours in Palermo Soho and Recoleta. They're jarred, not the fresh kind, though.

 

[bashka]

No added sugar?!?!? How very dare you!

Good luck and if you find any, please let me know (I haven't, but I've only been here 5 years).

Try here: http://www.elgalpon.org.ar/index.php
Also, the milk there is amazing, tastes like milk!

 

[michael1977]

There's a place in Laprida 1619 (Palermo) called "Dietetica Araucaria". Maybe you can find that stuff there

 

[Ashley]

Most large supermarkets have a gluten free section (a large Coto, Jumbo, etc) as do most dieteticas. Everyones right about the yoghurts. You can either get a single serving Yop (or Yog, can't remember the exact name...its in a blue and transparent tub) brand natural yoghurt or ones in glass jars. Be careful though because the ones in glass jars come as plain "with sugar" and "without sugar" and you actually have to look at the ingredients to find out which is which. Its not the most obviously labelled product and I've made many a mistake buying sweet yoghurt to cook with!

Ryvita doesn't exist here...but there's plenty of cracker alternatives (especially in the dieteticas).

For humus you'll have to go to a specialist armenian-type shop (along armenia or scalabrini ortiz). I've never found a great tasting one here and it is pretty expensive for what it is. I just make my own without the tahini and its always fine...