Box Store / Food

The Box Store, named because it has many boxes and looks like a box and because it has no sign outside. Items in this store run 1 to 2 pesos less than elsewhere. The store is located at Luis Echeverria #16, although there is no number on the building. It is next door on the east side of La Flor bakery. This is a place to sometimes find the things you can not find elsewhere. A true secret of Lo de Marcos.

Nopal / Local Produce

Mexico is the main producer and consumer of Nopal (Opuntia ficus-indica). Nopal is often consumed as a vegetable in salads, exotic dishes, juices and more.

Nopal Is considered a functional food, that is to say it is a food that improves the health of the one who consumes it. Consumption of nopal helps with weight control and in the management of diabetes.

Nopal prevents excess blood sugar from becoming fat by reducing cholesterol which helps in the prevention of gastrointestinal diseases. With less cholesterol absorbed at the gastrointestinal level, eliminating glucose and fat quickly, the body avoids an accumulation in its veins and arteries.

Nopal provides great benefits to your body, has an antibiotic property, inhibiting and/or suspending the growth of several bacterial species. Nopal helps to relieve constipation and may help in preventing colon cancer due to the content of fiber, vitamins C and A, and antioxidants. One factor as to why this is possible is because of the viscosity of the nopal plant.

Leave of cactus nopales. Mexican food and drink ingredient

Nopal is available at most Lo de Marcos stores.

Electrician / Small Appliances

This is a true secret of Lo de Marcos. The man, Pelon, that lives at Luis Echeverria #22, our main street, can fix your fan or other small appliance. If he can not fix it, he will tell you to throw it away, basura. Look for the color of the house, the color of the fence wall, the number 22 painted on the column and part of the family plack above the door.