LA Times on peso

It's not food, but inevitably we need something bizarre each year: faucet washers, a faucet stem, new faucets, witch hazel, a machine shop, the list goes on. Half the fun is in the search. Unlike in the US, a store that doesn't have what we want will send us off to one that may have it. In Tepic three years ago, we were sent to 12 different places in search of a machine shop that could repair our side mirror. When number 12 stop sent us back to number 3, we realized our approach was wrong, and got it fixed successfully.
No time? If you have time to cook, you have time to have fun shopping.
We also try to shop with pretty basic desires, that way if we see something interesting, we can use/eat that.
We'll leave California for Zihuatanejo in another month, and will be there 5-6 months.