Vegetarian and Vegan Products - north coast - Santiago, Puerto Plata, Sosua?

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casitas

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Vegetarian and Vegan Products - north coast?

We look for organic vegetarian and vegan products at the north coast.

Tofu, Soy-Sauce, Cosmetic, Olive oil, Soy milk, Tempeh, Bread, Muesli, Rice cake, Margarine, Spreads, Broth without glutamate , etc..

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Surely you can buy most of that from the supemarket, you don't need a specialist. Tempeh is just soybeans right, and cosmetic, plenty make up around but I would not expect anything here not to have been tested on animals, everything is fake and comes from the cheapest source possible, so import for reasurrance)
 
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National in Santiago has a "bio" section ( between bakery and fresh fruit ). Very expensive, bit they have quinoa........
 
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vegan/vegetarian and other "healthy" stuff can be purchased from any supermarket in POP. but forget about cosmetics, online only. there is minimal choice of beauty products unless you happen to have bad hair that need chemical bath on daily basis.
 
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As others have alluded, you can find some things and others will be available only by importing them yourself or taking trips to Santo Domingo/Santiago to try and find them. People here are not generally vegans, so it is not going to be easy to find "Organic" and "Vegan" products. Not like I would trust anything produced here and labeled Organic to be whatever Organic means on a given day.
 
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casitas said:
Vegetarian and Vegan Products - north coast?

We look for organic vegetarian and vegan products at the north coast.

Tofu, Soy-Sauce, Cosmetic, Olive oil, Soy milk, Tempeh, Bread, Muesli, Rice cake, Margarine, Spreads, Broth without glutamate , etc..

casitas
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Buy fruit and veggies from the pickup trucks in your neighbourhood.
There is no shortage in the DR.
The rest at supermarkets.
 
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RD is the right place for unadulterated vegetable and fruit.... everything is fresh and natural.

PLayero has some of what you're looking but Santiago has more of it....

Cosmetics?? no comment

Just ask around - offer to buy mangos, avocados, pina..... people will show up at your door with the best of the best, every day.....
 
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casitas said:
Vegetarian and Vegan Products - north coast?

We look for organic vegetarian and vegan products at the north coast.

Tofu, Soy-Sauce, Cosmetic, Olive oil, Soy milk, Tempeh, Bread, Muesli, Rice cake, Margarine, Spreads, Broth without glutamate , etc..

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This got me wondering how Vegan cavemen managed to survive and how humanity advanced with all this lactose intolerance.
 
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casitas

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thank you for the information. At this time we buy the fruit and vegetable from the pick up and supermarket.

What we cannot estimate is the using of pesticide. What do you think about?


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We know that the DR is number one of bio product export. But we can?t find a lable.
 
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william webster said:
RD is the right place for unadulterated vegetable and fruit.... everything is fresh and natural.

PLayero has some of what you're looking but Santiago has more of it....

Cosmetics?? no comment

Just ask around - offer to buy mangos, avocados, pina..... people will show up at your door with the best of the best, every day.....
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I thought the same about vegetables and fruit....until I was adviced to use the 'veneno' to kill the weeds in my land that I purchased a while ago. The guy I contracted to clean and plow the land wanted to use the herbicide, I rejected that. Before starting to plant, another set of people who love to give advices, told me to use veneno to control the weed. I gave them a lecture (in my broken Spanish) how bad it is. Now I have successfully planted, abichuela, yucca, avuyama etc without adding a single drop of chemical.
Basically, I was shocked to see the usage of herbicide to cleanup the weeds among the local farmers. But, I know for sure that the food produced here is a lot safer than in US or other industrialized countries.

Cheers
Muru
 
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OohOoh said:
I thought the same about vegetables and fruit....until I was adviced to use the 'veneno' to kill the weeds in my land that I purchased a while ago. The guy I contracted to clean and plow the land wanted to use the herbicide, I rejected that. Before starting to plant, another set of people who love to give advices, told me to use veneno to control the weed. I gave them a lecture (in my broken Spanish) how bad it is. Now I have successfully planted, abichuela, yucca, avuyama etc without adding a single drop of chemical.
Basically, I was shocked to see the usage of herbicide to cleanup the weeds among the local farmers. But, I know for sure that the food produced here is a lot safer than in US or other industrialized countries.

Cheers
Muru
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How do you know that?
 
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Good question, I know a german farmer in Constanca and asked him if their were any tomatoes to buy who not are treated with herbicides. The answer where that there are not many countries in the world BAYER have so good business. According to him, you cannot by any vegetable grown here who not are treated with herbicide. Right or not I don't know since that I buy imported vegetables from US.
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How do you know that?
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Surely as a vegan you can find something better than margarine which is a partially hydrogenated oil. It will harden your arteries in no time.
The early settlers could not make a go of agriculture probably because of the lack of potent chemical sprays and pesticides which arrived much later courtesy of our friends at Monsanto and others. Any fruits or vegetables, if you do not want the vermin to eat it before you, must be heavily sprayed with very toxic chemicals even by the smallest producer if he wants to bring it to market intact.
How na?ve to think that you can get anything unadulterated from Dominican soil. The Arsenic which occurs naturally in the soil will prevent this. Care to guess what the Arsenic content of Dominican grown rice is?
 
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dv8 said:
vegan/vegetarian and other "healthy" stuff can be purchased from any supermarket in POP. but forget about cosmetics, online only. there is minimal choice of beauty products unless you happen to have bad hair that need chemical bath on daily basis.
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vEGANS DONT NEED MAKEUP...AT ALL sorry beauty is within that comes out...
 
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The DR would be paradise to someone on a juicing diet. The only thing lacking is the ubiquitous kale.

Not hard to be a vegan in the DR. Milk isn't fresh, cheese is like plastic, beef is stringy and fish inexplicably frozen. Eggs and chicken are OK and the butter can actually be better than in the US. There's no decent breakfast sausage, but the bacon is excellent.
 
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