{"id":6166,"date":"2026-11-02T22:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:49:53","slug":"del-real-carnitas-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2026\/11\/del-real-carnitas-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Real Carnitas review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or how to make quick tacos<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Refrigerated, ready-to-heat prepared meats, are great to keep in the refrigerator (their expiration date is usually months after you buy them) for when you need a last-minute meal. You can add some tortilla and salsa to this one and make some quick tacos, or use them as a filling in a sandwich. Of all the ready-to-heat meats out there, I think Del Real carnitas<\/strong> might be my favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The carnitas are pretty flavorful, though I’d characterized the marinade as mild. They are a bit on the dry side, but I do appreciate the lack of big chunks of fat (at least in this package). They do work better if you add some moisture to them, either through condiments in a sandwich or salsa\/sour cream\/guacamole in a taco or burrito. They do not have charred\/roasted pieces, which I sort of miss, but there are overall a good product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They are pretty quick to ready. They come in a pouch which you microwave for a few minutes before opening into the provided plastic bowl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I usually buy them when Safeway has them on sale for $5 (off the $13 regular price). At that price they are a bargain, even though the package suffers from shrinkflation and only offers 15 oz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Del Real is a majority owned by Guatemalan investment corp Corporaci\u00f3n Multi Inversiones<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See other reviews of deli items<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or how to make quick tacos Refrigerated, ready-to-heat prepared meats, are great to keep in the refrigerator (their expiration date is usually months after you buy them) for when you need a last-minute meal. You can add some tortilla and salsa to this one and make some quick tacos, or use them as a filling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[758,493,238,429,28],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items","tag-del-real","tag-deli","tag-mexican","tag-ready-to-eat-meals","tag-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}