On arriving here we at first thought that food was expensive. This was because we had no transport and had to rely on eating out or shopping in small convenience stores. Now we have been using supermarkets and vege markets we have realised that it isn't expensive at all. In fact - because New Zealand produces most of it's own fruit and veg - it's cheaper than at home. Given that the NZ dollar is worth about 48 pence - what you get for your dollar is good.
We have mostly been eating lunch out, and cooking an evening meal wherever we have been staying (if this is possible). I have been trying some different things such as NZ hot dog - a battered sausage on a stick, and mussel fritter - mussel meat fried with egg and herbs served with garlic mayo on a piece of white bread.
On general prices, sweet corn is cheap and plentiful - we've been eating a lot of that on the cob. Cost is about 4 cobs for 2 dollars. Cheapest bread is a dollar, six eggs are about 2 dollars. NZ wine is quite inexpensive - the cheapest good one is about 8 dollars. We usually eat lunch out for about 20 dollars or less, home cooked evening meal with wine is averaging about 25 dollars. Two sirloin steaks last night cost $6.50 (for the two). The huge green lipped mussels that they have here are about four dollars a kilo! Oddly - lamb is still quite expensive. They also have lots of veggie stuff, including quorn.
There is masses of gluten free stuff as well - far more than in the UK. Many varieties of bread, cakes and other goodies. Prices for these are good also. Cafes and restaurants often have whole GF menus.
On the whole - excellent, fresh and quite inexpensive.
I'm having real problems publishing this from my phone with pictures - so I'll take them out for now and add them again when I have a better connection.
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