Cheese, chips and chooks: Soaring grocery bill drives 10 per cent annual food price increase
Grocery prices and mortgage rates are expected to continue rising in 2023. Photo / Getty Images Food prices were 10.3 per cent higher in January 2023 than they were a year earlier, with grocery food the largest contributor to this movement, Stats NZ said today. “Increasing prices for cheddar...
New data confirms soaring grocery bills
Food prices were 10.3 per cent higher in January 2023 than they were a year earlier, with grocery food the largest contributor to this movement, Stats NZ said today. “Increasing prices for cheddar cheese, barn or cage-raised eggs, and potato chips were the largest drivers within grocery food,” consumer...
Make Better Irish Nachos With Guiness Beer Cheese
Photo: Claire Lower I haven’t done one of those genetic history tests, but I know the results would reveal my ancestors to be very pale and mostly Irish (or some combination of Irish and Welsh). But honestly, I feel about as Irish as a plate of Irish nachos, which...
Very Quick Snacks For 2023
Snacks are always running short at parties. You need many kinds of fast-to-asssemble options on hand. Here are three — Holiday Burrata Ball, Yoghurt Herb Dip and Jaldi-Five Canapes for the coming year. It might be not so easy to locate fresh burrata cheese for the burrata ball —...
Food prices soar 10.7% on last November, cost of cheese, milk rises
The increasing cost of grocery items such as cheddar cheese, yoghurt and milk continues to be cited as the leading driver behind food inflation. Grocery basket (file picture). (Source: istock.com) Food prices were 10.7% higher in November this year compared with November 2021, Stats NZ said today. Compared with...