Aucklanders are not only getting their daily bread, they're prepared to pay plenty for it. Julie Harries finds out more.

I was sitting in a restaurant in Urumqi, in northern China, enjoying the spicy food smells from the kitchen, when a plaintiff Australian voice quavered across the room, "I want steak, eggs and chips."

Nekta transforms fruit into everything from drinks, to a fat replacement for baking.

Everyone knows the feeling - you see an inflated price and think, "I can't believe it's that expensive".

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The makers of one of NZ's best-known brands of pie were justified in sacking a worker who stored cockroaches in his locker, the ERA says.

Virgil Evetts and Diana Clement discover the public can benefit from student chefs learning on the job, with great food at bargain prices.

It's music to the ears of shoppers - competition is forcing the two big supermarket chains to keep a lid on prices.

Consumers are not wiling to pay fo sustainable products.

Higher winter vegetable prices helped push food prices up 1.6pc in July.