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![Wendyl wants to know: Quick meal is a beefier banger for your buck](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Wendyl wants to know: Quick meal is a beefier banger for your buck
Sausages are always a bit of a gamble. How much meat is in them? Which meat? And what is the rest of the sausage made of?
![Live Chat replay: Food Truck guy, Mike Van de Elzen](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Live Chat replay: Food Truck guy, Mike Van de Elzen
The 'Food Truck guy', Mike Van de Elzen joins us for a live chat from noon today.
![Leftovers enter digital age](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Leftovers enter digital age
If you're low on cash and feeling peckish would you eat a stranger's leftover food, at the same time reducing waste?
![Megaburgerpizza goes on sale in Japan](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Megaburgerpizza goes on sale in Japan
Fast food lovers need never suffer the dilemma of whether to order a pizza or burger again as a restaurant chain in Japan unveils a hybrid of the two, dubbed the Megaburgerpizza.
![Are supermarkets fooling you?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Are supermarkets fooling you?
Our ancestors encountered all sorts of dangers when hunting and gathering food, I guess not much has changed.
![Food Truck guy, what's next?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Food Truck guy, what's next?
Life & Style Editor Nicky Park chats with 'Food Truck guy', Mike Van de Elzen and opens up the floor for reader questions.
![Wine: The whims of fashion](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Wine: The whims of fashion
Jo Burzynska investigates whether wines can lose their sparkle.
![Peter Calder: Series returns island flavour to the table](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Peter Calder: Series returns island flavour to the table
At the airport in Samoa, I once saw an arriving family laden down with jumbo boxes of a well-known brand of fried chicken.
![Bad milk, now fake honey?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Bad milk, now fake honey?
Britain's Food Standards Agency has issued a nationwide warning about misleading and illegal claims made on the labels of manuka honey jars, in a worrying blow to the fast-growing Kiwi industry.
![Grant Allen: Kai time on the marae (+recipes)](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Grant Allen: Kai time on the marae (+recipes)
More than food is at stake when marae teams battle it out in the kitchen, finds Grant Allen.
![Review: Everybody's Izakaya , Auckland CBD](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Everybody's Izakaya , Auckland CBD
Once it was just Everybody's. Now it's Everybody's Izakaya, part of the rebranding at the Imperial Lane complex that has seen Roxy's disappear as a restaurant and a radical change of direction in the food at the more casual eatery.
![Red meat could add to Alzheimer's risk](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Red meat could add to Alzheimer's risk
Eating too much red meat could raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease by increasing levels of iron in the brain, American researchers claim.
![Wendyl wants to know: Sure, it's white coffee - but not as we know it](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Wendyl wants to know: Sure, it's white coffee - but not as we know it
The word "easy" features on this new product's packet five times. The idea seems to be that instead of making an instant coffee and adding milk and sugar, it's all done for you in one of these sachets.
![Feeling low? Try kiwifruit](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Feeling low? Try kiwifruit
Eating two kiwifruit a day can improve mood and energy levels, a new University of Otago study shows.
![What's in your bottle?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
What's in your bottle?
Jo Burzynska investigates why we don’t always know what ingredients are in our wine.
![One for the boys (+recipes)](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
One for the boys (+recipes)
There are just enough days left in winter, Angela Casley says, to enjoy these warming dishes perfect for hearty appetites
![Cafe's cro-nots fly off shelves](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Cafe's cro-nots fly off shelves
The famous marriage between doughnuts and croissants, known as the cronut, is finally here.
![Bar/fly: Australia's best kept secrets](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Bar/fly: Australia's best kept secrets
Hunting for "secret" bars has become a bit of a sport for travellers, with some of the best places tucked into the dark corners of big cities.
![Shelley Bridgeman: Do you buy convenience foods?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Shelley Bridgeman: Do you buy convenience foods?
A quick trawl around a Kiwi supermarket revealed some products to make authentic home-cooks shudder.
![Keeping your knives in good nick](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Keeping your knives in good nick
Michael Bernard can transform the dullest of blades back to a gleaming thing of beauty.
![Review: Orphans Kitchen, Ponsonby](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Orphans Kitchen, Ponsonby
It’s still shiny and new, but Nici Wickes reckons Orphans Kitchen is already a star.
![Australia: Magic at the markets](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Australia: Magic at the markets
Mike Van de Elzen on the food and wine trail in South Australia.