LifestyleMinimising festive food wasteThis Christmas we want to love food and hate waste. Check out our favourite leftover recipes and share your own idea.19 Dec 09:00 PM
LifestyleFrozen treat high on sugarSummer is here and so, too, is the sudden need for children to have frozen treats stacked in the freezer.06 Dec 04:30 PM
LifestyleMcDonald's to divulge kitchen secretsMcDonald's says it will be open and transparent with anyone wanting to know its kitchen secrets with a new initiative Our Food, Your Questions, which launches today.27 Nov 05:42 AM
LifestyleFast food in best light ok - watchdogThe real-life appearance of fast food doesn't have to match up with how it looks in the ads, the advertising watchdog has ruled.19 Nov 09:08 PM
OpinionWendyl NissenWendyl wants to know: Better than butter? That's spreading it a bit thin01 Nov 04:30 PM
BusinessBotulism scare avoidableBotulism scare avoidable if responsibility passed swiftly to top management: review chairman.29 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionFran O'SullivanFran O'Sullivan: Damning indictment in food scare reportThat the scare turned out to be the result of a false positive test does not mitigate the need for Fonterra to up its game, writes Fran O'Sullivan.29 Oct 04:30 PM
LifestyleNZ's best ham (no porkie)A sugar-cured, old-fashion leg ham on the bone from a Canterbury Butchery has taken out the title of the best ham in the land.22 Oct 11:00 PM
OpinionGareth Morgan: How real is your milk?Push for higher volumes compromising our greatest export, write Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons. "The future of NZ's dairy industry should lie in quality, not quantity."22 Oct 04:30 PM
LifestyleHave you used social media to complain?It wasn't the first complaint about airline food, but it was definitely one of the most emphatic.22 Oct 03:05 AM
LifestyleQuick meals under the microscopeMaking that ready meal look appetising on the packet requires plenty of photographic skill and maybe a little rearrangement.10 Oct 07:40 PM
BusinessStock food maker who wastes nothing up for prizeFuelling dairy cows on high-end rations created from food waste has put Auckland's EcoStock in the running for a million-dollar business prize.07 Oct 04:30 PM
LifestyleJamie Oliver ties with supermarket to end caged eggsCelebrity chef Jamie Oliver has teamed up with Woolworths to phase out the sale of caged eggs at the supermarket giant.03 Oct 10:15 PM
OpinionWendyl NissenWendyl wants to know: There's a lot going on in this Mexican mash up20 Sep 05:30 PM
LifestyleDirty Dining Diary: Week 1 wrapSo far our brave bellies have held up to the challenge, but we're only one week in. Check out the best and worst of the week.06 Sep 08:00 PM
LifestyleNew cronut burger: Heart-stopping with hints of baconDecried as "heart-stopping" by its creators, the Do-Cro burger sandwiches a hamburger patty and slice of processed cheese between two pieces of cronut clones.15 Aug 09:30 PM
OpinionShelley BridgemanShelley Bridgeman: Do you know what you're eating?The duplicity in our food supply stretches far wider than most of us ever imagined. All sorts of common (and not so common) foods aren’t quite what they purport to be.07 Aug 10:00 PM
LifestyleWendyl wants to know: Something fishy about this classic condimentThis is a very old-fashioned type of product which harks back to the very British- inspired lifestyle when you would have fish paste sandwiches in your lunch box.02 Aug 05:30 PM
RetailFormer analyst targets demand for organics with websiteBuffy Gill spent years analysing some of New Zealand's major retailers and property firms for the local branch of one of the world's biggest investment banks.21 Jul 05:30 PM
LifestyleWendyl wants to know: Fresh beef for thrift but convenience is cannedBuying meat in a can is something we used to do more when it was harder to get fresh meat every day.12 Jul 05:30 PM
LifestyleWendyl wants to know: Jury out on drinks containing probioticsI recently returned from China with some "issues" in the digestive department. I self-diagnosed my problem as having a deficit of good bacteria in my gut and so scanned the supermarket shelves for a product which might change the microflora balance.05 Jul 05:30 PM
BusinessTip Top rolls out natural icecreamPaprika, marigold flowers, spirulina and turmeric are among the natural colours and flavours that from today will replace artificial alternatives in Tip Top icecream.01 Jul 08:58 PM
New ZealandLocal fish - from ChinaSquid are making a round trip of more than 18,000km on their way to your dinner plate - after they are caught.29 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionWendyl NissenWendyl wants to know: Skip cheese in a jar and buy the real thingI picked this up on the supermarket shelf because I had been reading a book about the Kraft product this came from, called Cheez Whiz.28 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionWendyl NissenWendyl wants to know: Jar of Fluff sets off sugar alarmsI am using this jar of Strawberry Marshmallow Fluff to christen a new food category for my column called "Loud and Proud".14 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionWendyl NissenWendyl wants to know: Mamma mia, it just isn't like real lasagneI've never come across these before but I'm told that Lasagne Toppers, which are the big version of these, are very popular.07 Jun 05:30 PM
New ZealandRare Salmonella found in Whangarei eateryAn unnamed Northland food outlet is being investigated over nine confirmed cases of a rare type of Salmonella.24 May 10:40 PM
OpinionWendyl NissenWendyl wants to know: Sauce low in fat but high in sugarJars of sauces like this can mean that dinner is on the table in a matter of minutes. Just fry some meat, at the sauce and heat until hot.17 May 05:30 PM
