I have found a fruit and vegetable store close to my house that has beautiful fresh produce which…read moreare often cheaper than at the supermarket. They have a pretty decent range of fruit and veges too. Not only that, but they also sell some other basic everyday items like bread, milk, eggs etc. Not only THAT, but they have a rather large section which has Asian cooking products as well as some crazy looking snack foods. Basically it is the best place ever. Actually this shop is very new, replacing an old fruit and vegetable store which was just terrible. This one is the complete opposite. I now have no need for supermarket vegetables, which in my opinion are rather average anyway.

Having only just moved into the Meadowbank area I have had to find a new local vege store. V's…read moreFruit and Vege has become my new local. Located in amongst the shops on Felton Mathew, V's Fruit and Vege is very convenient. What I love about this store is that all the fruit and veges are fresh and cheap. For 99 cents the size of the broccoli was amazing! Seriously! The broccoli heads here are huge. The bananas and the apples to be honest aren't the flashiest, but everything else here is spot on. There also sell Asian noodles, rices, herbs and sauces. The parking here is fantastic. There is plenty of on-site parking.

It is surprising that this dark, and slightly dingy looking, fruit and vegetable store can give…read moresuch bargains. I left this Asian shop with a bag of tomatoes and two decent sized and healthy looking eggplant for only $3.00. We arrived just as it was opening, so unfortunately trays of fruit were still being brought out into the store and I was not able to take full advantage of the bargains. Having said that, not everything was cheaper than usual, just a few things like the eggplant. Avocados were still $2. Aside from fruit and vegetables, there was a wide variety of Asian noodle, spices, drinks, herring, and other ethnic foods not normally found in supermarkets. Additionally there were your normal fresh up juices etc in the fridge. Great shop when you just need to pick up a few fresh items.

Really nice shop and has a great variety of great priced fruits and veges. I always go there on my…read morelunch time to treat myself to something :)

For us, the monthly visit to the night market is really just entertainment for the kids and a very…read morecheap dinner. I love any Asian/Indian/ethno food so can always find something to keep the wolf from the door. There is a wide range of cuisines: Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Philipino, Hungarian, Hong Kong, Pacific Island, and more plus a plethora of post prandial sweets. The food quality at some stalls might be a bit iffy - I suppose at $6 they won't be using the best ingredients, but I have never been sick!!. Sometimes I wonder about the hygiene too but fingers crossed... A lot of the food is in bain maries pre-cooked but the last two meals I've had have been cooked on the spot. It always amazes me that there is a huge queue for churros, which must be the most over-rated snack ever - flavourless dough sticks covered in a sauce of choice. Having said that though I wish I owned that business because the queues reach out the door and they are making a killing!! As at the time of writing this, the Pakuranga market is getting overcrowded. We went last night, arriving at 6pm opening time and it was already extremely busy. We were glad to be in and out within 30 minutes because it was becoming uncomfortably congested. If the crowds continue to grow, the market will need to expand its area. If I was designing the space I would move the "dining" tables to an area away from the throng of hungry punters trying to buy food. And in my perfect world pushchairs would be BANNED from all pedestrian areas!! Why, oh why, do people bring push chairs into crowded pedestrian areas? Dumb. I recommend the night market for a bit of frivolous fun on an evening when you have nothing else on and want to take the kids out for some low key entertainment and dinner. The "shopping" is best avoided unless you want fruit and veges. However, if on the other hand, you have an urge to offload your cash on $2 Shop junk, costume jewellery, flannelette onesies, carvings, mobile phone covers and accessories, a (fully-clothed) back/neck massage, ear candles, cheap and nasty nail polish and nail art, a dubious fortune telling, or second-hand bric-a-brac then this will be your Shangri-la!

Awesome place to have a super unhealthy Friday night dinner. The cuisine there is just so varied u…read morecan have anything u cud think of.. Obviously cheap food.. As for the shopping.. There are a few vege stores and a lot of cheap low quality stuff, items that may entertain children..

The Mad Butcher is the perfect place to come if you're after good quality meat on the cheap. I find…read morethat since I am flatting I now need to find the best I can get for my buck, and the Mad Butcher Glen Innes is where I usually reside. At the Mad Butcher they always have great weekly specials, so it's always good to hop onto their website and check out their great deals for the week. The other night my flat bought 1kg of pork belly for only $12!! Amazing, and man did it taste good! They also had all the additional extras for sale too, this included gravy packets and apple sauce! We left there set and ready to cook a roast! Located behind the Mobile gas station, by the McDonalds and KFC is where the Glen Innes Mad Butcher can be found. There is plenty of onsite parking available at this location, however if it is busy there is also street parking available on Line Road.

I ordered my meat online for home delivery, will never do that again I think it's best to go in…read morestore and see the meat for yourself. Not very happy with the cut of meat they gave me I ordered lamb and was given pieces of meat with more fat then actual meat not cool at all.. I'm binnng this whole meat because waste the time cooking it I ordered meat and got fat

What I really like about this Pak in Save in particular is the parking, it has great parking at…read moreground level but also has an awesome covered carpark. The covered carpark just makes it that much easier when you need to shop during the winter months when we all know how windy and rainy and just horrible Auckland weather can be. But this Pak n Save is great as it has a lovely covered carpark. The supermarket itself is actually also pretty new and therefore has a really good layout, wide aisles and lots of check out lanes so makes for stress free supermarket shopping apart from the packing at the end, but the prices are worth it.

This used to be my favourite supermarket but lately it has gone a bit downhill. Their meat - I…read moredon't know how they store it but with these new recycling packs the meat smells horrible after a day in the fridge if kept in those recycling packs and we have a very good fridge. Their Fresh Fruit and Vegetables is not really that nice they don't have the best looking produce and quite often ill buy their onions and the middle of them are rotten and green possibly because they use the sacks of onions and just tip them into their bin. They have changed the layout again and to be honest its so difficult to find things at the moment but the extra space is nice, their variety section seems to have disappeared which is a shame as there was good stuff in there. Their product range is limited these days and I find myself doing my main shop here but my meat and veges and other products shopping at Countdown or New World. They have baskets now which is great but I'm forever having to go to the checkout aisle to get a basket as they don't bring them back as often. And the self Checkouts are great but quite often the machines need assistance from the staff - who more often then not are busy gossiping about their lives and not paying to much attention to what is going on and missing the trolleys full of more than 20 items at the self checkouts. I will continue to shop here but I hope it gets better again like it used to.

Opened June 24, 2014…read more A large, brightly lit store. When it first opened all the produce had a yellow hue due to the strange lighting... They seem to have sorted that out. In terms of new innovations, there's little that's obvious: A conveyor belt option on the self checkout and noticeably fewer checkouts than you'd expect for the size of the store. The staff always make an effort to make small talk. I think it's probably a "new store" excitement thing. We'll see! Cons: the rather unfriendly signs out front banishing all dogs. People can leave dogs in cars in winter... But what about summer? And what about walkers with dogs? A better approach would be three short chains with clips attached to the building spaced 1.5m apart, so that people can safely tie up their dogs. Bonus points for shade, water bowls and a "welcome dogs" sign!

Clean and pretty. No beetroot in vegetable area. No raw…read moreorange juice. They are competing against pak n save, low budget and all that, but they have almost all self checkout. Supermarket was very quiet and I had to wait 10-15 mins while 3 staff watched me wait at the one open counter. Two customers were here expecting some service and let out sighs when they realised they had to use self checkout or wait behind me and someone else. The checkout lady was alone (no nagger) despite heaps of staff running around. Selection is average, displays are nice, prices are varied, some more expensive and a couple of cheap deals. Meh.

I was elated when The Sweetest Little Chocolate Shop opened a new store in Sylvia Park. Not only…read morewas it much closer to home, but personally, it was bigger and better- its a modern take on the charming, original Midcity Arcade store. The service is friendly, patient and very knowledgeable; because of this I can never leave without a box of ten chocolates and a bag of their delicious Russian caramel fudge. The staff really make it an experience and because of this, I've become a regular here. You'll be dying to try all the flavours they provide, and its an extensive list. For someone who already knows what they're after or they're short on time, they do provide a range of pre-packed candies, chocolates and bars to suit any need. My favourites include the almond rocher, coconut snowball truffle and the roasted almond honey truffle- all to die for! Take a few flavours home with you to try- you really won't be disappointed.

It really is! (the sweetest little chocolate shop). I'd never seen my niece's eyes so wide as we…read morewalked in; it's a beautiful little store with a great selection of hand made chocolates. This is their third store; half of the choccies they make themselves, the other half imported from around the world. We spent at least 30mins choosing from the cabinet, they are all so perfectly made and nearly look too good to eat. The passion fruit heart was my favourite; my niece couldn't get enough of the truffles. This is a great place to buy a gift; either make a box up yourself or choose from their large range of pre-packaged goodies. The staff are very helpful and my niece was SO jealous when the girl behind the counter said she had tried most of the chocolates. You can guess what she wants to be when she grows up now!

This New World has a high standard, much like all the others I've visited. The prices are a little…read morehigh and there is a very limited amount of organic goods at this branch but the meat selection is definitely better than Eastridge. There is ample car parking at the front, flowers and a tiny BNZ kiosk at the entrance.

Love this New World, they have great variety of everything and their veges and fruit are of good…read morequality for a supermarket, a little bit on the pricey side but it is worth it. Their packaged meat is also nice I always go here for my meat now and its reasonably priced, I also like their dinner boxes but sometimes you go in and theres like 1 or 2 on a Monday evening etc so they must be popular but sometimes the ingredients in it are not very nice ( eg one I had had a fancy lettuce where most of it was brown) so I had to make do without that ingredient but otherwise I love it. Their fish is fresh and nice I used to go to the fish market in the CBD to get nice fish now I just go here. The self checkouts though are really touchy most times I use these its almost every single item that needs to be checked as the weight doesn't match but other than that great supermarket.

Huckleberry Farms is a fantastic organic shop down in Glen Innes, with locations also in Royal Oak…read moreand Grey Lynn. What I like about this place is that it caters for not just one but many niches - from gluten-free to vegetarian to organic meat-eaters, Huckleberry Farms has most of your shopping list sorted. Do keep in mind though that although they have a wide range of stock, as it is natural and/or organic and/or gluten-free, it is pretty pricey and a lot more than what you'd pay down the road at the local supermarket. But don't let that put you off too much - they have very competitive prices with Nosh located over the road, and the service is super friendly and a bit more personalised than what you'd receive at Nosh.

If it is organic, gluten free or eco friendly then Huckleberry Farms probably has it. If you're…read moreinto organic eating or have some sort of food, this is the place for you. This store is a bit smaller than the other two locations but still stocks a decent amount of product. The produce is all very good quality and there is a good range of frozen and chilled foods. Down the back with the bulk nuts and cereals you can find baked goods that state they are free from multiple things. Harvest Wholefoods in Grey Lynn has a much better range and I prefer to go there as I can buy vegan muffins and cookies made in New Zealand from all natural ingredients by Kauri Kitchen. Even so if you are local to GI and want to eat healthier or need to find foods that cater to your dietary needs then I recommend it. Price doesn't really factor in much here. If you prioritise your health then you will pay to know what you are eating is free from preservatives and other ingredients that you can't pronounce. The owners are strict with which products they will stock based on ingredients, location and production methods. Eat well, treat your body well. Shop here.