Food

Craving your favourite fast food fix during lockdown? You're not alone.

Lower Hutt woman Liz McGimpsey has taken matters into her own hands and created home-made McDonald's.

She shared her facsimile… Video, Audio

Julie shares her hearty family recipe.  Audio

Chef Martin Bosley is isolating with his 23-year-old daughter, 82-year-old mother, a labrador and two rabbits in a 55m2 cottage in Greytown. He's been tweeting daily updates about life in lockdown. Audio

Supermarkets across the country are working hard towards keeping shelves stocked as people focus on keeping their pantries fuller than usual. Audio

The first full working week of the new normal is almost over, most New Zealanders are holed up at home, and relying on essential workers to keep the country running.

So how's that going?

Kiri… Audio

The kiwifruit industry is fighting for survival as it tries to pick and pack the season's crop while enforcing Covid-19 restrictions.

The apple industry is also predicting problems with at least 10… Audio

Home bakers keen to keep busy and fed during the lockdown have pushed demand for flour up 500 percent for one producer.

Champion Flour has three mills going around the clock to keep up. There are no… Video, Audio

As cafes and bakeries close under the Covid-19 lockdown in New Zealand there has been huge demand for all types of flour, leaving supermarket shelves bare. 

But there is plenty of grain in New…

Tim Hamilton from The Salvation Army joins the show to talk about the generous response they've had to their call for more donors for their online Foodbank Project. Audio

The closure of independent butchers during the Covid-19 lock-down could see pigs being euthanised as numbers swell and farmers are unable to keep and look after surplus stock.

The pork industry is… Audio

The owner of a fruit and vegetable shop in Westport says he's having to let $25,000 dollars worth of produce rot, despite his best efforts to give it away to people in need.

After finding out his… Audio

New Zealand's largest company is emerging as a bright spot in the economic gloom.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says the co-op is in good financial heart and expecting to stay that way… Audio

Up to five million dollars of chilled meat is headed to landfill if independent butchers are not allowed to reopen within the next five days.

Group principal at the Aussie Butcher, Keith Oddy, says… Audio

What is it like on the front line of New Zealand’s supermarkets during the Covid-19 lockdown? 

There have been daily tears, racial abuse, and in some cases violence, a checkout staff member told… Video, Audio

Shoppers will be able to dob in alleged price gouging by supermarket chains - after the government set up a special email address for people to send their complaints too.

The two main brands… Video, Audio

Rules preventing independent fruit and vegetable sellers from trading during the Covid-19 lockdown are said to be leading to huge food waste and high produce prices.

The independents say they can… Video, Audio

Chef and cookbook author Kathy Gunst is living under Covid 19 restrictions and has advice on what to cook to use what's already in your pantry, and how to shop for food that will stretch for a week or… Audio

Annabel Langbein is in lockdown at her place in Wanaka, and her daughter Rose is in New York. Together they're sharing daily cooking lessons on their Instagram stories.

  Audio

Some Muslims in New Zealand are struggling to access Halal meat, because halal butchers have not been classed as an essential service under the Government's lockdown restrictions.  Audio