In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to make a particularly healthy meal with the 10 things that cost less in Stats NZ’s latest selected basket of food items, from April, with a year ago. That’s not to say you can’t find food cheaper than Stats NZ’s average retail prices. Overall, food prices were 6.4% higher in April this year than last, with increases across all the food categories measured. In March, the 7.6 per cent jump in food prices was the largest annual increase since 2011. Inflation of food prices has generally been increasing since a low of 0.5% in the year to March 2021.

Source: Stuff June 05, 2022 18:16 UTC