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@indychaser Yeah, somehow it's harder to make a bad sweet wine. A lot of the Moscatos are lower alcohol content too, which is a good thing or a bad thing depending on your viewpoint.

@tree320 If there's a Roastery near you, (and you like their stuff) check out their factory shop price, can be a fair bit cheaper than retail, and much fresher. Here in Taranaki I'd be checking Wildcat and Inca-fe, two of my favourites.

@resjudicata Nope. I use both, but bad coffee can still have bitterness or lack of flavour.

@jgeral0172 I'm glad to hear it. Sad that Taranaki raised meat takes a 700km round trip to get to our supermarket.

@ella1838 Also, in Woolworths, none of the meat is locally processed. It is all butchered and packed in a couple of centralised processing facilities and trucked around the country. The only skills the guys in the supermarket meat department need is putting stock on shelves and monitoring...

@bn123 However, many products at cash and carry are more expensive than supermarkets - which is why you see small shop owners stocking up on supermarket specials if quantity isn't limited.

@castiel We had 40% unemployment and no social security. We are nowhere near that.

@chrisxxcc Sets reminder to check this out in spring when it's time to plant corn (fertiliser)

@chun If I were being fussy I would say the big bag is an issue. My late friend and coffee guru, with a fistful of medals to his name, said never to buy more coffee than you'd consume in a fortnight. So we'd get a 300gm bag roasted 48 hours earlier every couple of weeks (in exchange for doing...

@chun Market kitchen instant coffee is terrible. Market kitchen beans and ground coffee are good. Different products from different sources, typical for house brands. Edited, because I doxxed myself given other posts.

@dledoux Gaspy isn't up to date until a user updates it. On my last trip to Gisborne I got to Rotorua and checked lowest fuel price. Waitomo, 1 hour ago. Went there and it had gone up 11c.

@gordonmarry Are your costings for dried rather than canned pulses? If so, tip for those who haven't used dried pulses - you need to soak them, and you need to slow cook them to get rid of the oxalates. This can add to relative cost.

@jkhaemba The dinners are a one store trial at the moment. Size seems to be the big difference over the competition - proper family size.

@godisbigger We've been with them since they started more or less. Until our local cell tower got upgraded enough to do mobile broadband, our phones were our only data source at home, but the free comms to other WM numbers was the clincher, with the whole family on it. Other providers force you...

Scrolling back, I'm surprised not to see a thread on coffee, so here goes: For me, there's a clear winner: Gregg's Special Blend, usually $2.49 for 90gm. (And famously a $1 loss leader at the Warehouse, who have now dropped it for their own brand - which is absolute shit). Special Blend would be...