Food in New Zealand has been great. Tremendous selection of fresh fruits and vegetables, most locally grown. Remember it is summer here and crops are coming out of the field now. Here is the largest celery I have ever seen. It is hard to get the scale right, but let's say it was double the size we normally see. I do not remember the price of the celery, but most of the grocery items are similar, except milk is higher.

Beef, lamb and venison are very popular. Venison is the farm raised we see quite often in the fields and was at the farm where we stayed. In Queenstown, they are serious about hamburgers, especially at Fergburgers, this was delicious.  It was the largest hamburger I have eaten, Jim only ate 1/4 of it. A plain one cost $10, I opted for cheddar cheese, which was $11.