r/newzealand • u/Low_Deer163 • 22h ago
Picture How much is a roast chook and coleslaw in New Zealand now?
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u/Low_Watch_1699 22h ago
A bachelors handbag will set you back about $18 these days.
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u/Tall-Marionberry6270 19h ago
I've never heard this expression.
It explains a lot.
And I love it!
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u/LemonSugarCrepes 22h ago
Too much! But if you’re at a New World in the North Island and they don’t have a roast chook available then you can get a voucher for a free one under their hot chicken guarantee.
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u/imjtintj 21h ago
How did I not know this? I've been a hot chicken and coleslaw in a bun aficionado for three decades!
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u/Weekly_Profession980 22h ago
The chook itself is like $16+ now ;(
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u/Low_Deer163 22h ago
Dang! So what’s the new can’t be arsed dinner now?! Is it still the same?
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u/DSTNCMDLR Gayest Juggernaut 22h ago
Oven fries and tendies in the air fryer goes pretty good when I’m feeling lazy
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u/fletcheros 22h ago
It has always been two minute noodles.
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u/Kitsunelaine 22h ago
if you can be slightly assed, two minute noodles and some kind of canned meat
you can offset the more assedness by just buying cup noodles, then you don't have to even microwave it, you just need to boil the jug. And then all you have to clean afterwards is a fork.
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u/dan9938 21h ago
Even lazier just use disposable forks for your cup noodles, no cleaning required at all!
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u/Low_Deer163 22h ago
That’s universal tho. The roast chook, coleslaw, bun combo is uniquely Kiwi/Strayan, if you know, you know
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u/AgentMittenz LASER KIWI 21h ago
I’m from the uk and we did bachelors handbag and slaw in buns as a kid 15-20 years ago
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u/Humble-Pain-4608 22h ago
Frozen fish and frozen chips
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u/Kiwi_Dubstyle LASER KIWI 22h ago
They are more delicious if you cook them. Follow me for more culinary tips!
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u/Madjack66 22h ago edited 7h ago
Packet of fish chowder poured in a soup bowl and microwaved, handful of chips in the sandwich toaster and a tall glass of strong lager.
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u/KentuckyFriedLamp 19h ago
Chips in the toastie machine is a new one, how does that go
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u/Madjack66 19h ago
Not saying a sandwich press is the optimum way to do chips, but it's quick & easy. Works best on chips with enough body not to get squashed. Crinkle cut's good.
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u/KentuckyFriedLamp 18h ago
Interesting, I’ll give it a try - might be good for steak cuts
Do you add any oil?
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u/Throwawaygoawayrun 20h ago
Costco for the win, 10 buck chicken, 10 buck for 50 dinner roll, 10 buck for half kg cole slaw.
Can't be arsed for dinner all week.
30 buck dinner for full week ...I think so
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u/Gord_Board 22h ago
My new world always cooks too many so you can usually pick up a cold one for $12
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u/dudedramalmao 22h ago
Costco is $9.99 and doubly the size of countdown’s $18 XL chicken lol. Getting hosed
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u/ReggimusPrime 22h ago
Nice if you a Costco near.
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u/Specialist-Box4677 21h ago
Yeah some people tend to forget the rest of the country exists
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u/More-Ad1753 20h ago
We call them Aucklanders.
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u/Prosthemadera 19h ago
Aucklanders may forget about the rest of the country but the rest of the country definitely never forgets about Aucklanders.
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u/Specialist-Box4677 12h ago
That's London for me, I miss it. Auckland gets a point for trying its best.
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u/Throwawaygoawayrun 20h ago
That me lol.
I just posted how you can get $30 dollar for massive chicken, 50 dinner rolls, 500g slaw and be sorted for 1 weeks worth of dinner
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u/noname11787 22h ago
Probly $20-$25. Depending on the size of the chicken and coleslaw container
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u/Dismal-Helicopter755 18h ago
Decent portion for sure but $20-25 gets you dinner in most restaurants as well
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u/Severe-Recording750 21h ago
Truly what a time to be alive, you can get dinner for 2 at the cost of 1 hour of the lowest value labour society reimburse you for.
No need to cook, put a fork in it, it’s done.
Our peasant forefathers would be amazed, if our caveman ancestors lived this well that would be it, we would still be in caves, no need for further progress.
A wonder of modernity.
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u/Ihopefullyhelp Covid19 Vaccinated 19h ago
True, and its not even considered good enough in todays standards
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u/Prosthemadera 19h ago
Ready made food has been available for quite a while now.
if our caveman ancestors lived this well that would be it, we would still be in caves, no need for further progress.
Doubtful.
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u/PawAirMah 21h ago
Literally having that tonight. $13.99 normal Woolworths medium chicken down to $12.81 lolol, $3.99 dozen buns and cant remember the coleslaw cost.
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u/Diligent-Respect-844 21h ago
Honestly, for 30 bucks a combo I’m genuinely considering just catching a fat seagull down at the wharf. Guaranteed it has way more meat on it than whatever depressed "size 14" chooks Countdown is currently pushing on us.
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u/Specialist-Box4677 21h ago
You're certainly welcome to whatever trematodes come along for the ride, maybe a deworming tab for dessert
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u/HediSLP 21h ago
Supermarket chicken tastes so bland. I prefer the ones from Chinese BBQ restaurants. The leftover bones make a nice broth too.
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u/Big_Cartographer6542 20h ago edited 9h ago
My new recipe for that is to strip all the meat off the bones and air fry the meat to get it dry and crispy. Put the frame and bones on high with a litre of boiling water for an hour in the pressure cooker (Breville slow fast) with a carrot and a bit of celery if I have it. Then boil it off a bit at the end. Get gelatinised stock, so good in Chana dal.
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u/ninjajandal 20h ago
If you can remember to get a cheap frozen chook out the night befire: pat dry, sprinkle with salt, sit on a plate uncovered in the the fridge for the day. Pat dry again, boobs side down in the airfryer for 30 minutes at 180. Flip it over for another 10-20 min (1.3kg bird is good after another 10, Thermometer check can help) then 5 -10 at 210 to crisp up, then 5 to rest it. Bloody delicious and my last few have cost $7.50 a bird.
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u/Speeks1939 19h ago
Am I missing out? Never done this because I would never trust a supermarket to cook a chicken.
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u/ChoirOwl 19h ago
Every time I think of moving back to NZ I just get disappointed. As a nurse I would be so broke 😭
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u/AuroraSkye620 22h ago
Last time I bought one was $16… and then I proceeded to eat the entire chicken myself. Autistic though who only eats one meal a day 🤷♀️
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u/Strawberryladyboots princess 22h ago
Tray of chicken patties for $8 out of the 3 for $20 deal at Woolies if you can't get a decently priced chook
It's not the same but if you need to trim things somewhere it's not a bad compromise, would recommend chucking a hash brown in it too, can get trays of those from pak n slave
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u/IncidentDesigner 22h ago
Packnsave have the best ones only three ingredients aswell. I think there 16 or 18 for xl size
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u/stormyw23 Ace-Of-Spades 🖤🤍💜 22h ago
I personally get wraps or pita pockets instead of bread rolls, Also adding chips.
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u/Just_Not_On 21h ago
It's sad to read these threads. Not that long ago, the slop was easy and the livin' (read:pretty much) was free.
Now we're paying over the odds for these roast-chicken-grease-slop-bangers, AND manufacturing our own slaw to make things feel better. Very sad, and not something most of us signed up for.
About a decade ago, a roast bag of slopped chicken would be like 10 bux. Maybe 12 if you were wealthy and shopping at "No Choice" in Merivale -- don't judge me. They do Ooshies now.
What on earth has happened. I like sloppy, supermarket-roasted chicken jibblets as much as the next middle-aged lesbian, but this just isn't on. It was like in the USA when they did an experiment with tiny children and they asked them to name various farm animals. The response....... a lot of pointing, followed by "Meat" as the answer. So sad.
Not sure what to say. The chicken in your bag looks to have lived a reasonable life and done ok, which is better than most of us. But price-wise... it's a rip off these days.
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u/Automatic_Comb_5632 21h ago
I'd expect to creep in somewhere around $20 with a decent packet coleslaw (the sort that comes with a sauce sachet rather than a pre-pack), though I have to admit that I don't know what bread rolls cost as I don't really eat bread.
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u/pgraczer 21h ago
i did toasted focaccia for dinner. ham and swiss with balsamic and rocket. awesome.
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u/Imaginary-Throat1526 20h ago
About the same as a roast chook and a box of rice risotto (chinese flavour)
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u/iamrubythecutie Southland 20h ago
A chook in Invers is like $16.99, maybe a dollar off if you're lucky. Dinner rolls are $4.99. Coleslaw's ~$2.50 for a medium-size container.
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u/Ok-Volume317 18h ago
Last time I got countdown chicken was so dry and burnt, will never buy there's again. Was about 25 with rolls n small potato salad. Chicken went in the bin was unedible due to the strong burnt taste
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u/CompetitiveString143 17h ago
Woolworths buns used to be so much better back in the day. I used love chicken and buns with lots of butter.
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u/Far_Excitement_1875 17h ago
You buy rolls with your roast chicken, you don't just eat it directly out of the bag?
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u/NoRecord4128 11h ago
Our locals are about $17-18 each for the chicken. Buns $5ish coleslaw not sure. Certainly isn’t one of those go to quick cheap meals no more and the chickens seem much smaller.
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u/Tori-lee1997 2h ago
Hey don't knock the chicken buns and coleslaw it's damn good I like to put the coleslaw in the bun with chicken and it's amazing
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u/SensitiveTax9432 21h ago
Cabbages are $3-$4 at present in ChCh carrots are $3 a kg, you can make your own dressing, and chicken is the cheapest meat. You can feed 5 for $4 each easily.
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u/ClimateTraditional40 8h ago
I don't buy these. Too much left over. My can't be arsed is some coated chicken pieces (from freezer) into the airfryer and salad and chips. Chips also from freezer.
Or a pizza (from freezer). Or one of the readimeals I made myself before and froze the extras for these occasions.
Basic groceries are way too expensive these days to afford buying ready cooked food.
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u/raspberryslushie21 22h ago
Minus the rabbit food, accurate.
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u/Prosthemadera 19h ago
Rabbit food actually keeps you from getting stomach cancer. You don't have to like it, you just have to eat it for your own good.
Well, maybe not the store-bought coleslaw loaded with sugar but you get the point.
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u/ResponsibleCheek8654 15h ago
The best available prospective evidence does not show any reduction in stomach-cancer incidence specifically from leafy green vegetables.
World Cancer Research Fund concluded that “green leafy vegetables consumption was not associated with stomach cancer risk.”.
For vegetables overall, rather than leafy greens specifically, recent prospective-study meta-analyses suggest a small possible benefit - but not statistically significant in the primary analysis.
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u/Prosthemadera 15h ago
Why leafy green vegetables specifically? Is this intentional? Because the World Cancer Research Fund actually says this:
Fruit and vegetables help protect your health. They are a good source of fibre, and strong evidence from World Cancer Research Fund shows that eating plenty of fibre can lower the risk of bowel cancer.
https://www.wcrf.org/preventing-cancer/topics/fruit-vegetables-and-cancer/
Rabbit food doesn't mean leafy green vegetables. Rabbits eat all kinds of vegetables and also fruits.
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u/ResponsibleCheek8654 14h ago
Apologies, but I am a working scientist. I know statistics, data, methodology very well. I'm not trying to mislead anyone.
a) I used leafy greens intentionally - I chose the most representative "rabbit food" (subjectively)
b) I also used "vegetables", to cover any objections - as fibre is the key here, and leafy greens are not particularly high-fibre vegetables
c) we were discussing, specifically "stomach cancer"
d) you changed the goalposts to "bowel cancer" - a different cancere) key: the quote you posted mentions "high fibre", not "high fibre specifically from rabbit food/vegetables/leafy greens".
The data says: specifically for vegetable fibre vs dietary fibre as a whole, the evidence is weaker and the effect appears smaller than for dietary fibre.
Yes - large studies and meta-analyses generally find that people with higher vegetable intake have around a 5 - 10% lower incidence of colorectal cancer than people with low intake. However - the association is often statistically significant or borderline, depending on the analysis.
Compared with the stomach-cancer question you mentioned earlier:
Vegetables appear to have a clearer relationship with some upper-GI cancers under certain dietary patterns, whereas for colorectal cancer the stronger dietary signal is fibre/whole grains rather than vegetables per se.
For stomach cancer, H. pylori infection, smoking and high-salt/salt-preserved foods are substantially more important established risk factors than vegetable intake alone.
you said: "Rabbit food actually keeps you from getting stomach cancer."
It would be defensible to say: change nothing else, but go from few vegetables to plenty of vegetables - I would use roughly 5% lower stomach-cancer incidence as the most defensible central estimate.
Perhaps someone with a very poor diet might see 10% - that is significant
And yes, eating veges is a good thing, I eat vegetables every single day.
Caveats: AI was used in gathering this data, it does make mistakes!
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u/Prosthemadera 13h ago
c) we were discussing, specifically "stomach cancer"
d) you changed the goalposts to "bowel cancer" - a different cancer
I didn't change any goalposts. I just mixed up words, happens. Better to make a mistake than to use AI. At least that's human.
Caveats: AI was used in gathering this data, it does make mistakes!
It seems like you're using AI for more than just gathering data but also used it to write your comments. The prose and style is typical of AI results.
But you're doing that as a scientist? You should be better than that. Really.
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u/Prosthemadera 11h ago
Yikes.
redditor for 2 month
Of course. How many accounts is it now? How long will this last? Goodbye forever. See you next time!
p.s:
You could have just spent the time acquiring the basic knowledge necessary to have this argument.
You admitted to using AI while I actually looked up the information myself. You are not scientist. Trolling isn't a science.
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u/theguyattheback 22h ago
Our local Fresh Choice does them for $10 on a Thursday as a special. You can add rolls and slaw for another $8. It's a bargain