Lockdown Local Food Deliveries
Did you know there are more than 20 local businesses that can deliver you excellent food during lockdown?
There are a lot more places that can supply food now, aside from supermarkets, so now’s the time to buy local and support our community’s businesses.
SHOP IN STORE
Be Organics
Fresh fruit and vege and groceries. Although this shop is open, they would rather you ordered from them online at Mount Wholefoods for delivery, if possible.
6 Tawa St, Mt Maunganui mountwholefoods.co.nz
Gilmours
Wholesale food. Shop in store or delivery. 31 Taurikura Dr, Tauriko, Tauranga gilmours.co.nz
Huckleberry
Organic fresh food and grocery, plus refills. Delivery too.
35 Macdonald St, Mt Maunganui & Wild Earth Organics, 777 Cameron Rd, Tauranga
Mount Sourdough
Available Tuesday to Saturday at FreshChoice Papamoa, FourSquare Papamoa, FourSquare Cherrywood, FourSquare The Lakes, Vetro Mediterranean Foods, Bin Inn Wholefoods Bethlehem, Tay Street Store and Te Puna Deli.
The Fresh Market
Fantastic greengrocer (also by delivery mygreengrocer.co.nz).
1000 Cameron Rd, Gate Pa, Tauranga
The Source Bulk Foods
For all your food refill desires.
Bayfair Shopping Centre
Te Puna Deli
Artisan goodness, from bread and organic milk to veges and cured meats. (Check out their recipe for shakshuka here, it’s the perfect brunch.)
17B Minden Road, Te Puna
Vetro Mediterranean Foods
Quality food and wine from the Med
and beyond.
111 Third Ave, Tauranga
Note: For some places, you can order and pay ahead, then pick up without entering the premises. Check online for details.
FOOD DELIVERIES
Abundant Backyard
Organic fresh fruit and veges.
Better Bread
Top-notch sourdough.
Bidfood Home
Now delivering. Register online.
Col’s Butchery
Delivery or contactless pick up.
Doug Jarvis Butcher
All offerings and prices online.
Eden Orchard
Cherry and blueberry juices.
Elspeth Bakery
Pastries, divine loaves of sourdough and more.
Gilmours
Wholesale food delivery.
Harbourside Macadamias
Macadamia nuts and products.
Huckleberry
Details as per ‘Shop in Store’ section.
Just Blend
Frozen smoothie packs (and zero plastics).
Liberty Growers
Hydroponically grown and herbs, vegetables and fruit. Email for a product and price list.
libertygrowers@gmail.com
Mitchell’s Bone Broth
The range offers health-boosting Bone Broth Powder, Collagen Peptides and Collagen Repair.
Mount Eliza
These cheesemaking pioneers are offering sensational raw-milk cheese and their renowned Blue Monkey.
Mount Made
Superb handmade icecream
Mount Wholefoods
A range of superb organic vegetables and fruit, including vege boxes, as well as lots of grocery items.
My Greengrocer
Fruit and vegetable deliveries from The Fresh Market in Gate Pa.
Nicki’s Eggs
Free-range, cruelty-free eggs.
Price list: nickis-egg.co.nz
Order by text 0223 064 174
Pepper & Me
Spice pastes, salt blends and sauces and more to make lockdown dinners easier and more delicious.
Pocket Bakery
The best-ever pastries (including dreamy pain au chocolat), super sourdough and pizza bases.
Facebook @pocketbakerynz
Real Rad Food
Raw, vegan slices, cakes and balls that are free of refined sugar and gluten.
Sandbank
Ready-to-blend superfood smoothie packs delivered to your door. Receive free shipping on all orders for the first week of Level 3. Use discount code LEVEL3LIFE
Six Toed Fox Organics
Vege boxes packed with lush, just-picked organic produce from their farm.
The Avo Tree
Great value boxes of avos, freshly picked from the tree.
The Snag Co
Artisan sausage delivery.
Vigour Vitality
Long shelf-life Mylk concentrates, nuts and seeds.
Webster’s Tea
Because a fine cup of organic loose leaf will get us through all this.
BREWER DELIVERIES
Mount Brewing Co
Slab Brewing
The Island Brewery
OTHER KEY FOOD-RELATED SITES & SOCIAL
Price Watch
If you’re concerned about high prices at your local supermarket, you can report it by emailing pricewatch@mbie.govt.nz along with a copy of your receipt.
SOS Cafe
Buy vouchers for cafes and other local businesses now, when they need the cash, and redeem the vouchers after lockdown. We love this idea!
The Modern Forager
Locals Melissa and Reuben Woods have set this up to connect people with growers, makers and farmers across New Zealand.
Tauranga Farmers’ Market
Check for producer delivery updates.
For those that can’t shop in store
New World Brookfield is offering a new service for those who can’t make it into the store and have no one to shop for them. Volunteers will do the shopping and deliver it to their door. Call John 027 355 3992. Also, Countdown has priority assistance for those who can’t shop in store, just apply on their site. This gives you priority for home delivery slots.