Staple Watch · this week
Beef mince· mīti
The protein that broke the family-dinner budget. We track the cheapest valid pack at each supermarket every Friday on a per-kg basis — pack price alone hides the maths when one store's headline is a 1.8kg value-pack and the other's is a 500g tray. Worth knowing: the cheapest packs at each store this week are sometimes a house-brand pack against a name-brand pack, which is a brand-tier gap as much as a supermarket gap.
Cheapest this week
$17.72/kg
at Woolworths
What we measured
The two SKUs behind the headline.
PAK'nSAVE
NZ Beef Mince
$18.99/kg
as a kg pack, $18.99
Measured at PAK'nSAVE on .
SKU 5104350-KGM-000
Woolworths
woolworths essentials beef mince value
woolworths essentials
$17.72/kg
as a 1.8kg pack, $31.90
Measured at Woolworths on .
SKU 6072822
We measure the cheapest valid SKU per category at each store every Friday. These are the actual products that drive the prices on this page. How we choose →
Price history
12 weeks of beef mince prices
NZ-Made breakdown
What’s labelled NZ on the shelf this week.
Woolworths: All 8 packs of beef mince we measure here carry the NZ-made marker on packaging. The cheapest pack labelled NZ-made comes in at $17.72/kg (woolworths essentials beef mince value, 1.8kg pack at $31.90).
PAK'nSAVE: All 4 packs of beef mince we measure here carry the NZ-made marker on packaging. The cheapest pack labelled NZ-made comes in at $18.99/kg (NZ Beef Mince, kg pack at $18.99).