Bulk Food Savings

This place is heaven! I haven’t been this excited about a shop since I moved to New Zealand almost a year ago. It’s super organized and they have all sorts of grains and nuts. They also stock angel food vegan cheese alternatives. Much cheaper than supermarkets and the people working there were all lovely. My new favorite shop!

Good place to stock up on spices (smaller portions than say Khyber Spice Invader but still cheaper than supermarkets), canned tomatoes and some Asian grocery items like tamarind and Shrimp paste.

Love this place, people working there are always kind and very helpful! Great selection of pantry staples, superfoods, coconut oil, preserved food, a lot of spices.

Great place to pick up pantry staples and specialty food items.
Good selection of:
–allergen-​friendly (gluten free, dairy free etc)
–organic
–superfoods (chia, spirulina, dried Amazonian fruit powders)
–legumes and grains
–snacks
–preserved (jams, pickles, condiments).
The spice selection is well stocked but not super fresh or potent.
Bulk Food Savings is worth a visit, whether to just browse or to get serious shopping done (particularly for those sick of paying prices that health food stores charge).

These guys have been running this shop for as long as I can remember. Must be at least 10 years, actually I’d guess 15. When lots of bulk/​loose food retailers have been swallowed up by the Supermarkets, they have managed to stay open and still offer quality. (This sounds like PR blurb!@!!) Anyway, worth the drive as the dried beans, chickpeas, lentils etc… ARE NOT heat treated like most dried food imports.
Try this at home — take the labels of the jars and cans of the food you have just bought and throw them in the bin. You’ve just disposed of 75% of the purchase price of your food — marketing, branding, advertising, back handers to supermarket chains etc… You get my drift. Quality bulk produce. And cheap.

This place is such a gem! It’s become my one-​stop-​shop for all my flours, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, spices and a bunch of other bits and pieces. I am yet to make it home without at least one thing i had no intention of buying or hadn’t even heard of, because there’s so much interesting stuff. Things are laid out really well and my favourite part is that they have pre packaged flours etc that are the same price as packaging yourself, which saves fluffing around with the bulk bins when you’re in a hurry.

This place was a great wee find! Tucked in the corner of the Wendy’s carpark in Mt Eden, it’s very easy to go about your life without ever realising Bulk Food Savings exists.
Bulk Foods stock a very wide range of products, including dried fruits, nuts, organic products, flours and cereals, and all sorts of international food I’d never even heard of. Pepperdews, pomegranate molasses, Ceres organics muesli for only $ 9 and literally the biggest jar of gherkins I have ever seen — Bulk Food Savings was a delight to explore.
I was stoked to find pure vanilla extract and vanilla pods in this store — they were much cheaper than at places like Nosh, and are great to use in baking.
The only downside of Bulk Foods was the staff. They weren’t particularly inviting nor were they very friendly, but hey — when the variety of food is that good and the prices are so low, who cares? You can’t have everything!
Bonus: It smells fantastic in Bulk Foods — all the different spices merge in to one mouth-​watering fragrance that instantly inspires you to cook delicious Indian curries.

Even through I now live about a ten minute drive from this place, I often make a trip there for my weekly shop; it has a super range of bulk items like flour and the like including lots of organic and gluten free options, as well as the following:
— a small but completely adequate range of Middle Eastern, Indian, and Japanese ingredients
— spices
— dried fruits (I have to stop myself buying their dried nectarines as they tend to go in about three minutes).
— cereals, including their own muesli
–herbal teas
They also stock quite a lot of items you’ll need if you’re making your own cleaners or the like, such as washing soda and borax, as well as bulk bin detergent/​cleaner/​shampoo etc.
Prices are also very good; mostly cheaper than going to one of those supermarkets. Finally, they almost always ask if you’ve found everything you need; don’t be shy about saying if you haven’t, as odds on they’ll either find it for you, or offer to get it in for you.
(Also, despite their address being on Dominion Rd, they don’t actually have a frontage onto Dominion Road. To find them turn into Walters Road, then turn into the driveway that points to the Wendy’s drive through, and they’re just tucked in to your right).