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Wendyl wants to know: B&E pie comes with loads of added extras

We all love a good pie and supermarket refrigerators offer a range of chilled pies you can keep in the fridge then heat and eat. But pies aren't all made the same.

Wendyl wants to know: When it comes to the crunch, natural is best

The snack aisle of any supermarket can be a minefield for parents looking for something small and compact to throw into a lunchbox that their children will deem tasty enough to eat.

Wendyl wants to know: Quick meal is a beefier banger for your buck

Sausages are always a bit of a gamble. How much meat is in them? Which meat? And what is the rest of the sausage made of?

Wendyl wants to know: Sure, it's white coffee - but not as we know it

The word "easy" features on this new product's packet five times. The idea seems to be that instead of making an instant coffee and adding milk and sugar, it's all done for you in one of these sachets.

Wendyl wants to know: Defrost and eat or get Nigella to help you out

I have yet to meet a child who doesn't like a frozen cheesecake and, to be honest, they are very easy to prepare.

Wendyl wants to know: Key to sugar rush hides in pancake ready mix

Kids just love freshly cooked pancakes and they make a lovely family breakfast in the weekend served with maple syrup, lemon and sugar or fresh berries and yoghurt.

Wendyl wants to know: Something fishy about this classic condiment

This is a very old-fashioned type of product which harks back to the very British- inspired lifestyle when you would have fish paste sandwiches in your lunch box.

Wendyl wants to know: Iconic treat mash-up is a tingling leap of faith

This bar falls under the "everybody's talking about it" category as it was launched last week with a television ad involving a Whittaker's van crashing into the Paeroa L&P bottle.

Wendyl wants to know: Sauce low in fat but high in sugar

Jars of sauces like this can mean that dinner is on the table in a matter of minutes. Just fry some meat, at the sauce and heat until hot.

Wendyl wants to know to know: Cranberry drink has as much sugar as Mars bar

When I reviewed Super Juice and found it had more sugar in it then Coca Cola, the reaction was one of shock as people absorbed the knowledge that something we always thought was healthy - fruit juice - can contain such a mother load of sugar.

Wendyl wants to know: Instant meal brimming with hefty dose of salt

My mission this week was to find instant noodles that my daughter could eat because, apparently, being the daughter of the "processed food lady" is boring, limiting and completely unfair.

Wendyl wants to know: If you want real food in soup, look elsewhere

There's no beef in this beef soup because as it quite rightly says on the packet, it is beef "flavoured" soup. Which is why there are 24 ingredients to make you think you're sipping beef soup which came from the carcass of an animal.

Wendyl wants to know: Yoghurt suckies easy snack, but high in sugar

Putting food into tubes that children can suck seems to be the latest marketing idea for food manufacturers.

Wendyl wants to know: Sweet drink has two additives banned in US

Two additives that have been banned in the United States should send any consumer running, writes Wendyl Nissen.

Wendyl wants to know: Not-so-fast convenient food

Each week, Wendyl Nissen takes a packaged food item and decodes what the label tells you about its contents

Wendyl Wants to Know: 'Healthy' drink triggers unhealthy sugar alert

Wendyl Nissen discovers that there is more sugar in this 'super juice' per 250ml than there is in Coke.