Originally Posted by
CPMaverick
The food I was referring to was any food. Yes, fresh food is forbidden, but there are more items than just that which are not allowed (honey for example). I just recommend to not bring any food. Yes, most sealed food will be OK,, but any type of food has to be declared. So just don't do it. It isn't worth the hassle. The food in NZ is better than the USA anyway, just eat the food there.
(My bolding).
That's not actually correct. The landing card lists the types of food that must be declared in questions 6, 7 and 8. The question used to be much more broad and require all food be declared, but they've relaxed it. I think it was around the same time they brought back the "nothing to declare" line at customs.
Landing card is here...
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/Enter...ipc-sample.pdf