Fruit and veg boxes - are they good value for money?

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Hi guys, I have a veg box every week and at first i thought it was expensive but the amount and quality is great. I tend to cook whatever I've got in, doing a 'loose' menu plan around ingrediants and what is on special offer. The website for rivere nene is good as it has loads of recipes too.

I stopped for a week and bought from the supermarket and found that it wasn't as good, once you taste the veg box there's no going back.

My advice is to try one and see if you like it, you don't have to get one every week. Also, it makes me make meals using lots of veg so we eat more veg now which is good for you.

Tired_Mummy

Thank you Daisy, I was going to ask the same question as the veg boxes always seem quite expensive compared to supermarkets and I wasn't sure whether it was worth it.

This thread however encouraged me to have a quick look around the various veg box suppliers and with the one that delivers in my area I compared with the equivelant organic items from Tesco and I was gobsmacked that the veg box worked out cheaper (and some of the items from Tesco weren't organic!). The organic eggs were cheaper than the supermarket too.

I think I might try the veg boxes and save a little bit as well :rolleyes: .

Doom_and_Gloom

I know I certainly save money getting a veg box delievery. I saved over £5 this time than if I had got it from Sainsburys and that's without finding organic spinich! Even with my BF's discount of 15% at the moment I save money, not as much but still :eek: . I eat alot of fruit and veg as I'm vegan and get the box delieverd fortnightly. I have to go and get more bananas the week after I get my box but hey everything else does me untill I get my next box so I am not complaining at all. £15 every other week is nothing for good quility, organic fruit and veg. £390 a year isn't all that much for my usual box. I know my parents spend about this a month on food for the both of them and the dog so I'm rather smug about that.

clairabell

Hi all,

I have a veg box delivered every week from Wheelers Veg (link Below) and find it great value for money, the one i use cover the Hampshire and Test Valley Areas. I usually order a medium veg & Salad Box and a Medium Fruit Box and it cost £21 and there is loads in it!!!!

I too have priced the contents up in tescos a couple of weeks ago and it would have been more expensive.

www.wheelers-veg.co.uk

Hope that helps

Claire x

Jaycee1972

Hi

Tesco do an organic veg box now usually for £10 but this week on offer for £8. Mine is being delivered in a bit with the rest of the food shop! There is a link on the grocery homepage or they are available in store. It is the medium box from here.

http://www.shropshires.com/organicbox/

Jane

metherer

Vixtress - who did you get yours from?
I'm a Skipton lass.

Thanks

Metherer

lil_me

Paulie'sGirl wrote: »

For anyone in the far North, I get a lovely small box (so big I have to split it with my mam!) with 1/2 dozen organic eggs for £11 from Butterby Organic. Delivered by a lovely man called Edward. Would throughly recommend them! www.butterby.co.uk

Can you tell me what is usually included in these boxes? I've posted links for them several times as a friend used to use them and said they were fab but she has since moved, would like to know what you get in them now, ish, so I can see if it's worth me getting them delivered. I have met Edward several times, nice guy. Do they still stop delivering for several months of the year?

There is another I am going to enquire about which is downtoearthorganics, also based in Durham area, another one I have heard good things about and he left a price list in the farm shop I use.

Paulie'sGirl

Hi Lil_me

Generally you get onions, potatoes, carrots, a fruit and ½ a dozen eggs

This week we had the onions, potatoes, carrots, leeks, small primo cabbage, sprouted seeds, living salad, mushrooms, clementines and eggs

The week before we had onions, potatoes, carrots, romenesco cauliflower, tomatoes, cucumber, leeks, red cabbage and eggs and something else I can't remember

From the website "25/11/07 Eggs 1/2 doz -Butterby own Potatoes- Marfona- Yorkshire Carrots -Butterby Own Onions - Yorkshire Turnips- Yorkshire Broccoli - Butterby own Mushrooms- Lincolnshire Beetroot - Butterby own Peppers - Spain Beetroot- Butterby own Leeks- Yorkshire Oranges- South Africa

Small Box -as above no beetroot Mini box - potatoes, onions, carrots, leeks, peppers, red broccoli Fruit box - Apples eaters and cookers, oranges, grapes, pineapple, banana "



The quality is always excellent, and as I said Edward is a really lovely guy. But they don't deliver between March and June or something, cos they'd have to import most of the produce.

If you like I can PM you over the next few weeks with what we get.

They also occasionally do meat. I ordered the bumper mince pack (and again split it with my mum) and it was excellent.

Luv PG xxx

jenagain

We used Abel and Cole for a year and only once had a problem with some carrots. We got a £14.50 box delivered every 4 weeks because we couldn't afford weekly ones, but the contents lasted at least 2 weeks. I used to make up some meals for DS and freeze them to use up anything we didn't finish. Also I liked it because you can enter things you don't like, and things you really like so we never got anything we wouldn't eat!

Unfortunately we had to cancel deliveries when I was made redundant but hoping to be able to start them up again in January.

catkinq

What does everyone think about these? We've been having one for a year or so now. I decided to accept the fact that supermarkets were too clever for me and that I alwasy bought stuff I didn't need so I figured that avoiding going was the key to saving money. Getting a veg box delivered (we are veggie and can get eggs and milk cheaply locally) in theory would mean that I could really cut down on supermarket visits. This has sort of worked - we now no longer ever really #have# to go, as we always have something in to eat and can stock up on flour, rice etc but I do struggle with things like menu planning. The price has also gone up twice in as many months so I think that the balance is shifting. I'm not so bothered about stuff bein gorganic - I was motivated by the ability not to be tied to a weekly supermarket shop. What do you think of teh price comparisions? We use Riverford - does anyone use any others (we are in East somerset, pretty rural - no one else except Tesco will deliver). Are they all going up rapidly in price?