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

fizzel81

razra wrote: »

Thankyou for the links, guess if nothing else I will learn new recipes:D

Well my veggie box has just arrived and wow am I impressed! I only got a one off box as I wasnt to sure whether I would eat everything but I got

in a medium box
approx 8 New Potatoes
6 Baking Potatoes
1 Cauliflower
3 Onions
1 Cabbage
8 Mushrooms
1 whole (and huge)Cucumber
1 Cos Lettuce
punnet Cherry Tomatoes Yellow
Vine Tomatoes
Celery
4 Kiwi Fruit
6 Bananas
6 Braeburn Apples
6 Royal Gala Apples
6 Satsumas

Seasonal Extras
5 Nectarines (Spanish)
Bunch Carrots (English)
punnet Strawberries (English)

should have been £15 but as thats the first box Ive ordered it was just £7.50

Mind even if Id paid full price I think Id have been quite happy with it

Off now to hunt for recipes for cabbage and cauli as Ive never cooked with them either:o

think i may drop to meduim then as there was not a huge difference in what you got in a medium and what i recieved in a large

icecubequeen

razra wrote: »

Thankyou for the links, guess if nothing else I will learn new recipes:D

Well my veggie box has just arrived and wow am I impressed! I only got a one off box as I wasnt to sure whether I would eat everything but I got

in a medium box
approx 8 New Potatoes
6 Baking Potatoes
1 Cauliflower
3 Onions
1 Cabbage
8 Mushrooms
1 whole (and huge)Cucumber
1 Cos Lettuce
punnet Cherry Tomatoes Yellow
Vine Tomatoes
Celery
4 Kiwi Fruit
6 Bananas
6 Braeburn Apples
6 Royal Gala Apples
6 Satsumas

Seasonal Extras
5 Nectarines (Spanish)
Bunch Carrots (English)
punnet Strawberries (English)

should have been £15 but as thats the first box Ive ordered it was just £7.50

Mind even if Id paid full price I think Id have been quite happy with it

Off now to hunt for recipes for cabbage and cauli as Ive never cooked with them either:o

Where did you order your veg box from?

Thanks
hels xxx

fizzel81

icecubequeen wrote: »

Where did you order your veg box from?

Thanks
hels xxx

https://www.gsfruits.co.uk hth

fizzel81

pollyskettle wrote: »

Ok - Laverstoke Farm do one, are you that side of Andover?

trying to think where that is.

i am the wiltshire side of Andover going towards marlborough/swindon

not really sure why im classed as andover im a good 7-9 miles from the town centre

pollyskettle

Ahhh, I'm from Winchester side of Andover originally (nearer Winchester though)! Laverstoke is on the Andover/Basingstoke road so it's the other side. If you'd like me to, I could ask my uncle from Wilton if he knows of any that way, but I see you've found one that delivers to you now.

icecubequeen

fizzel81 wrote: »

https://www.gsfruits.co.uk hth

They dont deliver in my area

angie_baby

Me either, the otherone does though,

odds-n-sods

I know there is a lot of discussion over whther or not they are value for money; the ones I get are! I get them from www.rivernene.co.uk

For £12.00 - Med veg box I got:
2 kholrabi
1KG new potatoes
1 200g salad pack
1 red leaf lettuce
4 large red peppers
6 5" courgettes
1 punnet mushrooms
1 large bunch carrots
1 large bunch red spring onions
6 large tomatoes
6 med onions

In the £7.85 Fruit box:

2 large grapefruit
1 punnet red currants
3 pears
6 apples
5 kiwi
6 nectarines. (should have had bananas, but they were too ripe, so they sent the kiwi instead)

I also got yogurt, eggs, apple juice, portobella mushrooms, and coffee, all organic.

How much do you get in your veg box and where is it from?? Also, the flyer in my box was talking about the supermarket middlemen (the ones that package + wash the veg in stores) and that they are already having a hard time getting veg and that there may not be much in the stores by Sept. as harvests have been bad in a lot of countries, including the ones the UK gets food from like Holland + Spain.

I should also say that I dont go for the 'value' foods and buying the cheapest because it is cheap.

boo81

Its silly how it works but I feel I would get much better value for money if I ordered a bigger box and cooked loads of batches with it. I normally pay about £11 and I would get:

3 courgettes
2 small aubegines
2 red peppers
Beetroot bunch
One big lettuce
Punnet of cherry tomatoes
Punnet of mushrooms
Bunch carrots

The thing is I think the extra would go to waste. I really need to get some soup recipes I think!

I think the more people you have the more econimical it is. Maybe I could group together with mum and dad and share a big box?

Linda32

Just to say I've used River Nene as well and been impressed. The fruit and veg box is better than just the veg box IMO