Fruit/veg delivery

madmum33

I've just ordered my first veg. box from Flights Orchard Organic vegetables, - looking forward to a fortnightly delivery of delicious veg!

MORPH3US

Would appreciate more feedback on boxfreshorganics if anyone else has ordered...

I'm really tempted to give this a try. Only thing putting me off: We plan our meals before we shop so we know exactly what to get (i.e. do a meal plan before we shop). This would mess that up.

Also, what do people think of the value - what would the same (non organic) thing cost in the supermarket?

Sharra

Morph - we've just had our first veg box and, like you, I think it will take me some time to adjust my meal planning. I collect our box on friday, so I'm thinking I'll have to meal plan that night. It does mean tho that my meal planning will have to stay weekly, rather than attaining the dizzying heghts of monthly meal planning like some of the super organised OSers

midlandsfairy

would be great to hear how those trying out Flights Orchard get on... I've just looked at the site and they deliver to my area as well. If you could post with any feedback that would be much appreciated.

I tend to meal plan weekly so think I would follow Sharra and plan on the night that I got the box.

madmum33

Midlandsfairy, I'll report as soon as I get my first box

Gingham_Ribbon

I use farmaround north. I've been very happy with them.

Here's the thread on what I get each week and what I've been doing with it. There are a couple of pics (and another one from today to go up) showing how much I get. The prices are listed, although I'm getting a discount at the moment for being a return customer which I haven't taken off.

likabu_2

MORPH3US wrote: »

Would appreciate more feedback on boxfreshorganics if anyone else has ordered...

I'm really tempted to give this a try. Only thing putting me off: We plan our meals before we shop so we know exactly what to get (i.e. do a meal plan before we shop). This would mess that up.

Also, what do people think of the value - what would the same (non organic) thing cost in the supermarket?

I have had deliveries from Boxfreshorganics - 3 in last 6 weeks. I have had to cancel for the time being but that is nothing to do with them.

I was getting a standard veg box for £10 and a fruit bag for £4.50. The fruit bag has 3 varieties of fruit in it. I have had bananas, pears, apples and orange things (can't remember if they were satsumas or clementines!).

The veg box has a good mix, my only complaint was that I wasn't getting through the onions quick enough and they seemed to be in every box. Perhaps that was only because I had ordered for 3 consequetive weeks and not longer.

When my situation improves I will go back to ordering from them although I still needed to top up fruit by buying at the market. The fruit bag was the size of a 3 quarter filled carrier bag. My family of 2 adults and 2 boys of 5 and 2 get through 3-4 times that amount in a week.

The carrots were divine - really carroty. Sounds silly I know. The novelty factor of having to wash and scrub the big lumps of earth off the potatoes, carrots and parsnips hadn't worn off even by the 3rd week!

My only real concern was perhaps personal to my situation. We do not have a large income (£18500pa + tax credits) for our growing family so I try to stick to a budget of £45ish a week for groceries. Whilst I would love to only buy organic fruit and veg my boys would be very hungry and only just getting their 5 a day. If we had more money then I would buy the bigger sized boxes and fruit bags and use them only.

I think the best thing for you to do is to try if for a week and see what you think. The girls from the office give you a ring after about 2-3 days to see how you are getting on with your box. They are all really friendly there.

Lisa

Daisies

Simba_25 wrote: »

DollyDayDream.... I get mine from here Woodlands Farm Im pretty sure they deliver your way too

I put on here earlier what i got this week. But that is their large mixed box at £16, they do do smaller.

I've been getting my box from Woodlands Farm since last August. I get the basic box once a fortnight, which costs £6, plus a bag of fruit and some eggs. The box lasts me the whole fortnight, the fruit usually a week (I live on my own). I did do a comparison with the supermarket in the summer and the box worked out cheaper (and fresher and more local!).
Last week's box had: potatoes, onions, carrots, parsnips, cauliflower, red kale, an aubergine and a bunch of daffodils! oh, and a pansy!

It has also saved me money as I'm a lot more organised about shopping now. My box is in the shed when I get home on a Wednesday, so I usually have that night's meal already planned and sit down, go through the contents, decide what to use first and then menu plan for the next 10 days/fortnight then. Then I either do additional shopping that night or on the Thursday evening, but often find I don't need to (I get milk delivered too).

I've found that the boxes are very thoughtfully put together. I haven't had too much of one thing, and there is often an extra that's a nice surprise like the daffodils. I got a sprig of holly in the Christmas box!

rumblytum

Hi all,

I'm certainly very tempted by this, as I buy all my fruit and veg (lots of it) from Tesco, because our greengrocer closed down about 5 years ago (when Tesco was built...):(

I religiously meal plan since finding this site, and my grocery bill is HALF what it used to be - which is amazing!

For those of you who have box veg. deliveries - how does the practicalities of meal planning work? I meal plan, then shop online - ordering specific fruit/veg for recipes etc.

I would appreciate your advice on this, as I am very tempted.

Thanks.

rumbly

Daisies

rumblytum wrote: »

For those of you who have box veg. deliveries - how does the practicalities of meal planning work? I meal plan, then shop online - ordering specific fruit/veg for recipes etc.

To be honest I've found it much easier to meal plan since having a veg box than when I used to buy from the supermarket! When the box arrives I look through it over a cup of tea and decide what needs using first (at the moment it's usually broccoli and kale!), so plan the next few day's meals around that, then whatever is next and so on. I know that I'll always get potatoes, onions and carrots with my box, which also helps, and I tend to already have that evening's (veg box delivery day) meal already sorted as I don't get in from work until 6.30ish so don't want to have to worry about possibly not having something in that I need.

I've found that I don't need to go to the supermarket nearly as often as I keep staples in my cupboards - rice, pasta, quinoa, pulses (dried and tinned), herbs, spices, tinned tomatoes, puree etc so I often don't need to do a shop at all once the box has been delivered. I shop twice a week for bread and cheese.