Can Fruit and Veg Box Schemes + online groceries help control food spend?

cyantist

We get an Abel and Cole veg box. We got a living social deal for 4 cheap boxes and I much much prefer these to the Riverford ones we used to get so I carried on.

The stuff in general lasts way longer than it would from a supermarket and I just tell them the things I don't like and we never get it.

Pricing it up, it is a lot more expensive, but it stops us going to the shops half as much which saves a fortune in the long run (we are those people who go to the shop for milk and come out having spent £38) and there's stuff I've gotten in my veg box which I've never even heard of.

bebewoo

Edwardia wrote: »

IMO Riverford is more expensive than Abel & Cole and not as good. However if ethics is important to you then Abel & Cole is owned by Aunt Bessie's and Riverford is franchised from a Devon family.
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I tried both Abel and Cole and Riverford and thought Riverford was way better. The Abel and Cole stuff was quite often blighted or half dead and though they would part refund if you phoned it was a chore to have to do that every week. The Riverford box was slightly dearer but the stuff was all fresh so none was wasted.