This week I decided to go crazy and order The Nine Box! Normally, I get the mini fruit and veg box with six different vegetables and seven pieces of fruit. It's a good deal if there are only one or two of you, but I found I was ordering extras, so I thought I would try the next box up and order the mixed bag of fruit separately.
Here's what arrived: clockwise from bottom left - nine pieces of fruit, asparagus, kohl rabi (I think?), spinach, fennel, cos lettuce, carrots, onions, potatoes, tomatoes and mushrooms. The tomatoes were extra!
I love it when the box is delivered on Wednesday mornings, it's like Christmas, that feeling of anticipation, "What's going to be in the box?" I'm always delighted by the choices - things I wouldn't always buy myself (although I think we have three lettuces waiting to be used now).
I haven't worked out whether it is more expensive, I guess the individual price of each item costs more. But I don't spend any time or money driving, or thinking what I am going to buy and there is very little waste. I find I'm more economical with my delivery, I plan meals around what I have, so that everything is used up.
My delivery comes from Eden Farms in Lincolnshire. They're very nice, even when I ring up last minute on a Tuesday and ask whether they can take an order for delivery on Wednesday morning. "Go on, then," they say, "hurry up"! The van driver is great, too, very friendly, admires my kitchen garden and leaves the box in the shade.
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