Live For Food

The main issues with vegetable boxes are:-

• value for money
• variety
• getting through it all

https://merangue.com/b7d4hmy My box is value for money.  I pay £10 a week for it, and having roughly totted up the prices of the produce I receive, it comes out about the same as getting it from the supermarket, but its fresher and delivered to my door.

Generally I have a good variety of items in my box, although perhaps not always the ones I would have chosen myself.  Some of my meal planning does revolve around using up certain items.  Almost every week I get potatoes of some kind, carrots, at least one green vegetable, apples, bananas, and tomatoes.  I would prefer slightly less potatoes and cabbage and slightly more mushrooms and bell peppers, but overall it beats carrying it home from the supermarket myself.

https://transculturalexchange.org/du7ob8mc Getting through it all can be a problem sometimes.  Quite often I have an excess of one or two things.  At the moment I haven’t been cooking as many potatoes and consequently I have a large bagful that needs eating.  I also have a lots of eggs in at the moment as I’ve been getting a box every week for a while now.  I will probably do some future posts on how to use up excess of items that come in the veg box.  The only thing I really waste tends to be cabbage – my husband doesn’t eat it and its difficult to get through a whole cabbage yourself before the leaves wilt.  I do my best, but rarely make it to the end of a cabbage.

Apart from eating it myself, other good options are finding a friend who enjoys vegetables and passing the excess on to them, or if I go away for the weekend, typically to my parents or in-laws, I present them with a bag of vegetables.  Cooking and freezing the items down works sometimes, but as the box comes every week, its easy to forget to eat up the frozen produce.

Overall I think its worth it. I’ve had the box every week for about three years now, and every now and again I consider if I want to continue, but always decide in favour of it.  The ease and convenience of having a variety of fruit and vegetables on your doorstep once a week, far outweighs the occasional item I don’t get round to eating, and its good to know that at least some of the produce that I get is local.  I would definitely recommend giving it a go if you don’t have one already, and would also recommend talking to your neighbours first to see if they have any experience of local schemes running in your area.

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