Organic fruit and vegetable deliveries
Posted by DavidM in Buying green, Family plan | 29 November 2007
As much as I'd like us to be self-sustainable from the vegetable patch, realistically it's not going to happen for quite some time. So we've still been buying a lot of our fruit and veg at the supermarket.
Some time ago we had fortnightly deliveries from Riverford, probably the biggest British organic home-delivery company.
We used them for several months but the problem was you couldn't influence which vegetables they brought. The children are quite fussy and, although I hate to admit it, I'm not keen on a lot of the winter vegetables. So about a year ago we stopped and went back to Sainsburys.
But now my wife has found another supplier - Able and Cole - who let you add preferences on their website. She's listed the vegetables the children and I definitely will eat as well as marking off those we definitely don't want (parsnips, turnips, etc.).
We get the first delivery this week and have our fingers crossed that it will be good value and nice food.
I was please with my wife for making us that little bit greener until she told me her real motivation. She absolutely hates having to trawl around Sainsburys for the family shop. So now she has the milk and fruit and vegetables delivered and goes to the local butchers for all our meat she only needs non-foods from the supermarket.
