I have had ENOUGH of Riverford (pt 2)

[Fillyjonk]

potatoes green and sprouty despite being kept in fridge since arrived on wed.

bananas STILL green, ffs.

apples and oranges bruised.

some of the veg is just weird and pushing the boundries.

can't afford this any more. it'll have to be tescos

wednesday delivery eh? are you near me then? (hants/wilts border area)

i stopped getting the fruit btw but am persevering with the veg. small box now tho as dp goes an gets his own from supermarket as riverford stuff is so caked in mud he cant be arsed to wash off!

I love the veg. The broccoli (sorry, calabrese!) tends to go brown in around 4 days, but the rest for us is fine. Potatoes start sprouting after around2 weeks but I don't mind too much!

Have to agree about apples/bananas, the bananas arrive perfectly ripe here (Friday delivery) but are brown and dreadful by Monday (we cook mon-fri so we usually need stuff to last until atleast monday!) so ds and I eat them all friday.. kinda defeating the point.
Apples have been arriving bruised and lumpy (ds won't eat them with what looks like dry rot!) but this week they were better - they're imported though.

I have to admit, the fruit is somewhat suspect (I know it's not their fault, but this week we have a ton of grapes with seeds which ds won't eat) so we may stop getting as much fruit...

cardiff

ffs

I want to support them. i can't though. i just can't. we are chucking half the box atm

i like that getting a box forces me to be more imaginative and varied in cooking... butthats not specific to riverford so i dont know why im typing that really...

We don't chuck any of our veg, dh eats most of the fruit though.

Maybe try telling them of your problems? If you don't explain to them what's going wrong with the veg they can't change it?

i stopped getting my riverford box before christmas due to the same problems am using combo of supermarket, m&s and local turkish shop for my stuff now feel a bit bad but at least its fresh and kids will eat the fruit!!

oh have tried luna. have had refunds but...am just bored with it really.

the veg is not up to scratch. the fruit is bruised. i am ending up paying around twice as much for my food if i factor in what I have to chuck (and i don't lightly throw food away, i cut round bad bits if pos but)

no this is ridiculous

oh and riverford hq just say go to local supplier

Oh I got sick of my box... (not Riverford though)

It did force me to be more imaginative with cooking, and we always had something planned for tea (none of this 5pm panic about what to cook) but I got fed up of chucking stuff that wasn't up to scratch, and I also grew tired of spending AGES cleaning the veg

sounds like it's time you quit.

They're obviously not the right people to buy from in your neck of the woods by the sounds of it.

I got fed up with riverford too for exactly the same reasons. All fair and good supporting organic veg scheme but needs to be good stuff you can use. I think one week we ate less than half the stuff adn I thought sod it.

I got Riverford boxes for a while but ended up going back to the supermarket where you can choose what you want and be pretty sure it won't go off quickly.

It did my head in too not being able to buy the specific veg to go with what I wanted to cook that week, and we did end up wasting loads due to it going off and just not getting used. It also wasn't particularly cheap, and some of it not particularly local. Sad but true

don't mind dirty veg (y'know vegwash is...um...washing up liquid?

not mouldy veg

have cancelled order

what about Abel & Cole?
have a leaflet for them today, look good?

i got riverford once, but the box was full of a marrow (no idea what to do with it, looked on their website which suggested stuffed marrow but dd can't have cheese...)
loads of carrots which went off by the weekend.
potatoes were very muddy but ok.
but for the price of it i went back to good old M&S where at least every little bit gets eaten and lasts for ages.... bring on the shouting!

at mif.

I bought the dcs some bath colouring yesterday just to get out of bloody sainsburys. I KNOW its food colouring + cornflour but...it got me to the checkout

we gave up on riverford after the summer of the kiwi fruit. Tons of the hairy green f-ers. Every week. with maybe 6 potatoes and a bushel of kale. 6 pots is not enough for a week in a scottish-northern household.

I used to do Able and Cole but stopped - the good thing was you could see what was to be delivered and highlight things you didn't like and they would substitute. The thing I disliked though was that I still had to go out shopping for veg - overall the quantity would be ok for us but not the amount of individual veg - for example I would get about 6 potatoes, just about enough for one meal, we tend to have them at least twice a week. There would be loads of things like oranges, too many for us to get through. Inevitably something would be missing that I needed for a meal - like mushrooms. So I have stopped...

Crossed posts about the spuds meowmix!

I guess we were all meant to make up the shortfall with quinoa or similar.

can take the quirks and endless kale

but won't give kids sprouty green spuds

oh AND

last time i checked bakers were BIG potatoes

not this week

Try this site to find local organic/farmers produce. It also has recipes and lots of other stuff

www.bigbarn.co.uk/