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What size Riverford box do you get? Anybody getting the fruit & veg box?

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MilaMae · 20/11/2007 17:04

Currently getting the large veg box and the fruit box for my family of 5. Need to save money and getting fed up with the orange/kiwi and chard mountains that dc don't eat just dp and I.

Thought I'd switch, wondered what others get.

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Peachy · 20/11/2007 17:06

Yep, we get the fruit and veg box. we run out of apples and bananas and need a mid weke top up, but with a decent veggie cury night once a week ro whatever it suits us.

Also a family of 5.

MilaMae · 20/11/2007 17:11

Thanks for that will defo switch then as currently doing the apple and banana top up anyway. Will save me quite a bit.

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tutu100 · 20/11/2007 17:11

I vary which box I have by not having a regular order set up and ordering on line on the cut off day. This also means that I don't have to order a box every week if we don't need it.

I do love my riverford box though.

Bundle · 20/11/2007 17:25

i vary depending on mood/season.

fruit/veg option is one we've been getting most recently. with added lemons. and fennel.

digitalgirl · 21/11/2007 20:19

there's only me and DH (we're ttc). so we alternate between the mini-box and the winter box. Then with fruit I alternate with the fruit bag and bananas.

I often find it takes the two of us at least two weeks to get through the fruit bag.

I used to get a fruit n veg box from Abel & Cole, but I found that there was never much choice and you'd get the same fruit each week. I much prefer alternating.

meh · 21/11/2007 20:22

We get the large veg and a fruit box but like you we top up with bananas mid week. Do the grapefruit ever get eaten in your house?

Astrophe · 21/11/2007 20:23

We get Rivernene, which is the Midlands version. I place a weekly order, rather than a regular order, so that I can avoid celeriac!

I generally end up getting the medium box and then just ordering a bag of bananas and another bag of fruit, Or sometims the small box, 2 lots of fruit and maybe an extra veg item if I want something specific. I don't know that this would save you money, but it would stop you getting things you don't like.

We are 2 adults, 2 toddlers.

digitalgirl · 21/11/2007 20:29

we love grapefruit! send them to me!

we got sooo bored with the glut of cabbages tho. there are only so many cabbage recipes a couple can eat each week.

astrophe - we also love doing gratins with celeriac, didn't get so much of it this year.

Astrophe · 22/11/2007 17:07

I had never had celeriac until we got it in a veg box. I put in in soup and it ruined it! We threw it out. So now I avoid celeriac at all costs!

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