Thinking of getting a weekly veg box - please tell me about pros and cons

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It will cost £9.50 a week. or I can get one which will include fruit for £15.50

No-one's mentioned the Riverford cookbook! I use Rivernene, our local Riverford branch, and made the spicy parsnip soup on Christmas Day... it was scrumptious! Also got a one-off meat box to try and impressed with the quantity/contents. Roast beef on New Year's Day was delicious, with leftovers now in the freezer for quick stir fry meals.

I got deluged with avocados in my Riverford box this week (not complaining, I love them!).

I used to be an Abel & Cole customer but after one too many rotten/about to go rotten deliveries I gave up.

Then someone on MN (I think it was IslandofSodor ) raved about Riverford so I gave it a go and haven't looked back. Wonderful!

The one thing that has annoyed me though is that I thought I was due a once-every-three-weeks meat box today as they didn't deliver last week because of Christmas (when it was due), and instead I find they have gone to 'ground zero' in 09 and I'm not now getting it til the end of Jan! So I'm going to have to go to the supermarket anyway... boo hiss...

And I didn't know they had a cookbook... will look into that!

Avocados! You're obviously not on the cheapskate box

Agree Swiss chard is largely poinless.

What boxes do you all get then?
I'm getting teh Small Favourites box (only me, DH and 19 month DD to feed0

Usually a winter box weekly, plus apples and bananas. Sometimes cancel a week or add extras, depends how well we've done. I did a order for Christmas which will see us through for another couple of weeks.

We get small favourites plus a fruitbox every week, with a side order of mushrooms as DH adores them.

This week I got 6 avos, 2 leeks, some salad leaves, savoy cabbage and some tomatoes along with the usual pots, carrots and onions.

There are 3 of us but we eat a lot of fruit...

Fruitbeard - I have been looking at the meat boxes on rivernene but thought they were expensive.. what do you think compared to the supermarket?

So are the veg boxes worth doing weekly or best fortnightly?

I keep wanting to get a box but the price keeps putting me off. However, we are on a healthy eating drive - well more veg and fruit so wonder if this is worth it?

We just get a small veg box (pots, onions, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, mushrooms, leeks and parsnips this week).

Ever week we get a small veg box, sometimes a fruit box but this sometimes goes untouched as I am much better at buying fruit than eating it, 2kg carrots, beetroot, 4 avocadoes, mixed sprouting seeds, cherry tomatoes, broccoli or Calabrese as they rather confusingly call it. I also think the meat looks really expensive. There are three of us - DH, dd and me.

We get either a large or medium veg box (from Riverford) depending on the contents if there's something I want to avoid I change the size. Plus milk 20 litres (?), a fruit box, an extra bag of bananas and half a dozen eggs. There are 5 of us plus I am pregnant and eating for at least another 5!

JHKE - the meat boxes are very good. The best lamb we ever had. Expensive yes but organic meat is expensive but soo much better tasting so we tend to eat less.

We normally get a medium or a large box (depends on which we like best), salad box (very very good value) sprouted beans, yoghurt, extra carrots and a fruit box.