Comments on: Are Organic Food Deliveries Worth It?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:09:28 +0000

I’m less likely to buy everything organic at the grocery store, so we rarely would get to £13 just in vegetables. I think we’re skipping it for this week, but I’ll let you know what we get next week. The other problem for me is I’m allergic to onions (including leeks, shallots, and spring onions) and garlic, so if those should be in the box, I get a random substitute. My husband has decided he doesn’t like celeriac (one of the subs from last week) .

By: julie

julie — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:29:27 +0000

Rebecca,
I get a local CSA(community supported agriculture)bag a week and I also create recipes for a local organic farm that help people like you who receive their product and want to maximize the fruits and veggies. It does take a little planning, but when you do…the food goes along way, and is likely cheaper than the store?
Canning is definitely a great option. If you email me what you are getting next week I will help you come up with a plan and give you some recipes and storing options.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:14:08 +0000

Hmmm. Wonder if I can find a recipe? I was going to add it to some cole slaw I plan on making tonight, since it’s a cabbage too, but soup…mmmmm.

By: Sarah R

Sarah R — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:24:51 +0000

Just a note about the bok choy – it’s great in a light, brothy soup! It’s always in won ton soup you get from a restaurant that puts a lot of veggies in their soup.

By: falnfenix

falnfenix — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:05:24 +0000

can you go on a plan where you get stuff every other week?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:35:49 +0000

Hmm. I hadn’t thought about canning any of it. Tim doesn’t like pickle, so pickling anything is pretty much out unless I want to eat it…..I really don’t know if you can can stuff like broccoli without pickling it or not! Something to look up!

The problem is, the boxes are delivered on a Wednesday, and usually our meal plan week starts on a Sunday or Monday, so whatever we got would have to straddle 2 weeks…and since they stick in substitutions for the onion family, there will still be some veggies that I just won’t know we’re getting until it shows up!

I might switch us to the fruit box. I KNOW we’ll eat all the fruit and there isn’t much in the line of fruit that we don’t like…and if all else fails, there’s mixing it all together in a fruit salad!

By: miss m

miss m — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:51:37 +0000

Well, we’re not big veggie people so we’d really have no use for much of it. I eat carrots (raw) and cucumber but that’s about it. For us, the fruit box would be more practical because I greatly enjoy fruit but often forget to buy it for myself.

I think you either need to switch up the type of box you get so it has more you will regularly use, OR, you’re just going to really have to start planning your weekly menus around the items you receive. If that’s not something you want to do – and I don’t blame you – maybe it’s not going to work for you.

Are any of the items you get but don’t always use freezable and/or things you can can? Might provide you more time to work with the ingredients at a later date.

I definitely understand wanting to support, local, organic growers and around here, one single organic apple can be $2, so the prices don’t seem out of line in general to me overall. Probably a hair more then the store but getting it delivered eats that margin most likely.