There are so many companies doing this these days, can anyone give me some advice? Thank you.
Cheap Vegetable Boxes Delivered in Sydney?
Lsaveye on 25/08/2020 - 09:33
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Disagree:
☐ Cheap
☐ Delivered
☐ High qualityChoose two.
Give me an example of the first two please.
Me.
I'll deliver you a box of fruit and veg anywhere in metro Sydney. How much do you want to pay? $20? $50? $100?
I cannot guarantee what you'll get in terms of quality (weight, freshness, or variety) but I will deliver something that meets whatever you define as a "cheap" price point.
@[Deactivated]: Are you a green grocer who delivers? Seriously, I don't wish to be beholden to anyone. I just want to know if anyone uses a cheap vegetable delivery service and if they do, can they recommend it?
I'll post you a veggie box for $15.
(Box may be satchel. Veggie may be single onion.)
@ihbh: Well la-di-da look at mister big farmer over here with his yard. The small business entrepreneur gets undercut by the big money again!
@ihbh: What a marvelous world your brain must be where you imagine us all having yards. I have a tiny balcony which can handle a few pots for herbs and my washing. And, yes I know dandelions are nutritious. Thank you for your invaluable input.
@saveye: My reply was to abb re the single onion. :)
Good point though - I need to broaden my perspective!
Can anyone give me some advice?
Go to your local grocer and it will be heaps cheaper
Unable to travel.
Cheap Vegetable Boxes
What are your expectations of cheap? That is, what is your normal veg weekly budget and what do you expect for the delivery of box.
Also, do you eat a diversified group of veg that a box might satisfy or more specific veg (e.g. green leafy veg with in season others)?
Cheaper than Harris Farm, for example. They can be ugly, imperfect but these types of delivery places seem to deal in high volumes only. In season is fine, for two people.
My GF is 300m from Harris Farm. The reason she started getting a veg delivery was not because it was cheaper than Harris Farm but because every time she went to HF for 2 things she'd walk out with 6 (damn you cheese counter).
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Have a look on Facebook. We got vegetables, fruits, authentic soups and dishes, ceramic pots, clothing, etc, all delivered in past three weeks.
I've been seeing a huge amount of places that deliver vegetables advertising on Facebook, this is partially why I'm asking. It's kind of overwhelming.
I assumed that some Ozbargain people used some of these services and could give me a couple of recommendations. I'll go back to searching through Facebook again. Thanks for your reply.
My GF gets a large Box Fresh delivery every week. https://www.boxfresh.com.au/
I doubt it's cheap but it is good quality, very fresh and if there's an issue the owner deals with it without question or fuss.
Interesting. Wouldn't work for me - there's a bit of many things (kind of like inch deep, mile wide):
Not a lot of what's in season - makes it automatically more expensive leaving aside delivery and convenience costs. E.g. strawberries & broccoli are dirt cheap now and they give one punnet, head/box. I suppose they expect customers to know their seasons and adjust their order. E.g. I've been buying trays of strawberries and kilos of broccoli for the last few weeks, along with the usual (large) quantity of leafy greens, other veg and other fruits, but dropping (/reducing quantities of) tomatoes as out of season .
How would you make use of the small quantities of the many items - e.g. who eats 1 bunch of buk choy a week. If you have a small family you'd need at least two bunches of Asian veg for a meal (or you don't eat it at all)? How would you use the rest?
Herbs (not part of box) are very expensive.
I don't do the order but she gets online every sunday and modifies the vegetables and adds eggs and bread. Plus they often throw in free stuff so it's likely they would add strawberries for nothing. A bunch of bock choy would be 3 bundles - enough for 2 people. SHe gets lots of spinach and cavallo nero, sweet potato, cauli, brocolli, carrots and an array of fruit. They seem to throw in garlic, ginger and chilli but maybe I'm wrong - I just cook it and buy the booze.
Having said that, it seems better value and more flexible than Harris Farm and could be something for my Mum if cases escalated.
What do you cook with that much variety of veg or is it for mixing up many meals?
*Yes, a bunch of buk choy is usually the 3 bundles (or 2 big ones) tied with an elastic band.
@ihbh: I think the closest I could get was this:
https://yourfoodcollective.com/collections/father-day
You can buy fruit and vegetables individually, also. I've noticed that the majority are cheaper than Harris Farm although some are more expensive. They are straight from the farms rather than being picked at the markets so there is much less variety. The delivery is also a little more expensive, $10 rather than $8.
You'd have to have the time and incentive to go through the list and pick what you need, two people probably would have trouble consuming a whole cauliflower week after week, for instance.
What do you cook with that much variety of veg or is it for mixing up many meals?
I don't have to menu plan so I tend to arrive, cook, eat and forget what I've cooked.
Tuesday was baked salmon with roast beetroot, carrots, cauliflower and steamed brocollini. I think I put dukka on the carrots and cauli.
I also did a big pot of palaak paneer for later in the week (for her). I just use the recipe as a guide and use whatever green leafy vegetable is available and the paneer can be fetta, haloumi, tofu or the real deal.
Did a pumpkin soup last weekend but it also had beans (berlotti??), peas, celery and a few other vegetables.
As i said, I'm lousy at menu planning but I have good knife skills and I know what flavours work together so I can wing it with whatever is in the fridge when I arrive at her place.
Thanks for that, I hadn't seen that one. I will check it out.
Pick one