Organic loveliness
9·Feb·08
We received a leaflet through the door the other day from Abel and Cole, who deliver organic produce to your door. We gave the service a go this week, got our first delivery yesterday, and we’re absolutely delighted.
Basically, once registering you choose a regular organic box of fruit and veg. This could be a family box, a one person box, or many other variations. Abel and Cole fill these each week (or 2 weeks, or month, whatever you choose) with fresh, seasonal, locally produced goodies – no air freighting whatsoever.
The beauty of this is that you get a different range of fruit and veg each time they send you one, thus ensuring that you get an amazing variety. This week, for instance, amongst other things we got Jerusalem Artichokes, Celeriac, Raddichio, none of which we’d have dreamed of buying otherwise.
You can then add other individual organic items too – chocolate, butter, milk, etc – and set these to be delivered at a different individual frequency than your main box. So, you might want milk every week; bread only every 2 weeks, etc.
The website is a joy to use – dead easy to let them know what you really don’t like (we haven’t used that service cos we’ll scoff anything!) and really easy to put the order together.
It’s the added value that I love the most. The website is full of advice and recipes, so if you get something in your box that you’ve no idea what to do with, just consult the website for loads of ideas. We’re having a celeriac gratin tonight that looks wonderful.
I’ve already been eating really healthily the past few weeks and this is just going to make it even easier to eat loads of really interesting, fresh, seasonal stuff. Can’t wait!
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