Riverford Organic Vegetables

Today we received our first organic vegetable box from Riverford Organic Vegetables.  Don't let the name deceive you, they do lots of other organic stuff like fruits, breads, eggs, meat, dairy, and even wine.  We heard about this on a TV show about local farming, and then I read about it again in a magazine.  Basically its a website where you can order organic stuff and have it delivered to your door.  The cool thing about the company is it's trying to get people to eat healthy fruits and veggies at affordable prices.  Lot's of people argue that they can't afford to eat organic and its just kind of a silly rich person trend.  So I put them to the test... have a look at what we got.

We ordered the "Seasons Vegbox"  The contents of which change weekly, but this week it contained : 2 leeks, 1 head of broccoli, 1 cauliflower, 6 onions, 3 ears of corn, 3 different varieties of lettuce, and one sugar pumpkin.

Our fruit box contained 6 bananas, 1 mango, 8 apples, 6 pears, and 14 clementines.

You'd think that'd be enough produce for us... but I just couldn't help myself from ordering the "Squash Box" - and I'm SO glad I did.  They sent us a crown prince squash (the pretty blue one), butternut squash, and I think the other two are carnival squash and kabacha squash.  That little piece of paper helped me to identify them and it also has recipes for how to use them.  I'm pretty sure I've died and gone to pumpkin heaven.

Am I the only person who thinks pumpkins are cute?

I also got two packs of veggie burgers as I'm on a hunt for a decent veggie burger in England.  I tried these already and they're OK but still don't compare to my all time favorite Five Star Foodies Artichoke Burger, or even Morning Star Farms.... the search continues.

Now most importantly is this stuff affordable?  Well, we paid 33.25 pounds for ALL of this.  So I did an online shop at our grocery store, Sainsbury's, for the exact same things.  Sainsbury's total was 34.41 pounds!  So we spent less money, and got organic and fair trade produce.  So take that and eat it all you "organic is too expensive" nay sayers!