This is my tenth fruit box review! My first was on Aussie Farmers Direct, and I was really disappointed. My second was on Organic Angels, which had great produce but was pretty expensive. My third was on Ceres Fair Food, which had great variety in its produce. Fourth was from the earth fruitnveg, who had great variety and great customer service. Fifth was The Organic Empire, which was completely boring. #6 Greenline Organic was equal to all of the other options, with great variety and good produce. #7 The Organic Butler was not that great, with much of the fruit inedible when it arrived (and never ripening). Review number 8 turned out to be a repeat of from the earth fruitnveg, and I wasn’t going to complain – tasty once again. Real Food Grocer/Mornington Peninsula Cheap Fruit & Veg was horrible.
Earth & Sky Organics seem like just another delivery company. Something I have to comment on is the absolute sluggishness of their website. It took forever to load ANY pages at all. This is apparently being updated as I type.
Small Fruit Box – $40 + delivery charge ($7)
- 11x apples
- 3x pears
- 5x mandarines
- 7x kiwi fruit
- 13x bananas
- 3x oranges
It was deliverable only on a Saturday, which is why I’d left it to the end of my trial runs. Saturdays just do not suit me! I hadn’t finished off the fruit I had left as edible from the previous order (MPCFV), so I ended up juicing some of the apples and oranges to try reduce wastage. It was pretty popular in my household.
The good: There was a tasty freebee that mean that even though this didn’t promise much in the way of variety, I still trialed it. It had ‘Pana Chocolate’ and I ended up the Goji berry and Coconut flavour. Raw, if you don’t mind. I don’t see the attraction because I’m not that keen on chocolate in general. Everything was nicely edible.
The bad: Are we sure that kiwi fruit are in season? Seriously, yet again not even vaguely ripe. The bananas on the other hand headed for ripeness faster than I could keep up.
The ugly: Nothing to mention here.
The final verdict: This was a really good organic offering box. If you don’t mind only receiving the ‘common fruits’, this box could be a good pick for you. Me, I prefer my variety.
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