And yet that was what I loved about the veg box scheme!
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In the same way as I like to use the smaller shops, so end up with what is available / in season this week, and then have to get creative on the menu / meal-planning front
. But I didn't have children and fussy eaters to contend with
For a small local scheme you can't afford to be messing about with ordering single items, I'd say. (I have worked, some years ago, with several places doing organic veg boxes, and talked with suppliers when I was a customer - but things may well have moved on since I was involved of course.). Most of the schemes I have had knowledge of (all small local ones), you could have up to three preferences (eg never kiwis always sub extra pears, no avocados) but otherwise took the selection you were given.
Most do a basic box - potatoes, onions and carrots every week plus two or three things that will vary each week, and maybe one or two other choices eg a salad box, a non-exotic fruit box.
Places that do their own eggs and so on of course let you select those items to be added to your box.
Meat in the veg box can be an issue because of people being out and meat getting warm. So you'd maybe want people to pay up front for a reusable cool box or something.
Talking of reusable boxes, that was a bugbear for my local scheme up north. Customers would not unpack the box into their veg racks but use the items from the box, so then the box would get contaminated from veg that started to go off, and not be usable again, etc. So they eventually abandoned the reusable cardboard boxes and used burnable orange crates instead, wbich we were all happy to burn on our woodburners