[sellickbhoy]

you know them, someone delivers you a box of fruit and/or veg each week

anyone use them?

i'm thinking of starting up one, interested to know if any of you use them, have used them, have thought about it or just don't fancy it

cheers

[sandy]

Love the idea!!!!

[sellickbhoy]

 

just to be clear, i don't plan on it being one where you just get a random assortment. no, the plan is for you to select what goes into your box each week so you can get fresh stuff delivered each week

want to get it all (when and where possible) from local growers (but of course, you can't always get what you want all year round from scottish growers, so there will be some imports!)

there will be a "seasonal" box - whats in season and cheap - and to accompany that, i intended to have some seasonal recipe ideas that you could use all the ingredients in the box for.

[sandy]

I usedto buy my veg from a local market and it was MUCH better than the supermarkets. I also don't have room/time to grow veg so would love more homegrown seasonal stuff. Great idea but not sure how much money there would be in it as the supermarkets have buying power!!

[Hilarysmum]

selick fantastic wish there was something similar here.

[sellickbhoy]

once i'm up and running you can be my first "franchisee" 

[Lizmar]

I used to have a box delivered to me on alternate weeks when I lived in London - it was just veg.  It started off really well and I never had to worry about going out to the shops and heaving heavy bags home. 

Then the veg got a bit poorly looking all limp and not too fresh.  The guy selling it said it was the warm weather, but to be honest that was his problem not mine, so I had to stop buying. 
Saying that it was great - you never knew exactly what veg you got as it was all seasonal and he provided photocopies of recipes you could use the veg in.  I loved it and liked to know that it was from local smallholders who had all got together to set it up and provide the veg.

If you set it up, any chance you could deliver over here once a week
I could also help I have hundreds of marrows which were supposed to be courgettes, but couldn't eat them fast enough

[JulieS]

There are a few in this area.  I use one....You can choose the veg and/or fruit you want, along with the size of box.  You can have a regular order, or just a one off.

Seems very popular around here.  Looking forward to growing my own next year though.

Good luck with yours 

[sellickbhoy]

cheers Julie

that is my plan too

can you send me the link to their site - so i can steal their ideas 

[JulieS]

The people I use at the moment aren't on the web - they use flyers and telephone ordering.  

But a site I used previously is www.riverford.co.uk.  They were very good and have lots of other stuff too.  Worth taking a look at their site for ideas.

[sandy]

Sometimes I make an evening meal for guests, they are usulay contractors who are staying over two weeks and miss basic home cooking. Last year I cooked huge meals, non convenience foods and all fresh, even spent hours making my own HUGE steak pie, I even have photos of the men eating!!!!! BUT, I felt I could have provided good filling meals using cheap ready made stuff...shame, but I can see me loving the idea of buying a veg box every week and cooking meals again, especially if it were all local stuff...my dilemma is to either charge more for better quality stuff or buy supermarket and process foods and provide cheap meals???..mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmthe thought of a nice home cooked meal!!!

[sellickbhoy]

another of my ideas was to sell a "meal in a box"

so that would be a starter, main and pudding and full instructions on how to make it - you could have a smaller meal for just 2 persons or a big family sunday roast

or just have a weeks worth of recipes to use the full box and you just cook what you fancy that day.

[Lizmar]

This is the sort of thing that was really successful over here in Ireland last year - everyone was talking about it - bit pricey, but that didn't seem to stop people and all from Ireland -which is very important over here
http://www.christmasmadeeasy.ie/index.html

[sellickbhoy]

This is the sort of thing that was really successful over here in Ireland last year - everyone was talking about it - bit pricey, but that didn't seem to stop people and all from Ireland -which is very important over here
http://www.christmasmadeeasy.ie/index.html

oh dear

there was abit of a scandal about one of these in Scotland a few years back - went bust owing millions!!!! people didn't have a christmas that year!

[Hilarysmum]

once i'm up and running you can be my first "franchisee" 

Definitely