Why Choose Veg Boxes for Fresh Produce in Ealing

Having a regular vegetable box delivery to your doorstep has many benefits. It’s convenient, healthy and supports small producers rather than large supermarkets. Sign up to a veg box delivery. In Ealing is easy, as there are lots of options for veg boxes so give one a go.

Reasons why to buy Veg boxes in Ealing

1. Straight to your doorstep: Get fresh produce delivery to your door. Saves you a trip to the shops with weighty bags of potatoes and carrots. Many boxes offer organic produce and the contents are usually seasonal too .
2. Celebrate the Seasons: Buying and growing seasonal food is a great way to get healthy and help the environment. By eating seasonally and locally, it reduces food miles and plastic packaging. Both of which contribute to climate change. For more info on seasonal food from National Trust and Hubbubs How to Seasonal guide to eating.
3. Try new vegetables and fruit: Veg boxes are a mixture of produce of what is available at the farm. It means that you get to try some interesting fruit and veg. Mary who gets an Oddbox for example tried kiwi berries, pink pearl apples & purple sprouting. Although most boxes let you exclude a certain amount of your least favorite produce.
4. Less waste: Most Fruit and veg are uniform on the shops shelves. This means many are left at the farm gate unsold. With veg boxes you get all shapes and sizes but all with the great taste! It means less waste at the farm and tasty produce on your plate. Did you know that £1bn of food is thrown away or fed to animals before it leaves farms every year? Felix Project found out that this also included 2m tonnes of edible surplus that does not make it to retailers.
5. Support British Farmers: Veg boxes ensure that the farmer is able to sell more of his produce. They also get a fairer price as larger supermarkets squeeze the profit from the farmers.

With all these good reasons to try Veg boxes, go to BBC GoodFood reviews of the 9 best veg boxes. Also consider taking an allotment. There are also lots of allotments around Ealing. Find out more from Ealing Allotments Partnership. By growing your own food, it makes you appreciate the effort it takes for farmers to produce what we eat.

Oddbox option as a Veg box for Ealing

Mary who lives locally in Ealing, has Oddbox delivered to her every fortnight and on the alternate weeks Stir it up family meal kits every fortnight. She has been having veg boxes for 10 years:

I love opening up our veg boxes every fortnight to see what treats we have this week. It has helped with increasing our variety and amount of vegetables we eat. They provide free recipes to inspire you.

Oddbox delivers veg box around Ealing. Their focus at Oddbox is on tackling food waste on farms. Around 1.2 billion tonnes of fruit and veg are lost at this stage of the food system annually. Around 25% of food waste in the UK happens on farms, more than retail, manufacturing and hospitality put together.

Fruit and veg can be at risk of going to waste on farms for all kinds of reasons, but it tends to be because its:

• “Too odd”: This is fruit and veg that won’t meet retailers’ strict cosmetic specifications. Too small, or an unusual shape or colour or marked in some way while growing.
• “Too many”: Sometimes the weather causes more crops to grow than predicted. Sometimes orders get cancelled. All too often, challenges around demand forecasting simply mean growers have more than is needed.

Sign up to Oddbox

When you sign up to Oddbox, you will be email a list of all the fresh fruit and vegetables Oddbox has rescued for your box. If you’re not a fan of something or have lots left over from your last fruit and veg delivery, you can choose up to 3 exclusions. To do this simply go to your ‘preferences’ in your account and edit your ‘exclusions’ list. Then you get a surprise as they replacing your exclusions with other freshly rescued fruit and veg.

Oddbox also recently introduced Pick your own boxes which means you can swap out produce in your upcoming box (except fruit boosters). Which means that you have more control over what you get and get what you will use.

To get you started here is £10.00 off your first Oddbox delivery. Click here to sign up and get your discount. 

As much as 40% of food produced globally goes to waste. When food goes to waste, all the water and energy used to grow it is at risk of being lost too. Most people don’t realise it, but food waste is a climate issue and one of the most urgent ones at that.

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