Oh dear, is there such a thing?
Did I really pay a pound for 3 small onions? I was a bit miffed also to find rather expensive (17p each!) mushrooms (not in the photo, in the fridge!), in place of VEG no. 7...
So we got:
Rainbow chard, a bit limp
A lovely cabbage
Quite a few red potatoes
3 small onions
5 carrots
A handful of broad beans
6 mushrooms (in a plastic bag!)
2 fairtrade banana's from Peru (LOCAL?) (an added bonus, I guess)
I'm not sure if my high expectations of a huge bounty of vegetables in a box was fueled by images of GM plastic packed vegetables at Tesco... but to me it just seems, well, not very many vegetables to feed my little family for the week. I even Googled Organic veg box just to check out what the box should look like! Thankfully I found Martin's blog and I feel a bit better that £7 doesn't really buy you many vegetables these days.
I did however find a new shop less than a mile from home, the pick up point for the box. The Wholefood Coop was a breath of fresh air in the city. An Organic, Eco Supermarket with a Homeschool bookshop, Roving Books
I'm going to cook up a rainbow chard and mushroom stir fry with cous cous tonight...
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