Apologies for the lack of Veg Box News over the past few
weeks.
Timings are an issue sometimes because we can’t finalise the
recipe until the very last minute some weeks – and even then it may change
midweek. I’m not trying to make excuses,
you understand, but just explaining. I
appreciate that while some people enjoy the element of surprise it can make
planning difficult if you don’t know what’s coming. So if you
find yourself desperate to know and can’t find anything online to give you at
least some clue, then please do get on the phone and we’ll tell you what we
know… You can of course subscribe to this blog so that Veg Box News and our other postings come straight into your inbox.
This week you’ll see we have switched to new potatoes for
all the potato boxes. These are of course more expensive, as are the new season
carrots and onions, so in order to leave some of our budget for the other box
elements we have reduced the portion size of these more costly basics.
We’re have also been unable to get good quality UK-grown
carrots recently so they have been dropped from the G (All UK produce) boxes
for the last few weeks but my source informs me that there should be some
coming in next week.
Do remember that if you find there are some things you always
want, you are very welcome to add them on as a standing order each week. G box customers will already have noticed
that regular onions have already had to be replaced with either bunches of spring
onions or of larger fresh green onions.
So if you need some regular cooking onions as well just let us know.
Here are the full listings:
A
- New Potatoes 700g
- Carrots 400g
- Onions 400g
- Lettuce
- Aubergine (
- Tomatoes 400g
- Celery
B’s will get Broad Beans 600g
D’s will get a further 300g Potatoes and a bag of Kale
E’s will also get the Broad Beans and Courgettes 500g
L’s and M’s will receive these additions and also some
locally grown mini cucmbers
K
- Apples – Granny Smiths 600g
- Bananas 600g
- Pears 600g (Tuesday and Wednesday) or
- Clementines 500g (Thursday and Friday)
- Nectarines x 3
- Lemon
Q’s will also receive Avocado 300g
Just a couple of general notes as we head into the summer holiday season…
- Don’t forget to let us know if you are going away. You don't want to come back to a box of mouldering veg on the doorstep.
- If you normally have your boxes left in a conservatory or green house, you might consider finding somewhere less susceptible to overheating. And if you receive milk or other dairy produce it might be advisable to leave a chiller box out to keep it as cool as possible.
- Despite our continued campaign to reduce our plastic use you will still find some leafy produce coming in polythene bags. Lettuces, Spring Greens, Kale and Chard all benefit from this protection, and often these come to us packed in this way. Some customers have requested that we do not use plastic in their boxes at all. This we will aim to do but may result in rapid deterioration of some produce. Rest assured that we will be happy to take back any plastic bags that we have used in the boxes if you leave them out with your empty for us to collect. We are not however a recycling business and cannot take bags or plastic containers from other sources.
