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9 Best Fruit And Veg Boxes You'll Want To Sign Up For
Your five-a-day — delivered.
Whether you painstakingly create meal plans before heading to the shops, or wing it by chucking a few random products in your basket, food shopping every week can be tiresome.
That’s why we’ve tracked down the best luxury fruit and veg boxes, delivering fresh, seasonal goods directly to your doorstep. Whether you’re after hyper-seasonal, restaurant-worthy ingredients for date night, or enough fruit to get you through a working week, we’ve got you covered.
And aside from the sheer convenience of fruit and veg delivery, there are tons of other reasons to make the switch from supermarket shopping to fruit and vegetable boxes.
We all know flying in avocados from Peru isn’t the best option when you consider food miles (the distance food is transported from the time of its making or picking until it reaches the consumer), so if you’re conscious of your carbon footprint, you might want to opt for ordering a box from a fruit and vegetable seller local to you. Eating organic produce in line with the seasons is also better for you, and the planet, and means you’re tasting everything as nature intended.
Many fruit and vegetable companies offer plastic-free packaging, recipe cards and one-off deliveries, so you can try before committing to anything long term. And organic online retailers Abel & Cole offer a "Plastic Pick-Up" scheme which collects hard to recycle plastics, such as bread bags and cotton wool wrappers.
How we test fruit and veg boxes
We sent a selection of the most luxurious fruit and veg boxes to our trusty panel of testers. Each gave their honest feedback on customer satisfaction, quality of produce and whether they’d buy again. These are the nine fruit and veg boxes we recommend...
Daylesford Market Garden Veg Box
A Daylesford fruit and veg delivery is the next best thing to moving to the Cotswolds and doing your weekly shop at the brand’s onsite farm shop. Reflecting the best of British produce, it contains a changing line up of the veggies currently being hoicked out of the ground by its farmers.
We received some of the prettiest salad leaves we’ve ever laid eyes on, and a bunch of red Russian leaves. Seasonally appropriate without being boring, our winning box is ideal for creative couples.
Key specifications
Number of items: 5
Delivery radius: UK mainland
Delivery date: Wednesday — Saturday, with next day delivery available Tuesday – Friday
Delivery cost: Free
Delivery frequency: One-off
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: No
This bumper fruit and veg box contains 60 portions of organic fruit and vegetables — enough to ensure you’re getting your five-a-day and then some. Pikt is a B-corp company, committed to the environment, which is why you’ll never find plastic in its boxes, and deliveries are carbon neutral.
Our testers loved the variety, tucking into passionfruit one day and purple carrots the next. Service is awesome, too — they’ll bring it direct to your door, even if you’re in a top floor flat.
Key specifications
Number of items: 60
Delivery radius: Nationwide
Delivery date: 7 days a week
Delivery cost: Free delivery to UK Mainland
Delivery frequency: One-off, weekly, fortnightly, monthly
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: Yes
If you’re keen to eat seasonally but also want an element of control, this semi-customisable organic fruit and veg box from Abel & Cole is ideal. It allows you to add up to 10 fruit and veggies to your 'dislike list', which will be switched out for something else.
You’ll get six items in total, and the plastic-free produce is nice and varied – we received a gorgeous head of romanesco. We reckon this box is great value, and will help to switch up your standard weekday meals.
Key specifications
Number of items: 6
Delivery radius: Check postcode checker to confirm delivery to your address
Delivery date: A set day each week, depending on postcode. Routes are planned to minimise carbon emissions and food miles. No delivery time slots
Delivery cost: Minimum order value of £12, plus a delivery charge of £1.50
Delivery frequency: Weekly
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: Yes
If you’re nostalgic for the days of the milkman, don’t be. Milk & More has modernised the doorstep drop; alongside milk you can now receive a box a seasonal fruit and veg, with a new selection each week.
You’ll find staples such apples, oranges, kale and potatoes, alongside fancier fare such as rainbow chard and fennel. Unlike most services, you won’t receive a delivery notification, so keep an eye out for its arrival.
Key specifications
Number of items: 7-9
Delivery radius: UK mainland (check postcode checker)
Delivery date: Specific delivery dates. No time slot, but delivery by 7am
Delivery cost: Free
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: No
There’s nothing worse than looking forward to a food delivery, only to find you’re not a fan of its contents. To be sure you love every morsel of what’s arriving, with Boxxfresh you start by selecting your box size, and then fill it with a set number of plastic-free items.
So you can load up on fennel for that risotto you wanted to try, and blood oranges for your margarita, while completely avoiding celeriac. We also love that you can include herbs, and there’s a plant-based selection of extras (sweet potato bread anyone?), for a complete shop. It also comes with relevant recipe cards for inspiration.
Key specifications
Number of items: 15
Delivery radius: Mainland UK
Delivery date: Monday - Friday
Delivery cost: Min spend £25, free delivery
Organic: No
Plastic-free: Yes
Our Natoora fruit and veg delivery is genuinely the highlight of our week. The peak season box contains the most exciting array of produce, sourced from across Europe, including the likes of Insta-worthy pink radicchio.
Selected based on micro-seasonality, many items are available for such a short timeframe, that blink and you’d miss them (and you certainly won’t find this lot in your local Sainsbury’s). Download the app to order.
Key specifications
Number of items: 10
Delivery radius: UK, excluding Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, parts of Scotland, and the Channel Islands
Delivery date: London - next-day deliveries, 7 days a week, Oxford - 3 weekly deliveries, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Brighton and Hove – Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, rest of UK (see delivery radius), Monday to Friday
Delivery cost: from £4
Organic: No
Plastic-free: No
Here at ELLE UK, we hate food waste, which is why we’re such huge fans of Oddbox’s rescue mission to save all the wonky fruit and veg shunned by supermarkets.
Their loss is our gain, because we received a fabulously tasty selection, including an eye-poppingly large aubergine. There’s recipe cards for anything you’re less sure about, and although produce isn’t fully organic, we reckon it still offers great value.
Key specifications
Number of items: 12
Delivery radius: Selected areas nationwide. Enter your postcode into the postcode checker.
Delivery date: Specific delivery dates
Delivery cost: Free
Delivery frequency: Weekly or fortnightly
Organic: No
Plastic-free: No
Riverford is one of the original veg box schemes, and boy have they still got it. Not one to rest on its laurels, Riverford has switched to sustainably sourced, home-compostable packaging, which will save up to 21 tonnes of plastic each year. Hurrah! Empty boxes can also be left out for its friendly fleet of drivers to collect and reuse.
This is a great box to base your meals around, as you’ll always receive the likes of potatoes, carrots and onions, as well as the more exciting seasonal items to keep meal times interesting.
Key specifications
Number of items: 9
Delivery radius: UK mainland, however restrictions apply. Use the postcode checker to check if they deliver to your area.
Delivery date: Specific delivery dates depending on postcode
Delivery cost: Free
Delivery frequency: One off, weekly, fortnightly, every 3 weeks, monthly
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: Yes
If organic produce is a must, this mixed box is intended to feed three to five people for at least a week. There’s a good balance of everyday items such as root veg, alongside the more exciting (but still very approachable) aubergine, kale and blueberries — so nothing is likely to go to waste. It’s not completely plastic free but the packaging is compostable to make bin day easier.
Key specifications
Number of items: Approx. 11
Delivery radius: Mainland UK and Isle of Wight
Delivery date: Tuesday - Saturday. Choose from weekly, fortnightly, three-weekly, or monthly deliveries, as well as a one-off
Delivery cost: From £2.95 (or free to local area of Devon)
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: No
Stacey looks after all food and drink reviews — from coffee pods and veg boxes, to natural wine and tequila. Stacey is also founder of Crummbs, where she’s written nearly 2,000 restaurant and hotel reviews since 2013. Prior to this, Stacey wrote hundreds of in-depth buying guides for the Independent, i newspaper and BBC Good Food, as well as reviewing restaurants and interviewing celebrities in her column at Balance Magazine. Stacey has also appeared in BAFTA-nominated BBC documentary Blood, Sweat & Takeaways, where she investigated South East Asia's food production industry, appearing on both Newsnight and BBC World Service to share her findings. Regularly checking out the latest restaurants, bars and product launches, Stacey also loves experimenting with recipes at home, and is a WSET-certified wine and spirits expert, with over 10 years of experience in the business. You can follow Stacey on Instagram @crummbs_uk
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