Size Does Matter – These Veg Boxes Are Definitely Shrinking

The veg of the week are: • Cabbage • Beetroot • Carrots • Sweetcorn
• Parsnip • Courgette • Potatoes
Lonely Veg
It’s always good to have something different in the veg box and this week’s ’something different’ is a lonesome parsnip and a lonesome courgette. Neither are particularly sizable and they were in too much of a [...]

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Remembering the Classic Runner Bean Slicer

It’s Halloween week, but this week’s box didn’t contain a pumpkin (shame as I have a great recipe for pumpkin soup), but it did contain:
• A massive cabbage • 3 small onions • Carrots • Potatoes • Runner beans • Squash • Swede.
The first thing I did was to prepare the runner beans for freezing [...]

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Organic Kale – and a Very Good Reason to Wash Your Veg

It’s veg box morning and today among the usual potatoes, carrots, onions and swede are three nice surprises: a bunch of runner beans and for the first time, kale and a box of Living Salad.
This box throws up a couple of issues about the veg you get in veg boxes: 1) sometimes it’s not [...]

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Plastic Packaging in a Veg Box . . . Why?

This week I open my veg box to reveal: • Potatoes • Cabbage • Onions
• Carrots • Sweeeeeeede • Sweetcorn and • Mushrooms.
Any swede that enters my home gets escorted next door as quickly as possible, so as much as I hate them, I love them for their role in neighbour relations! And joy! For [...]

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Stuff Them! (Or . . . The Best Thing to Do With Giant Mushrooms)

My veg boxes are starting to look a bit more interesting again, so it’s with renewed enthusiasm that I pull back the tape sealing the box each week. This week there were the obligatory cabbage, carrots, onions and potatoes, plus a beautiful cauliflower and three newcomers: two cobs of sweetcorn, three massive mushrooms and [...]

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How to Freeze Runner Beans

I’m back from a freeze on my blog, which was mainly due to the fact that my veg boxes were all becoming rather similar. But I’m delighted to report that this has now changed. The other week I received a lovely bunch of runner beans for the first time, which brought back some of my [...]

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The Joy of Swede . . . Or Not

• Potatoes • Carrots • Onions • Cabbage
• Swede • Parsnips • Red peppers • Celery
As you know, I’m not keen on ye olde swedee. My veg box scheme is quite basic – I don’t choose what comes, I get what’s available and that’s that, so they are going to keep on coming.
There are schemes [...]

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The Squash and the Swede

This morning’s colourful veg box included:
• Potatoes • Carrots • Onions • Cabbage • Cauliflower • Swede
(quelle horreur!), and the newcomers: • Red pepper • Squash.
Squash . . . But Which Squash?!
The newcomers are very welcome. I’ve enjoyed all the squash I’ve tried before but I’m not entirely sure whether this one is a [...]

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Win a veg box for a year

As you know, I was lucky enough to win my weekly supply of organic veggies and the prize lasts a whole year. I was just browsing the site where I won the prize and I thought you’d like to know that the competition is still on!
Go to the Country Life website by clicking this [...]

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Veg Box 7

• Cauliflower • Onions • Potatoes • Bean sprouts
• Swede • Broccoli • Carrots • Cabbage
Eeek! It’s veg box day and I haven’t made it very far through the last box yet. I seem to have a glut of bean sprouts and onions, and decide that stir fries are made for days like these.
I get [...]

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