How Long do Organic Veg boxes Keep?
If you ever wondered how long your organic veg box is going to keep for, I just got a chance to find out when I accidentally ordered two boxes instead of one. I was trying to be clever and get the alternate weeks for different types of veg box plan setup but I got it wrong and ended up with two enormous roots and greens boxes. So I cancelled any delivery for the following week and made a resolution not to eat out until the bulk of the two organic vegetable boxes had been mostly used up.
So I had in my vegetable racks and fridge:
Two sacks of lovely potatoes.
Two enormous cauliflowers
Enough broccoli to sink a battleship
Just the right amount of onions, probably
Half a field of carrots
Lots of lovely lovely leeks
A couple of nice dark green cabbages
I may have forgotten something but if so, I’m sure it was delicious
Now then, Riverford claim about the roots and greens box “The veg has a good shelf life, so if you’re feeling extra thrifty try a fortnightly delivery.” which is what I effectively had to cope with. I chose to cook one of the cauliflowers first, grated some carrots for a salad and started to munch my way through the broccoli. Potatoes keep for weeks in the dark so I didn’t worry about them too much. After the end of teh first week I could see an of the two boxes end in sight. The second cauliflower had developed a mouldy patch but only in one isolated segment, the rest was fine. The carrots were in extraordinarily good condition. Supermarket carrots go limp after a couple of days when kept out in a room with variable temperature but these were still crisp and juicy. The leeks lasted well two. No need to peel away several layers of yellow leaves, just trim the ends a little bit.
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