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Best fruit and veg delivery boxes 2022, we tried them all
Say goodbye to supermarkets
We’re thrilled to think we might finally be allowed out of lockdown, but one thing we’re defo keeping from the past 12 months is our fruit and veg and meal kit deliveries.
No more making a list only to find Saino’s is out of what you wanted, or carrying overloaded bags back from the shops, only for a rogue onion to roll away as you stop for a rest. Nope, we’ve seen the light and we’re not going back.
Best fruit and veg boxes 2022
- Best fruit and veg box: Abel & Cole Organic Small Fruit & Veg Box
- Best fruit and veg box for the basics: Milk & More Seasonal Organic Fruit & Veg Box
- Best fruit box: Langridge Organic Fruit Bundle
- Best British veg box: Purton House Organics Family Veg Bundle
- Best supermarket fruit and veg box: Morrisons Fruity Favourites Subscription Box
- Best all-round fruit and veg box: Eversfield Organic Mixed Fruit & Veg Box
- Best wonky fruit and veg box: Oddbox Medium Fruit & Veg Box
- Best to split with flatmates: Pikt Seasonal Mixed Fruit, Veg and Salad Box
- Best customisable fruit and veg box: Boxxfresh 15 Portion Boxx
- Best for foodies: Natoora Peak Season Box
- Best packaging: Riverford Seasonal Organic Fruit and Veg Box
What is in a veg delivery box?
The main difference between a recipe kit vs a fruit and veg box is the flexibility. The former will arrive with every ingredient pre-measured allowing you to make that exact meal, while the latter allows you to get creative in the kitchen. If you need a bit of guidance, many of them come with recipe cards to point you in the right direction, too.
We also significantly reduced how much single-use plastic we were chucking in the bin each week, with many of these boxes totally plastic free, or a vast improvement on the annoying supermarket multi-packs.
Fancy saving a few quid? See if your flatmates fancy going halves with you (you could even share the cooking, too).
So whether you’re after an all-British box to cut down on food miles, a fruity bundle for smoothie-making or a wonky box filled with surplus veg, we’ve found a delivery for every scenario.
How we test
We rounded up 10 keen cooks to see what they made of these fruit and veg boxes. We wanted to know which offered the best value for money, the smiliest customer service and, most importantly, the tastiest grub.
These are the results...
One of the OG veg boxes, Abel & Cole’s organic bundles offer an element of seasonal surprise, with the ability to veto up to 10 items you’re not keen on (aka, if you're not into mushrooms). Sure, you could just go to the supermarket, but this way you completely avoid plastic, and the quality is heaps fresher as it comes straight from the farm to you. Sign up for a weekly drop, and add on tasty extras such as ready meals and crisps, so you can avoid the shops altogether.
De-plastic your life even further and opt into the brand's "Plastic Pick-Up" scheme which collects hard to recycle plastics such as baby wipe wrappers from your home. Ideal!
Key specs
Number of items: Six
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
Milk & More Seasonal Organic Fruit & Veg Box
The milk man's back, and this time he’s delivering fruit and veg boxes too. It’s all organic, good quality basics to build meals around, packaged up in shredded paper. Think spuds and kale for slow-cooker stews, and apples and oranges for mid-afternoon snacks. Add a pint of the white stuff onto your order for old times sake (don’t worry, he does almond milk too, if that's more your thing).
Key specs
Number of items: Seven - nine
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
Smoothie makers at the ready because this organic, plastic-free fruit box is overflowing with the good stuff. To keep things interesting, the selection changes weekly, courtesy of New Covent Garden Market Stall (which just so happens to supply Michelin-starred restaurants and food stalls across the country). Try this pina colada smoothie, and thank us later.
Key specs
Number of items: Six
Delivery radius: Central London, and currently adding expansion further outside of the M25. Enter your postcode into the postcode checker on the homepage.
Delivery date: Seven days a week, 7am and 10pm, two-three hour delivery slots
Delivery cost: £6.99 (minimum spend £30), free delivery for orders over £60
Delivery frequency: One-off
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: Yes
On the flip side, if you’re after an all-veggie box, allow us to introduce Purton House — run by a mother and daughter dream team for online grocer Farmdrop. The organic produce is all grown in Wiltshire, so in winter you might find a root-heavy selection, moving to leeks, lettuce and spring cabbage as the weather brightens. A great option if you’re conscious of your food miles, and fancy eating seasonally.
Key specs
Number of items: Eight
Delivery radius: Central London, and currently adding expansion further outside of the M25. Enter your postcode into the postcode checker on the homepage.
Delivery date: Seven days a week, 7am and 10pm, two-three hour delivery slots
Delivery cost: £6.99 (minimum spend £30), free delivery for orders over £60
Delivery frequency: One-off
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: Yes
To give you a helping hand with upping your fruit intake, we’ve signed up to this fruity subscription. You’ll get roughly the same eight items each time — we received the likes of kiwis, bananas and a pineapple — perfect for smoothies and snacking alike. We’d have liked to see less plastic, but that said, it’s a great value way to stock the fruit bowl.
Key specs
Number of items: Approx. eight items in assorted pack sizes
Delivery radius: UK mainland (exclusions apply for some areas of the UK).
Delivery date: Seven days a week
Delivery cost: Free
Delivery frequency: One-off, weekly, fortnightly, monthly
Organic: No
Plastic-free: No
Eversfield Organic Mixed Fruit & Veg Box
Eversfield ticks a hella lot of boxes with this seasonal bundle from the south-west. The selection changes weekly and contains all the useful stuff you buy on repeat — for example, bananas and tomatoes — alongside treats like super-sweet blueberries. It should be enough to feed 3-5 people for a week, and if you’re not in, sheep wool liners keep everything cool until you’re back from the pub (here’s hoping!).
Key specs
Number of items: Approx. 11
Delivery radius: Mainland UK and Isle of Wight
Delivery date: Tuesday - Saturday
Delivery cost: from £3.95 (or free to local area of Devon)
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: No
Oddbox Medium Fruit & Veg Box
We love it when a carrot ends up in our basket with extra ‘limbs’, and are all about stopping perfectly good veggies ending up in landfill, just because they don’t look ‘perfect’. Oddbox agrees, saving all the wonky veg and delivering it to our door on the regular. We love that this box includes recipe cards, which had us rustling up an aubergine lasagne in no time. If you’re open-minded as to what you’ll receive, we reckon this is great value for money.
Key specs
Number of items: 12
Delivery radius: London and south-east England
Delivery date: Specific delivery dates
Delivery cost: Free
Delivery frequency: Weekly or fortnightly
Organic: No
Plastic-free: No
If you’re serious about eating the rainbow, say hello to Pikt. This box contains 60 portions of fruit and veggies, which might sound like a lot, but split it with your flatmates and you’ll be feasting all week. Everything is organic and comes wrapped in paper, so delivery day feels a bit like Christmas. Forget walking home with your loot, bags bursting — Pikt delivers right to your door, even if you’re in a top floor flat. We loved the varied selection, containing the likes of purple carrots, fresh herbs, cherry tomatoes and a juicy mango.
Key specs
Number of items: 60
Delivery radius: Nationwide
Delivery date: Seven 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 not a fan of surprises, Boxxfresh’s service allows you to add exactly what you want to your delivery. We were thrilled with our selection, with everything turning up plastic-free and looking perfect. If you need a bit of a helping hand, it comes with recipe cards based on what you’ve chosen, so you’ll never have to worry about what’s for tea again. We also like that you can add on plant-based extras — the sweet potato bread is a must-try.
Key specs
Number of items: 15
Delivery radius: Mainland UK
Delivery date: Monday - Friday
Delivery cost: Min spend £25, free delivery
Organic: No
Plastic-free: Yes
If you see yourself as a bit of a Nigella, Natoora’s peak season box is for you. It contains 10 restaurant-quality European ingredients, which have been chosen for their micro-seasonality. Basically, that means you’ll finally get your hands on that pink radicchio that’s been doing the rounds on Insta. Download the app to order.
Key specs
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, seven days a week, Oxford - twice weekly deliveries, Tuesday and Friday, Rest of UK (see delivery radius), Tuesday to Friday
Delivery cost: from £4
Organic: No
Plastic-free: No
It’s not the cheapest box we tested, but the quality of this organic produce is better than anything you’ll find in the supermarket. Also, we don’t mind forking out a bit more as Riverford has recently switched to a new packing system which will save 21 tonnes of plastic each year. Pretty impressive. Expect the likes of spuds, carrots and onions, alongside a few seasonal items — hello rhubarb!
Key specs
Number of items: Nine
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 three weeks, monthly
Organic: Yes
Plastic-free: Yes
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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