Whether you create meal plans thoroughly before hitting the grocery store, or you do so by tossing a few random items into your basket, shopping for groceries every week can be tedious and stressful work.
That’s why we’ve tracked down the best luxury fruit and veg boxes, delivering fresh, seasonal produce right to your doorstep. Whether you’re looking for peak season, date night restaurant-worthy ingredients, or enough fruit to get you through a WFH week, we’ve got you covered.
And besides the sheer convenience of fruit and vegetable delivery, there are many other reasons to make the switch from grocery shopping to fruit and vegetable boxes.
We all know that flying on avocados from Peru is not the better option when considering food miles (the distance food is transported from the time it is made or harvested until it reaches the consumer), so if you are aware of your carbon footprint, you may want to choose to order a box of a local fruit and vegetable vendor for you. Eating organic seasonally is better for you and the planet too, and it means you’re tasting everything as nature intended.
Many produce companies offer plastic-free packaging, recipe cards, and one-time deliveries, so you can try before you commit to anything long-term.
How we test
We send a selection of the most luxurious fruit and vegetable boxes to our trusted panel of testers. They each gave their honest opinion on customer satisfaction, product quality, and whether they would buy again. These are the boxes of fruits and vegetables that we recommend …
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BEST FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BOX
Daylesford Market Garden Vegetable Box
A Daylesford produce delivery is the best thing after moving to the Cotswolds and doing your weekly grocery shopping at the brand’s farm store. Reflecting the best of British produce, it contains a changing lineup of vegetables that its farmers are pulling out of the ground. We got some of the prettiest salad leaves we’ve ever seen and loads of Russian red leaves. Appropriate for the season without being boring, our winning box is ideal for creative couples.
Key specs
Number of Items: Five
Delivery radius: Mainland UK
Delivery date: Wednesday through Saturday, with next day delivery available Tuesday through Friday.
Shipping cost: Free
Delivery frequency: single
Organic: yes
Plastic free: No
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FINAL FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BOX
Pikt seasonal mixed fruit, vegetable and salad box
This excellent fruit and vegetable box contains 60 servings of organic fruits and vegetables, enough to make sure you’re getting your five a day and a little more. Pikt is a B company, committed to the environment, that’s why you will never find plastic in its boxes, and the deliveries are carbon neutral. Our testers loved the variety, eating passion fruit one day and purple carrots the next. The service is great too – they’ll bring you right to your door, even if you are on a top floor condo.
Key specs
Number of Items: 60
Delivery radius: National
Delivery date: seven days a week
Shipping cost: free shipping to mainland UK
Delivery frequency: Unique, weekly, biweekly, monthly.
Organic: yes
Plastic free: yes
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BEST VALUE BOX OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Small Box of Abel & Cole Organic Fruits and Vegetables
If you’re interested in eating in season but also want an element of control, this semi-customizable organic fruit and vegetable box from Abel & Cole is ideal. It allows you to add up to 10 fruits and vegetables to your ‘dislike list’, which will be changed to something else. You will get six items in total, and the plastic-free products are nice and varied – we received a beautiful romanesco head. We consider this box to be a great value and will help you change your standard weekday meals.
Key specs
Number of Items: Six
Delivery radius: Check zip code verifier to confirm delivery to your address
Delivery date: A fixed day each week, depending on the zip code. The routes are planned to minimize carbon emissions and food miles. No delivery time slots.
Shipping cost: £ 12 minimum order value, plus £ 1.50 shipping charge
Delivery frequency: weekly
Organic: yes
Plastic free: yes
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BEST CUSTOM BOX
Boxxfresh Box of 15 servings
There’s nothing worse than waiting for a food delivery, only to find that you’re not a fan of its content. To make sure you love every bite of what comes in, 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 avoiding the celeriac entirely. We also love that it can include herbs, and there’s a selection of plant-based extras (anyone want sweet potato bread?), For a full shop. It also comes with relevant recipe cards to inspire you.
Key specs
Number of items: 15
Delivery radius: Mainland UK
Delivery date: Monday – Friday
Shipping cost: minimum spend £ 25, free shipping
Organic: No
Plastic free: yes
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BEST FOR MEALS
Natoora’s Peak Season Box
Our Natoora fruit and veg delivery is truly the highlight of our week. The peak season box contains the most exciting assortment of products, from all over Europe, including Insta-worthy pink chicory. Selected based on micro-seasonality, many items are available for such a short period of time, that you blink and you would miss them (and you certainly won’t find this lot at your local Sainsbury’s). 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 – overnight delivery, seven days a week, Oxford – twice weekly delivery, Tuesday and Friday, Rest of UK (see delivery radius), Tuesday to Friday
Shipping costs: from € 4
Organic: No
Plastic free: No
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THE BEST WONKY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Oddbox Medium Box of Fruits and Vegetables
To who ELLE UNITED KINGDOM, us hate food waste, which is why we are such a fan of Oddbox’s rescue mission to save all the rare fruits and vegetables that supermarkets reject. Your loss is our gain, because we received a fabulously tasty selection, including an incredibly large eggplant. There are recipe cards for anything you are less sure of, and while produce is not completely organic, we think it still offers great value.
Key specs
Number of Items: 12
Delivery radius: London and South East England
Delivery date: Specific delivery dates.
Shipping cost: Free
Delivery frequency: weekly or biweekly
Organic: No
Plastic free: No
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BEST ORGANIC FRUIT BOX
Langridge Organic Organic Fruit Pack
Our WFH snack attacks are out of whack, so we can’t wait to make sure our fruit bowl is full of good stuff. The content changes weekly, coming straight from the New Covent Garden market stall, with a small box for one or two people. We get a lot of obvious items like bananas, satsumas, and apples, as well as a juicy mango for breakfast smoothies. Expect rustic products.
Key specs
Number of Items: Six
Delivery radius: Central London and is currently being expanded further off the M25. Enter your zip code in the zip code checker on the home page.
Delivery date: seven days a week, 7 a.m. M. And 10 p. M., Delivery ranges of two to three hours
Shipping costs: £ 6.99 (minimum spend £ 30), free shipping for orders over £ 60
Delivery frequency: single
Organic: yes
Plastic free: yes
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BEST GRUBBY VEGETABLE
Purton House Organics Family Vegetable Pack
Purton House Organics
£ 18.16
Farmdrop is a great platform to discover independent producers, like Purton House Organics. Based in Wiltshire, it is run by a mother and daughter duo, who ship their fresh British veggies right to your doorstep in London. The contents of your vegetable boxes change weekly and will always reflect what is in season. It is the best alternative to having your own allowance.
Key specs
Number of Items: Eight
Delivery radius: Central London and is currently being expanded further off the M25. Enter your zip code in the zip code checker on the home page.
Delivery date: seven days a week, 7 a.m. M. And 10 p. M., Delivery ranges of two to three hours
Shipping costs: £ 6.99 (minimum spend £ 30), free shipping for orders over £ 60
Delivery frequency: single
Organic: yes
Plastic free: yes
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BEST PACKAGING SOLUTION
Riverford Seasonal Organic Fruit & Veg Box
Riverford is one of the original veggie box schemes, and they still have it. Not resting on its laurels, Riverford has switched to sustainably sourced, home-compostable packaging, which will save up to 21 tons of plastic each year. Hurrah! Empty boxes can also be left out for your friendly fleet of drivers to collect and reuse. This is a great box to base your meals on, as you’ll always be getting potatoes, carrots, and onions, as well as the most exciting seasonal items to keep meal times interesting.
Key specs
Number of Items: Nine
Delivery radius: Mainland UK, however restrictions apply. Use the zip code checker to see if they deliver to your area.
Delivery date: Specific delivery dates according to zip code.
Shipping cost: Free
Delivery frequency: single, weekly, biweekly, every three weeks, monthly
Organic: yes
Plastic free: yes
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BEST FOR SMALL FAMILIES
Eversfield Mixed Organic Fruit and Vegetable Box
Organic eversfield
£ 20.95
If organic produce is a must, this mixed box is meant to feed three to five people for at least a week. There’s a nice balance of everyday items such as root veggies, along with eggplant, kale, and blueberries, which are more exciting (but still highly accessible), so nothing is likely to go to waste. It’s not completely plastic-free, but the packaging is compostable to make garbage day easier.
Key specs
Number of Items: Approx. eleven
Delivery radius: Mainland UK and Isle of Wight
Delivery date: Tuesday – Saturday
Shipping cost: from £ 3.95 (or free to local Devon area)
Organic: yes
Plastic free: No
Stacey smith
Stacey is founder of the food, drink and travel website Crummbs, and has written for the BBC Good Food newspaper, Independent, i, and Balance Magazine.
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