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We have a dietary issue in this house.

Well, actually, we have several. Tobermory is allergic to garlic, Thaqui is lactose intolerant… and various of us have foods that result in intense study of the wallpaper in the bathroom, owing to the amounts of time you must subsequently spend therein.

However, the specific dietary issue at hand is that we do not eat sufficient vegetables. I suck as a cook, I forget to buy things, I gravitate to serving stodge instead of the good old 5+ a day… on the occasions I do feel inspired and buy vegetables, they have a tendency to languish sadly in my vege drawer until I remember they’re there and throw them away.

This is really sub-optimal.

Then I discovered Foodbox* and elected to give them a go, and so I am sharing the results of the experimental box!

It is a box of food! Coke bottle kind of present for scale and also kind of present to point out the other dietary failing present, that of excessive soda.

Green things on top. I detest asparagus and forgot to ask for it to be substituted with something else; however the vegetarian friend down the road loves the stuff, so it will find a good home. Oranges, apples, bananas, potatoes, etc. Mostly standard veges; includes salad makings for lunches, something which I think is a beetroot but am honestly not sure, and silverbeet and courgettes which will make my beloved pull disgusted faces in my direction. I don’t think it’s the best value for money ever, but the point of a service like this is as much convenience as value, and it’s probably about worth what I paid for it given that a very friendly man in a van dropped it at my door at 4.30 this afternoon.