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Eating healthier is much easier when you prepare meals in advance. With meal preparationyou know what you’re eating, so you won’t end up snacking on the wrong things. However, meal prep requires that you have all the ingredients, including produce, on hand – which can be a problem if you have to go to the grocery store. A subscription to a product delivery service can be a game changer. These services will allow you to subscribe to weekly or monthly box deliveries. Whether you want seasonal produce or organic fruit, we’ve picked the best produce delivery options to help you skip trips to the grocery store.
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Product delivery is not limited to quality fruits and vegetables. You can get farm fresh eggs, healthy grains, dairy, meats, and staples delivered along with your produce haul. All services are aimed at making healthy eating affordable and easy. Many of them also source their produce from local farmers.
Whether you’re looking for weird-looking fruit on the cheap, organic vegetables from the family farm, or something in between, read on for our picks for the best produce delivery services available right now.
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Misfits Market aims to prevent food waste by delivering fruit and veg boxes that may not be your average shape or size – but are still perfectly cookable and delicious. Plus, Misfits Market guarantees its subscription boxes are up to 30% less than what you’d spend at your local grocery store, sourcing organic and non-GMO produce from local organic regional farms and delivering organic produce to most states and many zip codes. It’s a deal that offers the perfect way to save money and reduce waste. Expect this produce box to offer an ever-changing selection of fruits and vegetables such as leafy greens, watermelon radishes, squash, heirloom tomatoes, apples and mangoes.
plan: Misfits is a starter organic delivery box aimed at smaller households and can be shipped weekly or bi-weekly. Choose from hundreds of produce options, as well as other groceries, staples, meats and dairy products to knock a whole bunch off your weekly shopping list. There is no membership fee. Shipping is free on orders over $60. Otherwise, it’s a reasonable $6 per order.
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Imperfect Foods operates as both a product subscription and grocery delivery service. As the name suggests, this delivery service brings you imperfect food, like misshapen carrots or oversized eggs, at a discount. Organic and conventional produce, which can be customized and changed based on your taste preferences and dietary restrictions, can be dropped off at your door, along with staples and snacks such as eggs, olive oil and sausages. The brand also offers pantry and bakery options. Shipping is available to all of the continental United States, so enter your zip code to see if your location is in their delivery area.
plan: Plans are customized and priced based on the size of your household, whether you want organic or non-organic produce, and if you want to add grains, snacks, dairy, and meat and fish. But 11- to 13-pound boxes of organic produce start at $26 plus $6 shipping.
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Need more fruit in your life? Let The Fruit Company deliver a great range of healthy fruit to your door. You can choose between organic fruit and conventional produce that is locally sourced from small farms that do not use GMOs. The Fruit Company produce box arrives full of bananas, apples, oranges, kiwis and more.
plan: Choose from a variety of different boxes – all of which vary in size and price – with prices ranging from around $27 to over $280 depending on what you’re looking for.
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While many subscription products source their fruits and vegetables from multiple farms, Farm Fresh to You sources organic and sustainable produce directly from its own family farm in California, Capai Organic. Simply choose a subscription box, customize the variety of products to your liking, add other farm products (like handmade jam and a little honey), then have them delivered to your door.
plan: Farm Fresh to You delivers six different types of local produce boxes, such as traditional CSA, snack packs, and just fruit. Boxes range in size from mini to monster, as do prices ($29 to $125), and you can choose to have shipments arrive weekly, every other week, or every three or four weeks.
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While FreshDirect is known as a grocery delivery service for everything—not just produce—the New York-based company now offers subscription-free boxes for local farms. In partnership with Hepworth Farms, Lancaster Farm Fresh and Dig Acres, FreshDirect allows customers in the Northeast to order produce boxes from the Hudson Valley and Lancaster, PA.
plan: Add CSA boxes to your cart the same way you add other groceries. There are several to choose from, including Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative local organic vegetable farms filled with eight to ten items for $30.
