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David Watsky Senior Editor / Home and Kitchen
David lives in Brooklyn where he’s spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. Since earning a BA in English from Northeastern in Boston, he’s toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom. Right now, he’s likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or researching the best way to make bacon. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.
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Your time is precious. You no longer need to spend it walking the aisles of a grocery store trying to find the perfect fruits and vegetables. Produce can be delivered straight to your door and it will be some of the best, fresh food with the top delivery services. Many of these subscriptions focus on reducing food waste by taking imperfect-looking foods that stores won’t take and giving them a home, since they’re just as good to eat as “ideal-looking” fruits and vegetables. If you want organic foods, there are also options for deliveries that only source from local farms.
Many of the vendors on our list deliver more than quality fruits and vegetables, too. You can have farm-fresh eggs, wholesome grains, dairy, meat and pantry staples delivered alongside your produce haul. All are geared toward making healthy eating affordable and easy.
Whether you’re after odd-looking fruit on the cheap, organic vegetables from a family farm or something in between, read on for our picks of the best produce delivery service on the market in 2024.
Misfits Market aims to prevent food waste by delivering boxes of fruits and vegetables that maybe aren’t your average shape or size — but are still perfectly good to cook with and delicious. Plus, Misfits Market guarantees that 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 shipping organic produce to most states and many ZIP codes. Expect this produce box to offer an ever-changing selection of fruits and vegetables like leafy greens, watermelon radishes, zucchini, heirloom tomatoes, apples and mangoes.
The plan: Misfits is an organic produce delivery starter box geared toward smaller households and can be shipped weekly or biweekly. You choose from hundreds of produce options as well as other groceries, pantry staples, meat and dairy to knock a whole bunch off your weekly shopping list. There are no membership fees. Shipping is free on orders over $60. Otherwise, it’s a reasonable $7 per order.
Read more in our full review of Misfits Market.
Imperfect Foods operates as both a produce subscription as well as a grocery delivery service. Just as the name implies, this delivery service brings you imperfect food, such as misshapen carrots or oversized eggs, at a discount. Organic and conventional produce, which can be customized and altered based on your taste preferences and dietary restrictions, can be dropped off at your door, along with grocery staples and snacks, like eggs, olive oil and sausages. The brand also offers pantry item options and baked goods. Delivery is available to all of the continental United States, so put in your ZIP code to see if your location is in their delivery area.
The plan: Plans are customized and priced based on your household size, whether you want organic or nonorganic produce, and if you’re looking to add in grains, snacks, dairy and meat and fish. But 11 to 13 pounds of organic produce boxes start at $26 plus $5 shipping.
Need more fruit in your life? Let The Fruit Company deliver a large assortment of healthy fruit to your door. You can choose between organic fruit and conventional produce that’s locally sourced from small farms that don’t use GMOs. The Fruit Company produce box arrives filled with bananas, apples, oranges, kiwis and more.
The plan: Choose from a slew of variety boxes — which all range in size and price — with prices ranging from around $20 to over $200 depending on what you’re looking for.
While many produce subscription services source fruits and vegetables from multiple farms, Farm Fresh to You plucks organic and sustainable items straight from its own family farm in California, Capay Organic. Simply pick a subscription box, customize the produce variety to your liking, add other farm products (like hand-crafted jam and small-batch honey), then get it delivered to your door.
The plan: Farm Fresh to You ships six different kinds of local produce boxes, like traditional CSA, snack pack and fruit only. Boxes range in size from mini to monster, as do the prices ($29 to $125), and you can select to have shipments arrive weekly, every other week or every three or four weeks.
Although FreshDirect is known as a grocery delivery service for everything — not just produce — the New York-based company is now offering subscription-free local farm share boxes. Partnering with Hepworth Farms, Lancaster Farm Fresh and Dig Acres, FreshDirect is allowing its Northeast customers to order produce boxes from the Hudson Valley and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The plan: Add the CSA boxes to your cart the same way you would other groceries. There are several to choose from, including the Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative local organic vegetable farm share filled with seven to nine items for $40.
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
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Source: CNET
