Recently, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to try some organic food from Abel & Cole, in return for writing a review. Now, I'll be honest with you, we are not the healthiest eaters in the world in this house - both the kids and myself are rather fussy eaters - and we don't eat a great deal of fruit or veg. I do try to make sure that the kids eat more but I don't think I've ever had my "5 a day" - shocking, I know! So I was very up-front about this with the lady that was organising it, but she was happy to send us some stuff anyway. We got a mixed fruit and veg box, plus a small chicken.
In the box were apples, oranges, ruby grapefruit, gem squash, potatoes, carrots, onions, corn-on-the-cob, broccoli and leeks. I wasn't sure that we would be able to get through all of this, but we gave it our best shot!
The chicken was quite small so I cooked it for the kids' tea - in fact they had a totally organic meal as I also used the potatoes, carrots and broccoli...
I did of course sample the chicken myself too, and it was, without doubt, the tastiest chicken I think I have ever eaten! It was moist and juicy and tasted, quite simply, absolutely delicious! It tasted really good cold, in sandwiches the next day as well. I would definitely consider buying organic chicken again.
We worked our way through the rest of the items over the course of the week. With most of the veggies, to be honest, we couldn't really tell the difference, although Peter thought the potatoes tasted nicer. Peter and Joe also shared the corn on the cob, and they both thought that tasted better too. It was a similar story with the fruit - the apples and oranges just tasted like apples and oranges, nice but not amazingly different to "regular" supermarket produce. The grapefruits, however, went to my mum and dad, as none of us like them, and they reported back that they were really delicious and juicy.
So, in summary, some things tasted noticably better than non-organic and some didn't. But I suppose taste isn't the only reason people buy organic, is it? I would certainly prefer to be able to feed my family all organic food, all the time but, at the moment, it's just not financially viable for us to do so, and we don't eat enough fresh fruit/veg to justify a box scheme like this. However, I will be looking into the other products Abel & Cole have to offer & we'd certainly be more likely to purchase our meat from them.
R x