A subscription box with a difference

A couple of weekends ago, a box landed at my door, filled to the brim with organic, British meat and vegetables. It had come from a company called Farmison and contained everything I needed (barr a few store cupboard staples) to cook along with that week’s Saturday Kitchen show (10am on BBC One).

When I first heard the idea I thought it was refreshing to see a subscription box that did something a little differently to the rest. I’ve often found myself watching a food show and wishing I had the ingredients in to cook what they are cooking. I guess that’s the gap in the market that this box is filling. Watch the Saturday Kitchen Show, drool over the drool over the recipes then get in the kitchen and make them.

Before I tell you about the recipes, just look at these veggies:

I’d pay a lot of money to have vegetables of this standard in my supermarket. Look at the size of this onion. I haven’t included photos of the meat as it was all shrink wrapped but you can find some links to examples in the next paragraph.

There are three meals to make with the contents. Mine were coq au vin, pork belly and finally flank steak with wild mushrooms.  You can catch me cooking my way through coq au vin on instagram, and here’s a post to show off the steak.  The belly pork? That’s in our freezer for another weekend. See, that was the beauty of this box for me. It doesn’t really matter if you don’t fancy one of the recipes that week, the meat will freeze and the veggies are all things you’ll be able to use up anyway.

You don’t need to be a die hard Saturday Kitchen fan to enjoy the box, you just have to appreciate good food. The meals we’ve cooked from our box were restaurant standard. When I posted the pictures of the flank steak on instagram, people were asking where we’d been for dinner because they wanted to go!

There are two boxes available, 3 meals to feed 4 is £59.95 (just under £5 a serving) and 3 meals to feed 2 is £44.95 (just under £7.50 a serving). Now, that’s certainly more expensive than picking the ingredients up at the supermarket but you just wouldn’t get that quality of organic ingredients, especially the meat. There’s also an offer on at the moment that gets you up to £15 off your first box and the sixth box for free.

If you feel your meal planning has become a little lack-lustre this might be just the thing to add some new recipes to your repertoire and give you the inspiration you need.