{"id":470,"date":"2016-04-20T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2016-04-20T01:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:00:57","slug":"review-ceres-fair-food-the-fruit-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ceres Fair Food The Fruit Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my third\u00a0fruit box review! My first was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=461\">Aussie Farmers Direct<\/a>, and I was really disappointed. My second was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=468\">Organic Angels<\/a>, which had great produce but was pretty expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceresfairfood.org.au\/\">Ceres Fair Food<\/a>. They seem to have everything you could want (which is becoming normal for these kinds of delivery services). They are also organic certified, but they were a little impersonal compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=468\">Organic Angels<\/a>, but I&#8217;m after the fruit really&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Fruit Box &#8211; this was $46.74 including delivery ($6.75).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9x apples<\/li>\n<li>6x oranges<\/li>\n<li>4x pears<\/li>\n<li>9x bananas<\/li>\n<li>15x\u00a0nashi pears<\/li>\n<li>9x kiwi fruit<\/li>\n<li>4x persimmons<\/li>\n<li>1x\u00a0lime<\/li>\n<li>1x rockmelon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My delivery day was Wednesday\u00a0afternoon, and it was placed just inside my doorstep. Man was I hanging out for fruit by then!<\/p>\n<p>I had to look up what the persimmons were. It might interest you to know that the search term &#8216;fruit looks like a tomato with 4 broad leaves&#8217; brought up images that allowed me to identify it. I was pretty sure I had\u00a0the &#8216;fuyu&#8217; kind that is sweetest when crunchy &#8211; a bite said yes, but it wasn&#8217;t that delicious. An acquired taste?<\/p>\n<p>The good: There were lots of nashi pears! And the kiwi fruit got high regards from Eli. I have to say that there was more fruit than we could perhaps eat in a week, which was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>The bad: The bananas went brown before I could eat them all, and some developed actual brown spots. I was eating 2 a day, and still didn&#8217;t make it. I&#8217;ll know to freeze them next time perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>The ugly: Once again, the rockmelon was an epic fail. They aren&#8217;t even in season (they are best in summer), so I&#8217;m not surprised. This one was hard, then didn&#8217;t smell rockmelon-y and then I noticed that it was becoming squishy at one end with mould spots. Sure enough, the inside was pretty much inedible. I think if there is an option to opt-out, I&#8217;ll tell them I don&#8217;t like rockmelon in future. I do like it, but I haven&#8217;t had a good one yet.<\/p>\n<p>The final verdict: this box was great. The variety was fantastic, and the volume per $$ was worth it too. So far, I think this box is getting my vote for being our long-term supply. I still have two boxes left to try though, so we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my third\u00a0fruit box review! My first was on Aussie Farmers Direct, and I was really disappointed. My second was on Organic Angels, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=470\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Ceres Fair Food The Fruit Box<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17,67],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nzXS-7A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":485,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=485","url_meta":{"origin":470,"position":0},"title":"Review: Greenline Organic A Seasonal FRUIT Box","date":"May 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my sixth fruit box review! 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