{"id":485,"date":"2016-05-11T03:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2016-05-11T03:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:36:40","slug":"review-greenline-organic-a-seasonal-fruit-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Review: Greenline Organic A Seasonal FRUIT Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my sixth fruit 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. My third was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=470\">Ceres Fair Food<\/a>, which had great variety in its produce. Fourth was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=475\">from the earth fruitnveg<\/a>, who had great variety and great customer service. Fifth was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=480\">The Organic Empire<\/a>, which was completely boring.<\/p>\n<p>Next up was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlineorganic.com.au\">Greenline Organic<\/a>. What irritated me was that the shipping price wasn&#8217;t immediately shown on checkout. I don&#8217;t feel comfortable giving out my credit card number at the best of times, and then being told that my total is a certain amount after the fact. It could have been $30 delivery for all I knew! Yes, there are guidelines, but it&#8217;s not that hard to link a postcode to a shipping charge. It turned out my delivery was free anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A Seasonal FRUIT Box &#8211; $45\u00a0(first time offer) +\u00a0delivery ($6.60)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4x apples<\/li>\n<li>3x pears<\/li>\n<li>5x plums<\/li>\n<li>3x nashi pears<\/li>\n<li>2x kiwi fruit<\/li>\n<li>11x bananas<\/li>\n<li>5x\u00a0mandarines<\/li>\n<li>1x rockmelon<\/li>\n<li>1x bag green\u00a0grapes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It had a range of days that you could have your produce delivered, and I chose a Thursday, as my last delivery was on a Friday, and I didn&#8217;t want to go any days without fruit. It came in a sturdy cardboard box, and the fruit inside was wrapped in paper bags (perfect for bringing your own popcorn to a movie). I also got a bonus fridge magnet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The good: The bananas and the plums came perfectly ripe and ready to eat. So were the nashi pears. It&#8217;s a good thing I wanted fruit, otherwise it might have gone off before I could eat it all.<\/p>\n<p>The bad: The kiwi fruit didn&#8217;t seem to ripen.<\/p>\n<p>The ugly: The green grapes had seeds. I hate seeds with a passion. It totally destroyed my desire to eat grapes, and meant that I couldn&#8217;t freeze them to put in smoothies.<\/p>\n<p>The final verdict: This is a contender for a long term box, just because of the variety. I&#8217;m starting to reach the end of my interest in testing all the boxes, and I think I&#8217;m ready to settle down&#8230; Stay tuned for an overview post in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my sixth fruit box review! My first was on Aussie Farmers Direct, and I was really disappointed. My second was on Organic Angels,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=485\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Greenline Organic A Seasonal 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-7P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":493,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=493","url_meta":{"origin":485,"position":0},"title":"Review: The Organic Butler Organic Fruit Box #1","date":"May 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my seventh fruit box review! 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