{"id":574,"date":"2016-12-21T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2016-12-20T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T09:05:03","slug":"review-the-organic-butler-organic-fruit-box-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Organic Butler Organic Fruit Box #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This is a sponsored review &#8211; I received a free product in exchange for an honest review. All opinions remain my own and not a reflection of the company&#8217;s values.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is my second review of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theorganicbutler.com.au\">The Organic Butler<\/a>. After my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=493\">first unfavourable review<\/a>, the owner of the company left me a comment asking whether they could offer me a free box in exchange for a review. You bet! I love free things! You can read my original review round up post of !NINE! different fruit boxes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=519\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Seasonal FRUIT Box &#8211; usual price $70 +\u00a0no delivery charge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2x mangos<\/li>\n<li>2x grapefruit<\/li>\n<li>16x apricots<\/li>\n<li>8x nectarines<\/li>\n<li>5x peaches<\/li>\n<li>1x box of cherries<\/li>\n<li>7x bananas<\/li>\n<li>12x\u00a0oranges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My produce was delivered on a\u00a0Friday, in a styrofoam box covered with plastic. Not great for the environment compared to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=475\">current prefered company<\/a>\u00a0who delivers in a reusable plastic tub. I swiftly recycled the styrofoam box into a planter though so it wasn&#8217;t all bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The good:<\/strong> It had cherries! And stone fruit! I love summer fruit. Also, it was so nice NOT to get apples for a change. Apples are such a standard fruit, and with so many different kinds of fruit available at the moment, it would be sad to get more of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bad:<\/strong> The bananas and mangos changed from unripe to overripe very quickly, and then mangos never became particularly tasty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ugly:<\/strong> One of the peaches arrived mouldy already, and the rest rapidly ripened on the outside while remaining hard on the inside. The grapefruit were more pith and peel than fruit &#8211; I salvaged this situation by making candied grapefruit peel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The final verdict:<\/strong> This box is an improvement over before which might be due to a number of factors. The packing details have changed, and I can attest to the fact that the softer fruit such as the nectarines were packed on top of the citrus fruit. Additionally, The Organic Butler stopped offering fruit boxes over Winter 2 weeks after my original order date &#8211; they maintain that Winter fruit is just not as good as the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sponsored review &#8211; I received a free product in exchange for an honest review. All opinions remain my own and not a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=574\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: The Organic Butler Organic Fruit Box #2<\/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-9g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":501,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=501","url_meta":{"origin":574,"position":0},"title":"Review: Western Fresh n Green Small Fruit Box","date":"May 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my fourth\/eighth fruit box review! My first was on Aussie Farmers Direct, and I was really disappointed. My second was on Organic Angels, which had great produce but was pretty expensive. My third was on Ceres Fair Food, which had great variety in its produce. Fourth was from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":493,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=493","url_meta":{"origin":574,"position":1},"title":"Review: The Organic Butler Organic Fruit Box #1","date":"May 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my seventh fruit box review! My first was on Aussie Farmers Direct, and I was really disappointed. My second was on Organic Angels, which had great produce but was pretty expensive. My third was on Ceres Fair Food, which had great variety in its produce. 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I've tried 10 different delivery companies in the name of finding the best fruit box for me on the whole South East side of Melbourne. By then end of my experiment, I was feeling a bit browned off and spotty like some of those bananas. I've been able\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":485,"url":"http:\/\/www.abyteofcommonsense.com\/?p=485","url_meta":{"origin":574,"position":4},"title":"Review: Greenline Organic A Seasonal FRUIT Box","date":"May 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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, which had great produce but was pretty expensive. My third was on Ceres Fair Food, which had great variety in its produce. 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