Box Divvy Nowra - Salisbury

15/12/2024

15/12/2024

12/12/2024

Orders open tonight from about 9pm and close on Sunday at 9pm.
This is your last chance to grab anything you still need for the next 2 weeks.
I'm going to grab a couple boxes of cherries to freeze and take with us to Christmas lunch and dinner up in Sydney, and some lemon/limes for hubbys New Year bevvys 😂

🍒🍺🎉🍒🍺🎉🍒🍺

11/12/2024

10/12/2024

𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗸𝘀, 𝗕𝗼𝘅 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝘃𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰!

Stay tuned for exciting new products coming out this week.....

🛀A range of special – but affordable – gifts from Clover Fields: bath salts, moisturisers, body scrubs and facial cleansing bar. Also, the toilet soaps will be back in stock.

🍽A range of sauces from The Stock Merchant: gravy, red wine jus and more!

🫒A range of chilled antipasto products – from stuffed olives to sundried tomatoes and stuffed baby peppers, in time for Christmas.
🫒More olives from Mount Zero.

☕And a limited-edition Christmas blend from Wonder Coffee Roasters!

09/12/2024

😱

✅ PRICE CHECK MONDAY ✅

Now this week is a mind blowing one, we're diving into a delicious comparison of butternut pumpkins! 🎃 Not only are they a versatile ingredient for your meals, but they also pack a nutritional punch.

💪🏽 Benefits of eating butternut pumpkins include being rich in vitamins A and C, which support immune health and skin vitality. They're also high in fiber, aiding digestion and helping you feel full longer. You can roast them, add them to soups, or even mash them for a creamy side dish.

At Woolworths, these beauties are a whopping $7.35 each, Coles a mind blowing $11!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😱, but at Box Divvy, you can snag them for just $1.24 each!

You can also see the price transparency on Box Divvy, we buy these for 72 cents each from our farmers. You can bet your bottom dollar that ColesWorth buy these for less than that and are taking advantage BIG TIME off the people. ☹️

🤩 Now is your time to make the switch and try for yourself!

Get in quick and JOIN HERE 👉🏽 https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/124
OR PM me if you want to know more!

Stop letting the big supermarkets take advantage of you!!! Join Box divvy today and start saving your hard earned cash.

09/12/2024

Perfectly said 👌🧑‍🌾♥️

Let's reflect and always remember.

As we head into another circle around the sun; it's often at this time we often stop to reflect and give appreciation to life, the people we love and care about; and always grateful for the food and water we have.

Every man, woman and child deserves to eat. I am always grateful to have a Hub and members that have given a Kindness Box to the Wollongong Homeless Hub every single week for the past 2 and a half years.

And we can only give because there are people across our country waking up every single day to grow and prepare this food.

Food doesn’t come from grocery stores—it comes from the tireless efforts of passionate farmers, harvesters, and producers who work behind the scenes to grow, nurture, and prepare the food we enjoy. 🌾🍎

From the fields to the shelves, every bite has a story of hard work and care.

𝗜𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝘄𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the people and processes that make our meals possible. 🙌❤️

07/12/2024

🦁🍄🧠👍

🦁🦁 Lion’s Mane Mushrooms 🦁🦁

🍄 Grown by Fungi Co aka Little Mountain Mushrooms in Moss Vale, Lion’s Mane mushrooms have a mildly sweet flavour and a tender texture that mimics shellfish like scallops, crab, or lobster.

🧠 Brain health 🧠
Lion's Mane mushrooms contain compounds that may stimulate brain cell growth and protect the brain from damage.
They may also help with mild cognitive impairment and improve mental performance.
They also aid digestive health, support the immune system and reduce inflammation.

These beauties sell for $60-80 a kilo – if you can find them.

Leonie from FungiCo says they’ll have plenty over the coming weeks, and whilst they’re not cheap at around $49 a kilo, they’re worth it.

07/12/2024

06/12/2024

Remedy Sodaly

If you’re not a fan of Kombucha, but still want a reasonably healthy softdrink that kids will love, then try Sodaly: a sugar-free, low-calorie soft drink that contains prebiotics and is made with 100% natural ingredients:
Prebiotics: Sodaly is made with apple cider vinegar (ACV), which contains prebiotics that can help with digestion, immunity, and healthy skin. Prebiotics are food for probiotics, which are "good" bacteria in the body.
Low calories: Sodaly has only 8 calories per can.
Natural ingredients: Sodaly is made with 100% natural ingredients and real fruit flavour.
Gluten free
✨️ Available in 8 flavours: Passionfruit, Raspberry, Yuzu Lemon, Blood Orange, Guava, Lemon Lime Bitters, Pineapple, and Watermelon
Note: Sodaly is sweetened with erythritol & steviol glycosides. These are plant-based sweeteners and generally considered safe. However, they may cause excess stomach gas if consumed in large quantities.
🤑❗️Sodaly comes in a 4-pack (4 x 250ml cans). The major supermarkets normally sell these at $8 each. The Box Divvy price between now and Christmas is $5.49 per 4-pack – a 31% discount. After Christmas, the regular price will be $6.50.

05/12/2024

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How awesome it is to be part of Box Divvy!

You may just see beautiful truss tomatoes in the below photo.

I see a call out answered by our wonderful hub members who are helping out an Aussie grower who wasn’t going to break even with this produce.

It’s fresh! It’s cheap! It’s delicious!

Thank you wonderful hub members who ordered these this week. You have filled my heart once again.

05/12/2024

Can confirm this works well!
I did it with a few outer pieces of iceberg lettuce the other day.
Good as new! 👍

03/12/2024

As soon as I saw this combo, I knew what I had to do 😂

I've had this song stuck in my head all day.

You're welcome 🤗

01/12/2024

Market update

Fruit

In fruit, most things are about the same as last week, which – on this occasion – is absolutely PERFECT: stone fruit galore – now also with 5kg boxes of Apricots – in addition to the cherries, nectarines, peaches and mangoes.

Strawberries, bananas, lychees (slowly) and passionfruit are easing, watermelon is still cheap, Valencias are beautiful (they nearly made it into the video, until there was a sudden and unexpected outbreak of sanity. Not that they weren’t worth the space, but the season is still young – stone fruit feels more NOW). And by-the-way, if you can’t get through the boxes of apricots, peaches or nectarines, you can always dehydrate in a warm oven (60-65 C) fan-forced oven for 2-3 hours or until they are ‘leathery’.

Whilst lemons are creeping up, limes are coming down in price: time for a Mojito??


Vegetables

In vegetables, the big news is in Truss Tomatoes: an estimated 60,000 trays will be arriving at the Sydney markets over the coming days (around 6000 of those will be from K-Fresh Farms – via our supplier Kazzi). The going rate for the 5kg trays is somewhere around the $3-4 level – less than 80c per kg. Some independent retailers - to their credit – are selling them virtually at cost. Others – mainly supermarkets – seem to be selling truss tomatoes at between $4 and $7 a kilo, which implies hefty mark-ups in the region of 400% - 700%. If correct (and supermarkets won’t be telling us what they’re paying the grower – commercial in confidence and all that), then:
1. They are quite likely profiting from the growers’ misery, and
2. Hardly contributing to stimulating demand, even though with a dominant market share, they would be better placed to help out growers than anyone else.

Our solution: we are paying the grower at his break-even point of $8 a tray – double to market price – and selling them to our members for $10 a tray. Low enough to stimulate demand, but at least the grower doesn’t lose a bundle.

In other vegetable news, local corn from Manuel Xerri has started: pretty clean cobs for $1.30 each. Grech & Borg are supplying spring onions. They’re not shallots, they’re not eschalots – they have a green stem and a medium sized white onion underneath. Although they are similar to shallots, they have a small white immature bulb at the end of the stem. They’re perfect for braising or slicing, or adding to soup, stir-fries and salads. They are $2.60 a bunch.

We’re also changing from Imported garlic to local garlic: this has been around for a few weeks but initially at unreasonable prices. This week however, they’re down to under $24 a kilo. They are sourced from Tooley Garlic in Nyah, Vic on the Murray River, 20 mins north of Swan Hill.

Most vegetables remain good value, especially capsicums, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, cabbages (green cabbages from Kazzi at $2.77), leafy greens, beetroot, tomatoes and herbs.

Broccoli, pumpkin and cauliflower remain a little elevated, and potatoes are still problematic.

01/12/2024

I get so many compliments from members about the strawberries from Global Fruit Supply.

Cheaper and fresher than ColesWorth, how could you say no?!

30/11/2024

Them trays just keep on comin' 😍😍😍

Added to last week's Box Divvy trays are the NEW APRICOT and TRUSS TOMATO trays.

28/11/2024

Orders open tonight at 9pm

If you were ever thinking of giving Box Divvy a go, sign up before 9pm tonight so you can be a part of this order cycle 😊

✅ Up to 30% cheaper than supermarkets
✅ Fresh produce that lasts
✅ Paying farmers fairly
✅ Reduce packaging

https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/528

Box Divvy connects your community with farmers and food producers to provide market-fresh, locally and Australian-grown, seasonal fruit, vegetables and groceries helping you cook and eat better for less.