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Box Divvy Hub Name: Shellharbour - Loftus
Pick up Wednesday. Home Delivery offered but please ask first, Local area only. Pick up Thursday, no home delivery available. Due to COVID-19 Our Local Food Hubs Have in place Hygiene, Packing and Social Distancing protocol. So a Wave and smile from a distance on pick up. Community working together. To register for the Hub use this link
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p.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/210
Box Divvy is Community owned and run. This is a fruit veg and grocery cooperative. We purchase as a group up to 40% cheaper than supermarkets. It’s a Smart coop and you get more of what you want than a normal coop. Box Divvy is a food box sharing system connecting growers & food producers directly with the Food. It is community owned and run designed to cut your food bill. You join online - there is no registration fee. https://www.boxdivvy.com/ You use an App on your phone or computer or a pad to order. Working with Western Sydney Diabetes Alliance - our aim is to provide accessible, inexpensive good quality fresh food.
4 DAY ORDER CYCLE – FOR Wednesday pick up
Friday 9pm – Order creation
It’s an OPT OUT SYSTEM so if you don’t want an order for the coming week, you must suspend prior to Friday 9pm. Your “WISH LIST VOTE” and any changes you wish to make to your household size must also be done by Friday 9pm. Saturday - Starting Order Published
Login take up to 3 things out and JOIN SPLITS. Monday 9pm - CUTOFF
Orders closed. Cards charged. There are 2 automatic processing’s, if those both decline - a $5 recharge fee is applied as it pays for someone to manually reprocess. You must pay BEFORE pick-up. Wednesday - PICK UP. You must pick up day of delivery at the pick-up time or arrange with Hubster. Home Delivery offered but please ask first. PAYMENTS
You must pay for your order once committed to an order cycle. Once in an Order Cycle we cannot withdraw an order. It is your responsibility to suspend the correct weeks. ORDERING SYSTEM
Dead simple. You share boxes online using the App. SUSPENDING ORDERS
When you tick the date, wait, it will turn red to confirm suspension. You’re expected to order weekly or fortnightly. STARTING ORDER
There’s a Starting Order based on your weekly ‘wish list’ VOTE and you can take out up to 3 things. Every week BEFORE Order Creation do a Wish List Vote to help Hubster (person who organisers Hub) to set up Starting Order. SHARE BOXES known as SPLITS
If you wish for more, you join Splits and share boxes. You can suggest a box to share or to your Hubster. Such as saying to your group: “Who’d like to share a box of apples?”
At order cut-off you pay automatically online (Visa or Mastercard & Secure Eway Payment gateway) then boxes from growers & food wholesalers come to the Hubster’s house for packing. You pick up from their place or they may offer home delivery. FRUIT, VEG, BREAD, EGGS – Order, pay, receive this week
GROCERIES – Order, pay, receive next week due to fresh roasting of coffee and made to order. BREAD baker direct – Minimum HUB order total is $30
GROCERIES wholesaler direct – Minimum HUB order is $75. MEAT AND SEAFOOD (NEW) – Order every 4 weeks. READ THE AMOUNTS YOU ARE PURCHASING
Please check carefully if the items are single, handfuls, 500gm, 1 kg etc. Don't assume it's by one item. EXAMPLE: Cherries sold by the box, make sure you’re not putting in 5 thinking it's handfuls when it's boxes. Read the descriptions please. EXTRAS
There are ALWAYS extras as the box belongs to members so your Hubster will divvy extras when available. There is also usually a SWAP box - if you forget to customise your Starting Order, you can throw in some apples and take out some carrots that someone else did not want. You will get great value. COMMUNITY BOX
Many Hubster’s ask members if this SWAP BOX can become a COMMUNITY KINDNESS BOX given to a family in need. This is part of the Social Enterprise experience by being part of the Hub. NOT WANT AN ORDER? There are no contracts, you can suspend orders when you don’t want them. WANT EXACTLY 1 tomato 2 oranges? Then Box Divvy is not for you. This is a coop and things are in handfuls NOT exact items. You need to be flexible but you'll always get good value. We are a group of community minded people wanting to change the food system. Reduce packaging and pay our farmers fairly. By reducing our carbon footprint by 90% this means we buy in bulk as a group and then share it. We need to be a bit flexible. You will know roughly what you will get but you can’t get exact. We have a Packing Guide but the numbers will change as produce is smaller or larger. Mostly you will get extras overall. HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I SPEND? EASY. You will pay the STARTING ORDER PLUS if you join in SPLITS or ADD Groceries. At the bottom of MY ORDER you will see the MAX you will pay if all your SPLITS get over the line, any groceries you’ve ordered and the Starting Order. You can reduce the SPLITS or Groceries you joined BEFORE CUTOFF. PACKAGING
Much of the produce comes loose so please provide your Hubster with a NAME LABELLED BAG: ALSO - calico/wash nets to put handfuls in (do not expect your Hubster to provide paper bags please): Bring in your old icecream containers, for example, for the Hub to put soft stuff in. If you get an item in plastic, recycle it in your soft plastic bin. We don't interrupt the packing from the farmer. Farmers are trying to work out how to transport produce and it can’t always be plastic free - for the moment. The Sugar Cane bags are not strong, don't last and definitely not airtight. Cardboard and paper fall apart. New technology is being worked on. NOT FOR ME
If after you’ve tried it and Box Divvy is not working the way you want, then you can cancel membership. So? Join our group to make a difference. You have the power to do so. Cut your food bill significantly – Wow! The goal: to cut your food bill, without compromising on the quality, freshness and variety of food. With minimal effort, minimal packaging and food miles, and still paying farmers and suppliers a fair price for their produce.
Are you using your Broccoli stems??
If not, why not?! 🤷🏽♀️
The stems/stalks is the delivery route for the nutrients to grow the flower head of the broccoli. It is a fantastic way to bulk out meals in volume and nutrition.
Plus. You have paid for it. 😊
So many pantry goodies this week.
I grabbed a couple of the new items to show you all as well
Let's see what has come from the Pantry today!!
My Hubs have both been enjoying the expanding range of Pantry goods now available from Box Divvy.
What are your top 5 pantry items??
I'll go first.
Beerenberg miso maple pork meal base
2 pops 1kg honey
Buckwheat
Salted Cashew nuts
Crikey Coffee jungle blend beans
Here is just a little bit ofbwhat arrived today for our Wednesday Hub
How good do these look!!!
Talk about dinner made easy.... and great for the budget too.
O M G How good do these look and smell!!!!!
New product alert!!
Woohoooo
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What's the latest Box Divvy addition?
𝗞𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘆’𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱.
Flour, salt, yeast, water: 4 simple ingredients will transport you to a whole new world.
Also known as snowshoe bread (on account of their shape) these flatbreads are baked in a wood-fired stone oven - hence the slight charring.
Baked by Asad and his family, they fled the Taliban in 2010 and set up shop in Auburn. His father and grand-father before him were bakers, and he is continuing the 40-year family tradition.
Some have described this bread as a hybrid between Turkish bread and Indian naan, but this description does not do it justice. It's soft, somewhat fluffy, definitely rustic, moor-ish, incredibly versatile, and despite the simple ingredients, they seem to stay fresh for 3-4 days. You can crisp them up in the oven, heat them in the microwave for a softer result, or even toast them.
You can cover them with cheese and toast them under a hot grill. Eat them with falafel or lamb kofta, some hummos and tabouleh; turn them into a hamburger with Handler’s meat patties. Or eat them with your favourite curry (as in: Belicious Afghani Lamb curry). The Afghanis themselves use them to mop up any leftover sauce and rice from their plate, like a pre-rinse.
Above all, they are so delicious, you can't stop eating them. Ingredients: wheat flour, wholemeal flour, salt, yeast, water. You’ll find them under Bakery ➡️ Bread ➡️ Wraps & Flatbread. Two loaves per pack for a combined weight of around 760g. Baked and delivered fresh daily.
YUM!
I love seeing what the other Hubsters are getting in their orders!
Here are the all natural gourmet pies an sausage rolls, new to the marketplace this week.... Mmmmmm
We got a the Bulk cut grass fed scotch fillet and some Norco goodies :) Sliced it up seasoned with a homemade rosemary salt and in the freezer, 4 steaks to a bag. Perfect for a quick family meal.
Real Fresh Pies and Sausage rolls from Shepherds
Okay, we’ve eye-balled these for a while now – prompted by a few Hubsters and members who have tried these and since developed a mild addiction to them.
The great things about both the pies and sausage rolls is that they only contain real food ingredients: no emulsifiers, preservatives, colourings and e-Numbers.
We haven’t published any price comparisons lately, but the just released CPI figures for April made us sit up – and compare prices.
For starters, fruit and veg inflation for the month of April was showing as +3.5% across supermarkets and grocery stores. That’s odd, we thought: when we ran the numbers, Box Divvy prices are actually showing a small drop vs a year ago.
Wanna know how fresh the Lebanese bread is?!!
Truck us unloading for today's Divvy.
It's 5:45am and I checked under the leb bread to see how many there are....
They are still warm!!!!!
Wowsers!!
Would you rather pay 🤔
$9.90 a kilo for USA grown Navel oranges from Coles 🤦🏻♀️
OR
$1.96 a kilo for local grown Valencia oranges from Box Divvy 🤩
We got raw pistachios today!!! They come loose and will be packed into 500g 'handfuls' not bad for about $6.5
Question? The shells aren't even exposed on these, so does that mean I can plant and grow them?!
Beetroot shortage? What shortage? 🤔
Sometimes we feel a story gets made up for the sole purpose of scaring people into buying over-priced products. The current ‘beetroot shortage’ story is a good example: cyclone Gabrielle destroyed beetroot crops, and damaged farms, in New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay region (this part is true), which is somehow causing a beetroot shortage in Australia (this part is far-fetched) Our growers seem to have plenty of beetroot, but prices at Coles and Woolies are being stretched to between $6.50 and $9 a kilo. And Box Divvy? A mere $2.43 a kilo.
➡️ The real headline? “Story enables supermarket to price-gouge beetroot”…
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Tuscan chicken and spaghetti Squash!!
Recipe courtesy of Hub members Sam and Lauren.
Got around to making it and WOW, it smells and tastes amazing!!
Hard to beat a sweet juicy watermelon!!
✅ PRICE CHECK MONDAY ✅
Nothing beats cold juicy watermelon on a hot summers day 🍉
Especially when they’re cheap as chips here at Box Divvy! A whole watermelon at $1.25 a kilo!
Watermelon is a good source of antioxidants and nutrients. In addition to supporting hydration, it may also promote many aspects of health and prevent certain health conditions such as improving heart health, inflammation and macular degeneration.
Good for your body 💪🏽 and good for your wallet 💰 Check out the price comparison to other supermarkets 👇🏽👇🏽
Don’t miss out on the savings!
PM me if you want to know more about our hub, if you want to join - info is in comments 👇🏽👇🏽
Make your dollars go further for you and direct to our Aussie farmers.
💰MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK💰
What’s good this week?? 👀
🍇 Grapes Galore
All three: red, black and white at Grapeland – a very seedless capital. All under $7.50 a kilo. Grown mostly in Robinvale and in Mildura.
🍋 Limes or lemons?
With lemon prices at an all-time high (they’re $5.40 each in Harris Farm. Whoops), let’s switch to limes: 50cents each.
🥭 Mangoes
Pretty much the last for this season. KP from Queensland grown around Mareeba and Bowen. After all the Qld farmers have gone through recently let’s get behind them and buy these. $3 a pop!
🍉 Watermelon
Aren’t we loving them this season. Soooo sweet. Easy to get these on the plate. Seedless at $1.50Kg. If they’re anything like last week, they will be massive!
🍐 Clapp’s Pears: prices collapps
Supply has increased, and prices are tumbling.
They are yum. Only $3 a kilo.
🍅 Baby Truss Tomatoes
These go brilliantly in a salad, with cheese or lightly roasted.
$2.54 a bunch this week.
🍆 Eggplant taking over the plate
In the past week these have been super big due to great growing conditions. They love to be in a cool spot in this humidity. Not cold, just cool. $3.85 a kilo.
Get more for you money with this weeks stars from local and Aussie growers! ⭐️
Head over to market place tonight and check out what you can save on!
Aaaaaannd, We. Are. BACK!!
First Divvy of 2024 done.
The kids were our here in their pj's this morning looking for fruit.
It is safe to say our fruit bowl looks much happier right now.
When garden meets Box Divvy!
The quickest, crunchiest, super tasty summer salad.
So this week I had a member contact me and ask if I know a family doing it tough this time of year, that she could cook a meal for.
I absolutely LOVE my hub members, because all of them are gems like this.
I understand not everyone is in a position financially or even time wise to do this. But every single member radiates kindness, love and goodness out into this world.
We have been able to help countless families every single week this year with our kindness box donations. Either directly to families, to Lake Illawarra High Schools welfare team and to Warilla public schools breakfast club.
THANK YOU!!
OH yeah, Christmas and summer BBQ's made easy!
The chilled range has absolutely exploded in the last few weeks. This week is your last chance to order chilled items for home delivery in 2023.
Slowly surprising us with an even bigger range.
Thank you Box Divvy.
What else is coming soon?
What’s coming up?
Week commencing 18th December, we will have a range of festive pantry items such as Tuckers Crackers and Flatbreads, Lirah Australian Balsamic Vinegars and Cara Nonna gourmet pasta.
Some great tips here!
A few that we already use, but a few new ones too.
What is your veggie hack?
All of this is heading back on this mornings delivery truck to be reused.
I love getting boxes with multiple produce stickers on them to see just a handful of the Hubs it has visited. I like to put smaller boxes inside the bigger ones to make it easier for the driver to stack in the truck.
Also the foam jar protectors can be returned to the Hub in good condition to be used over and over again.
I have to agree. These are absolutely delicious.
I always avoided mince tarts until I tried these.
We popped them in the oven for 10 mins to warm them up and serve with ice cream and cream on Christmas Day
Our Hub received the first delivery of Shepherds Bakery Fruit Mince Tarts today and they are looked and smelled irresistible.
The Shepherds tarts are made using a deliciously ‘short’ biscuit base tart, filled with sweet, juicy house-made fruit mix – apple, sultanas and currants – with just a hint of citrus peel.
I'm sorry to say that the store-bought fruit mince tarts are no comparison next to these beauties.
Available at Box Divvy until Christmas.
Lets check out just some of the things you can grow from your Box Divvy produce cuttings and seeds!!
Can you count how many I have??
STONE FRUIT season is here!!!!!!!
These gorgeous fruits are going home to hub members today, along with 10kgs of cherries 😍😍
What is your favourite stone fruit?
Belicious has your Christmas present covered AND gift wrapped!!!
Who wants to wrap Christmas presents? No One! Ain’t nobody got time for that…. Except apparently us 😂😅
Belicious likes to keep things exciting so this batch of Christmas presents for Box Divvy is a little bit different. Midnight blue with glitter, how beautiful 😍 Available from any Hub for only $19 🎁
Join the Box Divvy community to find these, and other great deals on great local products when you join a hub! 🌶🌽🥕🧅
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HA!! This is pretty awesome.
Had me like "woah!" The whole time.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?!
How awesome is this!!!!
Thoughts, comments. Let us all know what you are most excited about.
For me, definitely cheese and being able to customise your Box to everything that you want and use through the week. We eat lots of chicken thighs and love to BBQ pretty much everything else!
Check out our new ecokaps cleaning products AND probably the most asked for and exciting change coming for you all!!
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Are you using your Broccoli stems?? If not, why not?! 🤷🏽♀️ The stems/stalks is the delivery route for the nutrients to grow the flower head of the broccoli. It is a fantastic way to bulk out meals in volume and nutrition. Plus. You have paid for it. 😊
So many pantry goodies this week. I grabbed a couple of the new items to show you all as well #excited #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave
Let's see what has come from the Pantry today!! My Hubs have both been enjoying the expanding range of Pantry goods now available from Box Divvy.
What are your top 5 pantry items?? I'll go first. Beerenberg miso maple pork meal base 2 pops 1kg honey Buckwheat Salted Cashew nuts Crikey Coffee jungle blend beans Here is just a little bit ofbwhat arrived today for our Wednesday Hub #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave
Tuscan chicken and spaghetti Squash!! Recipe courtesy of Hub members Sam and Lauren. Got around to making it and WOW, it smells and tastes amazing!! #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave #spaghettisquash #glutenfree
When garden meets Box Divvy! The quickest, crunchiest, super tasty summer salad. #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave #homegrown #beetrootsalad
Lets check out just some of the things you can grow from your Box Divvy produce cuttings and seeds!! Can you count how many I have?? #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave #growyourown
Check out our new ecokaps cleaning products AND probably the most asked for and exciting change coming for you all!!
It is that time of year again. We are coming to the end of the apple season. Which means that you may find some of the seeds inside your apples have sprouted!!! 🤯🤯 Can you grow them?! ... the answer is yes!! Stay tuned for my picture story 😁 #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave #aussiefarmers #appletree
#foodwastesucks my little helper and I cutting up fruit leather "roll ups" I used some pears that were too squishy for the kids to eat, some bruised apples that could not be divvied and a bunch of rhubarb that I bought to get a split across the line. No added sugar, just pureed and then reduced down so there is no runny liquid. You can dehydrated these in the oven on a baking sheet or in a dehydrator if you have the tray liners. *baking paper works well enough in the dehydrator too. The kids LOVE these in their lunches, we take then camping, perfect for snacking on in between afternoon sports and school. They also make a really nice gift in a little food hamper too. #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave #morefoodlesswaste
Using the Beerenberg Miso Maple Pork meal base!! I'm doing a double, with extra mince to make a couple of meals. **I will put the costing in the comments, when I'm done. ** #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #beerenberg #mealprep #familybudget
The difference between naturally ripened bananas... what we get at Box Divvy.... and cold storage, regassed bananas that you find in big chain supermarkets. #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #bananas
Good morning!!!! Going to take a peek at the stunning Romanesco Cauliflowers and Zucchini flowers that we are lucky enough to get for this week only!! #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave #aussiefarmers
Pork and ginger cabbage rolls 🤤🤤 #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #veggiedrawerrescue #buysharesave
So Avocados have gone upfront $1 (L) to $1.16(R) .... I think we can see why 😂😂 Looks like we will be having extra guac with everything this week 😁 #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave
Want to see the best avocado ever?!!! #tinyseed = #winning Avo's are only $1 with Box Divvy right now!! Tonight is Taco Tuesday in our house. 5 avos for guac means no skimping and some leftovers for lunches tomorrow too #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #buysharesave
This week's pantry stash! I love seeing so much great quality produce go home with people. The pantry is no different. Beerenberg have just brought out their meal bases. The winter slow cook season is upon us and these are perfect! #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #beerenberg #slowcooking #buysharesave
An even bigger pinch of what is available you in the Box Divvy Pantry!! #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #beerenberg #h2g #honesttogoodness #pureharvest #harkola #stremio
A common topic of conversation at the moment is food. Cost, meal planning, food wastage and if you have a family then there is a good chance you have to find that tricky balance in pleasing everyone's taste buds as well. I am making a creamy tomato and salami fettuccine today. A few tweaks because I didn't have all the exact ingredients too. #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #foodwastesucks #mealplanning
Where are all my Crossfit peeps?! 23.2 in the books today and the world best comfort food to finish the day. Spaghetti Bolognese.... but the Box Divvy way 😉 If you did the workout this week, I'd love to know how you went. You'll find out my scores in the video #boxdivvy #boxdivvyshellharbour #community #spaghettisquash #aussiefarmers #buysharesave
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