Box Divvy Mortdale - Glen

06/07/2022

Been on the fence about joining BoxDivvy? Well now is your chance, for three people to sign up this week and get a free dozen eggs with their first order!!

13/04/2022

💚 Why do we love love Box Divvy? 💚

Well, who doesn’t like to save up to 40% on their shop… AND get amazing produce into the bargain… AS we support local farmers?! 🥰👨‍🌾

30/03/2022

NOW DOING TRIAL BOXES!!

If you already like this page then there is a good chance you know how great BoxDivvy is. Now I am offering $10 trial boxes for those not ready to commit but want to see how great and easy getting good quality be inexpensive produce is. Order a trail box, meet me and discuss all things BoxDivvy.

Comment below and I can DM you with details.

17/03/2022

I am consistently surprised with how much fresh produce I am able to get from my BoxDivvy box. Below are some examples from hubs around NSW of what you would expect in a typical box

14/03/2022

Moussa's market update!

What a week! Rain, rain and more rain. Our thoughts go our to those affected by the floods. Many wonderful Hubsters and members have rallied to help those in...

13/03/2022

Wow 50cents!
Avocadoes continue to be well supplied – in fact, growers are practically begging us to take more – and to help them out, we’ll continue to sell them for 50c each. We just don’t understand how every other retailer thinks they can sell them for $1.50 all the way to $3 a piece. It’s gauging, and it’s got to stop. Or switch to Box Divvy, that’ll teach’m.

Beans are not as cheap as last week, but snow peas are good value at $15-16 a Kg and corn has come down to $1.65 a cob

Zucchini is well-priced, cauliflowers are less than $5 and carrots, potatoes and pumpkins are still cheap – but capsicums are a little dearer ($6.90) and Lebanese cucumbers are plain expensive at almost $8/kg. You might instead want to try new season Apple Cucumber: does it look and taste like an apple? Not really: it tastes like cucumber, and you can eat them raw – but also cook/sauté/stuff them. Very versatile, and just $1.50 each. They may just give the Lebanese cucumber a good run for their money.

Broccoli is $6-7 a kg, but broccolini is just $2 a bunch.

12/03/2022

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10/03/2022

Mexican food is a favourite of ours, and a great way to get some fresh veggies in. We do a deconstructed burrito for the kids with chipotle chicken, guacamole, pico de gallo and lime rice. For the adults in the family we get fresh Cerviche! Yummy!!

04/03/2022

Did you know that BoxDivvy isn't just fruit and veg? They offer bakery, pantry, eggs, meat and seafood! All great quality. This week we got a massive supply of bread for the family; loaf of bread, olive bread, charcoal bread and coconut and raspberry loaf! Yum!

24/02/2022

Something I love about the BoxDivvy community. My family is stuck in isolation with COVID and our hubster last minute agreed to drop off our box (which we are definitely relying on for dinners this week). Dont get this from the supermarket!!

23/02/2022

Summer veggies! Yummo, good for the farmers and good for your pocket!

13/02/2022

Cauliflower BBQ wings! We got such a wonderful cauliflower in this weeks box I couldnt resist making this non-spicy version of Cauliflower Buffalo Wings. Family dinner hit! Recipe in comments.

12/02/2022

One of my favourite things about getting my produce from BoxDivvy is how unbelievable the produce is, AND cheaper than buying it myself. Here is the kids afternoon tea, I cannot keep them away from the Mangos!

27/01/2022

Hi I’m Averill and running a Food Hub in Mortdale with pick up Wednesday. I offer home delivery but please ask first.

If you’re thinking of joining this community run and owned food Hub - it’s like a coop but uses a smart App for ordering and payment. Box Divvy’s aim is to change how the food system currently is working. It connects us directly with growers and food wholesalers and the profits are directed into reducing the cost for members. So you save up to 40% on produce that hasn't been stored and there are also a heap of groceries on offer.

*Good for your wallet *Good for your Health *Good for the Planet

We are a conventional/spray free hub. You can read more info on how we work with growers here https://www.boxdivvy.com/how

**Good for your wallet**
Safer than a supermarket and you'll save up to 40% on produce and groceries compared to online supermarkets. Why so inexpensive? We believe most of the profit should go back to paying our farmers fairly and to benefit our members. You get to know our growers - how cool is that!

Our Box Divvy community is about supporting local growers, providing fresh, accessible and inexpensive fresh food to everyone – no matter where you live or your income. Some grocery items will be from overseas if they’re not commercially grown in Australia.

There are now over 3,500 families involved in Box Divvy's across Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains and South Coast.

**Good for your Health**
This is all available to our community through an initiative with Western Sydney Diabetes Alliance Partners Western Sydney Diabetes Building Fresh Food Communities.

Box Divvy will only offer high nutritional products rather than like supermarkets where you have access to impulse purchasing of high energy but low in nutrition options.

It's a fun and educational way to connect with your neighbours, share recipes that fit in with your lifestyle, a place to share your cooking successes (and not so successful, as we can learn from those too), learn how to store fresh produce, and how to use up what's left in the fridge before the next delivery.

I run the Hub and am known as your Hubster: I’ll be sharing with you stories and recipes; encourage you to share your food stories, and have fun being involved in this innovative and easy way to shop.

When you register to join you receive a Welcome email with a User Guide. I'll also be in touch with you to talk you further through how everything works.

To join my Hub use this link https://app.boxdivvy.com.au/register/hub/285

****************** Due to COVID-19 Our Local Food Hubs have in place Hygiene, Packing and Social Distancing protocol. Wave and smile from a distance on pick up.
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Want to know more?

Here's more about how it works and how I run the Hub.

How it Works: Buy. Share. Save.

1. Everyone gets a Starting Order some 6-8 staples, amount on your household size, and you can take out 3 things. Yes, you can have a say each week what goes into this through making a 'Wish List Vote'.

2. Opt In. Then we share boxes online known as SPLITS. You choose 1 or 2 boxes to share and look at what other members have put up to share. All done on our phone, ipad or computer using the smart Box Divvy App.

The App shares it all out.

Cut-off for the order is Monday 9pm.
Your cards are charged then at cut-off. Make sure you have funds ready please.

Payment security: We have a daily updated SSL certificate on our website keeping any information safe plus all transactions are through Eway payment gateway.

DECLINING CARDS
Happens sometimes due to another transaction taking out your funds or needing to update your Credit Card. We do also send out a reminder a month before your card is expired.

If your card declines, you receive an automatic email saying it will be recharged midday the next day. This is day before delivery. But if it declines at midday then it will be manually processed at 5pm and you will be charged $5 admin fee as we pay someone to process these. You must pay the day before delivery.

Ordering Cycle
Ordering is over a four day cycle.

It is expected you will order weekly and at least fortnightly. You can suspend orders before Order Creation but if you’re going away, please let me know.

**Good for the Planet**
No unnecessary packaging - I encourage you to provide me with your own name labelled and insulated shopping bags, tubs, and name labelled cloth bags/net bags/ or containers for the small things like beans, mushrooms etc. Please wash them thoroughly before returning each week. Groceries - some already packed in soft plastic which we can recycle in REDcycle bins.

Let’s Unsupermarket!

See how we work with growers here https://www.boxdivvy.com/how
Check out the website here www.boxdivvy.com

Quality Control and communication. Great flavoursome produce but be aware we don’t tell our growers what they must pack. So produce will come in different sizes and for example, it may on occasion have growing marks on it – the way nature intended.
We do not create food waste and if the produce is tasty and grown the way nature intended then we will take ‘curly’ cucumbers.

But, if you get a yucky something let me know within 24 hours of pick up with a photo please. The photo is needed to show the growers. To make up we’ll either put in extras the following week or if I can, put in a credit request. You need to let me know within 24 hours of pickup or delivery. After that time frame I can’t be held responsible for how the produce has been stored.

I would love your feedback and to know how happy you are with my Hub and the food. Feel free to put a review on this page as well.
If you have an issue please contact me directly so that I can see how I can resolve it. Constructive feedback is most helpful because if you don’t let me know I can’t aim to resolve it .

Exciting stuff. So join our Hub and Unsupermarket.

Any questions you find unanswered on the website feel free to message me.

Box Divvy provides local communities with market-fresh, locally-grown, seasonal fruit and vegetables, helping you cook and eat better for less.

02/11/2019

☀️☀️ Good morning! ☀️☀️ What have you cooked from your box this week? These asparagus are divine!

01/11/2019

Lots of organised members with their own containers, bags and baskets. LOTS of produce off to happy homes. :)

🍉🍏🍎🍎🍇🍈🍑🍌🍆🍅🌽🥦🥔🥑🍠

25/10/2019

When in season local garlic is available. The thing about Box Divvy is only what is in season is offered in the produce range.

About half is local, seasonally, and then off around the state and Australia.

Box Divvy is more than produce including groceries and meat/seafood. When you join you can check out where things are from by clicking on he photo in Marketplace. Not everything is commercially grown in Australia like dried apricots.

Ah well! but we get a great variety of the things that are.

Beautiful new season fresh-stem garlic from Hay in Western NSW has just come on the market this week.

$𝟰.𝟴𝟰 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝟯 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗯𝘀

21/10/2019

Our focus for this week's order is herbs, which also includes garlic, onion, chilli etc.
Most weeks, there are a couple of herbs suggested in splits, but they don't often get through.
The reason for focussing on particular product groups each week is to help out the members who use them often but rarely get them in splits.

Herbs are a great way to add extra flavour to your meals in a healthy and natural way.

How to store herbs:
*In a glass of water in the fridge
*Wrap in damp paper towel, and keep in plastic bag in fridge
*freeze - loose, or in olive oil in ice cube trays
*Dry - hang in bunches, upside down, in a warm, dry spot. Or spread on a baking tray and pop in a low oven.

Ginger, chilli, tumeric etc can all be frozen. I keep mine in a ziplock bag. Just chop off the required amount when ready to use.

So far in splits we have:
Thyme, Rosemary, Rocket, Mint, Dill, Coriander, ginger and red and brown onions.

Please share how you store herbs!

19/10/2019

Check out this week's price comparison for a basket of fruit & veggies from Blue Gum's Starter Order for a 4 person household.

The total basket price at Box Divvy is $20.84 whereas over at Coles you'll be paying $42.98 making Box Divvy up to 52% cheaper than the major supermarkets!

At Box Divvy we don't have all the overhead costs such as storage, distribution, staffing, electricity and so on which means we keep our prices low.

But not only will you 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 ✔️, you'll also be joining a community of like-minded families who are passionate about 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 ✔️, 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 ✔️, 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 ✔️, and all the while getting access to 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 ✔️.

And roughly 70% of the produce comes direct from small local growers and is delivered fresh to the Hubs within 24-48 hours of being picked ✔️.

If you would like to join your local Box Divvy Hub go to the Find a Hub link on www.boxdivvy.com.au

17/10/2019

Narraweena! This is what our first starting order looks like for a family of 4. This beautiful food rainbow 🌈 for around $30 - the quantities and prices will likely move a bit as people opt out of items. Remember, you have until Sunday 9pm to opt out of up to 3 items and suggest and join in splits (extras) We have some interesting splits on the go at the moment- silverbeet, Roma tomatoes, free range eggs, herbs and bakery items... please check them all out and join in to help get them over the line. Delivery for this order will be next Tuesday. If you’re not a member yet and would like to be a part of the following order cycle, please join on my FB page before 9pm next Wednesday as new orders for our hub are published on Thursdays. Any questions, send me a message!

16/10/2019

Here's another great reason to join our Box Divvy hub by Thursday to received your first order on the Wednesday 23rd October
Look at this price comparison!
You can save more than 50% on your fresh food bill
Register today

12/10/2019

Since doing this comparison 2 days ago, Box Divvy cucumbers have dropped in price!

Kim and Laks Ung in Kemps Creek checked out their vines, and thanks to the warm weather over the past week, they will be picking several tonnes of cucumbers. That's 200-300 boxes. And priced accordingly at just $2/kg. Only at Box Divvy!

10/10/2019

Our red capsicums this week are small and sweet, with an equally sweet price of $3.26/kg.

The supermarkets with their strict 'cosmetic' standards would likely reject these due to their small size. It's hard to believe that up to 40% of Australian produce is rejected by supermarkets every year destined for landfill!

In a recent article half of Aussie consumers said they are not happy with supermarkets using so much plastic packaging and disposing of imperfect fresh produce. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌?

But here at Box Divvy it’s about supporting the farmers no matter what the size, shape or skin finish of their produce. We treat it as all REAL produce. Real fruit and vegetables are not always the same size, shape or colour, but it’s all fresh and delicious food.

The thing is, there are ways to help our farmers, our community, our planet and also our pockets. Box Divvy is on average half the price of supermarkets produce and we have little to no packaging!

𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏-𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 and join your local Box Divvy Hub?