Abel & Cole Organics

The service is fantastic, the quality is great. This is a company that knows how to look after its customers and I can't recommend it highly enough. We have ordered veg. meat, cheese and wine from the company for over 6 months and have found all to be superb and competitively priced. It has been a bit of an eye opener having seasonal vegetables delivered and does involve a bit of a lifestyle change (for me anyway) and has really helped to inspire creativity in the kitchen. You can access recipes on the company website if you are ever at a loss for what to do with the contents of your box and regular news letters with suggestions ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago, I tried a local organic vegetable box scheme for a while but, despite all my best intentions, I couldn't make myself stick with it. Why not? Well, for a start it was a bit of a pain not knowing what I was going to receive from one week to the next - not to mention getting lumbered with huge numbers of cabbages or turnips because they happened to be in season at the time. I kept ending up with too many of the same thing and, much to my shame, had to throw a lot of fruit and veg away because it was going off before I got round to using it. I do value my health and try to eat well, plus I'd much rather use produce from local growers where possible, but ...  Read the complete review

Around 15 years ago, when I was first an Abel & Cole customer, it was one bloke with a dodgy white van (yep...) delivering spuds and eggs. Within a year, carrots, apples, and the occasional swede joined in, and it became clear that Abel & Cole was going to take off. Unfortunately, I then moved to an area that they didn't cover, and they fell off my food delivery radar. Fast forward to 2008, and a move to South East London. On the day I move in, what do I spy but a slick, beautifully branded, Abel & Cole van delivering to the house opposite. No more knackered Ford Transit for them. A bit of digging found their rather lovely website ...  Read the complete review

I've been getting an Abel & Cole box for nearly 2 years now. I get a small mixed fruit & veg box which arrives every Monday morning. You can't pick your delivery day as depends on the drivers route but you don't have to be in - you can nominate a safe place for the box to be left. I've had one box stolen in all that time and Abel&Cole refunded me immediately. My box includes 3 types of fruit, 3 types of veg and potatoes. You can check online for details of your delivery and you can select to stop certain foods that you don't like. I'm not picky and so haven't permanently excluded anything but occasionally after getting lots ...  Read the complete review

I have used Abel and Cole now for 2 years, and I can't recommend them highly enough. We buy a vegetable box, plus milk, cheese, eggs and yoghurts every week. On top of that, I order extras as and when I need them, such as meat, fish, feta cheese, extra fruit or vegetables. You can also order extras to be delivered at certain intervals, for example I get extra onions every 8 weeks. They have a great range of storecupboard items such as rice, pasta and tinned veg, as well as a delicatessen section. Some of the ready made items such as pies are a little pricey for me, but we don't tend to eat much ready made stuff. The basics are very competitively priced. The fish I have ...  Read the complete review