Abel & Cole

Terrible experience!!!
One of their Drivers actually HIT my car, and then drove off. Customer service just fobbed me off and said take us to court.
Awful awful awful

A really great supplement to your regular grocery runs!
Initially I signed up for the «small fruit and veg box» as I felt the supermarkets near me were sorely lacking in good, varied produce.
Then I thought — oh yes, organic eggs. Surely, I need those weekly.
…and milk.
…and bread. Juices? Sure.
…and pies, lasagnas and other quick from freezer to oven food.
…and I just ate a quiche, spinach, ellemental and tomato — divine.
*setup was easy — they deliver, obviously. I arranged to give them a key to the building door (they have a secure process) and they pop it right inside very early AM and are on their way. Never missed.
*can skip weeks for holiday, etc. I once put it on hold for a month just because we needed a break and would be away for a bit. No big deal.
*Automatic billing via debit card. Billed once your food hits your door.
*Can amend the orders very easily each week. They email me on Mondays and I often add in a few things here and there depending on what we need/​want for the week. Very flexible.
*They recycle all of their own boxes, so I simply leave them out on Wednesday mornings for the driver to pick up from the following week. The fridge items come packed in UK wool and ice packs, also can be sent back to be reused. The company obviously values the earth!
I’m particularly fond of their frozen foods (lasagna, pies, etc) especially for when we are in a crunch. I also like their pasties, quiches, etc. These seem to be my favorites. Of course the eggs and milk and such are all great.
One thing about the fruit/​veg — is that because its not sprayed to high hell with pesticides, fresheners etc… you often need to plan to eat it within a few short days, otherwise risk spoiling. Also, it comes from the ground. Like real dirt in the UK. SO sometimes you need to wash/​scrub a bit before eating. Normal behavior, but worth noting! Usually each week comes with a small bag of potatoes and onions as well, great complements to the many dishes and recipes they include. (i like this — though I don’t know about using recipes, I prefer to ruin everything I make!)
Overall I’m pretty happy with this. Always a surprise, or something I wouldn’t normally buy. I like all the stories about the farmers and growers, the recipes and information. Nice to support local — even though I realize this is a pretty significant operation now. Bonus, it runs smoothly because of it…
If you like fresh stuff arriving to your door — I highly recommend! A bit pricey, but saves you from the Tesco-​tsk-​tsk of the world.

Abel and Cole are the by far the best company to buy food from. With the recent horse meat scandel being found in supermarket meats, its a bloody good job that I am with abel and cole.
I have been a customer of theirs since 2012, tey started me with a cook book for free, little gifts for free in my weekly boxes and also recipies to go with the veg that I ordered. What a joy.
The are charging me 99p for delievery charge, they send me order reminders, they refund any bad produce, and everytime I call up, the staff are just so helpful.
I love it. I dont miss going to the shops for food, I love my extra spare time, I do all my ordering online. What a revlotionary way to get your food, and support local farmers.

I have the same experience as Eleanor.
After being a faithful customer for a few years, earlier this year I started finding the quality had degraded: yoghurts didn’t last, at least one fruit or vegetable on the box was rotting and indelible. After I stopped using their service, they started hassling me with phone calls.
The last straw was when I recently started receiving random marketing rubbish from companies. After numerous phone calls and emails chasing down various companies over a period of 2 months, I found out that Abel & Cole had decided to sell my contact details to a marketing company Transactis, who sold it to Experian and who sold it on to random companies.
This is despite:
(a) I never agreed to allow my contact details to be passed on (I had opted out on my preferences); and
(b) in any case their privacy policy states they would only pass it onto «carefully selected 3^rd parties whose products or services you might be interested in».
How does selling to random marketing companies fulfil this? Not withstanding the fact that I never agreed to this, they are in breach of their own privacy policies.
The worst of it is that they ignored my emails until I posted on their Facebook account and I’m yet to receive a satisfactory response from them.
I cannot believe their audacity. Don’t sign up with them unless you want shoddy produce and your details to be sold to random companies.

I am updating this review as I am quite impressed by Abel and Cole. I still think it is expensive but all the food that I’ve ordered from there has lasted a very long time. The quality and freshness is clearly very high — they are leaps and bounds ahead of Sainsburys where you are lucky to find veggies with a use-​by date more than two days in advance.
Kale and sprouts are a regular purchase going forward — they are well worth it.

Great idea. You choose what you want to get it delivery to your home and the quality is ok. They have a big range of organic fruits, milk, free range eggs, bread, food in general so you don‘t have to go out shopping.

If you think it’s a little bit silly that all of the vegetables in your life come wrapped in plastic from the far corners of the earth, sprayed in unnecessary chemicals, then Abel & Cole is worth a try.
I like the element of surprise and the fact that they deliver in the morning before I’m even out of bed. I wish I could pick the date of my delivery, but that is not the end of the world.
The «small» box is actually pretty big given that I spend most of my time going to restaurants. They include recipes with their delivieres, and the one I tried this weekend was oustanding.
Highly recommended, and looking forward to trying the rest of their options beyond fruit and veg.

While I love our local greengrocers there is something magical about receiving a weekly box of organic produce from Able and Cole. The quality of the fruit and veg boxes are excellent, and their website makes it easy to tailor your order to avoid all your obvious dislikes (beetroot anybody?). You can also easily amend orders for other essentials (e.g., eco-​dishwashing liquid) which makes the weekly shopping experience a bit easier. They also seem to take environmental issues seriously; asking for you to return your boxes the next week for pick-​up and using a minimum of packaging with each order. My only minor quibble is that it would be really cool if they had a vegetarian/​vegan filter on their site, so we didn’t have to wade through all the organic meat offers.
Overall an excellent service and well-​worth it if you are into organic food.

I love Abel & Cole! I get a weekly fruit and veg box, and it feels like Christmas every time, because it’s always a little bit of a surprise (although you can take a peek on their website about what to expect if you don’t like the element of surprise…). The produce is organic, fresh, seasonal and most of it is locally produced and comes at reasonable prices. It really encourages you to cook at home and try new things — and in case you worry about what to do with all those strange looking veggies, never fear, for there are always some recipes added to the box. So have fun experimenting! Plus: everything is delivered to your doorstep, even in snow and ice, so you don’t have to go out and brave the cold yourself! I also like the fact that they take back and recycle their boxes and that there is no unnecessary packaging.
In addition to veg and fruit you can order other products from their website, including cleaning products and other household items, as well as meat, fish, poultry and, best of all, vegan alternatives such as tofu, soy milk, etc. There are always some special offers as well, and occasionally you will receive a little surprise gift.
The website is very easy to navigate; you can skip or amend orders as you please, and if there is anything you don’t like, you can just add it to your list of «dislikes» and they’ll give you something else instead. It couldn’t be easier or more convenient, really!

What a great service from a great company! Abel and Cole have a great selection of locally grown fruit, veg and meat offerings. We’ve ordered a wide range of food from them.
Our delivery guy is always friendly and they tend to include a nice little gift from time to time, wether it be free box of orange juice or most recently, a full cooking book!
The only issue I’ve ever had with them is that we don’t always get around to eating all the fresh food before the next delivery, but that isn’t there fault.

I L-​O-​V-​E Abel and Cole! There is something wonderful about opening my door on Wednesday’s and finding a box of fruit and veg! It’s like someone left it there by magic! And when I open the box I find all sorts of delightful goodies to cook for the week!
The fruit and veg box has resulted in much healthier eating on my part and more cooking I’m happy to say! And you can’t beat the price, I would never get the same quantity or quality on a box of fruit and veg if I bought it at the grocer.
Abel and Cole is wonderful and I highly recommend using their services. An extra bonus, you can order other goodies and have a weeks worth of delicious high quality food delivered to your door step!

Abel and Cole are a very nice company. They sell organic food and deliver for free. They promote and support local farmers. They encourage recycling and conscious living.
I order a vegetable box which arrives at my door each week. Unlike sanitised, washed and prepared, cold storage veg you find in supermarkets, the carrots still have the green bit on top, potatoes show evidence of being pulled from the ground. There’s no excess packaging.
The website, from where you order, is descriptive and easy to use. You can set your likes and dislikes, order extra items on an individual basis and view what’s on special and the weekly boxes.
They also sell fish, meat, cheese, wines and general other organic groceries.
Best of all I don’t have to stand in horrible shopping queues.