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Originally Posted by GTJ
Do you have many groceries delivered? What kind of places offer this service, and what would you say are the advantages?
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I have all the vegetables delivered. It`s a set price a week, and you get a fair variety of things in a basic box, with the choice to order additional stuff.
I order from
らでぃっしゅぼーや, but there are a few more services that are good.
http://www.benesse-ef.jp/ and
http://www.oisix.com/ are the two biggest, as far as I know. They aren`t exactly cheap, but they do keep you from making the same thing over and over - and push you to eat more (in both volume and variety) vegetables.
It seriously keeps our spending on groceries for the month down, despite costing more. Usually all the fruits and vegetables we eat come from the delivered box (we also order a box of fruit, which is the greatest thing
ever as grocery store fruit is way WAY too expensive), and I`ll usually buy a couple frozen packs of meat and cheap spice sets from
http://www.kobebussan.co.jp/ (700 for 1kg of chicken, etc - about 2000 a month for meat and mixes). Then all I actually buy at a regular grocery store is stuff that goes bad quickly. Tofu, milk, etc. 12000/month for fruit and vegetables, 2000~3000 for meat and fish, and 3000 or so for other stuff. Under 30000/month for 3 people, including work and school lunches. Our rice is magical though, grown by family.
If we had to buy that too that would be another 3000 or so.
Back when it was just the two of us, and I didn`t have to make school lunches or "after school nutritious snacks" we got by on about half that. Fruit and vegetable box delivered every other week, freeze about half after prep and use the second week... Meat/fish was whatever was on sale the cheapest at the local grocery.
Or bought in frozen bulk when we were up on the coast.