Our good intentions shopping-wise have for some time involved getting much of our big grocery shopping delivered by Tesco and topping up on fresh veg from the market (or sometimes Asda...) Anyway as the market stuff is always way tastier than the supermarket and far cheaper we thought some kind of hybrid between the two would be ideal - online ordering of freshly grown real food. Enter Northern Harvest, an outfit doing just that:

We ordered this lot on Wednesday and lo on Friday morning the man and his van arrived promptly and delivered all this very nice looking stuff. Two big bags of fruit and veg, a good wodge of meat, some beer (mmmm beer) and a few dirty luxuries (mmm ice cream). The catch of course is that Northern Harvest are whacking a sizeable markup on top of the prices you would pay in the farmers market or wherever these things come from. For example a pair of organic lamb steaks say £2.95 on the packet and cost us £4.99. It's a lot of money for a bit of leg-work but seeing this we just had to spend a few minutes being scientific. We put exactly the same order into Tescos and it came out as follows:

So the moral of this story is that this service compares pretty well with Tescos particularly considering the food is of much better quality and so fresh - look at the dirt on those carrots and parsnips. The flaw in the plan is that there are quite a few things we did not end up getting - household stuff like bog-roll which would undoubtedly be cheaper from the supermarket. However if we were really being thrifty we would just pull our socks up and go to the market where you can get a huge amount of everything for twelve quid.