How to Waste Less Food with Misfits Market

I have tried so many different subscription boxes: food, clothing, makeup, you name it. However, I always seem to gravitate towards food, naturally. I love eating (who doesn’t, am I right?) and getting food delivered in the mail is my part time job. While there’s all sorts of boxes for snacks and meal recipe kits you can choose from, did you know you can have produce delivered? Today, I want to talk all about how to waste less food with Misfits Market, their message, and why you need to subscribe to this box!

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How to Waste Less Food with Misfits Market

We all want to be better humans. We try to recycle, buy metal straws, and eat less meat. However, a lot of people don’t realize how much food actually gets wasted, not even in their own homes. Have you ever walked into your local grocery store and thought “Wow, look at all the beautiful produce. Every thing is so perfect, colorful, and enticing!” Now think of one of your friends who has a garden in their backyard and gifts veggies to their love ones. How often do you get the weirdest misshapen veggies you’ve ever seen? Extra large cucumbers or weirdly shaped zucchini: this is the truth. Most produce is NOT created equally.

Over $1 trillion of food is wasted each year. The food is either getting tossed at the farms for being unsellable, rotting in warehouses for being in poor conditions for too long, or going unsold in stores until it’s inedible. Just like the beauty standards for humans, fruits and veggies have very high standards to live up to as well. Ugly fruits, misshapen vegetables, and produce that’s too small or too big will get tossed. Just a quarter of this wasted food could be used to feed the entire starving population of the world. This is where companies like Misfits Markets come in.

How do we waste less food?

Misfits Markets envisions a waste-free world where no one struggles to afford healthy food, and they’re starting to make the change with ugly produce.

Every box of Misfits produce you order benefits local farmers, helps prevent food waste, and ultimately makes such an impact on our environment. By purchasing food that would otherwise be wasted, you’re letting regional farmers generate extra income. Additionally, Misfits Market produce is up to 50% cheaper than grocery store prices, which is really amazing savings each week.

What do you mean “ugly fruit”? Is it bad?

Think of the story I told you earlier about your friend’s backyard garden. THOSE are what vegetables look like more often than not. All-natural produce is apt to look funkier than the picture-perfect kind that is engineered in a lab. Carrots that are twisted or fused together will get tossed. Apples that fall and get a slight bruise will be wasted. All of these produce are perfectly normal, delicious, and worthy of being cooked up in your kitchen. My personal experience has been that most of the fruit and vegetables don’t even look that bad. It’s actually surprising some of the produce I receive that looks fine and would have been wasted.

What produce do you get?

This is the fun part for me, honestly! The boxes are well rounded and vary by season. In the Winter, you’ll receive more squash, potatoes, apples, and peppers. In the Spring, you’ll get more berries and asparagus! Summer you’ll get peaches and tomatoes! I love not knowing what I’m getting in each box.

Some of the produce I have received are garlic, oranges, apples, kale, green onion, acorn squash, butternut squash, and lots of cucumbers! These are honestly mostly vegetables I don’t buy! I always go to the store and while I absolutely love looking at all the beautiful vegetables (beauty standards at full force at my store) it’s so overwhelming. I probably would have never purchased an acorn squash, and now that I have it, I can find a recipe online to make something with it and try something new!

How much?

There are 2 boxes you can choose from! There is the Mischief Box, which is their smaller one. It has about $35-$40 worth of grocery store or farmer’s market produce. It’s approximately 10-12 pounds of mixed fruits and veggies and feeds 1-2 people for a week. This box is ideal for cooking some meals, snacking, etc! I remember getting so much cucumber and making SO much cucumber infused water! I felt like if mother nature was a person and drank cucumber-infused water.

The second box is the Madness Box! This has $65-$70 worth of grocery store or farmers’ market produce! It’d approximately 18-20 pounds of produce and serves 4-5 people for a week. This box is ideal for families and households that cook daily.

I use the Mischief Box and find it’s MORE than enough veggies for James and I still have some squash from weeks ago!

Prices:

Mischief- $19/wk. One time purchase would be $23.75 or you can have it delivered weekly or bi-weekly.

Madness- $34/wk. One time purchase would be $42.50 or you can have it delivered weekly or bi-weekly.

For some, it may seem like a lot of money for a subscription box, but this would be a perfect replacement of your weekly grocery shop where you buy produce at the store. You get organic veggies for way less than you’d pay in store, and can actually save a ton on your weekly store runs.

My Thoughts

The Mischief Box is an amazing way to start. You can test out the veggies you get and see if it works for you! I promise you’ll fall in love. There’s something so exciting about getting a surprise box of mystery produce every week that you can play with. Using Misfits Market has actually made me eat healthier by consuming more veggies I would never buy myself.

I can confidently say I 100% recommend this subscription box for anyone who loves veggies, wants to get creative in the kitchen, and wants to contribute to helping the environment. You can click here to purchase your own box and try it out! Let me know what you think of the box when you do! I truly think you’ll love it!