Box Divvy Royalla - Royalla

26/09/2025

🥑🍅Market Update - Veggies🍅🥑

Vegetables, by-and-large, continue to benefit from the warm weather and are mostly between good value and very cheap:

🥑🥦🫑🥒avocado, cauliflowers, broccoli, broccolini, cabbages, capsicum, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, fennel, eggplant, asparagus and lettuce are all cheap – and mostly cheaper than last week.

🍅Cherry and grape tomatoes are at their lowest price in who-knows-how-long.

🌿Herbs are coming down in price, especially coriander, parsley and now mint are all around $1.50 a bunch. Basil prices are dropping, but only slowly – until they’re had a good number of weeks of warm sunshine.

🥬George Portelli’s small wombok will take a few weeks’ break, so in the interim we’ll have medium wombok – but still good value at around $3.40.
Baby Q’s are back: just $2.26 a serve!

🌽A few products are out: Brussels Sprouts have reached the end of the season – for now (although there may be a late flush in December for those who’d want their sprouts for Christmas lunch). Fresh corn is also out: most has been shipped to Victoria for the Royal Melbourne Show. We expect them back in a week’s time.

26/09/2025

🫐🍓Market Update - Fruit🍓🫐

🍏 In fruit, we’re on a seasonal cusp: apples in particular are starting to get tight and pricey,

🍑 but we’re still a few weeks away from our favourite summer fruit: yes, we’ve seen early apricots, peaches and nectarines – but early stone fruit can ripen unevenly, or not at all. And besides, it’s still very expensive (as in: $20 a kilo).

🥭 The Royal Melbourne Show – plus the AFL Grand Final – seems to have sucked up every available mango, so they’re not getting any cheaper for a couple of weeks – but by mid-October, expect them to ease in price.

🍓🫐 So just as well the berry season this year keeps on giving: jumbo punnets of strawberries are still super-cheap, blueberries are great value – and this week, they’re joined by raspberries.

🍉 The other good news: melons of every stripe have started coming out of North Queensland in good numbers, so not only is seedless watermelon below $2 a kilo, rockmelons and honeydew melon.

🍌Tropical fruit is a mixed bag: bananas are up, but papaya and passionfruit are cheaper.

🍊 Expect some changes in citrus in the coming weeks: navels will finish up, and Valencias will take over the reign; limes will get cheaper but lemons more expensive (see below); and blood oranges, tangelos and mandarins will finish up next month (so enjoy them whilst they last).

26/09/2025

See below for this week’s Divvy Deals 🤩👇

Some of the best prices we've seen this week. Thanks to our Farmers!

23/09/2025

My weekly shopping list makes life sooo much easier. Thanks Box Divvy North Turramurra - Milton for this handy guide to setting up a shopping list.

23/09/2025

Honest 2 Goodness crackers are now on sale for only $2!

22/09/2025

💸Super savings this week….💸

🥤Remedy Kombucha and Sodaly

If the warm weather has got you a little thirsty, here is probably the best pantry Divvy Deal to date:

🥤Remedy Kombucha at $5.50 per 4-pack (that’s 35% off) and Sodaly at $4.50 (that’s 28% off). All sugar-free. And don’t worry, we have plenty of stock…

(BTW: supermarkets are selling Remedy for $9.50 per 4-pack, and Sodaly for $5.90…)

Note: Remedy Ginger Beer not included in this Divvy Deal – it’s just the Kombucha

20/09/2025

Eeeeek, we’ve run out of Ardmona Diced Tomatoes!!!!!!

And not just us: SPC Ardmona won’t be able to replenish our stocks until mid-late October. Why?? Because they’re now exporting canned tomatoes to …China – in an attempt to reduce their reliance on Australian supermarket chains. Unfortunately, we got caught up in this, and they are now waiting for new season Queensland tomatoes to process.

Also unfortunately: the McKenzies lot that was such a hit has finished and unlikely to be repeated, but Greg has found an alternative to tide us over the gap: La Rosina uses ripe Italian tomatoes and are processed to preserve all their authentic and natural flavour. Ingredients Peeled Tomatoes (60%), Tomato Juice, Acidity Regulator (330). Product of Italy.

Available as a single can or by the tray.

20/09/2025

Sugar alternatives are back at Box Divvy while stocks last!

Thousands of Aussies have swapped sugar for these natural options. They taste like sugar, without the calories. And because blood-sugar spikes can nudge your body out of fat-burning mode, zero-sugar alternatives can help you stay on track.

Why they’re great: 100% natural and pure (no erythritol or maltodextrin), diabetic- and keto-friendly, won’t spike blood sugar or insulin, gentle on the gut, and easy to use in drinks, baking, and cooking.

🩵 Organic 100% Stevia Reb-M Extract (400 servings) - tastes remarkably like sugar without the bitter/metallic aftertaste common in other stevias.

💚 Organic 100% Monk Fruit Powder (20 g, 400 servings) - truly 100% pure extract (unlike many supermarket blends), 100–150× sweeter than sugar, zero calories, rich in antioxidant mogrosides. Because it’s a pure extract, you use only a tiny amount for clean sweetness with none of the usual bitterness.

💚 Organic 100% Monk Fruit Liquid (140 servings) - ~14× sweeter than sugar; a few drops sweeten hot or cold drinks. Perfect for coffee, homemade lemonade, or other sweet drinks - add about 6 drops, then adjust to taste.

Why purity matters: Many products sold as “monk fruit” are actually ~1% monk fruit with ~99% fillers (often erythritol). Other options use weaker extracts, so you need larger amounts, which can introduce a bitter aftertaste. A quick tell: brown-coloured powders often taste more bitter.

How to use monk fruit (Treason):
You can completely substitute sugar or simply cut it down in any recipe.

100 g sugar → 20 servings (1 g) of Treason

1 cup / 250 ml maple syrup → 50 servings (2.5 g) of Treason

Start with a quick taste test in your favourite drink to dial in sweetness.

One serving = 50 mg (measuring spoon included).

Baking tip: Because monk fruit is intensely sweet and very light, replace the missing bulk with mashed banana, pumpkin purée, apple sauce, yoghurt, or a little extra flour/liquid as needed.

Find prices in the app: Pantry ⏩ Baking ⏩ Sugar & Sweeteners

See the comments for some recipes to get you started! 👇

20/09/2025

🌟🌟New at Box Divvy🌟🌟

Four new flavours of traditional Japanese rice crackers from Spiral Foods are now available in Marketplace (under Snacks & entertainment ➡️ Savoury Snacks)

Wheat free and oven baked, not fried. Non GMO, nothing artificial, no added oils or fats. Vegan. Made in Japan. And super delicious. No really!

Available in Tamari, Black Sesame, White Sesame and Nori – priced at $3.48 per 75g pack. (Harris Farm sells them for around $5).

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Note also that the last of the H2G Brown Rice Crackers (Salt & Vinegar, Sweet Chilli and Smokey BBQ will be cleared out at $2 a pack from Tuesday onwards.

20/09/2025

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20/09/2025

🥑🍅 Market Update - Veggies 🍅🥑

Vegetables are a bargain this week (spuds aside).

🥑Avocados are under a dollar each;

🌽🥦🫛corn, beans, broccoli, cauliflower and broccolini are all great buying; snow peas and sugar-snap peas are both under $10/kg (snow peas are going for $16/kg at Colesworth).

🥬Small wombok is about $1.30 each, and cabbages from George Portelli (Maroota) are $2.50.

🌿From Simon Chong (Leppington), local herbs are easing: coriander has halved to $1.41/bunch, parsley is under $2, and English spinach is $2/bunch ($5 at Colesworth). Fans of Chinese spinach (kangkung) will be happy - it’s now under $4. Unusually, Thai basil is $3.97 cheaper than regular basil (for now), with regular basil also trending down.

🥬 We’re backing our farmers: Manuel Xerri (Agnes Banks) has gone big on iceberg lettuce and the market’s flooded. Rather than see them ploughed in, he’s asking 60¢ a head; we’ve listed them on Marketplace at $1 each.

🥒🍅 Go big and round out your salad with Lebanese cucumbers ($3.75/kg) and grape tomatoes (finally under $3 a handful). Snow peas are a crisp, sweet win at $9.54/kg-versus $16/kg at Colesworth.

🌳Asparagus is flying - loose or bunched at about $2 a handful. (Fun fact: in spring it can grow up to 10 cm in a day.) Toss on the BBQ, shave raw into salads, or do a quick stir-fry with eggs or noodles.

⭐️From Charlie Vella (Freemans Reach): Caulini Flower ($3.47 each) - super tender, great raw in salads or lightly cooked, plus chunky kohlrabi ($1.74 each). Quick idea: blanch kohlrabi in stock with a smashed garlic clove, then finish with a spoon of sour cream and a sprinkle of dill, or blitz into a silky soup.

20/09/2025

🍓🫐 Market Update - Fruit 🫐🍓

Berry into spring!

🍓Strawberries (500 g punnets) are just $3.86. Stocking up for smoothies or jam? Grab a tray for $24 - that’s nearly 4 kg (8 punnets).
🫐Blueberries are $3 a punnet, or $15 for a half tray (6 punnets), and they freeze beautifully.
🫙Got berries to spare? Make a quick summer berry jam, or cook them with rhubarb and a little sugar (or monk fruit) for a lovely sweet tart compote.

🍊Citrus is shining: late season seedless Afourers, Navels, blood oranges and tangelo are great value at $2–$3/kg. Afourer mandarins are especially ap-peel-ing - easy to peel and super sweet. Coles have them at $3.50/kg, but for our Box Divvy community they’re $2.97/kg.

🥭Mangoes are about $3.50 each and still on the smaller side. Expect them to size up and likely dip below $3 within the next fortnight, perfect timing for whole tray deals.

🍉Melons remain a tad pricey for now, but seedless watermelon should drop below $2/kg in a week or two.

🍍Tropicals: papaya, pineapple and passionfruit are still elevated, and bananas are a little short with prices drifting back above $4/kg.

🍑🍇And looking ahead to the first half of October, watch for new season peaches, nectarines, apricots and grapes from Queensland-right as apples and pears begin to tighten.