I arrived home last night to find a pineapple on my doorstep.  I’ve never had a pineapple on my doorstep before.  In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever had a real live pineapple before, only out of a tin.  So I’m very very excited by this.  Yes, I’m a saddo.

Also within the mini fruit & veg box are two portobello mushrooms (only 2?  Shame), 1 yellow pepper and 1 green pepper (bit stingy on the peppers this week too), a bag of shallots, some Swiss chard and 4 bananas.  And when I’ve emptied the box I find two free vanilla pods which are apparently a (very) belated Christmas present.  I like presents.  Thank you Riverford.

Riverford box delivery 26 February 2009

Riverford box delivery 26 February 2009

And during the week as I was telling Facebook how excited I was to be getting a pineapple in this week’s delivery, a friend warned me that when he and his wife get round to eating theirs, it’s usually gone off and so I heeded this warning (all warnings should be heeded, I reckon.   Is anything else heeded?) but I needn’t have bothered with the heedering as Riverford had very kindly added a note in the box suggesting I eat the pineapple within a couple of days of its delivery, so it’s pineapple smoothies for me this weekend.  Should power tomorrow’s 8 miler nicely.

Pineapple warning

Pineapple warning

(p.s. don’t forget there’s still time to enter the competition to win a copy of Simon Rimmer’s fantastic vegetarian cookbook – “The Seasoned Vegetarian”)

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