So I’ve posted a bit about Glossybox, the monthly subscription company that delivers a handful of high-end beauty samples, beautifully wrapped each month.
Now please welcome Glossybox’s delicious, ethical, brilliant, foodie equivalent: DELUXEBITE.
This box of YUM was sat on my doorstep this morning after co-founder Jason Brown dropped me an email to inquire if I fancied sampling the service – erm, YES!
From top left, the box of delights contained:
I was really pleased to see a Devon-producer in the mix: The Coffee Factory. Their ‘Black Label’ blend is roasted and ground 10 miles down the road from us in Axminster. This double-gold Great Taste Award winning blend is destined for the coffee pot first thing tomorrow.
Nim’s Fruit Crisps. I won’t lie, I ripped this packet open within minutes of unpacking the box:
We had a bag of the Kiwi and Pineapple mix and it was brilliant. Forget chewy ol’ dried fruits, or those gelatinous compressed ‘fruit bars’. These were paper thin, super crisp and just sweet enough. I have kept the packet so I can badger our local health food deli to stock them (you can buy online too). A great toddler snack, too – as CB testified, shoveling in half the packet in one.
A great no added sugar caramelised onion chutney from a small Yorkshire (where DELUXEBITE is based) producer, Bracken Hill Fine Foods.
The butternut squash marinade from Raman’s (another small Yorkshire, kitchen-table enterprise) has just been devoured. Left to marinade on some de-boned chicken thighs for a couple of hours we grilled them off and had them with spinach and new potatoes. The sweet, sticky relish had a hit of heat and a lingering fragrance to it, thanks to the founders’ Indian origins.
Finally, a venison chorizo from Great Glen Game (sustainably sourced from estates in Scotland), which I am re-gifting to my father-in-law tomorrow who, as a Southern Italian, as rather a penchant for cured meats.
DELUXEBITE is a brilliant, brilliant young company. Browsing a deli myself, I probably wouldn’t have picked up half of these things, yet they all turned out to be fantastic finds and all in generous, full-size portions.
What’s more, for every DELUXEBITE box bought, the company will donate a meal to UK Foodbanks. A great ‘added extra’ that shows thought and conscience from its founders.
Every family has a rampant foodie in it’s midst, wouldn’t this be the perfect gift? You can subscribe for £20/mth (I actually think this is brilliant value considering the contents of this sample box) or there are 3, 6 and 12mth options that work out even better.
www.deluxebite.com
Thank you to Jason and his team for gifting me my DELUXEBITE box – we loved it!
[…] God I love crisps. Like really love them. Posh Kettle Chips (have you tried the pesto flavour?!) or the downright toxic pickled onion Space Raiders of my youth. Crisps are my diet Kryptonite. So, to that end, here are my Kale Crisps which satisfy my cravings for a savoury, salty crunch (on a sweeter note I’ve just discovered these sweet fruit crisps from Nims which are AMAZING – thanks to DeluxeBite). […]
Great post! The fruit crisps look yummy!