I recently discovered Misfits Market (imperfect produce and organic grocery delivery) and am completely in love with the service, so today I’m sharing my review! Misfits Market offers savings of up to 40% off grocery store prices and helps fight food waste with organic produce and sustainable sourced groceries delivered right to your door. With each delivery, I’m more and more in love. The big box you see below was under $50! For everything!
“Always affordable, occasionally funny looking” is printed boldly on the side of the box.
I’m fine with ugly produce – ugly fruits and vegetables or imperfect produce- which would normally go to waste!
I’d been hearing about imperfect fruits and vegetable produce delivery services (similar to meal delivery services ) and was so excited when I came across Misfits Market. I’ve now been a customer for a few weeks and each week am left in awe that a giant box of produce and other items (like pasta sauce and chips) is under $50! I’ve only had to throw out one kind of questionable vegetable that was probably fine but I thought it might have turned bad, out of 100s of items (and trust me, this happens with ‘perfect’ produce I pick out at the store which sits in my fridge too long).
How does Misfits Market work?
- You sign up for Misfits Market and choose the size of your box. $30 minimum.
- Then you get to choose seasonal organic produce available during a 3-day shopping window every week.
- You can also shop sustainably sourced groceries at prices that are much cheaper than traditional grocery stores (new items are added every week from pantry staples and proteins and snacks).
- Your order can be edited throughout the shopping window, then your order is delivered to your home!
The sad fact is that almost 1/3 (!!) of everything that’s grown in the U.S. never gets harvested because it doesn’t meet the superficial standards of a traditional store. So what if it’s slightly ugly or a little bigger or smaller than “normal”, right?
So besides saving on grocery costs and helping fixing the food system, I’ve noticed that I’ve been cooking and consuming so many more vegetable and fruits!! Here’s an example of how I used the produce:
- Vegetables like zucchini, bell peppers: balsamic grilled veggies, roasted vegetable lasagna
- Eggplants and herbs: eggplant pasta, magic green sauce
- Sweet potatoes and potatoes: grilled sweet potatoes and perfectly roasted potatoes
- Veggies like cucumbers and carrots: quick pickled veggies or Asian quick pickled veggies
- Fruit like pears and apples: pear ricotta honey toast, pear crumble for 2, pear and ginger caramel crumble, upside down apple and pear loaf, fresh apple cake with browned butter frosting
- Fruit like plums and peaches: peach plum blueberry crumble pie, freezer peach crumble, peach and tomato panzanella
If you’re ever looking for recipes to make with a specific fruit or vegetable, just use the search feature on this website, or feel free to message me and I’d be happy to brainstorm ideas!!
Every Misfits Market order benefits farmers and makers, helps prevent food waste, and ultimately helps save our environment. Regardless of how it looks, their stuff tends to be fresher than what you’d find in stores because it doesn’t hang out with middlemen or in storage. I hope you’ve enjoyed this Misfits Market review and that you give them a try!
GIVEAWAY: I’d like to give one lucky winner a chance to try Misfits Market. 1 winner will receive a $50 visa gift card so they can order a box of produce and some pantry staples! Simply leave a comment below with what’s your favorite recipe with fruits or veggies!! Winner chosen and notified 7/2/2021, U.S entrants only – winner must live in Misfits Market delivery area (under ‘where do you deliver?’).
Disclaimer: this post is not sponsored or endorsed, all opinions are mine alone. Thank you for supporting the brands and products which make the SweetPhi blog possible. I’m sharing this review and giveaway because I just love the service!
Agatha says
I’ve been using Misfits Market for a month or so now. I really like it. I have found that the vegetables such as cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, etc. hold up better during shipping than asparagus, parsley, etc. Citrus fruits and mangos (perhaps some of the best ones I’ve ever had) were better quality than apples (bruised), pineapple (extremely underripe) or berries (meh) (in my admittedly limited experience). The plastic container of spinach tends to be a little battered, but the spinach unharmed. And I did get some oat milk one time that the box was so smashed it seemed a miracle it didn’t leak. But it didn’t and it was fine. Just had to be stored on its side. In short, sending heavy delicate things through a delivery service is a challenge. But even so, I like it. You pay about the same for organic produce that you pay for regular produce at the store–sometimes less. And it just shows up on your doorstep. And really, none of the produce has seemed strange at all.
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback, I’m so happy you like Misfits Market too, I absolutely love it and couldn’t agree with your assessment more, it’s so nice to have it all delivered to your door, right!?
Sarah Brien says
Favorite is iceberg lettuce veggie wraps with peanut sauce. Basically throw in any raw veggies (I usually do carrots and peppers) in an iceberg lettuce wrap and drown it in peanut sauce! Yum! 🙂
Katie Stevens says
I LOVE red beets and zucchini. Steamed, pickled, roasted, beets…they’re my jam! My daughter and I would eat zucchini in any form. Bring it!
Tracie says
Summer is here and there’s always an abundance of zucchini squash here in Wisconsin!! So, I like to roast or grill the zucchini with onions and peppers…I cut them up, throw them in a ziploc bag, drizzle in some evoo, then add some taco seasoning, roast on a baking sheet or grill pan for about 10-15 minutes. Then enjoy with tortillas, black beans, salsa, and cheese! 😋🌮
Sweetphi says
Oh I love how you prepare them, sounds amazing!!
Lisa Burkhart says
Two favorites with fresh grown tomatoes. Caprese Salad with fresh basil and balsamic.
Also, if I have a bumper crop of tomatoes, I make homemade salsa and can it for the winter
Sweetphi says
Oh yum, those both sound amazing! I recently made a bruschetta with fresh tomatoes, basil and balsamic- I actually found a ‘balsamic reduction’ and it was incredible!
Melissa Storms says
I garden and love to grow vegetables I don’t usually buy because I am the only one who likes them. This week has been full of pak choi and tomato stir fried with a little sprinkle of parm on top.
Sweetphi says
I love that you garden vegetables (and what you cooked with them sounds absolutely delicious!!) Here’s to hoping you continue to have a wonderful crop/season 🙂
Amy Cooley says
Crescent roll veggie pizza is my favorite way to use up lots of veggies.
Sweetphi says
Oh that’s such a good one, I totally forgot about that, going to have to try those asap!
Mary W says
We like adding fruits to salads. Blueberries, peaches, nectarines, plums and many more go really well with a nice green salad. Surprisingly, lots of dressings compliment fruits.
Sweetphi says
I’m so with you! I always forget to add fruit to salads and then when I remember I’m like ‘yes, I need to do this more!!’
I have a really good recipe for a steak and nectarine salad, it’s such a good summery recipe https://sweetphi.com/steak-nectarine-salad-recipe/
Sue says
I found a spice mixture to use with roasted veggies that I love and use all the time. It is a blend of garlic powder, paprika and cumin. I put the ratio of the mixture on a Post It and placed on the inside of my spice cupboard so it is always handy!
Sweetphi says
That sounds delicious, and I love that you put it on a post-it note, how clever!
Annette says
My favorite recipe with veggies is Vegetable Tian.
Cheri says
During the summer peach cobblers with home made ice cream. The cobbler needs to have lots of fruit. Just tried using peaches and blueberries in a galette. Haven’t tried cooking artichokes though.