This is not like buying food from the grocery store. The food is not washed or waxed in order to look pretty. It's not ugly or unappealing, it just isn't gussied up. The cheese is good when delivered (I usually eat one that same day) but gets better when allowed to age.
There were plenty of items in my share I would not have considered purchasing if I were buying a la carte. Yet that forced me to expand my repertoire and eat healthier. I learned that I don't like kale chips but enjoy daikon radish chips. I've learned to bake with beets and cook apples every which way. Even with single shares and a family of four, I found I could not use all of the food in our shares before they would start to go off.
So, I invested in some methods of preserving. I'm not a big fan of canning, so I only canned applesauce. But I found that using my dehydrator and freezer I am enjoying the bounty of the season even into early May.
Because of my CSA shares and milk delivery, I rarely have to buy groceries from a store. I have been so pleased that this year I added a mushroom share.
However, I did not re-order a flower share. The cut flowers are lovely and more varied than from the florists I have used in the past, but they are also not subject to all the spraying and preservatives that goes on flowers from the florist. As a result, they don't last as long. They can still look nice 5-6 days after pickup if I change the water every day. However, I had a timing issue. Because of the day my share is delivered, the flowers were lovely during the weekends and days my office doesn't see clients and began to fade by the time I really wanted to show them off. If I wanted the flowers for home, they would have been just fine.