How much have you spent on Christmas food?

I have a grocery delivery next week £120. I need to borrow from DD 🤦‍♀️

I feel like I should point out that my DH insists on this ridiculous turkey which is £80, but only bc his parents pay for it.

I think about £20 per person and we are hosting 12. 3 veggies, 9 meat eaters. That's with nibbles, starters, mains, sides, pudding and cheese. Not including alcoholic drinks.

£30 more than a normal week of shopping.

Here we are two adults / two older teens. For 21st-24th and then breakfasts on 25th & 26th as well as doing starters and pud for 12 at parents on 25th and taking leftover stuff for make shift buffet for 26th at siblings house

Previous bits of chocolate boxes etc whilst on offer probably c. £20
So today at lidl was £125 (4 day dinners - roast chicken to make risotto and then chimichangas tomorrow, then tagliatelle bolognese stretched in to lasagne, salad and garlic bread for Christmas Eve)

I will still have to get: ham joint for us that will stretch across festive period, sausages and bacon, croissants, and stuff for a tart and salad for starters. And maybe another bottle of wine. So I reckon that may be £50-60.

I've probably not gone as crazy on extra bits as usual but still got a lot of extras so definitely not skimping but went with a real plan instead of grabbing at bits without thinking.

0 so far. Dparents supplying Christmas dinner, we are just providing desert so £20 maybe?

I used up £160 of Tesco vouchers that I'd been saving so I'm not overly fussed. I do like to keep a list so I don't go wild with the food buying.

None yet! There's still Monday and Tuesday.

About £450, that includes alcohol

4x adults for 3 days and then 8 adults for a further 2 days.

Apart from milk and the necessities we won't do another shop until the 2nd weekend in January so it's not too bad

Probably a little over £200. Feeding 4 adults, a teenager and an 11yo for the whole Christmas week. Doesn't include the turkey, which DM has bought, however we would have happily had a bog standard chicken/pork joint (not that into turkey). DM is with us for the week and wants the turkey, so she bought it.

I've gone a bit OTT this year, definitely got more than we needed but I wanted to splurge as it's a bit of a special Christmas for us! Ours has come to £300 and that's for me and my partner and our one year old over Christmas Day and Boxing Day. It also included all soft and alcoholic drinks though so maybe it's not too bad!

I think we've spent about £450. That includes alcohol and regular food items to last us into January. Family of 4 + 1 extra on xmas day.

That's only 3 people @StarDolphins - I think most of us who have replied are a larger group / hosting others.

Jeez! This is eye watering! I’ve shopped at Waitrose & M&S only for 2 adults & DD8 & I’ve spent less than £150 which includes alcohol!

Probably a bit less than usual because of all the 8p bags of vegetables this week. Sad empty nesters! (My parents are hosting DH and me for Christmas and Boxing Day so what we save on turkey we'll spend on petrol.)

I've not done a full calculation as we've been buying bits over the last few months to spread the cost. I reckon those bits come in around £75.

The turkey is £75, Tesco shop tomorrow is £110 and DH has bought way too much wine. All in I reckon we've spent £350 but we are hosting 8 from Monday to Thursday with another 2 on Xmas Day.

A good tip is to write down anything you really didn't need or enjoy, and create a calendar entry 1-2 months before next Christmas with these in, so you don't buy them needlessly again.

About £500 but we’re done with the shopping now.

Same as a normal weekly shop. Don't eat any additional meals per day just because it's the last week of December. And don't buy into any of the Christmas gluttony.

£120 online shop arriving Monday. Just DH and I. We're going to family for a few hours Christmas Day for lunch but we've still bought ourselves a Christmas dinner as we love the leftovers too! A few treats, some nice cheese and a bottle of port. We were determined not to go mad this year. There's only so much you can eat in a week!

£65 in Aldi, £53 in Sainsbury’s, £28 in Waitrose and have ordered meat from Booths to pick up Monday for £55
That includes drinks - I think we’ve got loads my fridge is bulging!

We are going to do the shop on Monday so we have a better chance and less panic buyers (Maybe)

M & S food order (turkey crown, sides, veggie main) = £80
Butcher (beef) = £72
Ocado main shop = £320
Waitrose back up shop (normal food shop) = £150

Cooking for 18 on Christmas Day and they'll all likely be back to raid the fridge over the coming days. Last year, we had no food by boxing day evening so not repeating that mistake again.

All I've bought 'extra' is turkey and a Xmas pud (which I got weeks ago when it was on offer (Waitrose), 2 tubes of Pringles, DH has bought 2 tubs of chocolates and some other snacks. I've not paid and collected the turkey yet (butchers shop) - that'll be £70, free range bronze turkey. Indeed I've perhaps spent less than an average week, as I'm skipping a weekly supermarket shop (went last Saturday), have milk and bread on order from village shop to collect when I get the turkey but won't go supermarket shopping till after Christmas, even this time next week perhaps. But we have no visitors planned.

All in, including alcohol, probably close to £1000. We have 10x teens/ adults for 5x days. Have been buying things over the last few months, filling the garage and freezer and trying not to think about it. 🤣