AIBU to ask how much your Xmas food shop costs?

Posh pizza and red wine.
Champagne and pavlova.
Lots of savoury snacks and sweet treats.

Hot chocolate, prosecco and more snacks and treats for days!

How much is it? I don't know tbh

It will depend on how many people we are entertaining. This year there are 6 of us so our shop is currently at £150 (it’s usually £100 a week so extra £50 for Christmassy stuff)
it’s been more when we have had more people over but the most I’ve ever spent was £250 and we had 2 lots of family over on Christmas Day and Boxing Day & a party with friends on Christmas Eve that year! (Before COL though )

Weekly is normally around €120
So I would think around the same.

Its just a Sunday dinner.

The cakes and puddings were made a couple of weeks ago.

The child is making cheese cake.

My delivery is coming in at around £260 at the moment but I still need to tweak it before cut off on Saturday. That’ll feed 4 of us (2 adults and 12 and 9yo DSs) plus cats from 22-25th Dec inclusive. We’re going away on Boxing Day so don’t need to factor that in.

We've spent £150 in M&S for Xmas day buffet. It feels utterly ridiculous to spend so much, but I'm really looking forward to it. Will be 4 adults 1 teen and a 3 year old. No alcohol.

Nothing extra because I bought duck on offer and put it in the freezer. I am braving Tesco tomorrow but it will probably be a cheap shop because I will get fed up half way round and go home. There's only two of us and I just can't be bothered. I did think earlier, maybe I will just get pizza 🙂

€100 for 2 adults for Xmas Eve, day and St Stephen's Day.
Mainly on imported foods as we live in Spain ( & Im not doing Xmas without Kerrygold butter and white pudding. 😉)

Ours is about £450 this year. That’s for 5 people over the 3 days, although a lot of it (like the alcohol and chocolate) will last longer. If I were to guess I’d say about £100 booze, £150 festive food order, £100 on treat foods, choc etc and the rest the actual veg etc.

Including alcohol, which I don’t usually buy, an additional £150 I think. That’s hosting two adult DC for a week.

Edited to add we are eating out Christmas Eve which will be an additional £100

We are eating out in Christmas Eve as our “dinner” and then doing a buffet for Christmas Day for 6, I’m doing a charcuterie board, quiches, breads and pate and cold meats may se if there are any turkey crowns going cheap on Christmas Eve, and cook that too and then later in the day I’ll swop that out for sweet treats and pop it all on the table so everyone can help themselves.

in answer I have budgeted £200 for the shop at Aldi to last Christmas Day and Boxing Day with some wine.

Our festive meal out will be about £350, not many of us are drinking as we have to drive to the venue, saves some money!

The wine was £250, the turkey £75, cheese £75. Then probably about £200 on the rest of it, so around £600 as well. It’s a lot but there will be lots of leftovers.

Christmas Eve Takeaway £50

Christmas Day Breakfast.
bagels £3
cream cheese £2
smoked salmon £10

Christmas Dinner
Turkey £50
Gammon £15
potatoes/beef dripping £6
carrots/parsnips/honey £6
Cauliflower cheese ingredients £5
Red cabbage ingredients £5
Bread Sauce £4
Cranberry Sauce £3
sausage meat stuffing £10
pigs in blankets £10
Jamie Oliver Xmas gravy £8
M&S Dessert £15

Boxing Day Breakfast
salmon mousse blinis £10

Boxing Day Dinner
left over Christmas meat £0
left over roast potatoes £0
part baked rolls £3
cheese board & chutneys £20
Crisps £10
salad £5
Home made sausages rolls £10
Homemade Trifle £15

December 27th Breakfast
croissants/pastries £10
Fruit platter £20

Everybody is going home afterwards so I’m only doing shopping to last until then.

Extras
Toilet Roll £5
Tooth paste £3
kitchen/bathroom cleaner £5
Washing up liquid £3
washing powder £10
bin bags £3
Lurpack £5
Mayo £3
Bread £3
Posh Coffee/Hot chocolate £15
Milk £4
Quality Street/Roses/Celebration/Heros £25.
Ferraro Roche £10
Posh biscuits £10
Posh crisps & Dips £15
Squash £5
Apple/orange Juice £8
Coca Cola/Lemonade £20
Baileys £20
Cider £20
prosecco £20

Thanks for the post op, Two birds with one stone, answered
your question and wrote my list.

I used to read these threads 15 or so years ago, and look at the fridge threads, and not understand how on earth some people spent what they did. I was a young, unemployed Mum of 3 boys under 5 and just couldn't imagine the life some people led...

Anyway, as a now middle-aged, professional Mum of teens - I get it!!

We are spending £115 on Christmas dinner - a Marks & Spencer food to order job with duck for the main, all sides and two puddings.

We also have been stockpiling snacky bits such as tubs of crisps, breadsticks, soft drinks, chocolates etc. for the last 8 weeks or so. I estimate this has added up to around £100, but we have barely noticed it because I've just added bits to the shopping each week.

We have a £100 food shop arriving on Christmas Eve, around £80 of which is further Christmas food and £20 is meals for the betwix period.

Lastly, when we collect our M&S order this week, we will be spending around £50 on party food. This, however, is covered by reward vouchers we have earned through using my credit card so, using girl maths, is actually free.

All in, probably around £300. We are a family of 5, with my mother visiting. Embarassing really!

I’ve just stuck my Asda order £250 that has my turkey & alcohol and the normal stuff. Plus il probably do another £100 in M&S for picky bits. I’m feeding 12 for Xmas dinner

Same as normal. We eat out usually diet except for dining out on Christmas Day.

About £400 for the best part of a week. We are 4 older teen/adult men, two adult women and a child and I’m making several dishes to take over to relatives on Boxing Day.

Christmas food itself £150 (that includes meat, veg, deserts) and then the proper food shop with alcohol £160 (but that includes enough meat etc to last until mid January as we will freeze it

Just extras for Christmas, probably £200 , more alcohol, nice cheese, meat, extra breakfast for people staying, buffet stuff for 2 days, crackers, lots of chocolate

£400 on the delivery order at the moment. We will have to top this up with some picky bits from M&S because Tesco doesn’t do Brie and cranberry parcels and I wants them.

we have bought enough food for Christmas Day and Boxing Day but enough snacks and things to last us til new years

About £400. We have a couple of dietary restrictions so that definitely pushes the price up. Loads of leftovers for me to freeze as DH can’t have beef and I love it. 3 of us on the day then his parents for Boxing Day.
We also get a lot of the easy cook stuff as I can’t cook and it’s a lot for DH to do.

We always get a fresh turkey from Lidl around £30 done the Phil vickery way it’s lush

Very hard to say as I keep eating what I'm supposed to save for Christmas... but I think the actual Christmas day shop will cost in the region of £400... but we won't finish it all and there will be treats and leftovers and wine for a good few days 😊 ( 15 people )

How many people are you feeding? £600 is more than we spend in a month.

We've just bought our regular food shop, plus what we need for a roast, then some dessert, a tub of chocolates and some twiglet type snacks etc.

Few hundred but that’s mainly extras like chocolates and party food. Should last a few days