To ask how much your Christmas dinner costs?

[Merryoldgoat]

We’ll be 5 adults, one 5yo and a baby who doesn’t count.

My PIL are buying the extremely expensive joint of beef so fir us it’s trimmings, pudding, snacks, booze, games sweets, chocolate etc.

What would you budget for the day?

We’ve budgeted £300 which I think is plenty but saw a thread where someone said they’d spent £500 and I was a bit shocked.

I was secretly hoping we’d spend half of the budget and have money for a New Year treat!

It's just three of us this year, so it'll all come in under £50.

To keep costs down, could you do sweets, games, snacks and booze from Home Bargains/ B&M or similar? Trimmings and sides I recon you could get for £20 from Asda/Aldi/Lidl, obviously depending on what your preferences are. For us it'll be: pigs in blankets (ready made, just head in oven), stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips. Yorkshire puddings. Sprouts for my nan. Then Xmas pudding. I may bake some biscuits too, from store cupboard supplies.

Honestly, like £70 for main and pudding for 6 adults and a 3yo. That includes a couple of bottle of wine. Why do people spend so much? I think mine feels expensive but I know my locally reared (farm next door) turkey costs quite a bit

I would normally bake more but I’m only up to the main pudding - I’ve got a very demanding baby and PND so if I can get the house in a reasonable state that will be a miracle.

Will deffo check out Aldi and Lidl though - great idea - thank you.

Sounds like I’ll be fine - I think I can keep it down to £200 and will really try to do this.

£300 is more than enough the most expensive thing is the meat, Aldo is so well priced for trimmings and puds...

I buy enough chocolates and treats such as extra-nice cheese and ham to last for about 3-4 days so the food shopping for Christmas is quite expensive really.

Do you mean just the one dinner on Christmas day? Or food for the three or four days from Christmas eve onwards?

I’m cooking for 16 and it’s probaby costing around or just over £300 so 5 adults would come in way under that. Alcohol isn’t included in my budged though as guests will be bringing the booze.

We’ve 16 staying with us for the Christmas period. Christmas lunch is from COOK, we’ve had their Christmas food before and know we like it. No idea what it cost, DH ordered although I know it seem expensive but we think it will be worth it.

Just for xmas day? We're doing ours on xmas eve but feeding 11 people plus drinks, crackers etc I would say £150. That's including a rib of beef and another meat (probably ham).

@iamrubbishatdiy

Probably Christmas Day plus a few nice things for the following days - ham, cakes, nice bread, crumpets etc.

Do you mean just that meal or the mega big shop that keeps you going for a month?

Wowsa im on family of 8 adults 4 kids and we're looking at £100 tops. Aldi bargains, dont know what could add to make it £300-500

About £15 tops. Bag of potatoes, bag of carrots, bag of parsnips, broccoli, peas, Yorkshire puddings, veggie gravy, honey, oil, cranberry sauce, stuffing, shoer and lemonade. Mum is getting pudding but I've included that in the cost.

That's for 2 adults, 3 children.

Suddenly feeling a bit glutenous that so far we’ve spent almost £200 on Christmas Day food and drink, £42 of that is on cheese alone 🙈 in my defence I am feeding 10 of us this year and we’re providing everything including spirits and wine.

£500? Seriously? Are they eating roast panda?

No idea what £500 goes on!

My £300 will include in addition to the main meal:

Champagne, white and red wine, gin, whiskey, Baileys, port, various juices.

Breakfast for 3 adults and 1 child (smoked salmon and crumpets and OJ)

Nice breads, selection of cold meats, cheeses, pickles, relish, crackers

Massive tray of Ferrero Rocher because I love them. Variety of other sweets, snacks and nuts.

I think the booze is the killer there - £100 on its own I reckon.

In fairness I'd happily spend £300 on Ferrero Rocher.

Use the Alcohol as presents, and they can drink that if they wish.

Same with chocolates and sweets - stocking fillers

Look up left over meals - you can and a decent soup in the slow cooker with the left over beef

I've also seen a leftover pie - beef or turkey little sausages carrots and then make a thick sauce add pastry

You should be fine

Thank you all - I’m confident we’ve got plenty of budget now.

Maybe even enough for two trays of ferrero rocher...

Well I have added up our Christmas day dinner, and ours comes to £70 for the food and say £30 for wine and drinks.
Our Festive food bill will be £300 tops. What on earth costs £500 for a meal on Christmas day, unless it's being ordered ftom Fortnum and Mason's?

2 adults and 2 children this year. Meat costing £3, veg will be around the same cost I guess, extras like stuffing, Yorkshires, gravy another couple of quid. Pudding will be a cake, ingredients costing £5 I suppose, then a bottle of wine. Definitely less than £20.

We will be 5 adults. It's the turkey that is expensive, we get a free range one from a local butcher and it will probably cost around £60. e like leftovers though so I always buy one that yields plenty of leftovers for sandwiches, curry etc.

But otherwise it's just vegetables and a Christmas pudding and a carton of ready made custard as that's what we like rather than brandy butter etc. None of us are huge eaters so we don't have a starter etc. We're not big drinkers either though I bought two bottles of Buck's Fizz/Kir Royale from M&S yesterday - £8. And we'll have a few chocolates/nuts around the house.

Put it all in on an internet shop just to see what it adds up to.

The meat and alcohol are the expensive items. Bottle of champagne, cava or Prosecco for Buck’s Fizz or a drink before dinner? Decent wine to go with dinner if they are bringing an expensive joint. I would get 3 bottles of good red .
Anyway £300 is more than enough.

Cheese?