AIBU to ask how much your Xmas food shop costs?

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As the title really. How much has your Christmas food shop cost this year, and how long do you think it will last?

Mines in the region of £600 with meat and alcohol and I'm guessing just over a week. Bloody cost of living!!

An extra £50 on top of what we normally spend.

How much??
it’s a pimped up roast dinner?

Surely it depends how many people you are feeding and how many meals you are catering for?

I don't really know as done in stages but with alcohol, Christmas dinner and buffet food i would say about £300

OP says she expects that amount for food to last a week not just for Christmas lunch.

I’d say about £350 as well. £90 for the turkey alone!

About an extra £30.
It’s just me and my 2 adult sons. None of us drink alcohol, we will eat a normal roast chicken dinner, with pudding.

Probably an extra £100 on what I'd normally spend. Stocked up on wine this week as there was a good offer and have a few extra/premium bits on next week's order
But we have a small Christmas this year so not many people to feed

I’m feeding 8 people and it’s a mid-morning snacks and drinks, then three course lunch and a light tea. Then I had to buy napkins and crackers and candles. Once you add in alcohol plus soft drinks, it does add up!

My Christmas shop however is a lot because we have the whole family at home for two weeks so I’m catering lunch as well as dinner, and somehow my teen dd will devour her own body weight in “top up” snacks (cereal, fruit, popcorn, nuts, crisps, random beige things in the airfryer) and NO ONE except me drinks water or tea, so they’ll glugging milk and juice and soft drinks (spurning the high-quality but much cheaper cordials of course) .

And that is why we aren't having turkey this year

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

That £600 includes all the mundane every shop essentials- laundry detergent, softener, dishwasher tablets, toilet rolls, shower get, toothpaste and so on and so forth!

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.

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 )

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

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.

£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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.