How much did you spend on Christmas grocery shopping?

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Just got back from Tesco. Spent about £150!!

It was a bloody nightmare!

This is for 4 of us.

I would consider myself a savvy shopper so I bought the Aldi Rumsburgh Free Range Bronze Turkey at £55 today. Couldn’t bring myself to spend £100 on a Kelly’s Bronze turkey. I also bought a whole large salmon from Tesco half price at £20 for some home made gravalax. Salmon roe caviar was half price in Waitrose a few weeks ago so I stocked up with a few jars.

Our drinks bill was enormous - I only buy a case of Tattinger/Moët & Chandon for Christmas/New Year consumption and even at special offer AND 25% off, it’ll still work out to £23 per bottle. We use prosecco for the sloe gin (HM) cocktails and save the good stuff for the main event. We do the same for the red & white wines. It’s not a normal shop by any stretch of the imagination and I certainly wouldn’t do it if we couldn’t afford it. I even bought Waitrose canapés from the reduced section to sling in the freezer. There is no way that I would buy them at full price but I would at £1.99! Still have the bread, milk, juice and fruit run tomorrow.

On second thoughts, our grocery bill alone for the 3/4 days is probably £400 and I’m excluding the peripherals like crackers and household stuff like napkins, turkey foil & toilet rolls. Another family member is providing the cheeseboard and Christmas cake. If I hosted again, I would spend less because it is an extravagant amount in hindsight.

I haven't done mine yet, but I'm expecting it to be over £400 including drinks but I am feeding 14 people so that seems ok to me.

£130 for 3 of us, I had £50’s worth of clubcard points to go towards it but was still shocked. My fridge still looks empty. Only alcohol bought was one bottle of wine and a bottle of baileys. Hoping this will last is a week but I doubt it.

Including alcohol, probably 400 ish to cover till 29th. One issue is that we are hosting different people at different times, I think it would actually work out less expensive if I could get everyone over on Christmas day and have one big blow out, then back to normal food and drink by the the 27th.

A lot. Probably £500 or so but I am hosting this evening so 25 or so for that. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day just the three of us. Got a lot of booze for the next 2weeks too. Some of which we call just in case booze! Ie random guests or us being invited etc.

Food over the Christmas period, so about a weeks worth...

Morrisons £60
Lidl £60
Waitrose £85
Butchers £25
Asda £20

£150, that’s for:
Full English breakfast tomorrow for 5 (ds is 8 but eats a lot!)
Small Christmas Eve buffet for 6
Christmas Day food for 3

I got lots of chocolate and prosecco from the children at school so didn’t need to buy any but we did get a bottle of gin.

We haven’t gone mad this year as we always end up throwing loads away.

£350 with Ocado and £200 at the wine merchant.

£150 of that is gifts though.

129 in sainsburys today and 79 in m&s.

Also 25 in m&s yesterday.

Moral of the story, the above two shops are bloody expensive.

Had vouchers. Would never use my own cash there.

That's for two days. X mas eve and day.

For two people may I add.

Online shop of around £200 but that also includes normal groceries. We haven’t bought any booze as we have been given lots of champagne and wine. That’s for hosting 11 on Christmas Day although the rest of the food should last us a week.

£140, but that includes meals up to next Sunday too plus dog food, quite a few cleaning products & a reasonable amount of snacks. 2 adults (3 on Christmas day) & 4 children. Normal weekle shop is £95-£120 depending how many cleaning products & toiletries are needed so not hugely more. We could have done it for less but we like the extras.

Weekly even. That price also includes some bits from the local farm shop

Blimey I thought I spent too much!

Our usual weekly shop is around £60. This week I spent £14 for the turkey from the butcher, about £15 in Asda on Wednesday getting things I was worried would run out like pigs in blankets, and I went to Tesco this morning and spent £81.

So about £110 altogether, but that includes our normal weekly shop.

Xmas dinner cost us £46 for 4 of us.
Not sure how people spend hundreds

Fucking hell I'm just imagining supermarket chief executives rolling around in piles of your lots hard-earned cash.

I have spent pretty much the same amount on shopping as I would on any other month, but then I don't drink but also I don't understand the excessive face-stuffing that Christmas seems to bring.

Spent a small fortune (about £180) because I bought tons of "party food" things which are extortionate but awesome - I'm not well at the moment so bought lots of easy to cook things for the days after Christmas and there will be loads of leftover meat too. Don't normally buy booze and £30 of that was wine and beer.

About £250 in total, but while that's only for 3 of us, it covers about 3 weeks, including Christmas, Boxing Day, New Years (as well as normal groceries and household cleaners and such), and includes gluten free festive treats which are more expensive and a small amount of alcohol.

My actually Christmas dinner probably cost around £25, the rest was just normal shopping with a few luxuary items (cheese, chocolate, party food for Boxing Day). I think a lot of people like to stuff their faces at Christmas as they have been good all year, I eat quite healthy during the year so I like to spoil myself for a few days.

8 if us 3 adults 3 teens and two kids ages 4 and 6 .
we spent 120 in Tesco . 45 on Prepared hamper with turkey crown in.
And 100 on alcohol and fizzy.
So Not bad for ya we usually eat out which cost us about £500 .

£65 in Aldi
£60 Sainsbury’s (£12 of that was for a gammon)
£40 Musclefoods (beef fillet)
Don’t know what the booze cost as that was dh’s department!

9 adults for Christmas dinner, but the food should do us for the best part of a week, and we always find some random booze in the shed in April 😂

I'm a big spender on food at Christmas (see upthread), but I don't have ridiculous amounts of food in the house. I just buy things I don't buy on a weekly basis, so I've spent £80 on caviar, £80 on seafood, £60 on a ham, £65 on a cockerel, £40 on a box of griottes, £80 on four pieces if cheese, £250 on a case of wine.

I'm very lucky that I can afford all these things but I'm not drowning in food. It'll all get eaten.

(I also donate money and time to charity, but I do love food and see Christmas as a time to indulge, I'd rather have that than presents).

Erm, what is a griotte?