How much have you spent on Christmas food shop?

[deena443]

Just got back and for 3 people we've spent £85
That doesn't include alcohol or sweets /crisps/desserts etc
Not sure if that's a lot or standard

Nothing yet but I suspect it will be £200ish.

More than I wanted to! I think about £300 but that's including feeding 12 on Xmas eve (and we have an expensive joint of beef from the butcher), lots of drinks, food for all 4 of us on Xmas day and we all got to choose our fav things so spent quite a bit on good cheese and smoked salmon.

Weekly shop is £105 (usually around £80) plus £70 at Cook and £30 at M&S.
2 adults and 2 young DC.

Online Tesco coming on 23rd, £125 that's for me and 2 adult sons (all gannets) plus my very elderly parents who will not eat much. No alcohol.

£140 worth of a shop is being delivered Sunday. Doesn't include booze

£100 for turkey and all trimmings, £50 for puddings, biscuits, nibbles, then another 30 for veg and basics, but we then have a tradition of getting extra bargains at the last minute, being walking distance from 3 supermarkets. But apart from 5 of us for Christmas, we will be 3-8 people for the next week and I plan for us to need no cooking and few extras until our NYE party.

I think we will be eating turkey until at least Easter. We do rather go to town (and butcher had no small ones left, and it's clearly a year when they all turn up larger than planned!)

I have an Ocado delivery booked for Subdsy which is estimated to be £340. Then I've got a Turkeyand a ham to pick up from the butcher so I think that will be another £60ish. So £400 in all.

However, that is for the whole week and we have my sister and her family staying for 9 days. There will be 8 of us for the week plus my mum for 3 days.

This is my husband’s department. We have a ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy as he loves cooking and hosting so is happy to spend whereas I would generally live on cheap pasta dishes and jacket potatoes, and feel a bit conflicted about spending so much money on a week’s food, even if we can afford it. This way we’re both happy, and admittedly I will very much enjoy the spreads he puts on!

So far food shopping £0

Presents so far £0

Turkey alone is £85
I've spent about £100 on booze and soft drinks and probably a further £100 on freeze ahead food

Ocado deliver tomorrow for £100 for fresh stuff.

That's for 2 adults and 2 kids on Xmas eve and then 13 adults and 2 kids on Xmas day. I'm hoping the leftovers will feed us for 2 or 3 days then I will need to shop again for new year

Christmas week we're home so spent £150 including drinks, desserts and Christmas lunch for 5 plus our usual shopping.

New years week we're going away s/ c so a £75 delivery to our accommodation.

£297.00 on ocado coming today
£83.00 at Lidl Yesterday

That's the food for breakfast also and Boxing Day and snack bits until Boxing Day

It's quite a bit because it's only one bottle of wine and one bottle of ice wine as I am pregnant so it's for guests

Oh that's for me and my husband and my son who's 2 but eats basically only fish and pasta so he won't eat a lot of that
Have invited my BIL for chrismtas lunch not sure if he will come
2 friends for breakfast of croissants etc

About 250 but that includes the bird and the fillet steak and all the chocolate and nibbles and mince pies and booze, lots of booze.

I reckon, at least £250 to cover feeding 12 people for a day and a half...

(that was including drinks and alcohol)

About £300 but most of that is for a drinks party we are hosting, we are visiting family on Christmas Day & only need to contribute the pud & brandy butter, plus booze & chocolates. We tend to be given bottles by everyone who comes to the party (we don’t ask) so may end up ‘in credit’ , assuming they are drinkable.

Normally spend about £65 but that maybe go up if they have Schloer on at £1 per bottle

Sod all

Aldi:

Potato's 28p
Carrots 19p
Swede 19p
Cabbage 19p
Sprouts 19p
Beef joint for DH & DS (I won't eat it) £6
Bacon £3 + buns £1 for breakfast

About 250 quid for 4 adults and 2 teens: that combines Ocado, the butcher’s order and the veg box. Including all food and snacks for 3 days but will be topped up with wine from our visitors. We buy high end meat for Christmas, so a lot of that is the turkey and the gammon.

Zero so far 😁

I did a normal food shop - and bought a turkey?
Obviously not buying school packed lunch stuff, so substituted that with mince pies and boxes of chocolates etc. But only the change of chicken / beef roast to a turkey.

I have a £150 online delivery coming today but that includes food for the whole week for a family of 5 plus a couple of last minute gifts and wrapping

For the pp who mentioned £1 Schloer, Asda have them on offer for a pound at the moment

No idea, been at least half a dozen times, but also picked up food for this/last week of course, have £60 of food ordered for Monday collection, plus still need parsnips and potatoes as they were out of Maris pipers and parsnips yesterday, also double cream was out