If you are hosting christmas how much has your food and drink cost ?

[cultmaskid]

And how many people

I remember Holly Willoughby moaning on years and years ago she spent 'a grand' just on drink for Christmas for immediate family and guests visiting.

And I thought, you're crazy.

When I host I usually budget on £75 per head for non drinkers and £100 per he'd for those who drink ... that generally gives me about the right budget for a whole days food and drink .

Hope that helps ?!

Nothing yet because I haven’t shopped! 5 of us and I won’t spend over £300 for food and drink for the Christmas week.

I dread to think - there will be 16 of us for the week including six Uni aged who like their drinks.

We are doing Christmas and New Year at our place and I am up to £1600 at the moment, but I am being lazy and getting M&S food for buffet and we haven’t skimped on champagne etc.
It depends how many you are catering for as to what’s reasonable I guess.

8 adults and 4 children.

Wine/prosecco £180
Gin/spirits etc always well stocked anyway but got more tonic, mixers and soft drinks £35

Butchers £150
Supermarket around £120
Dessert from farm shop £30
Crackers £20
Napkins, table decoration and chocolates £45

= £580 or under £50 a head. Disgusting really

Sorry, that’s ten for Christmas and thirty for NYE.

It sounds like a lot when you say 100 a head but it seriously adds up doesn't it
My parents have given 500 towards it and there is 5 adults and 2 children but I've honestly spent like double that getting in booze and things like wine glasses because ours always get smashed and I only had two matching ones

I wonder if I go over the top this year but I have less in then my parents usually do
I would love to say it's the meat (rib of beef this year) which costs but it's not
It's things like the vegetables
All the snacks .. snack food is a lot when there are loads of you
And booze

I mean £7 for some snacks you warm up sounds like a lot but then on balance I think it's less then a crap pizza or crap dish from a take away and 5 adults can have some and enjoy it

I didn't realise how expensiev it is

I wonder how many relatives holly had drinking xx

@ineedto it sounds like a lot doesn't it

But it is so many memories
I think I've done over 1300 so far
🥴

I have donated to charities but it feels a bit wrong I feel greedy

@Iusedtobeskinny I think you've done well actually

No idea .... maybe £500 for 4 days, but mum brings some food, brothers bring booze, stbexh is bringing booze.

@cultmaskid and @Iusedtobeskinny I'm not adding up anything beyond Christmas Day itself. We have 23 for a party on Sunday then curry and beer night on 27th followed by Hogmanay party for 15 .

I have spent £300 on drink for 4 adults for 4 days, also 2 other adults 1 day. I have covered all bases I hope.

Food, well so far for 4 days it is £160 but not including veg, fruit & cheese and also 3 extra Boxing day.

I think I will spend £600 for 4 days which is awful....

I have ordered loads of crap, crisps, snacks, cakes, chocolate etc.

We are hosting 4 extra people on Christmas Day and we are a family of 4.

I haven't bought a single thing yet so have no idea how much it will cost us to host it.

Am I some sort of freak?

I'm doing boxing day. I am not doing the budget version I am treating us. 7 adults and 5 kids. £70 booze (although I already have lager), £90 meat and deserts with an extra ham, £100 Ocado for veg, potatoes, Xmas Eve birthday tea for my son etc I hope that in reality the 5 of us at home get some extra meals from that too.

Nextphone if you are a freak then so am I. We are also a family of four and hosting (only 2 extras though) and I haven't done any shopping yet either. Won't be anywhere near as much as some people have spent as most of it will be bought in Aldi. We will still have a nice day and yummy food though

Yes I have done the charity thing to assuage my guilt

Christmas lunch isn’t expensive - vegetables are really cheap at the moment. It’s the extras which make it expensive. We’ll be feeding 16 for the week and having a NYE party but won’t be spending anything like some of the amounts mentioned. There are limits on what you can eat.

£1600?!!! WTF?

I have no idea yet as I havent been shopping. We will have 6 adults and 3 kids. Not anywhere near a grand though!

Feel like I've stepped into a parallel universe on this thread!

You’ve spent £1300 so far?!

6 adults 2 kids have spent £85 for the whole day (everything except fresh veg). I wouldn't dream of spending some of the amount mentioned. We have 2 different meats, all the trimmings, some nibbles and a shit ton of cheese and crackers. Also got a bottle of Bailey'snd a bottle of port in for that too.

Well I haven't added it up and I still have a lot to get. I'm worried after reading this!

I've spent £100 on alcohol so far. £50 on goodies.

I'm yet to get the meat and veg. I'm trying aldi this year after m&s being a washout last year.

Oh and I'll be getting a couple of bottles of champagne too.

I did buy a new dinner service as it is my first time hosting but I haven't included that in the cost.

6 adults and 2 children for one week 3 meals a day. £500. We have paid half that. Which is 2.5 times our normal weekly good budget but we buy luxury for us at Christmas - the meat bill alone from a free range independent butcher was £245. Yes we could go much cheaper but we save for and look forward to our treat week.

Good god it's like a different world on here! I'll spend around 200 on the weekly shop for Christmas week (would normally be around 80) and that will get us a beautiful Christmas dinner and a ridiculous amount of treats. We're having people over on boxing Day and new years day. (Might need to get more fresh veg and puddings for nyd but will only spend another £30 or so).

I don't understand what you're all buying!

And as for charity donations to 'assuage your guilt'....if Christmas dinner was costing me a grand I'd need charity myself!

I don't understand what some of you are spending all that money on.
We feed 8 on Christmas Day and 14 on boxing Day. We have Christmas dinner on both days. We buy
1 massive turkey from the butcher's - £50
1 ham - £15
120 cocktail sausages - £5
Lots of potatoes - £5
Ingredients for stuffing - £5
Cranberries and cooking apples - £5
Carrots, Brussel sprouts, parsnips - £5
2 Christmas puddings - £10
Christmas cake - £10
Ingredients for other dessert - £10
Wine - £50
Crackers to pull - £20
Crackers and cheese - £15
Box of Tunnocks - £5
Chocolates - £10
Shloer - £10

That's £230 and it is so much food. It is just over £10 a head. How can it cost £100 a head?