Christmas Dinner - Food Order

[lee12345]

Hi,

We are cooking Christmas dinner for the first time this year, usually we go to parents. I have an Asda slot booked for 23rd December evening delivery. This may be a silly question, but if I order our turkey, beef & the rest of what we need to be delivered on the 23rd, will they still have turkeys in stock for delivery? Has anyone done it this way before. I don't want to get to the 23rd & find out they are out of stock of everything.

Yes you should be fine - if everyone orders in advance they will be able to plan what they need (why supermarkets dislike the 'hold the slot with a bottle of champagne and add your actual order later' trick), but even if not they are highly unlikely to run out of turkeys at Christmas, there are usually plenty in stock even late on Christmas Eve and heavily discounted as well, as supermarkets tend to overstock and risk waste rather than the bad publicity of leaving people without their Christmas dinner

What I would say is if it's going to be very difficult/stressful for you to do an emergency supermarket run after the order, and there are items which are crucial, you might want to plan ahead and get these in advance and not rely on the online order. I am not talking about the turkey or the veg which are highly unlikely to be out of stock as it's foreseeable that everyone wants/needs them and the supermarket will have planned to have enough stock, but if your Christmas will be totally ruined without a supply of a particular type of biscuit, no substitution will do, for instance, maybe secure them before Christmas. I always do a stock check pre Christmas of my store cupboard and make sure I have enough dried herbs and spices, stock cubes, gravy granules, condiments etc as this is the kind of thing that might possibly get sub-d on a last minute supermarket order and make life difficult on the day! Don't forget to add things like plenty of onions, cream (for the brandy sauce), brandy (ditto), cooking wine, bacon, butter etc - you always need more of these at Christmas than you think!