How much do you spent on meat over Christmas?

[AutisticLegoLover]

I remember being horrified as a young adult that my parents spent £70 on Christmas meat. This was 1999 and was from the butchers. Turkey crown, ham, possibly beef, sausages and bacon. They were short of money and I couldn't believe how much it cost. That was for the 2 of them and my sister, brother in law and their young dc who'd barely eat any of it.
I dread to think what that would cost now especially as someone in the family has just spent £150 on turkey alone. I saw a headline about shortages this year but recall that in previous years too so it could just be typical scare tactics.

Yes. It’s like OP posts, “I spend £200 a week on nursery fees. How does that compare to your area?” Followed by posts of, “I don’t pay childcare costs because I don’t have children”.

WTF! 🤷🏻‍♀️

If I'm honest we probably spend as much on cheese as we do the meat for Christmas. Two adults and two small children, I don't eat much meat anyway so we have a decent chicken for our main and then a ham for Boxing Day. That and pigs in blankets, sausagemeat for stuffing probably gets us to about £20.
We've moved house recently so going to try the local butchers I think

👏👏👏 Good for you! 🏅

How is your reply in any way helpful to OP’s question?? 🤷🏻‍♀️

It is helpful if the OP, or anyone else, is struggling with the cost of meat. There are plenty of alternatives.

£100 at the butchers. But that’s to feed eight over two days.

Ten years ago it would have been a lot of visitors and a lot of catering. Always hosted-up to 20 on Boxing Day.

24th - baked ham
25th - Turkey (bacon, sausages, stuffing)
26th - ham, Turkey, salamis
27th - pie: Turkey and ham or steak depending on left-overs
28th - something easy as they have all gone home

At last count: ham £45, Turkey £80, bacon, sausages, stuffing £20, braising steak £15, £160. Not forgetting the smoked salmon, dinners in-between and a triple rib of beef on 1st Jan.

There you go OP. Don’t buy meat. Sorted! 🧐

Yes, insanely expensive. I bought rib of beef, 20% off in Waitrose. It's massive - I'm feeding 12 and I probably could feed at least 16 with the one I got (but cutting a rib off felt like it was cutting TOO much off) and was chuffed to "only" pay £70. If I'd gone for the rib of sirloin it would have been closer to £100 - but the piece they had wasn't big enough.

We don't have a lot of additional meat - I've got some pigs in blankets in my online order but that's about it.

If I could afford it, I'd have bought my rib of beef from a farm. Th online service I use occasionally was offering 2 ribs for £75. I'd have needed two of those so £150.

OP is vegetarian. 😂

I have ordered 3 different meats for Xmas day costing total £74
Its a once a year treat and we will be snacking on and using the leftovers through until NYE
I don’t spend a lot on other Xmas food such as desserts or nuts, sweets and chocolate
I will restock the drinks cupboard though and look forward to a few cocktails

@AutisticLegoLover Are you vegetarian making a pointless post about the price of meat? If so I will be reporting as a fake post, wasting the time of posters who wished to help

A frozen Turkey crown from Lidl - £18
Beef bones and brisket for pho - £10?
Couple of steaks - £8

About £120 on turkey, ham stuffing and pigs in blankets.

I think Turkey is around £70. Gammon £25 ish. Pigs in blankets another £10. So hopefully not much higher than £100.
But also have a side of salmon so think thats another £20-30 plus some veggie/ vegan things from marks so thats another £30 ish probably .
Xmas grocery shopping on the whole is so expensive every year ( and that's before this years price increases)

I've ordered turkey (for 10) ham (for 10) and another ham for 18 - total £120

Usually around £100 - that covers a family of 6 on Xmas Day, plus wider family (up to 14 extra) on Boxing Day. We have beef, Turkey and gammon for two roasts, plus ham for cold meat.

Just Meats - about £250. Beef, Turkey, gammon, stuffing and salmon.

Vegetarian so none.

£70 for a turkey? Bloody hell.

Blows my mind how much people spend on meat! Each to their own obviously but Jesus the bills would make me hyperventilate 😂😂

We hate turkey so don't buy it, usually just a large chicken for us for around £5 - used to do lamb but we all went off it. I'll get gammon for around £5 but to be honest we aren't too bothered about that, either! So will probably leave it. Sausage meat for about £3/£3.50 for homemade stuffing, pigs in blankets for around £5.00 - so in total £13.50 depending on whether we get gammon or not.

I cook a roast on Christmas Day and then we have little buffets for a few days afterwards - couldn't be doing with back to back roast dinners, they're my favourite but once a week gets a bit samey for me so I couldn't do it for days and days over Xmas.

We tend to spend more of our money on the bits for 'party' teas, for example one night we will have a tapas spread or your stereotypical 'buffet', cheeseboards and pates etc.

We're doing a cold seafood buffet, it's summer. A side of salmon, oysters and prawns. That should cost the equivalent of 60 pounds or so for 5 people. I might buy a cheapy supermarket ham for the meat eaters.

A bit on sausage meat, but mainly free - dinner is goose and venison, both shot by my DP and wild, truly free range and local. We have pheasant/partridge and duck in the freezer too.

@DollyDoofer I'm genuinely interested in the price as i have no experience of this bar the ones in my OP. It fascinates me the variation in food prices for what appears to be the same or at least similar product. I'm autistic and i like yo ssk questions and find out stuff. Am I not allowed to ask because I don't eat meat?

Not much!
Indian meal out Christmas Day
I live alone and will probably get some picky bits like Parma ham that I wouldn't usually buy
Apart from that I just eat my normal meals as back to work on the 27th

Tbh this could be found on google way faster than from all of us here😁