How much was your Christmas supermarket shop?

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The prices are absolutely crazy this year, our supermarket shop is ridiculously expensive at £347! I have another delivery booked for New Year’s Eve but will make adjustments depending on what’s left over. We are a family of 5 not hosting Christmas dinner have the in-laws over on Christmas Eve where we will be having pizza counter pizzas with sides all of which is in the shop, the turkey/pigs/sausage meat stuff is not included in this total as is from the butchers.
AIBU to ask how much your Christmas shop was?

£154 including food for the following week. My usual weekly shop is about £100 ish so £54 more - mostly on wine/ drinks
i normally have an Ocado delivery on Sundays so getting my Christmas delivery tomorrow morning and next one will be the 31st

£230 but that includes a ton of meat (2 chickens, beef, a ham) plus a lot of beers.

We're hosting 12 on Christmas Day.

BUT it doesn't include puddings or snacks like nuts/crisps/quality street as other family members are bringing those.

@Gran0laG1rl I don't know I'd like to see a menu (out of curiosity, not judgement) but I suspect if shopping high end, organic, pre made, (just as examples) it would be very easy to top 4 figures. It doesn't mean they're eating huge amounts of food. I could have quite happily outsourced my whole meal to Sainbury's festive food to order and that would have cost hundreds.

IMHO these are some eye watering amounts and I can only imagine some folk will be overindulging a tad!

Regardless of what folk have spent though, I wish you all a lovely time celebrating over the festive period.

£130 for 4 adults.

Er reading comprehension fail here. 3 for Christmas Eve and Day, 10 for Boxing Day. And yes, it is high end, a lot pre-made and fine French wine. We care about where our food comes from and who produces it. Also we have about half who are coeliac so have to double up on most things. Menu is seafood, beef and cheese. As well as an extensive all day buffet on Boxing Day. With a lot of alcohol, only 2 are children. Sorry not sorry!

We've done two so far - over £300. But we don't have a lot of alcohol in the house normally so we've bought gin, baileys, amaretto, aperol, 4 bottles of quite nice wine, prosecco, mixers, posh soft drinks. Then a ton of crisps and snacks we'd never usually have. Got most of the cheese, crackers, stuffing, pickles.

The Christmas meat and fruit and vegetables are still separate to all this!

Hopefully 80 quid for between now and 30th- that's 2 of us for Christmas Day, we're away Boxing Day and 27th, lunch for 3 on 28th and then odds and sods for me on my own rest of time. I should imagine 30 quid of that will be booze and some bits in the foodbank. This doesn't include a meal out for me and kids tomorrow though before they go to their Dad's for the week until NYE. Some of the figures above are mind boggling.

£244 plus a trip to Lidl (£5 ish) as I forgot cereal. From Tesco.

My plan is not to need a shop for at least the Christmas holiday from work (school) - maybe longer.

Sounds lovely. A lot better than this!

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£104 for Christmas dinner.

We’re getting an Indian I cook every single bloody dinner the rest of the year so my present to me is a takeaway. Our Indian takeaway is amazing. Cant wait!

Ours was £380 not including Turkey, pigs in blankets & gammon which we get from the butchers. I bought what I wanted though & didn’t scrimp.

I'm back now. £275 with ham,.chicken, nice lamb, all the cheeses, crackers, all the sausagement and 36 pigs in blankets (for 7 people) and 4 bottles of spirits plus billions of mixers / soft drinks. Quite pleased 😄.

I bought all the veg and some party food in Lidl today, and along with some regular odds and ends, I spent a princely £19.19.

Just got back from the supermarket where we spent £370, and when I pick up a turkey from the butcher on Saturday, that’s likely to be around £70. So about £450 in total. It’s three of us for Christmas dinner, three courses. MIL is staying with us for four nights.

However, the supermarket shop included a lot of booze, which I stocked up on because I had a £100 gift card and £50 worth of loyalty points, and most of that won’t get drunk over Christmas. The food will feed us until New Year, and I’ll probably give some leftovers to my mum and brother too.

£95 from Tesco with £20 off from club card points. This is including 3-4 days of our usual weekly food shop. Doesn't include alcohol which we'll get elsewhere. This is for 2 adults, a teen and a 5 year old and includes something special for breakfast, the main meal and choice of 2 puddings, plus loads of party food for the evening/Boxing Day and some fizzy drinks for the kids. With the club card savings it's turned out about the same as our usual weekly shop so I'm pretty chuffed as skint 😂

But your £150 is basically just your Christmas Day dinner? So that’s not what I would consider a full ‘Christmas food shop’.

£150 for 2 adults and 2 kids. That’s food from the 24th-30th. We don’t drink.

I am hosting this year. 9 Christmas day and 7 boxing day. My shop to collect on Sat is £150 and I have already bought all the alcohol, drinks, non perishables etc so probably like £300ish

£250 plus a £60 piece of beef and an additional £200-odd on booze. There will be 6 of us for Christmas Day, but there's enough food to last us a while!

People can spend what they bloody well like on their own Christmas food. If someone can afford £1,000 it isn’t ’obscene’ to spend it on the best food and wine available, once a year. And it’s no more ‘unnecessary’ than the £240 you’ve spent! No Christmas treats are actually necessary.

It wasn’t necessary, for instance, for me to spend £80 on a fresh free range turkey from the butcher; I could have bought a frozen factory farmed one for £19 in Sainsbury’s. But I bought the expensive one because a) I can afford that once a year and b) I personally think it’s worth it for the quality and welfare standards.

About £200 but that included some 'normal' food as well. We've been picking bits and pieces up for weeks though and that didn't include any booze.

£360 excluding wine, champagne, etc.
Probably another £300 for that.

How are you all keeping it so low 😳

just 3 adult’s Christmas Day, then 7 adults 3 children Boxing Day staying over 2 days

Last weeks deliver was £ 352 , but that was for 2 adults for a week plus start of Christmas stuff, I did an In store shop on Tuesday - €472, then had a delivery this morning for another £396. Went to aldi yesterday and spent £282. Meat from butcher on Saturday - C£200 then fruit and veg off market c£ 30. I’m hosting 7 adults 3 children again New Year’s Day and have a delivery booked for the Friday 29th standing at £264 at the moment.

that is all cleaning stuff and some but not all the booze.