DH spent an absolute fortune on food shop

[Five5goldrings]

DH has done 2 food shop an online order then a fresh order. Spent over £500, all for ONE fricking day!!! We have 2DDs under 10. Not massive eaters.

A lot of the money has gone to booze!!! We are not massive drinker either. To me all seems just so wasteful.

Every year I get the girls new PJs for tonight. It's lovely, then he just said we haven't got them much for xmas. Wrap that up as a present!!

They have enough. There are not masses of presents under the tree. But they're the ones both girls have requested and would love!!! Stockings full of little bits. 3x presents something they want/ need / useful

Am I the only one gets annoyed for over spending and consumerism?????

Rant over .....🤣

Take it back, a relative works at one of the big supermarkets and people take stuff back all the time. Sometimes for just a few pence refund.

I'd love to see the receipt!

I was hoping this was a bump of the funny thread from a previous Christmas when a posters dh and Odense the shop and bought loads of fancy stuff.

Our beef for 12 people was £88 on its own. £500 on a food shop is easily done when you buy all the luxuries for Christmas.

It will last longer than one day but you might find yourself craving those beans on toast eventually. I always want the simple stuff after Christmas.

Well I've spent about £400 on food but I am hosting and this covers 5 days and about 30 main meals plus lunch and breakfast. Also stocked up the cupboard for Jan vis bog roll, toiletries, persil, etc.

There will also be leftovers for soup, carbonara, etc., for a few days after the holiday.

Is his judgment always this stunningly bad or is it a one off?

When they were little I always gave my children new PJs on Christmas eve too, and while they were sleeping I covered them with their new quilt. I loved seeing them come out in the morning bundled in the quilt and beaming.

When I was at uni, I would spend around £500/£600 for our Christmas lunch before we all went home for actual christmas but there were usually 12-15 of us! That didn't include booze; everyone else brought that.
How could you spend £500 for 4 people? Especially when two of those are kids!

I’m pro having a fecking good Xmas. I work full time (50+ hour weeks) all year long and am a single mum with breast cancer.

I’ve spent thousands this Xmas. But now I know life is short money means absolutely nothing to me. I have decent savings for dd for her future but I’m spending my earnings willy nilly.

Will he be doing all the cooking?

Looking forward to the photos of your fancy Christmas meal!

Is this in credit crunch because you are hard up OP?

You don't seem to be too bothered about it

I don’t see it is as shocking as some people have made out.

We always get a couple of bottles of champagne, six bottles of red and some Prosecco. There’s about £120.

Turkey for Christmas Day, steaks for Boxing Day. Ham. Sausages etc. Fish for Christmas Eve £100.

Starter for both days (marks preprepared) £40

Veg, some preprepared £20

Deserts for three days (fancy ones, choice on each day) £50

Mince pies, chocolates, crackers, cheese, napkins, fancy breads, fresh cream etc £30

Then the usual stuff - milk, eggs, coffee, cereal, juice, cleaning products, washing powder, loo roll, tin foil, etc etc. Say another £40

That’s £400 - if you need to stock up on gin, whiskey, baileys, beer or whatever it easily pushes out to £500.

I know some people wouldn’t dream of spending this much. But I don’t think it’s as outrageous as some are making out.

I spent £290 and £190 was in Aldi. That only includes 2 bottles of red, a bottle of port, 4 cans of beer and a bottle of Irish cream so I can see how it could be £500 if it was at Waitrose etc with a few extra frills and spirits. We have older children though.

I bet our food for the past week or so has not been far off £500.

I'm feeding 5 for Christmas dinner plus several extra guests in the evening for a buffet supper and drinks.

For a start the turkey was £50 from the butcher.
Then I spent £200 at Ocado on 10 bottles of wine @ 6.50each, a bottle of gin @ £25, beer and soft drinks and mixers, other non perishables like chocolates, crisps, crackers, cheese, etc and food for the 5 days previous to Christmas day.
I then Spent another £150 on fresh foods like the veg, fruit, party foods, milk, breads, a ham, nice coffee, cream, mince pies, bacon, stuffing, baking things for dessert, and a few bits like pizza etc. to feed us for a couple of days after Christmas- will try not to shop again until around the 29th.

So in total around £400 or so for around 10 days food!

No doubt a lot of the drinks and snacks will be left over and last well into the new year- best to have them in though as wouldn't want to run out of wine or alcohol when we have guests- I always over-buy rather than under-buy!

We've not spent much on drink (under £50) as few in our family drink, but I've probably spent £400 easily on food. I paid just over £80 for a rib of beef, we've got a large turkey crown too, and I've made all the desserts/side dishes from scratch.

We've got 14 Christmas day though, and DD is doing boxing day so asked me to make sure there is some meat leftover.............

I sort of get it. I speak as one who was asked to pick up a litre of semi-skimmed on the way home and emerged, some time later having spent £148

Woah! That's an impressive amount, as long as it's not putting you in debt, but would he have been happy if you'd have spent so much without any input from him? I'm quite glad we had low cost Christmasses growing up as I don't feel the need to spend loads now, even though we could afford it that amount would make me feel sick. If it's largely alcohol it will keep though I guess, especially if it's spirits.

Our Christmas spirit restock lasts a full 12 months until the next one! A once a year investment.

We spent about £120 to host for 7 people.

OP your DH is ridiculous and I cringed reading this post, I would die if DH spent £500 on food and drink for one day and he definitely could, that’s why he doesn’t do the shopping! 🙈

I grew up poor and am conscious of a bargain. DH grew up middle class and doesn’t think about value. Before we met he lived on takeaway and did all his shopping from the expensive convenience store at the end of the street.

Don’t get me wrong we enjoy nice treats still but he came to do the Christmas shop with me the other day (first supermarket shop he’s been on in months) and there was a lot of him picking up items we use, like branded cereal, sweets, fizzy drinks, toilet paper...etc and me saying
‘We don’t get those in here darling’
‘Why not?’
‘Because they’re half the price/on offer in the other supermarket’

(I do our weekly shop between 2 supermarkets and get all household products from B&M)

Saves us £100+pm for exactly the same items. DH was very shocked there was such a big difference.

I've spent about £500 but I have 10 adults to feed alcohol to buy and we get a Goose (which is super expensive) and Turkey from a butcher. That also includes plenty of crackers, posh biscuits etc. No doubt it will last longer than Christmas day.