it doesnt say u have to include cakes , deserts , starters , drinks
choice of meat + all the trimmings
, next youll be adding the cost of yule logs a fire starter kit , a live band , a stable for jesus and 3 wise men£74 for christmas dinner
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it doesnt say u have to include cakes , deserts , starters , drinks
choice of meat + all the trimmings
, next youll be adding the cost of yule logs a fire starter kit , a live band , a stable for jesus and 3 wise men
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Also, he's from Newcastle. You could buy a whole farm for 74quid there
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it doesnt say u have to include cakes , deserts , starters , drinks
choice of meat + all the trimmings
Where does it say that, it doesn't say in the BBC what is included. However with a littel googling it most certainly is a three course meal.
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/C...od-inflation/story-14133120-detail/story.html
Last time I hosted Christmas I spent £240 and fed four people. Now, we didn't use up every last bit of that - there were various things that I used some of that day and the rest later - and it did include booze (probably £80? worth) and crackers.
It's not that you can't do it cheaper than that but it's Christmas and most people are entirely willing to spend a little extra on one big splash-out meal
It's not that you can't do it cheaper than that but it's Christmas and most people are entirely willing to spend a little extra on one big splash-out meal
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They will but it's just an average taken for a "basic" Christmas dinner, if you want to go all out and spend several hundred pounds on it then there's nothing stopping you or equally if you're happy with a pack of instant noodles then that's fine.
It's simply one of those studies that gets touted from time to time, no real importance should be attached to it.
Don't you know there's a recession on?!
Yep, just look at there list of "ingredients" if you can call it that. It's all the cheapest, pretty much ready made crap.
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6 students in my flat and we literally just finished our Xmas meal.
£33 including halal chicken - because one of our group is Muslim....
Chicken, rost potatoes. Yorkshires, gravy, stuffing, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, broccoli. With eggnog and Yule log and Xmas cake.
Gravy and stuffing was pre-made, rest was frozen or fresh from asda. Most of it was extra special as well....
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£33 including halal chicken - because one of our group is Muslim....
Chicken, rost potatoes. Yorkshires, gravy, stuffing, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, broccoli. With eggnog and Yule log and Xmas cake.
Gravy and stuffing was pre-made, rest was frozen or fresh from asda. Most of it was extra special as well....
kd
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Christmas dinner is a special meal, when you eat well all year round £74 worth of turkey or whatever doesn't quite cut it! Recession wise it depends what jobs your family members have, quite a few jobs are very immune from the effects.
ours will be around £40 per head inc drinks but we do have a good dinner
prawncoctail / duo of soups
turkey, beef, duck, pigs in blankets (all 4 obv)
carrots, sprouts, cauli, broccoli, parsnips
roast/mash pots
bread/cranberry/apple/horseradish (and probably mint knowing the kids) sauces
goose fat for roasties
gravy
christmas pudding / white chocolate and baileys cheesecake
wines/beer/brandy
ususaly how ours goes
theres a lot of other bits and bobs already in the kitchen that will be used aswell so £74 is a bargin
prawncoctail / duo of soups
turkey, beef, duck, pigs in blankets (all 4 obv)
carrots, sprouts, cauli, broccoli, parsnips
roast/mash pots
bread/cranberry/apple/horseradish (and probably mint knowing the kids) sauces
goose fat for roasties
gravy
christmas pudding / white chocolate and baileys cheesecake
wines/beer/brandy
ususaly how ours goes
theres a lot of other bits and bobs already in the kitchen that will be used aswell so £74 is a bargin
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£300 for 6 people before booze?
you guys must be shopping at harrods because the biggest turkey (frozen) in asda costs like £20 and is big enough for 10 people easy if your having all the trimmings/extras.
you could easily do a decent job for 6 people at £50, excluding booze, veg is cheap, so are yorkshire puds, gravy costs pennies, etc.
a case of bud/miller is £7 in asda, £3.33 for a bottle of wine. i say £74 including booze would easily be do-able.
turkey - £20
case miller - £7
case bud - £7
3 bottles of wine - £10
leaves £30 over for veg and extras, would easily be do-able
your brother must be buying fresh turkeys and sirloin steaks, etc. which imo isn't essential, christmas dinner is about the family coming together not having £500 worth of food.
your brother is going to spend £500+ on food and booze for 1 night, some people dont even spend that much on food and booze in a month.
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lol
i bet all you food connoisseurs couldn't even tell the difference between fresh and frozen if it was cooked by a proper chef
its christmas the time for giving, so if u can afford it why not do it right?
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doing it right?
i suppose that means you have to have the finest foods and finest wines, etc.
no you don't, that basically means you are a sheep to consumerism, and that you basically just follow any old garbage that society tells you what is right and wrong.
when you go to buy a lawn mower, did you buy a £30,000 lawn mower? no you bought one for £100, which did the job intended to do so.
if you honestly think you need to spend big bucks to enjoy christmas dinner then your an ***.
it's the same with guy's and engagement rings, all this crap about having to spend at least 3 month's wages, etc is all made up by guess who, jewellers in order to get more money out of you.
christmas should be about your family, not how much your shopping bill came to. if you dont think you could have a nice christmas dinner for £74, then even £500 isn't going to make it any better.
the people around you make it what it is, not the food on the table.
if you can afford to do it, then go ahead, but people saying, i asked my brother and he said £1 million wouldnt even cover the cost of the laundry bill of the tablecloth for christmas dinner is stupid, nobody cares how much he spends, some people i bet wont even spend £30.
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