£74 for christmas dinner

Students, yes. My point is still completely valid. As I pointed out, it wasn't the necessity involved, mainly that *most* could not do it for this figure, nor for that matter, would like to, or care about that fact. #sigh
 
As a bit of a foodie, living in quite a foodie family, I certainly wouldn't "want" to do Christmas dinner for so little, given that it would obviously mean a massive drop in quality, nor would I want to attempt to do it on so little.
 
isnt the whole point of this that you can easily do christmas dinner for 74 quid...

not thats the most your allowed to spend
 
Hmmm, just ordered the meat for christmas day.
Looks to be around £95 for the beef this year and another £15 for the pork *that goes on at about 6am - roast pork sarnies for breakfast :D*
 
turkey - £35
potatoes - free
parsnips - free
sprouts - £1
carrots - £1
'greens' - free
stuffing - £2
bacon/sausages - £4
xmas pudding - £7
wine - £20

So that's bang on £70, and if some of the veg wasn't free it'd probably be £74.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
people saying you need to spend £300 for christmas dinner are being ridiculous,
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This is where you have gone wrong and makes everything else you posted pointless.
No one is saying that.

You could have some 20p noodles if you want.
But if you want a 3-5 course meal, with meat stuffing, extras and tasty meat. Then it's going to cost significantly more than £74, I've spent that just on the main peice of meat before.
 
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Glaucus said:
they've included starter, pud and booze. It's must be Asda smart price everything.
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I didn't include a starter because we don't, unless you count nibbles & olives before we sit down, but I did have pud & wine. Pop another £10 on and you could have a very tasty, high quality 3 course meal for £80.

No real need to spend £hundreds on it as long as you buy quality meat, and that £35 is for a 10lb fresh bronze free-range organic Guardian reading fold-up bicycle riding turkey from the local butcher. About the only 'shop bought' thing on my xmas table will be the pudding.
 
WillyNelson said:
y, high quality 3 course meal for £80.

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No you can't, now add decent sausages and bacon, meat and whatever else for stuffing. Starter, pud and booze is going to cost more than £10.

You can have a basic roast for that price. Or a three course incredibly cheap meal for that price. Nothing wrong with that. But you cant have a quality meal for 6people @ £80
 
Glaucus said:
No you can't, now add decent sausages and bacon, meat and whatever else for stuffing. Starter, pud and booze is going to cost more than £10.

You can have a basic roast for that price. Or a three course incredibly cheap meal for that price. Nothing wrong with that. But you cant have a quality meal for 6people @ £80
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He's already included a pud and some wine though, may not be "quality" but its probably good enough for most
 
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Marvt74 said:
He's already included a pud and some wine though
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Yeah shop brought rubbish this is a cooking forum.
A pudding will cost way more than £7, he also hasn't included any of the small things which adds loads to the costs. Butters, spices, herbs that sort of thing. Stuffing is way under budget. Again he's included shop bought bread crumbs. No igredients for gravy. Again no starters.

Bacon and sausages for 4 what are they walls.

Edit, and as we've all said if you happy with a cheaper meal that's fine and doable. But thes is a cooking forum and most of us will cook from scratch and actually have things like meat in the stuffing that costs. We are also mainly wine loving people and won't go for tesco white label wine. Don't need to spend a fortune but 3 for twenty minimum, plus some beers and other stuff.
 
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Glaucus said:
Yeah shop brought rubbish this is a cooking forum.
A pudding will cost way more than £7, he also hasn't included any of the small things which adds loads to the costs. Butters, spices, herbs that sort of thing. Stuffing is way under budget. Again he's included shop bought bread crumbs.
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I added that bit afterwards. its probably good enough for around 90% of the population though.

Me, i'm a convert to home made xmas cake now after making it for the first time this year, smells absolutely amazing, although probably cost us about £30 just for that!

I imagine most in here will have spices etc anyway aswell.

Stuffing? I'm happy enough with Paxo :D
 
Our turkey cost £60 this year, between 6/7 and there won't be much left over. It is as good as they get though, plus butter, sausage meat and bacon to keep it moist.
Plus a decent joint of pork/ beef £15
Plus all the sides, goose fat and cornmeal spuds, bacon and chestnut stuffing, braised red cabbage with pear, yorkshire pudding cooked in goose fat, cauliflower cheese, carrots, honey roast parsnips, swede, roast onions, sprouts with walnuts and bacon, pigs in blankets.
All quality meats from butchers, all homemade and veg off a local farm fresh as anything.

Then champagne and wines for the meal. And puddings, we usually have 3-4 homemade puddings. And christmas cake which has been slowly fed since june. And mince pies with homemade mince meat, chocolates, port, brandy etc.
We don't do starters.

Christmas day is one of those days, you can't do things by halfs. Certainly wouldn't dream of getting it all from a supermarket, it's a special day not an average week.
 
Seems decently priced to me.

Obviously everybody have different standards - we're not always going to like the same quality of foods. That's fair enough. :)
 
Glaucus said:
Yeah shop brought rubbish this is a cooking forum.
A pudding will cost way more than £7, he also hasn't included any of the small things which adds loads to the costs. Butters, spices, herbs that sort of thing. Stuffing is way under budget. Again he's included shop bought bread crumbs. No igredients for gravy. Again no starters.

Bacon and sausages for 4 what are they walls.

Edit, and as we've all said if you happy with a cheaper meal that's fine and doable. But thes is a cooking forum and most of us will cook from scratch and actually have things like meat in the stuffing that costs. We are also mainly wine loving people and won't go for tesco white label wine. Don't need to spend a fortune but 3 for twenty minimum, plus some beers and other stuff.
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Yea, fair enough I've not included sundries like butter, salt, etc but no, it's not 'shop bought stuff' (aside from a £10 pudding) and it'll all be homemade and damn tasty! Nice to know you can read my mind though. :rolleyes:

Cost of gravy? How much is a spoonful of flour and homemade giblet stock?
Half a dozen chipolatas from my butcher will make 12 mini ones, £3. 6 rashers of streaky bacon again from the butcher, £1. That's your £4 pigs in blankets. I could make a really tasty soup for the starter for no more than a couple of pounds. And I was catering for 4 not 6.

Yes, you could have a cheap & cheerful, totally shop bought 3 course xmas meal for £70. You could also have a totally homemade, much tastier one for about the same. Home made is always cheaper than preprepared. Also, I haven't included things we don't or won't eat with the xmas meal, like cheeses (they come in the evening).

If you want a top quality meal with all the trimmings then yes, you'll have to spend a lot more than £74 but to say that you can't have a really nice homemade meal for that isn't correct and bordering on snobbery.
 
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