Supermarkets are battling to bring us the cheapest way to eat this Christmas. We look at where you can get the cheapest Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
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There is always a price war among supermarkets, and it’s no different at Christmas time.
You can usually find mega cheap Christmas vegetables in the last week before the 25th, and this time they are selling a full meal deal offer.
Many supermarkets have reduced prices or created a meal to give you the most competitive prices.
Here are the details of the 2022 budget Christmas dinners, from £3.75 a head.
2023 Christmas dinner prices will be updated when prices are updated from supermarkets.
Cheap Christmas dinner
Heron Foods
Price: £15 for 4 people / £3.75 a head
The discount frozen food retailer can get you fed on Christmas Day for £15.
Individually the eight items would cost £20.56, but they’ve been discounted as part of a meal deal.
As part of their meal deal, you get:
- The Best Buy Turkey Joint with Pork, Sage and Onion Stuffing 900g
- The Best Buy Roasted Root Vegetables 500g
- Cauliflower Cheese 325g
- Aunt Bessie’s Duck Far Roast Potatoes 700g
- Aunt Bessie’s 4 Spectacular Yorkshires 220g
- 12 Pigs in Blankets 240g
- The Best Buy Brussels Sprouts With Bacon 500g
- The Best Buy Chantenay Carrots With Butter 500g
Products and prices are subject to change.
Iceland
Price: £28 for 8 people / £3.50 a head
Iceland’s meal deal is an online exclusive.
You pick from one main and can mix and match five different sides.
The deal price will feed up to eight people, but it is only available until 2 December 2022.
You can pick from:
- Choose one Joint
- Turkey Crown 2.2kg
- Whole Leg of Lamb 1.8kg
- Aberdeen Angus Beef Rump Joint 1kg
- Choose 5 Sides
- 12 pigs in blankets
- Aunt Bessie’s 12 Yorkshires
- Minted Petit Pois
- Carrots, Broccoli and Peas Mix
- Carrot Baubles with Parsley and Chive Butter
- Aunt Bessie’s Fluffy & Buttery Mashed Potato
- Chunky Roasting Vegetables
- Aunt Bessie’s Honey Glazed Parsnips
- Crispy Roast Potatoes
- Double Butter Mash
- Brussels Sprouts Loaded With Bacon
- Red Cabbage and Apple
- Brussels Sprouts Loaded with Whole Chestnuts
- Beef Gravy
- Turkey Gravy
Not sure if your closest store will be closed over the holidays? Find out the Christmas opening hours.
Aldi
Price: £22.30 for 6 people / £3.72 a head
Aldi’s Christmas dinner selection of eighter items has been designed for 6 people.
It’s a not a meal deal, so you can pick or choose what you’d prefer.
Pick up from the freezer aisle:
- Oakhurst Small British Turkey Crown 1.5-1.9kg – £13.99
- Just Like Grandma’s Golden Yorkshire Puddings 12 – £0.79
- Four Seasons British Garden Peas 900g – £0.75
- Four Seasons Slices Carrots 1kg – £1.09
- Four Seasons Brussels Sprouts 1kg – £1.09
- Let’s Party Pigs in Blankets 12 pack – £1.99
- Champion Crispy & Fluffy Roast Potatoes 1kg – £0.95
- Four Seasons Honey Glazed Parsnips 600g – £1.65
Poundland
Price: £25 for one course for 5 people / £5 a head
Or: £34.25 for a four course meal for 5 people
Poundland is offering a Christmas dinner for a family of five at £5 per head.
The meal deal will be available in 500 stores and includes both chilled and frozen foods.
For £25 you get:
- 2kg turkey crown
- Roast potatoes
- Stuffing
- Pigs in blankets
- Gravy
- Selection of vegetables, including:
- Parsnips
- Carrots
- Brussels Sprouts
If you wanted to get a four course meal, they also have an offering for £34.25.
As well as the main course food above, you also get a prawn cocktail starter, desserts (pick from black forest gateau, millionaire cheesecake or Bailey’s profiteroles, plus a selection of cheeses.
Poundland commercial director, Tim Bettley said: “This is no cracker joke – for the first time we’re making sure millions of our shoppers can buy their Christmas dinner at Poundland.”
“Hundreds of our stores now have chilled and frozen food with stores now also offering fresh fruit and vegetables. And in more and more places across the UK, we’re offering an alternative to the big supermarkets, whether it’s for everyday meals or the special ones like Christmas Day.”
Tesco
Price: £23.65 for 5 people (£24.05 without a Clubcard) for 5 people / £4.73 a head
For less than £25 you can get a Christmas dinner at Tesco.
It’s all from the freezer section, and you get:
- 1.5kg turkey crown – £14.00
- 800g roast potatoes – £0.71
- 20 pigs in blankets – £3.20 with Clubcard Prices until 12/12/22 (otherwise £3.60)
- Yorkshire puddings – £0.50
- Parsnips – £1.60
- Garden peas £1.25
- Brussels Sprouts – £1.30
- Carrots – £1.09
If you’re shopping online, the turkeys are available for delivery for collection after 14 December.
Find out more about Christmas delivery slots.
Asda
Price: £21.48 for 5 people / £4.30 a head
At Asda, you can get your Xmas dinner for less than £22.
Their Christmas dinner shopping list includes:
- Asda Basted Small British Turkey, Frozen (approx. 2.6kg) – £13.50
- Asda Frozen for Freshness Sliced Carrots (1kg) – £1.10
- Asda Frozen for Freshness Garden Peas (1kg) – £1.25
- Asda Party Pigs in Blankets, Frozen (12pk) – £2.50
- Asda Crispy Roast Potatoes, Frozen (800g) – £0.88
- Asda Frozen for Freshness Brussels Sprouts (1kg) – £1.25
- Asda Frozen Yorkshire Puddings, (12pk) – £1.00
Until 27 November, Asda Reward App loyalty users could earn £1.50 in their cash pot when they spend £20 on selected frozen Christmas dinner essentials. You don’t need to spend £20 in one transaction but can add your show as part of a “mission”.
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Thara says
I can think of other ways to make the Christmas dinner. You can find some free recipes in magazines. And this is a much cheaper way to make Xmas dinner and adapt them. Alternatively you can preorder many different items from a local supermarket or ask your close friends and family members to lend you stuff to cook etc.
You can even re make things from last year in order to save money. For my Christmas Eve lunch this year I chose to make a platter of stewed fruit. And I will only have half a turkey, a mini Christmas cake, cups of wine and a box of sweets. I will prefer to hand those out after dinner or a long walk. We will sip the wine whilst we watch a nice festive movie.
In terms of Christmas Day we will eat slices of turkey. We will munch all the leftovers first for our Xmas breakfast and lunch. Then for dinner we will have sausage rolls, wine, pigs in blankets and more festive cake for a pudding. We will also have Santa and Christmassy biscuits plus mince pies. You can save yourself more money by not buying anything. I am planning to make all the festive food on the cheap. Consider sandwiches.
Thara says
I cooked a amazing and free Christmas dinner last year all at home myself. I baked a lot of festive biscuits on my own. I did a full tray of mince pies as well in order to cut way down on the overall costs. My parents brought the white wine, Christmas cake and roast ham plus a roast turkey. We also had a entire platter of fruit, another of sweets, and a third was reserved for the cheeses as well. In the end we had half of the roast ham, a couple of festive biscuits and a cup of white wine on Christmas Eve.
On the actual day after a walk we had a festive lunch of roast turkey, fruit, biscuits and cheeses plus a few drinks. For our Xmas dinner we ate the leftover roast ham, cake, mince pies and sweets with another glass of white wine. Iced buns are on the menu this year however.
Thara says
Heya.
This is my advice. I put together a entire Christmas dinner using farm shops in order to begin with. I go to a couple of local ones in the area to see if they have any cheese and honey to sell. I also try to find out about any cheap current deals on wine online as well. Good luck. Make some brief summary notes.
You can buy most things cheaply these days for sure. Take a look around to find options. If you are patient it will come surely. Trust your gut feeling in other words here. You will get many more results that way definitely. Visit the nice shops in town.