Christmas portion planner (2024)

FAQs

How much per person for Christmas dinner? ›

Using the cheapest possible prices for a set basket of 11 Christmas dinner items, our research shows it will cost £33.08 to feed eight people, £3.27 more than it did in 2022, when the same basket cost £29.36 — a price increase of 13%. The price per head is £4.14.

Stuff it, it's Christmas

If you don't have a go-to recipe, this stuffing how-to is a stonker and 100g per person will be plenty. The ingredients are pretty basic too, so you probably already have them in the cupboard.

Clearpoint, the credit-counseling nonprofit, suggests a simple target for holiday budgeting: Plan to spend 1.5% of your annual income. For a family that earns $75,000 a year, that works out to $1,125. Sliding buttons allow you to allocate shares of the total to gifts, parties, travel, donations and food.

Traditional Christmas dinner features turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and vegetables. Other types of poultry, roast beef, or ham, are also used.

Why do Poles eat 12 dishes during the Christmas Eve dinner? Tradition calls for 12 traditional courses to be served during the Polish Christmas Eve. This number is a symbol of wealth, the 12 Apostles and a representation of the 12 months of the year. But in the past, dinner consisted of an odd number of dishes.

The most popular time is 2pm with 28 per cent of people sitting down to eat, followed by 23 per cent who tuck into the main meal an hour later at 3pm. Only a handful voted for a late diner at 10pm, or turkey for breakfast at 8am.

I do one large potato each cut into 4 large pieces. I would do two medium sized carrots each. About 8 sprouts, with whole chestnuts, (although we have red cabbage with cranberries and peas). We love roast parsnips with maple syrup and whole grain mustard and I do 1 parsnip per person as they shrink.

How much stuffing per person? A 14-ounce bag of stuffing makes about 11 servings; a 6-ounce box of stuffing mix makes 6 servings.

How much money should you have for Christmas? ›

However, a common guideline is to allocate around 1-2% of your annual income for gifts. Again, it's super important to set a budget that aligns with your financial health and priorities, which ensures a joyful holiday season with minimal financial stress.

According to new analysis from Category Partners using grocery data from NielsenIQ, a basic Christmas dinner for a family of four purchased from a supermarket in 2023 will cost approximately $50.56, compared to $47.25 in 2022.

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You'll need a total of about 1 pound per person of all bone-in meats or 1/2 pound per person for boneless meats. Here is a quick guide to how many pounds of ham and turkey you will need depending on if the meat is bone-in or boneless (assuming a 50/50 split of turkey and ham being served):

It might be easy to 'forget' to count your calories and reach for that last slice of cheese, but do you know just how many calories are in what you're eating and drinking? According to a study by Wren Kitchens, the average person packs away 5,373 calories on Christmas day.