Forget scrabbling for supermarket delivery spots, yes, Christmas meal boxes are still a thing. Here's how to get everything you need for lunch on Christmas Day delivered to your door this year.
Tom Kerridge's Beef Wellington
Tom Kerridge is back this Christmas with his legendary Beef Wellington. Inside the box is almost everything you need for a turkey-free Christmas dinner including the wellington, red wine sauce, pigs in blankets and a sticky toffee pudding and toffee sauce to finish (as well as some fudge). You'll just need to get the vegetables yourself.
Price: £215 (Serves four)
St John's Celebratory Spread
Another turkey-free dinner comes from St John, whose three-course affair kicks off with smoked mackerel rillettes before a main course of confit pork shoulder and you'll finish up with gingerbread pudding. While you're there, it'd be rude not to add some of the excellent St John wines to the delivery too.
Price: £90 (serves two).
Cote at Home Christmas feasts
Cote are already known for some extremely good-value at-home boxes so it's no surprise that theirs offers one of the best deals. Their Christmas feast includes around a 2-2.5kg turkey breast, pigs in blankets, stuffing, truffle gratin potatoes and parsnips with chestnuts. A vegetarian version with Butternut squash and goat’s cheese pithivier is also available, as is a chateaubriand feast.
Price: £99.95 (£69.95 for the vegetarian version) Serves up to six people.
Simon Rogan's Christmas at Home
For the fanciest possible Christmas dinner, the Simon Rogan version is a very good option. Here, as well as potted cornish mackerel, there's a poached stuffed turkey from Goosnargh and confit chicken leg as your main course and Christmas pudding with fig leaf cream for dessert. There are lots of possible add-ons too - the truffle pudding seems like a must.
Price: From £95 per person
Tommy Banks
Made in Oldstead from Tommy Banks has three options for Christmas day - beef Wellington, roast duck crown or a potato and mushroom Wellington. Each option comes with an amuse bouche, starter (a grazing board) and dessert (chocolate fondant with toasted hay cream), with all the trimmings thrown in too. You might want to throw in a sweet treats hamper if you need a little more to snack on later in the evening.
Price: From £175 (serves 2)
Haar at Home's luxury festive feast
Available in the run-up to Christmas as well as for the day itself, chef Dean Banks has put together a box that includes native lobster, dressed crab, cured trout and a kg of smoked langoustines (not to mention some caviar). So if you're after a luxury pescetarian Christmas, bear this one in mind.
Price: From £249.95 (serves four).
The Newt in Somerset Christmas Lunch Hamper
Country estate The Newt in Somerset has an online shop featuring a hamper that has everything you need for Christmas Day. Alongside a 4-5kg turkey, you'll find pigs in blankets, a festive veg selection, turkey gravy, sourdough bread sauce, Christmas pudding, mince pies, stollen and even more. There's lots of lovely stuff in their online shop so you might be tempted to add a fair bit onto that.
Price: £395 (serves up to six).
Chefs For Foodies
Chefs for Foodies has three special recipe kits from MasterChef winner Steven Wallis. In the box you'll find a turkey breast fillet, potatoes, gravy and everything you need for maple-roasted carrots, brussels sprouts with lemon pangritata and lots more.
Price: £139 (serves six).
Also see
Cook - This year, Cook are sending out Christmas dinners which include a stuffed turkey breast (from £38.50).
Donald Russell - The Scottish butcher has multiple Christmas boxes on offer, which include all the trimmings too (from £60).
Hello Fresh - The recipe box people have boxes that include everything you need for Christmas dinner.
Abel and Cole - Best known for their fruit and veg boxes, Abel and Cole have turkey, beef and veg Christmas boxes too.
Plus... online butchers
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