A CHRISTMAS dinner delivery can save you time and effort when preparing festive food.
From Gousto and HelloFresh to Mindful Chef, you have an array of options to choose from.
A Christmas dinner delivery can save you from a lot of unnecessary hassle
With Christmas getting closer and closer, it’s time to start thinking about food preparation and all the festivities — especially with some predicting meat shortages.
But it can be exhausting: sourcing ingredients from different shops, thinking about combining flavours, and finally making sure that everything is ready at the same time with no dish getting cold, can take enormous effort.
Luckily, a Christmas dinner delivery can save you time and money by delivering chef-created recipes for your convenience.
These delivery boxes vary in price, size and recipes: so make sure you’ve got the one that suits your needs the most – and don’t forget to leave enough time to cook it.
Each of our chosen boxes contains both recipes and ingredients, so you can create the perfect Christmas dinner, hassle-free.
Best Christmas delivery boxes at a glance
Best overall: GoustoBest for big groups: HelloFreshBest for quality ingredients: Abel & ColeBest for simplicity: PeapodBest for a traditional roast: WaitroseBest for something a little different: Haar at Home Best on a budget: CookBest blow out option: Donald RussellBest for plant based roasts: AllplantsBest for healthy food: Mindful chefBest for restaurant quality food: Cote at homeBest for organic food: Riverford
Gousto
Gousto
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Gousto offers a number of festive recipes for all flavour hunters.
Next to the traditional turkey Christmas recipe with trimmings, you’ll find plant-based options including a vegan nut roast. Both the turkey and meat-free options can be made in just an hour.
The Gousto Christmas dinner includes British turkey with sage stuffing and homemade gravy, as well as pigs in blankets, roasties, buttered sage parsnips and roasted Brussel sprouts.
Gousto delivers for free up to seven days a week, depending on where you live, and it’s possible to get delivery all the way up to Christmas Eve — although the company has warned that delivery slots may sell out.
Find the full selection of Gousto Christmas recipes, including alternative options like the pork and sage stuffing pizza, here.
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Donald Russell
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Feeling fancy this Christmas? Why not get your dinner from Scotland’s finest quality butchers and fine food delivery service.
Donald Russell’s Christmas shop gives you the option to either build your own menu from starters to dessert, or to buy a Christmas box, all accompanied by sides and trimmings.
There’s a variety of Christmas boxes to choose from – including a range of options for a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings:
Christmas Dinner Box for Two, £60 – buy hereBritish Dry-aged Bronze Turkey Christmas Box, £170 – buy hereBritish Bronze Turkey Christmas Box with Trimmings for eight, £150 – buy hereSirloin and fillet roast with mushroom duxelles feast for four to six people, £70 – buy here
See the full range of Christmas dinner boxes at Donald Russell here.
Mindful Chef
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The Mindful Chef Christmas dinner has now been revealed and it includes a whole host of delicious recipes to try as well as the traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
Not tempted by turkey? Choose from pecan-stuffed mushrooms, partridge with tarragon potato cakes or many more winter recipes.
You can find the full list of this year’s Mindful Chef Christmas meals here.
HelloFresh
HelloFreshTurkey is always a popular Christmas option[/caption]
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At HelloFresh, you can choose a Christmas dinner-only box or dinner plus dessert for four, six, eight or 10 people.
If you’re ordering for four to six people, you’ll receive a turkey crown and a whole turkey if your order is for eight to 10 people.
HelloFresh allows you to tailor your plan according to your food preferences, and handily calculates price per meal, preparation time and approximate calories.
The Christmas menu includes accompaniments such as sprout gratin and honey and thyme root vegetables, plus white Christmas chocolate cheesecake desserts.
Order your HelloFresh box here.
Allplants
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Looking for a plant-based Christmas dinner? Look no further than the feast box from allplants.
Their vegan Christmas roast includes options such as a mushroom and “pancetta” filo pie and cranberry and walnut loaf plus sides like crispy roast potatoes and spiced red cabbage.
The meal is delivered to your door and is 100% plant-based, chef-made and ready in 70 minutes.
Find out more and book your allplants Christmas dinner here.
Abel & Cole
Abel & ColeAbel & Cole is also a popular meal delivery service[/caption]
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Abel & Cole offers a range of four organic Christmas meal kits:
The vegetarian Christmas feast box, £115 – buy hereThe turkey Christmas feast box, £195 – buy hereThe vegan Christmas feast box, £115 – buy hereThe beef Christmas feast box, £220 – buy here
In addition, you can order tempting meal kits for desserts such as yule log and a vegan torte.
You’ll find a handy step-by-step guide included with every order to make your festive preparations stress-free.
You can also order separate items such as Christmas joints, starters and desserts made for you – shop the full Christmas range here.
Côte at Home
Côte at Home
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Côte at Home has launched a range of Christmas food boxes for every occasion.
The festive turkey menu feeds up to six people and includes a turkey roulade with chestnut and cranberry stuffing, pigs in blanket, roast potatoes with goose fat and a range of vegetables and sauces too.
There’s a NYE Celebration menu for 4 people with Beef Wellington and a Cote Luxury Festive Gift Box box – the latter includes a range of delicious cheeses, meats, olives, truffles and more.
There are also breakfast and date night options, along with different cheese and wine collections.
View Côte at Home’s Christmas range here
Riverford Organic Farmers
Riverford Organic Farmers
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Organic food? Check. A huge variety of choices? Check. Vegan selection? Check. Riverford Organic Farmers’ Christmas dinner delivery has it all.
There are five different departments to choose from: Christmas meat, fruit and veg, treats and trimmings, Christmas drinks and vegan Christmas. You can also get boxes that contain everything you’d need.
Choose from a huge selection of Christmas joints such as turkey, duck, goose, beef and more here.
Then choose your trimmings from a wide selection of organic Christmas vegetable boxes – plus you can find treats such as mine pies, cheese boxes and more.
Just decide what you want and order it through the website to be delivered straight to your door when convenient.
Shop Riverford’s full Christmas range here.
Waitrose
Waitrose
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Waitrose has all the best parts of Christmas and more. From pigs in blankets, to a huge choice of turkeys with different seasonings.
You have a selection of turkeys, full Christmas dinner and mince pies, pudding and cake.
So in one shop, you can have the full shebang ready made to simply chuck in the oven and serve to your hungry family come Christmas day.
Think sage and onion stuffing balls, goose fat roasties and Brussel sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts.
There’s even a whole section dedicated to vegan options. We’ve got our eye on the no pigs in blankets, vegan beet wellington and the apple and cranberry cocktail sausages.
Shop Waitrose’s full Christmas range here
Peapod
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With Peapod & Co you can have all the best parts of Christmas lunch without the hassle of spending hours preparing everything and then washing up.
The Christmas in a Box contains everything you need to make a traditional festive meal including stuffing, heaps of vegetables and delicious roast potatoes.
Add a couple of festive canapés to your order for a lovely Christmas eve dinner.
Shop Peapod’s full range here
Haar at Home
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If you’re looking for something a bit different this year instead of a Christmas turkey, why not try some top quality Scottish fish instead.
Chef Dean Banks has created a festive feast for four that includes an lobster, caviar and trout. The meal also comes with two sirloin steaks and an array of sides such as seaweed potatoes.
There’s also the option to add little extras such fresh artisan bread, a bottle of whole Dressed Scottish Native Lobsters, bottle of Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve Champagne and two dark chocolate fondants.
Shop Haar at Home full range here
Cook
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Christmas lunch doesn’t have to be expensive, and a food box from Cook offers delicious quality food for a very reasonable price.
Prices start from £36 for two people and go up to £170 for 12 people, a cost of £14.35 per head.
The roast includes a turkey, pork & apricot stuffing, pigs in blankets and all the trimmings from roast potatoes to brussels sprouts and buttered leeks.
There’s also the option for a vegan Christmas dinner that features a mouthwatering butternut squash nut roast.
Shop Cook’s full range here.