12 Christmas dinner delivery boxes for 2022: the food and recipes you need, including HelloFresh and Riverford Organic | The Sun
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.
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: Gousto
- Best for big groups: HelloFresh
- Best for quality ingredients: Abel & Cole
- Best for simplicity: Peapod
- Best for a traditional roast: Waitrose
- Best for something a little different: Haar at Home
- Best on a budget: Cook
- Best blow out option: Donald Russell
- Best for plant based roasts: Allplants
- Best for healthy food: Mindful chef
- Best for restaurant quality food: Cote at home
- Best for organic food: Riverford
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Gousto
- Shop Gousto here
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 pistachio 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, braised red cabbage 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 Indian chicken Christmas naanwich, here.
Donald Russell
- Shop Donald Russell here
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 here
- British Dry-aged Bronze Turkey Christmas Box, £170 – buy here
- British Bronze Turkey Christmas Box with Trimmings for eight, £150 – buy here
- Sirloin and fillet roast with mushroom duxelles feast for four to six people, £105 – buy here
See the full range of Christmas dinner boxes at Donald Russell here.
Mindful Chef
- Shop Mindful Chef here
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, pasanda prawn curry, sirloin steak, venison and much more.
You can find the full list of this year's Mindful Chef Christmas meals here.
HelloFresh
- Shop HelloFresh here
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
- Shop allplants here
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.
There is also a 20% off discount with the code "NEWPOWER20".
Find out more and book your allplants Christmas dinner here.
Abel & Cole
- Shop Abel & Cole here
Abel & Cole offers a range of four organic Christmas meal kits:
- The vegetarian Christmas feast box, £115 – buy here
- The turkey Christmas feast box, £195 – buy here
- The vegan Christmas feast box, £115 – buy here
- The 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
- Shop Côte at Home here
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 also a deck the halls box, nights before Christmas box and merry betwixtmas box to choose from – the latter includes a range of delicious cheeses, meats, desserts and games to see you through the days between Christmas and New Year.
There are also vegetarian options, a New Years Eve box and well, pretty much anything you could possibly want for the festive period.
View Côte at Home's entire Christmas range here
Riverford Organic Farmers
- Shop Riverford Organic Farmers here
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
- Shop Waitrose here
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
- Shop Peapod here
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
- Shop Haar at Home here
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
- Shop Cook Christmas lunch meals here
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
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