Christmas Meal Kits For 2024
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Have a fuss-free Christmas Day with these DIY kits
Meal kits took off during the pandemic, but years on they remain popular – particularly around Christmas time. Packaged with everything you need for a delicious festive feast, they’re ideal for home chefs searching for a middle ground between cooking and dining out on Christmas Day. No need to battle busy supermarket queues or fight it out for a coveted Christmas Eve delivery slot: instead you’ll receive a carefully curated box of ingredients, along with instructions on how to transform them into a restaurant-quality meal. But which ones are guaranteed to impress the family? Read on for the C&TH pick of Christmas meal kits.
Christmas Dinner Boxes To Order Now
Home By Simon Rogan
Christmas ‘At Home’ Menu, from £95
Simon Rogan is one of the UK’s top chefs, renowned for his farm-to-fork ethos. His home kits are packed with the best seasonal ingredients, including some from his own Lake District farm, with the option to cater for between one and 12 guests. The Christmas menu includes five courses, with a standard or vegetarian option. Begin with a starter of pickled hen of the woods, ahead of a turkey roast with all the trimmings, plus a Christmas cake to finish.
Made In Oldstead
The Christmas Day Turkey Menu, £175
Made In Oldstead was another lockdown success story, created by chef Tommy Banks – the name behind Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms The Black Swan Oldstead. It offers premium, multi-course menus right to your door, with delivery available all over the UK. If you’re having a romantic Christmas for two, the Christmas Day Turkey Menu is sure to satisfy, kicking off with a cauliflower soup starter ahead of a turkey wellington (complete with pigs and blankets, duck fat roasties and more). Dessert is a suitably festive choux bun filled with Christmas cake crème diplomat – plus it’s accompanied by paired wine from Banks Brothers Drinks.
Waitrose x Dishpatch
Michel Roux’s Beef Wellington Centrepiece, £100
Meal kit company Dishpatch has partnered with Waitrose on two new Christmas set menus, one by Michel Roux and another by Angela Hartnett. Our top pick is the former: a four-person beef wellington from the esteemed French chef, wrapped in chestnut mushroom duxelles and rolled in savoy cabbage leaves, designed to feed four people. Guaranteed to impress – and it couldn’t be easier to whip up.
Côte Brasserie
All Day Christmas Bundle, £250
French restaurant Côte Brasserie has crafted a festive food kit complete with everything you need to eat your way through Christmas Day. First up: the Côte Christmas Breakfast Box, which contains croissants, smoked salmon, eggs and orange juice. Come lunchtime, tuck into the Côte Festive Turkey Box, a traditional turkey roast with veggies, plus the Côte Christmas Evening Buffet Box for evening grazing, complete with cheese, crackers, olives and more. Topping it all off is a bottle of champagne – what more could you need?
COOK
Christmas Dinner For 12, £199.65
Hosting a big group this Christmas? Allow COOK, one of the original meal kit delivery services, to help with its roast dinner box. Think turkey, duck, roast potatoes, parsnips, pigs in blankets, the whole shebang – all pre-made, and just requires a few hours in the oven. Since launching back in 1997, B Corp founding member COOK is all about home-cooked meals made using locally sourced produce from trusted farmers and suppliers.
Gousto
One Hour Christmas Dinner & All The Trimmings, various offers available
Gain back hours of time for festive fun by ordering Gousto’s Christmas dinner box, which can be whizzed up in just an hour. Your meal will include all the festive staples: turkey, pigs in blankets, sprouts, potatoes and more, along with simple instructions to transform it into a hearty roast. Looking for a plant-based version? There’s also a one-hour vegan nut roast.
Abel & Cole
The Festive Curry Feast Recipe Box, £95
Fed up of roast dinners? Switch things up with a warming curry courtesy of organic food delivery service Abel & Cole. Serving six people, this box includes all the ingredients for an Indian feast, featuring butter chicken, cauliflower and spinach curry, naan bread, pilau rice and more. You can always guarantee top-quality produce with Abel & Cole – plus the instructions are easy to follow. Bonus: you can guarantee nothing will come in pointless plastic, either.
