16 of the best Christmas dinner boxes 2024: UK-wide ways to get your Christmas dinner delivered

It’s not hard to see the appeal of a Christmas dinner delivery box. Even without contemplating your Christmas catering, there's enough to keep us busy when festivities roll around - from wrapping gifts and hosting guests to rustling up some decorations in time for the big day. On top of all of this, facing the queues at the supermarket or trying to wrangle one of the hallowed home delivery slots isn’t exactly going to make anyone feel jolly, so the trick - we think - is to get someone else to do the hard work for you.

After careful consideration, we’ve decided that this year we’ll be handing over all responsibility for our most important meal to the creators of some of the UK’s best Christmas dinner boxes. It’s a no-brainer. The clever people at companies like Hello Fresh and Gousto have gone to great lengths to carefully craft the perfect ready-made Christmas dinners for us all, and who are we to deny their merits? In most cases, you’ll receive all the ingredients and recipe cards for starters, mains and desserts, and if you want to take all the credit and ‘forget’ to mention how everything came to be, then this is a safe space – nobody needs to know a thing.

While each of the Christmas recipe boxes below offer something unique, they all have a few things in common. Most have size options (so you can pick the perfect one for your party), there are veggie recipe choices for mixed groups, and all give you the chance to try something new. There’s no more doing the same thing every year anymore because professional recipe developers and chefs are carefully putting together interesting twists on classics.

Once each of the options are live and available to order, we’ll be trying all the Christmas meal deliveries below to give you our honest feedback. For now, in summary, you’ll find notes on menus, last year's pricing and more as we hunt for the best Christmas delivery boxes 2024 has to offer. So, all that’s left is for us to raise a glass to you and the festivities and wish 2024 a jolly departure from all of our lives. Cheers!

Abel & Cole The Turkey Christmas Feast Recipe Box

Why: Loyal fans of Abel & Cole will already know that its Christmas dinner delivery comes with some serious kudos. With recipes refined down to the nth degree, they offer festive feast boxes that are expertly pulled together and easy to put into practice. You’ll receive everything you need in the perfect quantities to make a roast turkey feast (veggie and vegan options are available too). Sides include crunchy roasties and parsnips, sprouts in clementine brown butter, apple and bay braised red cabbage, carrot and swede mash, and Yorkshire puddings. Not to mention gravy, stuffing and cranberry sauce, of course. Available from 20th December.
How much: £220 (serves 6-8)
Buy it: Abel & Cole 

Made in Oldstead Festive Menu

What: As well as supplying two outstanding restaurants (The Black Swan and Roots York), Banks’ farm also supplies most of the produce for his delivery boxes. The Made in Oldstead Christmas range includes a dizzying array of boxes, such as one with a decadent turkey Wellington with the trimmings, and a Christmas Day Beef Wellington box with Tommy's famous salt-aged beef. There are even vegetarian Christmas Day boxes, along with Christmas Eve fish pie boxes with a wine pairing. 
How much: From £155 (serves 2)
Buy it: Made in Oldstead

Cook Christmas Dinner for Eight

Why: With *quite* enough to do around the festivities before even considering the Christmas Dinner, Cook offers a solution for busy households. With all the elements ready-made, all you have do is remember to defrost the food in the time to heat and eat. Serving eight hungry people, each box includes a stuffed turkey crown, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, sprouts, pigs in blankets, pork and apricot stuffing and the all-important gravy. Plus, once you've defrosted the turkey, the whole thing can be on the table in three hours and 20 minutes. Delivery slots are available to book now!
How much: £132.60 (serves 8)
Buy it: Cook Christmas Dinner

Tom Kerridge Beef Wellington Christmas Box

Why: Let Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge take care of the meal on Christmas Day with his show-stopping Beef Wellington Box! Last year, Kerridge’s knockout feast revolved around a golden beef Wellington featuring British Hereford beef wrapped in puff pastry. The box also included a rich red wine jus for serving, plus Pigs in Blankets. Dessert rounded things off on a rib-sticking note with glossy sticky toffee pudding served with toffee sauce and spiced brandy butter. And there was salted caramel fudge too! Do note that although this box didn’t include roast potatoes or veg, it came with recipes on how to make the best roasties and Brussels sprouts.
How much: £215 (served four)
Buy it: TBA

Salmon en Croûte de Noël by Michel Roux Jr

Why: Acclaimed chef Michel Roux Jr whipped up a stonking festive feast that shunned turkey for salmon en croute! Flaky salmon fillet came layered with celeriac, salmon mousse, spinach, cream cheese, lemon and capers, then wrapped in a buttery puff pastry. But that’s not all! This three-course extravaganza also included Champagne and scallop soup to start, while the pudding was taken care of with a fluffy brioche bread and butter pudding, paired with mulled wine-poached pears. We’re drooling just thinking about it.
How much: £125 (served two)
Buy it: TBA

Chefs for Foodies Ultimate Turkey Christmas Dinner

Why: At not much more than 100 quid for six people, this turkey dinner box was pretty good value. Chefs for foodies created a classic Christmas spread for those who like to keep things traditional on the big day. Inside we found British-bred turkey breast fillets, plus roast potatoes, maple-roasted carrots, sprouts with lemon pangritata, pigs in blankets, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce. It even included a bottle of Italian wine to toast the day with.
How much: £139 (served six)
Buy it: TBA

All in a Box Christmas in a Box

Why: Last year, All in a Box launched a seasonal special called - you guessed it - Christmas in a Box! And that’s exactly what it was. This option was fully customisable, from the number of people you’re serving to how many courses you’d like to include. If you go for all three courses, and we recommend that you do, you might receive Christmas croquettes with chutney to start, followed by your choice of main (turkey, beef, chicken, gammon or nut toast), and finishing with Christmas crumble and custard. And before you ask, it included all the trimmings.
How much: From £55 for one
Buy it: TBA

Donald Russell Butcher Turkey Crown Box with Trimmings

Why: With a choice of Great Taste-winning free-range meat and generous helpings of trimmings, Donald Russell deals in premium ingredients. They came out with various Christmas dinner boxes suitable for groups of all sizes, but we liked its classic turkey feast with all the trimmings. Able to feed up to six people, it included a British free-range bronze turkey crown, along with pork, sage and onion stuffing, pigs in blankets, red cabbage in port, Brussels sprouts in with pancetta and black pepper, honey roast parsnips, beef dripping roast potatoes, gravy and a luxury Christmas pudding. What more could you want?
How much: From £60 (served 2)
Buy it: TBA

Gousto Christmas Dinner Box

Why: Judging by the reception we’ve had to our regular best recipe box guide, Gousto is the most popular product on the market for dinner DIYs. We're still waiting to see what the company announces for this year's Christmas dinner, but they went all out last year with dinner on the big day itself and plenty of treats to tuck into before and after. From Yorkshire pudding pizzas through to Christmas trimmings nachos, Gousto had everything covered. Stay tuned for Gousto's 2024 Christmas menu.
How much: From £2.99 per portion
Buy it: TBA

Hello Fresh Christmas Dinner

Why: Hello Fresh can be relied upon to provide the goods when it comes to delicious, easy dinners that not only help reduce waste but also help reduce your time scanning the supermarket shelves. Ideal. You can tweak the number of guests to feed four, six, eight or ten people. Festive menus for 2024 haven’t been released, but last year's options included turkey and sides, turkey and sides with a cheese course, or beef and sides. The former also included pigs in blankets, gravy, honey and thyme root veg, roast spuds, red cabbage, sprout and bacon gratin, a butter-basted turkey, and a millionaire's cheesecake pudding to finish.
How much: From £22.50 per person 
Buy it: TBA

The Cote Christmas Feast

Why: The Cote's Christmas feast last year centred around a 2.25kg turkey breast, which we were invited to spruce up with some garlic oil and optional streaky bacon. Pigs in blankets, pork and apricot stuffing with sage, spiced braised red cabbage, truffle gratin dauphinoise potatoes, roasted parsnips with chestnuts, carrots and swede puree and cranberry and thyme jus were all served alongside. Add a bottle of wine to complete your meal!
How much: £99.95 (served 4-6)
Buy it: TBA

Riverford Christmas Recipe Box

Why: Offering high-welfare meat and organic veggies, Riverford puts the feel-good factor in your Christmas feast. There are a range of options to choose from, depending on how many you’re catering for, or dietary requirements. While a complete Christmas box has yet to be announced, a little closer to the big day you can pre-order your turkey with Riverford, guaranteeing the best in quality. Riverford also offered a range of centrepiece joints for a not-so-traditional meal, so you could opt for a beef forerib, or a whole lamb shoulder, for a change.
How much: From £9.65 (served 2-3)
Buy it: TBA

Mindful Chef

Why: Mindful Chef is known for being the healthy alternative to classic recipe boxes. Christmas is no different for the nutrition-conscious brand where all recipes are made without dairy or gluten and use high-quality ingredients including ethically sourced meat. Its festive specials menu last year included a ton of classic and contemporary options, from chicken with gingerbread stuffing and carrot fries, to a vegan leek, potato and cranberry bean bake. We're expecting more healthy and wholesome recipes from the brand again this year.
How much: From £6.25 per portion
Buy it: TBA

Simon Rogan Christmas 'At Home' Menu

Why: If the thought of cooking again this year is all a bit too much for you, why not let a professional chef do the hard work for you? We’re not talking about just any chef either, we’re talking about one of the UK’s best. Three Michelin-starred Simon Rogan's 'At Home' delivery boxes have gone from strength to strength - he does one a month now, using the best seasonal produce from his Cartmel farm. They rotate each month, but the December box has previously included potted Cornish mackerel, poached stuffed turkey and Christmas pudding with fig leaf cream. Plus, you might even get some mince pie chocolates to round off the meal.
How much: From £95 per person
Buy it: TBA

Eversfield Organic Turkey Banquet Box

Why: We understand that some cooks love the process of pulling together a feast in their own kitchen, so don’t always want ready-made components. Eversfield Organic usually offers a popular annual Christmas Turkey Banquet Box in which you’ll find all the ingredients to make a roasted bronze turkey with herby potatoes, chestnuts wrapped in streaky bacon, creamy mashed carrot and swede, shredded brussels sprouts, honey glazed parsnips and a cranberry and onion gravy. Great for big groups and perfect for smaller families who love Boxing Day sandwiches!
How much: From £89 (served 6-8)
Buy it: TBA

The Cookaway Indulgent Chicken Wellington

Why: Fancy a festive feast with a difference? The Cookaway's festive recipe boxes have previously included a chicken Wellington (yes, you read that right) stuffed with dried fruit and nut stuffing. It also came with a red red wine gravy, as well as savoy cabbage and pancetta, and crispy smashed potatoes. Doesn’t that all sound delightful? We’re hoping for something ‘out of the box’ this year too.
How much: From £62 (served 2-3)
Buy it: TBA

Fancy a finishing touch to your feast? You might like our round-up of the best Christmas crackers for 2024.