22 best Christmas dinner boxes 2025: Hassle-free kits to try this year

It’s not hard to see the appeal of a Christmas dinner in a 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 M&S 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.

Below, you’ll find notes on menus, pricing and more as we hunt for the best Christmas delivery boxes 2025 has to offer. So, all that’s left is for us to raise a glass to you and the festivities and wish 2025 a jolly departure from all of our lives. Cheers!

Gousto One Hour Christmas Dinner

Why: Gousto is a household favourite for its easy-to-make recipe kits, offering everything from family favourites to lighter meals. This year, the Gousto Christmas box 2025 takes form as a one hour Christmas dinner kit. In under one hour, you can chef up a whole festive spread, including turkey, pigs in blankets, roasties, stuffing, and proper gravy - we told you it was easy! For any vegans around the table, there's a nut roast available too, made with mushroom, pistachio, and cranberry loaf - yum!
How much: Subscriptions from £20.49 per box
Buy it: Gousto One Hour Christmas Dinner

Cinnamon Collection Christmas Feast at Home Kit

Why: We all know and love The Cinnamon Club (London's fine-dining Indian restaurant) but did you know that The Cinnamon Collection also have an online shop? You can order their Christmas feast at home kit to have your festive dinner arrive right at your door. Implementing The Cinnamon Club's signature style, the menu features Indian-inspired dishes with a festive twist - think roast Kentish lamb with rogan josh sauce, and garam masala Christmas pudding with nutmeg custard. 
How much: £150 (serves 2)
Buy it: Cinnamon Collection Christmas Feast at Home Kit

Hello Fresh Build-Your-Own Christmas Feast

Why: As well as 16 brand-new seasonal dishes for 2025, Hello Fresh is bringing back its build-your-own Christmas feast for another year. As part of a regular subscription, Hello Fresh customers can choose between customisable starters, mains, sides and desserts, from rosemary roast chicken to bacon-wrapped turkey to sides such as pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and nutty bacon sprouts. We love the fact that ingredients are pre-portioned when they arrive so you don't have to faff about with measuring - perfect for a novice cook, or a seasoned chef that needs a helping hand during the busiest time of year. Our team tested the crispy rosemary chicken schnitzel with roast potatoes and a cheesy leek sauce, plus an indulgent caramelised onion brussels sprout mac and cheese. Portions are hearty, which is exactly what you want as the weather starts to turn cold, and everything comes wrapped in recyclable packaging. There's a reason these guys are consistently highly rated!
How much: Subscriptions from £27.99 a week
Buy it: Hello Fresh Festive Flavours range

Applebee's Salmon En Croute

Why: Long-standing seafood restaurant, Applebee's, is selling a hearty, ready-to-cook batch of salmon en croute this Christmas. Handmade by executive chef Frankie, Scottish salmon fillet is wrapped in golden puff pastry and served with a chive and white wine sauce. The glistening centrepiece is available to collect from both the Borough Market and Southbank sites on 23 or 24 December. Simply throw it in the oven and serve up alongside your favourite Christmassy trimmings. 
How much: From £80 (serves 4 to 8)
Buy it: Applebee's Salmon En Croute

Cook Christmas Dinner for 8

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. 
How much: £135.70 (serves 8)
Buy it: Cook Christmas Dinner for 8

Made in Oldstead Christmas and New Year's Boxes

What: As well as supplying two outstanding restaurants (The Black Swan and Roots York), Tommy Banks’ farm also supplies most of the produce for his gourmet delivery boxes. The Made in Oldstead Christmas and New Year's range includes a dizzying array of boxes, such as a four-course beef Wellington dinner, a stunning seafood platter, and Christmas Day turkey menu, complete with starters, pud, and all the trimmings. Veggie options are available too, and you can add a box of pies - including turkey and fish fillings - for Boxing Day grazing.
How much: £185 for the Christmas Day turkey menu (serves 2)
Buy it: Made in Oldstead Christmas Range

M&S Turkey and Trimmings

Why: OK, this one's not technically an M&S Christmas dinner box, but we can't ignore how good their selection of festive food is. You can easily order your turkey centrepiece, alongside a bunch of seasonal sides, for a deliciously straightforward Christmas dinner. The M&S slow-cooked Oakham™ turkey joint is perfect for a family of four, while the classic vegetable collection includes goose fat roast potatoes, braised red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, and honey and mustard parsnips. Just bung them both in your basket, and you're half-way to a full Christmas feast. All you need now is gravy!
How much: £34 for turkey joint (serves 4) and £30 for classic vegetable selection (serves 6)
Buy it: M&S Christmas Food

GRUBBY Plant-based Christmas Dinner

Why: Plant-based eaters are taken care of with GRUBBY's festive 2025 range, which includes a fully vegan Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, plus a wealth of alternatives. In fact, there are nine festive recipes to choose from this year, from a miso mushroom Wellington to the ultimate Christmas sausage roll. We tested the latter and were really impressed at how impressive and easy the kit was to make. Simply roll out the plant-based pastry, fill with sausage meat, then roll and bake until golden. It's served with veg and an easy vegan gravy (the only work involves combining the ingredients in a pan), and even packs in 27g of protein, so is properly satisfying. Instructions are easy to follow and - a fun addition - the recipe cards feature QR codes to curated Spotify playlists to cook along to whilst prepping. Pretty cool! 
How much: From £28 (serves 2)
Buy it: GRUBBY festive meal kits

FieldGoods Christmas Feast Bundle

Why: If you're after a bit of a steal, FieldGoods Christmas dinner box for two is excellent value. For £35, you get a whole turkey and ham hock pie, three delicious sides (sprouts, chestnuts and lardons, as well as goose fat roast potatoes and braised red cabbage) and to top it all off, there's a spiced apple crumble for dessert. Each bundle comes with a pot of Hawkshead cranberry sauce too. It's perfect for those looking to have a quiet Christmas, or as a gift for a loved one that might not have a big festive table to join. 
How much: £35 (serves 2)
Buy it: FieldGoods Christmas Feast Bundle

Cote At Home Festive Chateaubriand Feast

Why: Cote At Home is an online shop from the well-known Cote Brasserie, featuring plenty of Christmas treats, New Year's goodies and drinks packages. Our favourite from the range is the festive Chateaubriand feast, which is guaranteed to bring the wow-factor to your dinner table. It's a full Christmas dinner in a box, complete with honey glazed pigs in blankets, apricot and mustard carrots, and roast miso parsnips. Just pop your oven on, and enjoy a glass of fizz while your Christmas dinner cooks away.
How much: £164.95 (serves 4)
Buy it: Cote At Home Festive Chateaubriand Feast

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, easy to put into practice and, if quality means a lot to you, are completely Organic. The star of the show is the award-winning KellyBronze® organic turkey centrepiece, while sides include a classic collection of roast potatoes, honey and mustard parsnips, sprouts with hazelnut butter, spiced red cabbage and glazed carrots. Deliveries are available from the 20 December.
How much: £225 (serves 8)
Buy it: Abel & Cole Turkey Christmas Feast 

Farm Shop Christmas Turkey Box

Why: With shops in both Mayfair and Somerset, Farm Shop sells seasonal, quality produce from their Somerset farm, encompassing sprawling orchards, a well-kept beehive, and a thriving vineyard. This year, they've organised a nationwide Christmas dinner box delivery, which includes a whole free range turkey, pigs in blankets, sage and onion stuffing, bread sauce, and more. Everything comes tastefully packaged and beautifully presented, ready to cook and serve alongside your favourite veggies. 
How much: £170 (serves 4)
Buy it: Farm Shop Christmas Turkey Box

Donald Russell British Chateaubriand Box

Why: Donald Russell's Christmas dinner boxes deal in premium ingredients, from a British roast sirloin box that's won a Great Taste award, to a whole British free-range Bronze turkey with all the trimmings. The one we have our eye on this year is the Chateaubriand box, which features a boneless 500g Chateaubriand matured for at least 28 days, served with pigs in blankets, goose fat roasties, sprouts with walnuts and cranberries, and more. It even includes two individual white chocolate and pistachio cheesecakes for dessert. At £35 a head, that sounds like a pretty perfect Christmas dinner box for two.
How much: £70 (serves 2)
Buy it: Donald Russell Chateaubriand Box
Buy it: Hello Fresh Build-Your-Own Christmas Feast

Dishpatch Beef Wellington Banquet by Michel Roux Jr

Why: Acclaimed chef Michel Roux Jr has whipped up a stonking festive feast that shuns turkey for beef Welly! The handmade beef Wellington features grass-fed fillet beef and a rich mushroom duxelles, all wrapped up in puff pastry. But that’s not all! This six-course extravaganza also includes sourdough with butter, and chicken liver parfait with brioche to start. Next, Champagne and saffron soup with scallops, while the pudding is fluffy brioche bread and butter pudding, paired with mulled wine-poached pears. We’re drooling just thinking about it.
How much: £130 (serves 2)
Buy it: Dishpatch Beef Wellington Banquet

Sainsbury's Christmas Dinner in a Box

Why: Save yourself some time and head to your local Sainsbury's for the essential elements you'll need to make a cracking turkey dinner. You can feed a family of four for £50 with its all-in-one box, which includes a slow cooked British turkey breast with pork, chestnut and thyme stuffing, beef fat roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots in honey, sausages wrapped in bacon, and turkey and chicken gravy. Perfect as it is, or as a base to which you can add extra sides, this is a solid option for your Christmas Day lunch. Boxes are available to collect on 22, 23 and 24 December. 
How much: £50 (serves 4)
Buy it: Sainsbury's Christmas Dinner in a Box

All in a Box Christmas in a Box

Why: All in a Box has launched a seasonal special called - you guessed it - Christmas in a box! This box is 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'll receive either gin and beetroot cured salmon gravlax or creamy mushroom and chestnut pâté to start, a classic Christmas feast for the main event, and homemade Christmas pudding brownie. All kits include a mulled wine and spice kit, Christmas crackers and mince pies, plus instructions and timings to nail the cooking element of it all. 
How much: From £64.90 per person
Buy it: All in a Box Christmas in a Box

Simon Rogan Christmas 'At Home' Menu

Why: If the thought of cooking again this year is a bit too much, why not let a three times Michelin-starred chef do the work? Simon Rogan, best known for his acclaimed restaurants - L'Enclume, Rogan & Co and Aulis amongst others - has an online shop selling delicious meal boxes, including his 'at home' Christmas and New Year's menus. A six-course showstopper, each menu includes dishes like juniper smoked trout, English grain ragout, and braised short rib. There's also a veggie menu, and you can customise to your number of guests. These sell out fast, so be quick if you want to eat like kings this Christmas.
How much: From £95
Buy it: Simon Rogan Christmas 'At Home' Menu

Eversfield Organic Christmas Roast Beef Box

Why: Eversfield Organic sells some of the best quality birds around, so you can guarantee that your Christmas dinner is sourced from some of the UK's most ethical farmers and producers. This year, they have a whole range of festive centrepieces, including an organic Christmas roast beef box, complete with pork chipolatas, sage and onion sausagemeat, and beef gravy. If you're all about quality produce, delicious ingredients, and simple homecooking, this is the Christmas dinner box for you.
How much: £149 (serves 6-8)
Buy it: Eversfield Organic Christmas Roast Beef Box

Cookaway Beef, Chicken or Mushroom Wellington Experience

Why: Christmas time calls for Wellington, and Cookaway has three to choose from. With beef, chicken and mushroom Wellington options, you really can please everyone this Christmas Day. Each kit comes with everything you need to make a Wellington from scratch, making the cooking process easy peasy, while you still get to take all the glory! The boxes also come with two delicious sides - Savoy cabbage, sweet leeks and pancetta, as well as crispy smashed potatoes with fresh thyme. Save yourself the shopping, and enjoy a hassle-free day in the kitchen this Christmas.
How much: From £50 (serves 2-3)
Buy it: Cookaway Wellington Experience

Riverford Christmas Recipe Box

Why: Offering high-welfare meat and organic veggies, Riverford has a wide range of festive recipe kits on offer this Christmas. There's a veggie Wellington kit, a bunch of Christmas chutneys, and everything you need to make gravy from scratch. Sides are sophisticated and seasonal - think squash, clementine and bulgur salad, as well as pear, parsnip and red cabbage slaw. Puds are no afterthought - there's sticky toffee pudding, chocolate and almond brioche, and traditional Christmas cake too. What more could you want?
How much: Prices dependent on product
Buy it: Riverford Festive Recipe Kits

Cornish Food Box Christmas Dinner Box

Why: Originally launching in 2010, Cornish Food Box is a food box delivery company that makes buying amazing Cornish produce easy, and at Christmas time, it's no different. Their Christmas dinner box features free range turkey breast, streaky bacon, cocktail sausages, Christmas pudding, and more. Everything is carefully sourced from some of Cornwall's best farmers and butchers, before being packaged up in one convenient box. Plus, if you're a local, you can order for collection and receive a free Christmas veg box! Don't worry if you're from further afield though - this one's available for UK-wide delivery. 
How much: From £59 (serves 6-8)
Buy it: Cornish Food Box Christmas Dinner Box

Fortnum & Mason Christmas Provisions Hamper

Why: If, like us, you love Boxing Day food just as much as a Christmas Day feast, we've got you covered. Fortnum & Mason have a whole array of festive hampers, and this one is full of Boxing Day provisions. From a mini Christmas ham and smoked salmon, to pitted green olives and traditional stilton, it's jam-packed with all things savoury and pickled. Don't let Christmas Day take all the limelight - Boxing Day deserves some love too.
How much: £170
Buy it: Fortnum & Mason Christmas Provisions Hamper

Can't wait until Christmas Day to get your festive food fix? Check out 2025's best advent calendars for food and drinks lovers. And if you love a ready-made gift just as much as a ready-made festive feast, then take a look at the best Christmas hampers to buy this year.