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.

Below, you’ll find notes on menus, 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 

Gousto One Hour Christmas Dinner

Why: Gousto is a household favourite for its easy-to-make recipe kits, and this year it's created an unbeatable turkey feast with all the trimmings that you can cook at home in under and hour! This kit is a great option for small groups, or anyone who doesn't enjoy the prep of cooking a whole roast, and you'll be treated turkey, pigs in blankets, roasties, buttery parsnips, stuffing and roasted Brussels sprouts, plus a rich gravy. Not bad at all. 
How much: From £2.99 per meal
Buy it: Gousto One Hour Christmas Dinner

The Côte Festive Turkey Feast

Why: Cote's highly anticipated Christmas dinner box has been designed by none other than Gordon Ramsay’s former executive chef Steve Allen. With a focus on using seasonal, fresh ingredients, the turkey feast box centres around a 2-2.5kg marinated British turkey breast from Larchwood Farm, alongside pigs in blankets with a spiced honey glaze, spiced braised red cabbage, Brussels sprouts au gratin, roast potatoes, rainbow carrots, sage and onion stuffing and a shallot and thyme jus. And if you don't fancy turkey this year, you can also choose between a chateaubriand box or a vegetarian feast featuring two butternut squash tarte tatins. 
How much: £124.95 (serves up to 6)
Buy it: Cote at Home

Made in Oldstead Christmas Day Turkey 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

FieldGoods Turkey and Smoked Ham Pie

Why: Not everyone wants to do the whole big turkey dinner on Christmas day, and to be honest, we totally respect that. But there is a way to enjoy a rich, comforting, delicious meal while hardly having to lift a finger. FieldGoods have partnered with Pipers Farm to create a hearty festive pie that you can order, freeze, then stick in the oven when you're ready to eat. The turkey and smoked ham pie tastes as good as homemade, filled with succulent meat and a creamy gravy, then topped with crisp shortcrust pastry. You can also complete the meal with its King Edward goose fat roast potatoes (they're ultra crispy!) and sprouts cooked in brown butter, lardons and chestnuts. All dishes take less than an hour to cook - simply stick 'em in the oven and have dinner on the table with minimal faff. 
How much: From £7.75 for a single portion pie
Buy it: FieldGoods 

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: Beef Wellington Banquet

Chefs for Foodies Classic Christmas Turkey Dinner Kit

Why: At not much more than 100 quid for six people, this turkey dinner box is pretty good value. Chefs for foodies has 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 includes a bottle of Italian wine to toast the day with.
How much: £139 (served 6)
Buy it: Classic Christmas Turkey Dinner Kit

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! And that’s exactly what it is. 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 bubble and squeak 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 includes all the trimmings.
How much: From £59 (for 1)
Buy it: Christmas in a Box

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. Get your hands on a British free-range turkey crown with all the trimmings and a Christmas pudding with this traditional box. Able to feed up to six people, it also includes pork, sage and onion stuffing, pigs in blankets, red cabbage in port, Brussels sprouts in with pancetta, honey roast parsnips, beef dripping roast potatoes, gravy and a luxury Christmas pudding. What more could you want?
How much: £125 (serves 4-6)
Buy it: British Free-range Turkey Crown Box with Trimmings

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

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 this year, depending on how many you’re catering for or dietary requirements, and we recommend you browse them all. Our favourites include the Christmas Veggie Wellington box, and the Clementine Chocolate Log kit if you fancy making pudding from scratch!
How much: Prices dependent on product
Buy it: Riverford Festive Recipe Kits

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 a bit too much, why not let a professional do it for you? We’re not talking about just any chef either, we’re talking about the three times Michelin-starred Simon Rogan. Using the best seasonal produce from his Cartmel farm, the Simon Rogan 'At Home' December 2024 box includes oak-smoked mackerel with cucumber jam, Goosnargh turkey with crown prince squash and a woodruff-infused sauce. To finish, it’s Rogan’s Christmas cake followed by chocolate mint fudge. You can also add on tasty extras, including a curated whine flight.
How much: From £95 per person
Buy it: Simon Rogan

Eversfield Christmas Roast Turkey Box

Why: If you're the sort of group who absolutely must have turkey every year, Eversfield Organic offers up a generous turkey roast box complete with lots of meaty accompaniments to make your turkey extra tasty. Alongside a premium organic Bronze turkey, you'll find chipolatas, streaky bacon, sage and onion stuffing and gravy. A great choice for big groups! 
How much: £152 (serves 8-10)
Buy it: Christmas Roast Turkey Box

The Cookaway Indulgent Chicken Wellington

Why: Fancy a festive feast with a difference? The Cookaway's festive recipe boxes include a chicken Wellington (yes, you read that right) stuffed with dried fruit and nut stuffing. It also comes with a red wine gravy, as well as savoy cabbage and pancetta, and crispy smashed potatoes. Doesn’t that all sound delightful?
How much: From £62 (served 2-3)
Buy it: Indulgent Chicken Wellington

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