Best supermarket Christmas food to elevate your festive dining in 2025

As we open the first few days the best beauty advent calendars or beer advent calendars – it’s definitely time to think about arguably the best bit of the day, Christmas food. Supermarkets have now released their festive food and drink menus and opened up delivery and collection slots for ultra-organised shoppers.

Catching my eye this year is the innovative ‘turkey bauble’from Waitrose. Sainsbury’s has also revealed a Christmas twist on sticky toffee pudding, while Tesco has teased chocolate and gingerbread S'mores tarts and burrata with a hot maple glaze and pistachios. Meanwhile, M&S is offering a Christmas-themed Colin the Caterpillar, naturally. Still unsure where to buy your turkey this year? Our turkey buying guide can point you in the right direction.

To take the hassle out of hosting around the festive period, you can get your Christmas food to order at most supermarkets. You can pre-order for delivery or collection closer to Christmas, so that you can avoid running around the aisles last-minute. It’s not just the turkey, either; these services include show-stopping centrepieces, desserts, and party foods.

Delivery or collection slots are already filling up with M&S, Waitrose, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s slots available to book now. If you want to secure one, I’d recommend moving quickly as I’ve already spotted sold-out food and delivery slots being snapped up.

We’ve also rounded up the best supermarket mince pies and the best supermarket mulled wine to accompany your meal, as well as the best supermarket whiskies and the best supermarket champagne for a toast at the end.

Keep reading for our picks of Christmas food from M&S, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Tesco, Asda and The Co-op.

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Sainsbury’s Christmas slots are open. There are plenty of scrumptious-looking dishes to choose from, including a pork and apple bacon-wrapped stuffing wreath (£10, Sainsburys.co.uk), which looks perfect for a buffet spread, to a ‘spruced up’ sticky toffee pudding (£12, Sainsburys.co.uk).

The starter offering is impressive, think goat's cheese and caramelised onion quiches (£7.50, Sainsburys.co.uk), lobster tails with garlic and parsley butter (£25, Sainsburys.co.uk), or chicken liver parfait (£12, Sainsburys.co.uk).

There is a huge range of turkeys, including an organic option, and a meat-free ‘no turkey crown’ (£6.50, Sainsburys.co.uk). Choose from a honey and treacle glaze turkey (£62.50, Sainsburys.co.uk), a turkey and duck roast (£30, Sainsburys.co.uk) and even individual turkey parcels (£20, Sainsburys.co.uk).

Should you be looking to streamline your shop, the Christmas dinner in a box (£50, Sainsburys.co.uk) comes with trimmings, even your gravy.

There are plenty more meat-based main dishes on the menu, including maple-candied gammon (£17, Sainsburys.co.uk) and shin of beef with stout (£50, Sainsburys.co.uk). And for those who will be tucking into a fish main course, options include scallop and king prawn fish pie (Sainsburys.co.uk), salmon Wellington (£35, Sainsburys.co.uk) and more, while vegetarian and vegan options include a maple chilli butternut squash galette (£7, Sainsburys.co.uk).

For dessert, novelty festive sweets to wow with include chocolate orange sleigh de noël (£20, Sainsburys.co.uk) and a s’mores pie (£14, Sainsburys.co.uk).

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Waitrose was one of the first to unveil its Christmas menu. The supermarket’s food-to-order range, as well as delivery and collection slots, are officially now open. Don’t worry if you’re undecided on what to order, as the site says you can choose a few food items now, but change these at any time as we get closer to Christmas. That said, you need to finalise your selection and order by 15 December to have your items by Christmas, and by 21 December, for New Year’s Eve.

New this year, there’s Rick Stein's lobster and king prawn velouté pie (£70, Waitrose.com), a plant-based roast turkey complete with all the trimmings (£16, Waitrose.com), the No.1 stuffed Scottish salmon with prawns and salsa verde, and a “turkey bauble” (£50, Waitrose.com) – turkey breast with stuffing inside and wrapped in dry-cured beechwood smoked bacon with a cranberry and orange glaze. There’s plenty for vegan and veggie diners too, with a No.1 mushroom, malbec and port wellington (£14, Waitrose.com), and a No.1 cauliflower cheese galette crown (£14, Waitrose.com).

As for party food and sharers, the supermarket is offering everything from canapés and quiches to its No.1 pork, turkey and cranberry sausage roll snowflake (£10, Waitrose.com).

When it comes to desserts, there’s plenty to whet the appetite, from the new No.1 ‘nutcracker’ chocolate mousse (£20, Waitrose.com), No.1 Sicilian lemon and mascarpone delice (£18, Waitrose.com), a triple chocolate yule log (£18, Waitrose.com) and more. There are also mini festive cupcakes (£22, Waitrose.com) and a ‘cheeky chocolate Robin cake’ (£28, Waitrose.com) – chocolate buttercream-filled chocolate sponge – which are sure to be a hit with kids.

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M&S’s food for the festive period is always hotly anticipated, and it never fails to impress. With more than 90 dishes to choose from this year, the range is now available to browse, and you can order your selection and book your slot for collection from M&S stores, which will be either on 22, 23 or 24 December.

To start, tear open a oozy brie en croute (£17.50, Marksandspencer.com), or pork sausages wrapped in bacon are a sure to be a crowd-pleaser (£16.50, Marksandspencer.com).

M&S has all your festive grazing needs catered for too. Christmas is incomplete without a cheeseboard, and M&S’s one includes creamy and crumbly favourites like red leicester, Blacksticks blue, Button Mill brie, (£27.50, Marksandspencer.com). If you’re entertaining more, the handcrafted Christmas sausage roll garland serves 16 (£12, Marksandspencer.com).

When it comes to mains, I’ve spotted a British turkey and stuffing Wellington (£110, Marksandspencer.com), or for the traditionalists, there’s a wide offering of turkey including a free range option bred in Pembrokeshire (£95, Marksandspencer.com). For vegetarians, there’s a nut roast with caramelised nuts and cranberries (£12, Marksandspencer.com) or a vegan ‘no turkey crown’ (£12, Marksandspencer.com).

As for desserts, Colin the Caterpillar (£15, Marksandspencer.com) has had a festive makeover, complete with chocolate crackers and popping candy. The lemon and mascarpone panettone gateau (£25, Marksandspencer.com) – panettone with mascarpone cream, lemon curd and white chocolate curls – looks like a sure-fire showstopper, while gluten-free options include a chocolate yule log (Marksandspencer.com).

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Now, Tesco. To start, the supermarket is serving up dishes such as wild lobster thermidor tails (£20, Tesco.com) and three-bird pâté (£8, Tesco.com) from the Tesco Finest range. Moving into the main event, there are a variety of turkeys to choose from, including a vegan Plant Chef no turkey crown (£6, Tesco.com). It’s not just turkey, though. You could be unveiling centrepieces such as slow-cooked two-bird roast with a pork and plum stuffing (£40, Tesco.com), slow-cooked Thor’s hammer with beef dripping gravy (£60, Tesco.com), to name a few.

As for sides, trimmings and small plates, choose from dishes such as rarebit dauphinoise potatoes (£7, Tesco.com), Winslade baking cheese with a fig and damson compote £18, Tesco.com), which is sure to have fromage fan flocking, and a feta, spinach and celeriac spanakopita (a Greek inspired pie) with hot honey drizzle (£20, Tesco.com).

Red velvet obsessives, get ready for the white chocolate and red velvet yule log (£7, Tesco.com). There’s also a vibrant orange and mascarpone cheesecake (£12, Tesco.com) and festive-themed desserts such as Belgian chocolate snowy trees, which are chocolate cheesecakes on a white chocolate and cinnamon digestive biscuit base (£12, Tesco.com). Delicious.

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Morrisons’ festive food-to-order bookings are open. Delicious-looking small plates such as The Best Scottish scallop and king prawn gratins (£6.50, Morrisons.com) are on the menu, while party plates and sharers include the likes of Plant Revolution squash, chestnut and cranberry wreath (£6, Morrisons.com), and a sausage roll festive wreath – this is bound to be a favourite at the buffet (£10, Morrisons.com). The pork, sage and red onion stuffing (£15 Morrisons.com) is topped with a festive pastry design and looks like a fun centrepiece.

Sure to dazzle, there’s a chocolate praline star (£15, Morrisons.com), while the traditional Basque winter berry cheesecake (£10, Morrisons.com) and the sticky toffee pudding with a caramel sauce centre (£8, Morrisons.com) will be hard to choose between, so it’s safe to say dessert lovers have a lot to get excited about.

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From its first-ever range of Christmas Day brunch foods (think Exceptional hot maple pigs in Blankets and hot honey streaky bacon) to its festive fondue, the supermarket’s Christmas food range has much to delight, and is available to buy online or in Asda shops.

The ultimate cheese-lovers party food, the fondue kits come with Milano Salami, chorizo, gherkins, marinated cherry tomatoes and more, for dipping into a vintage cheddar cheese fondue (£6.98, Asda.com). For a festive twist on the dish, try a ‘pigs in duvet wreath’ version (£6.80, Asda.com).

To take some of the hassle out of cooking on the big day, Asda will sell a ‘turkey with all the trimmings’ box (£37.97, Asda.com), which includes everything you need for a Christmas dinner. Another option is the slow-cured rack of pork with truffle butter and parmesan crumb (£20.75, Asda.com).

When it comes to desserts and sweet dishes, the gingerbread man is the star of the show. More than 30 gingerbread-themed products have launched in stores, including a chocolate gingerbread man sponge pudding (£5.65, Asda.com).

If you’re looking for a decadent tipple to serve with your Baileys in the evening, you’ll want to add the Exceptional pistachio and milk chocolate flavour cream liqueur to your basket too (£8.16, Asda.com).

Asda’s Christmas food-to-order range, which includes more than 20 centrepieces, is open for delivery or collection between 21st and 23 December.

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While Co-op won’t have a Christmas food-to-order service, you will still be able to order its Christmas range online or in shops when it arrives later in the year. In the meantime, the menu looks promising. Co-op’s premium “Irresistible” brand brings party dishes and small plates, like Irresistible vegetable fritter slider bao buns with soy dip, Irresistible gruyère cheese and caramelised onion crostini, Irresistible Mexican-style pulled beef croquettes with smoky ketchup, and melt-in-the-middle cod fishcakes.

For lunch, starters and mains include Irresistible smooth brussels and mulled wine pate, Irresistible oak smoked salmon with a creamy dill sauce, and Irresistible chicken, ham hock and cranberry pie. There’s plenty of choice when it comes to desserts too, from Irresistible black forest brownies to Irresistible gingerbread and white chocolate cakes, and Irresistible gingerbread and maple mince pies.

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