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Now that the leaves are falling from the trees, supermarkets are turning their thoughts to Christmas. Whether you think it’s far too early to be thinking about Christmas, or you’re starting to sort your food budget out, there’s no getting away from the fact you’ll start seeing supermarkets advertising their Christmas food offerings.
In this article, we’ll take a look at Waitrose’s Christmas food offering for 2025. With a range consisting of 665 products, it’s on par with the Christmas food lineup at Morrisons. Of those 665 items, 267 are brand new for 2025 – but is anything worth getting excited over?
While a high number might be impressive, it’s quality and value for money we’re most interested in. Waitrose wins a crown for having the best value lunchtime meal deal, but does that balance of variety, quality, and price carry over to their food to order Christmas range?
Let’s have a look.
Waitrose Christmas dinner 2025
Of course, you’ve got the usual suspects of turkey, gammon, and beef.
For smaller dinner tables, the Waitrose Turkey Bauble serves six, and it comes wrapped in smoked streaky bacon with a pork, dried fruit, and rum stuffing. It’ll set you back £50. For £5 less, you can swap the bauble shape for a more classically shaped joint. The turkey breast is still wrapped in smoked streaky bacon and is stuffed with a pork, sage, and onion stuffing. It’ll also serve six people.
For the beef, Waitrose is following on the wagyu trend and stocking a No.1 Wagyu Topside for £40 (serves 8-10). Unlike the turkey, it doesn’t come wrapped and stuffed with other strong flavours. You can enjoy this one for what it is: top quality beef. The same goes for the Highland Roasting Joint: it’s beef in all its glory.
If you like the sound of the wagyu joint but wished it came with gravy, Waitrose has you covered. Choose the wagyu beef with the sachet of merlot and shallot gravy – this cut comes with a heftier price tag, mind you. You’ll need to fork out £70 for a four-serving joint.
On the gammon front, you’ve got a spiced rum and maple glazed ham with Andi Oliver’s name on the label. It’ll cost you £55 for a 10-12 person-sized joint. If you shake off the chef’s name branding and the glaze, you can get a boneless gammon joint capable of serving 16-18 people, with prices ranging £22-£31, depending on weight.
Going back to added extras, you can go for a sweet cured gammon with a spiced rub for £19 (it’ll serve seven). You’ll also get a black cherry glaze in the box.
For the potatoes on the side, you can choose the usual goose fat roast potatoes – not dissimilar to the ones you’ll find in every supermarket’s Christmas range. For something a bit different, you can have dauphinoise potatoes.
Vegetarian and vegan Christmas dinner options
It took two attempts of reading the name on this one before my mind computed the “vegan” in the name, because the picture online could be mistaken for a beef wellington. For any vegan guests, you can serve them Waitrose’s No.1 Mushroom, Malbec, and Port Wellington, providing you only have six turning up. For seven vegan guests, you’ll need to get a second one. At £12, it’s a reasonable price for what is essentially mushrooms and pastry.
Of course, Waitrose offers a nut roast. The bane of a vegan’s existence at a carvery.
Providing your vegan guests are fine with soya, you can serve them up a plant based turkey crown, stuffed with mushrooms, caramelised red onion, and sage. Even vegans can’t escape the sage stuffing.
Waitrose Christmas desserts and treats 2025
To round off Christmas, for the big finale, you can serve up a chocolate and hazelnut mousse nutcracker – descriptively named No.1 The Nutcracker – to 10 of your guests, providing you follow the recommended serving size. Realistically, the nutcracker would serve 6-8 people. It’ll also cost you £20.
For those wanting a Nutcracker without the high price, you can try Aldi’s Nutcracker. It’s half the size and lacks the class and finesse of the Waitrose one (it contains digestive biscuit balls and mini marshmallows), but it’ll save you £12.
Another ‘No.1’ option is the Chocolate Ganache Torte, a dark chocolate ganache and biscuit crumb that’ll set you back £14. Waitrose claims it serves 10, but again, don’t bank on it. If those weren’t enough chocolate for you, then you do, of course, have the choice of a triple chocolate Yule log.
If you’re not a chocolate lover, then you’ve got the option of a tiramisu or a Sicilian Lemon & Mascarpone Delice for your centre-of-the-table dessert.
It’s looking like it could be the Year of the Orange: Baileys has teamed up with Terry’s Chocolate Orange and Waitrose has introduced chocolate orange brownie bites (£2 for a 132g pack). Sainsbury’s has also gone for chocolate orange brownie bites, but they’ve also gone for a chocolate orange sharer dessert. We’ll keep an eye out for orange at other supermarkets to see if the trend is catching.
Waitrose out of your budget? We’ve also had a look at the ranges for other UK supermarkets (we’re still working on some!), so pick your go-to supermarket and have a look to see what they’re offering:
