Aldi has unveiled their 2025 Christmas range in a collection of news releases, so we’ve sifted through them all to see what the UK’s cheapest supermarket has to offer.
We’ve looked to see what we can serve up for mains, for both meat eaters and vegetarians, and desserts. We’ve also included prices where we can and when each item is available to buy. As we’ve discovered, the majority of fresh food and centrepieces are available in-store from the 19th of December, but there are a few outliers in stock earlier on.
Shoppers after Free From treats, look away now.
Christmas mains
As you’d expect, Aldi’s Christmas range contains a lot of turkey. Whole turkeys, crowns, birds wrapped in bacon, stuffed with sage, or covered with various glazes. All of Aldi’s Specially Selected Christmas turkeys are only available from the 19th of December, but as Aldi doesn’t offer a home delivery service, shops will be packed in those final six days as people jam the aisles trying to find their meat centrepieces.
Unfortunately for those trying to work out their budgets, Aldi hasn’t released any prices for their turkey range yet.
Luckily, Aldi has included prices with their other centrepiece options.
The Specially Selected Crackling Gammon Joint (£19.99 for 2.5kg) is described as being “sugar-baked”, so if any of our diabetic readers are considering it, double check the nutrition label before you stick it in your trolley. The other pork option is a Specially Selected Slow Cooked Porchetta, which as the name suggests, is cooked slowly. It’s £14.99 for a 1.5kg joint – like all other supermarkets, Aldi’s pork choices are lower in price than their beef, turkey, and lamb mains.
You don’t have to wait until the 19th of December to buy your pork, you can grab it from the 5th of December.
Aldi has gone full trendy for their beef mains this year: it’s Wagyu or nuffink. Choose between:
- The Ultimate Slow Cooked Wagyu Shin, or
- The Ultimate Wagyu Wing Rib
It’ll cost you £29.99/kg or £32.99/kg, respectively. Putting ‘The Ultimate’ in the title gives them permission to outprice the rest of the food on their shelves. You’ve got time to save up, though, as you’ll only be able to buy the beef in-store from the 19th of December.
Tesco’s Christmas range is no longer the only one to contain a lamb option for the centerpiece, with Aldi offering a Specially Selected Lamb Guard of Honour with a garlic and herb seasoning for £24.99/kg. Aldi is also selling a Specially Selected Lamb Wellington, which’ll cost you £16.99 for 701g. Like Aldi’s Christmas beef, the lamb options are also only available in store from the 19th of December.
Feeling lazy?
Aldi is serving up ‘Christmas Dinner in a Box’ – a brand new product for 2025.
Given its 3.5kg weight and £39.99 price tag, we can only assume it’s a dinner for one. If you supply an extra couple of sides or a small extra bit of meat, we reckon you could get two servings out of it.
In the box, you’ll find a bacon topped turkey joint, with pigs in blankets, honey mustard parsnips, maple butter coated carrots, roast potatoes, and turkey gravy. But, as with most of Aldi’s range, you’ll be competing with the hoards on the 19th of December to get one.
Vegetarian and vegan mains
As you’ll see below, the centerpieces don’t have the heft of the meat options, with Aldi opting for smaller, one to two person size mains.
We don’t know what the alternative is, but you can buy a 430g Specially Selected No Beef Fillet Roasting Joint for £4.99. You can also choose the Specially Selected No Beef Flank Steak which is almost double the price for half as much, at £7.49 for 200g. That one is made of “plant-based flank”, which helpfully clears up the no-beef mystery.
You’ll have to wait until you see them on the shelf to find out what “plant-based” food you’ll actually be consuming. But, if you want to know what you’re eating ahead of time, these ones have more helpful names:
- Sprouts Gratin – Shredded sprouts in a cheese and white wine sauce, topped off with crispy onion and breadcrumbs. It won gold at the 2025 Christmas Quality Food Awards, so it may well be £3.99 well spent.
- Rainbow Parcel – It’s leafy greens again with this one: layers of spinach, broccoli, butternut squash (not green or leafy, I know), and braised red cabbage with a mushroom and cranberry duxelle wrapped in puff pastry. This one is in stores from the 13th of December.
- Specially Selected Sage & Onion Stuffed Tofu Roasting Joint – It’s £4.99 for 400g of tofu, sage and onion stuffing, sweet cranberry, and herbs. You’ll need to join the queues on the 19th if you fancy tofu, though.
- Specially Selected Brie & Butternut Squash Wellington – You can probably work out what this is by the name alone, so we won’t get into it. Unlike the others, you can buy this from the 13th of October.
Christmas desserts
Alongside the usual mince pies and Christmas puddings, Aldi has a selection of other desserts to tempt you away from competitors.
The Nutcracker is popular this year: in Waitrose’s Christmas lineup, you’ll find one that’s far more expensive than the one at Aldi. As we’ve seen both while writing our Christmas range roundups, we’re more drawn to the Waitrose one. Aldi’s caramel sauce, digestive biscuit balls, and mini marshmallow filling feels better suited to a family film night-in than a Christmas dinner table, but the exterior of the Nutcracker’s Belgian chocolate shell is decorated to suit the occasion.
The Hazel-Nutcracker is far cheaper than Waitrose’s, but it’s also half the size at 400g. If you’ve got £7.99, you can buy it from the 13th of October.
This bunch of desserts are available in store on the 19th of December:
- Back from last year is the Specially Selected The Ultimate Gold Coin, which’ll cost you £7.99 for 430g.
- New for this year: a Specially Selected Centerpiece Pistachio Tiramisu for a quid more at £8.99. It seems like Aldi are trying to attract the Dubai chocolate fans by covering their tiramisu with pistachios.
- Specially Selected Ultimate Melting Baubles – A chocolate shell filled with vanilla mousse, chocolate sauce, brownie bits, honeycomb, and a white chocolate star. How lovely. It’s another £7.99 dessert, only this time, you’re only getting 264g of sweet treat.
If you reckon your house is going to be hot after cooking all morning, eating, and packing in loads of people, you could go rogue and choose the Specially Selected Baked Alaska Bar to cool yourself from the inside out. You don’t have to wait until the air gets festive and the queues get longer as it’s already in store.
Aldi Free From Christmas sweet treats
At the moment, all we’ve been able to find at Aldi of the Free From variety are a four-pack of mince pies.
If you’ve got a dietary requirement, or are shopping for those that do, you’d be better off at Morrisons, Asda, or Tesco.
Does Aldi not have what you’re looking for? 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:
