You may have offered to host Christmas lunch and are now living in a world of regret, or have simply drawn the short straw among your family and friends. You may be looking at your dwindling bank balance, drained by pre-Christmas spending and the well-documented cost-of-living crisis. But 25 December is near and like it or not, hungry guests are destined to show up at your front door in a matter of days.
Christmas lunch, however, doesn’t have to be an elaborate, costly exercise. We’ve asked some hospitality industry experts – Alex Elliott-Howery, the co-owner of Cornersmith and co-author of The Food Saver’s A-Z; Travis Harvey, the executive chef at OzHarvest, and Shaun Christie-David of social enterprise restaurant Colombo Social – for their tips on hosting a Christmas meal on a budget.
