Grocery costs have gone up a whopping 9 per cent within the 12 months to September.
From the turkey and cranberry sauce to Christmas crackers, 9news.com.au has checked out a variety of Christmas dinner staples, the accompaniments and a few of the trimmings to see simply how a lot they’ve gone up since final 12 months.
Below is a breakdown of a typical three-course Christmas meal for a gaggle of roughly ten individuals, with gadgets chosen throughout Woolworths, Coles and Aldi shops*.
Grey costs are from 2021 and both purple or inexperienced worth tags point out if one thing has gotten costlier or cheaper in 2022.
Surprisingly, the worth of many core Christmas dinner gadgets like leg ham, turkey and Christmas pudding stay largely unchanged at main grocery store chains since final 12 months.
For instance, a smoked half leg of ham is available in at $8.50 per kilo at Coles and Woolworths – the identical worth as in 2021 – whereas Aldi’s is only one cent much less at $8.49.
In its Christmas catalogue, Woolworths made some extent of emphasising it was promoting an Ingham’s frozen turkey for $7 per kilo – 50 cents much less per kilo than final 12 months.
And the long-lasting Christmas pudding stays unchanged, costing $7 for a 700g matured pudding at each Woolworths and Coles.
Popular seafood gadgets like prawns have crept up. Jumbo Tiger prawns have been costed at $39 a kilo at first of December, $2 extra per kilo than the identical time final 12 months.
Smoked salmon, one other common festive delicacy, will set you again $2.30 extra for 300g of Ocean Blue – a worth hike of 18 per cent.
This development was adopted for most bottled and packed items, in addition to dairy gadgets similar to cheeses and custard.
This is how the Christmas dinner costs broke down:
The choice of starters together with cheese and crackers, chilly meats and chips value $10.45 greater than the similar gadgets would have in 2021.
With a $2.50 saving on the turkey and the greenback worth of ham unchanged, the primary course got here in at $9.20 greater than in 2021, with sauces seeing essentially the most notable worth will increase.
The choice of non-alcoholic drinks encompassing a modest choice of smooth drinks and non-alcoholic beer, plus eggnog for dessert, was up $7.90.
Additional will increase in Christmas crackers, wrapping paper and playing cards got here to $4.50.
That brings the full for the Christmas feast to $55.15 greater than the similar meal in 2021.
*All costs are the full-price worth, not discounted costs. 2022 costs are right as of December 1 in accordance with Woolworths and Coles’ on-line shops and ALDI’s catalogue for November 30-December 6. 2021 costs have been taken from Woolworths, Coles and ALDI catalogues for the primary week of December.