Overview
- Seventeen percent of 25–34-year-olds plan non-traditional Christmas meals such as curry, pizza or pasta, according to Tesco’s annual Trends Report.
- Across all adults, 52% expect to serve turkey, with 23% choosing chicken, 20% opting for beef and 21% preparing a plant-based menu.
- Preferences for trimmings are shifting among younger diners as only 22% in the 25–34 group call pigs in blankets their favourite, with 32% preferring rice and 23% chips.
- Tesco says it has added more than 260 seasonal products to reflect changing tastes, highlighting flavours including hot honey, gingerbread s’mores and turkey tikka.
- Hosting plans remain robust with 73% expecting they will or may host, the average UK table set for eight (11 in Northern Ireland), while 28% plan to drink less, 12% plan to avoid alcohol and 70% will use artificial trees.