The Ultimate Christmas Dinner Planner

INTRODUCTORY OFFER

£6.95 for the first 10 Shopify purchases. The standard price will be £8.95 thereafter.

Three festive days. One organised food plan.

The Ultimate Christmas Dinner Planner is an editable Microsoft Excel workbook covering Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Use it to plan what you are making, keep track of changing guest numbers, assign food and shopping to different people, record what is already in the cupboards and build one organised Christmas shopping list.

WHAT THE PLANNER HELPS YOU DO

• Plan breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and drinks across three festive days
• Set different guest numbers for every meal
• Record allergies, intolerances and dietary requirements
• Keep, reconsider or remove pre-set Christmas food ideas
• Start with practical shopping suggestions for four people
• Replace the suggestions with your preferred quantities
• Assign shopping and food contributions to different people
• Flag a host backup when a guest is bringing something
• Track Already Have, Stock-Up, Fresh Shop and Bought items
• Filter the shopping list by responsible person
• Plan the main Christmas roast backwards from your serving time
• Record preparation that can be completed in advance
• Review leftovers and waste for a better plan next Christmas

PLAN THREE FESTIVE DAYS

The workbook covers:

• Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day
• Boxing Day

Guest numbers can be set separately for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks and drinks. This means the plan can change as invitations are accepted and arrangements become clearer.

START WITH FAMILIAR CHRISTMAS FOOD

You will not be faced with a completely blank spreadsheet.

The workbook contains familiar Christmas food and drink ideas that can be kept, changed or removed. Optional dietary rows are also included to prompt conversations about individual requirements.

PRACTICAL SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS

The shopping planner begins with starting quantities for four people.

Suggestions use recognisable UK buying units such as packs, bags, pots, bottles and approximate meat weights. Adjust them for your household, appetites, dietary requirements, preferred products and available pack sizes.

You can also record:

• What is already in the house
• What can be bought early
• What belongs in the fresh shop
• What has already been purchased
• Who is responsible for each item
• Whether a guest is contributing it
• Whether the host wants to buy a backup

CHRISTMAS DINNER COOKING PLAN

Choose your intended serving time, meat type and turkey weight to produce an editable starting timeline for the main Christmas roast.

Suggested timings are provided for planning purposes only. Always follow the cooking, storage and defrosting instructions supplied with your food and check that everything is fully cooked before serving.

MAKE NEXT CHRISTMAS EASIER

After Christmas, record what was bought, eaten, left over or wasted.

Each item can then be marked:

• Buy More
• Same
• Less
• Don’t Buy

When Christmas planning begins again, you will have a useful starting point based on what actually happened.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

Two editable Microsoft Excel workbooks:

1. A clean customer workbook for planning your Christmas
2. A completed four-person worked example showing how the planner can be used

This is an instant digital download. No physical product will be posted.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

This product is designed for Microsoft Excel and is supplied in .xlsx format.

Compatibility with Google Sheets, Apple Numbers and other spreadsheet software is not guaranteed. Some formulas, filters, formatting or dropdown menus may behave differently outside Microsoft Excel.

Please check that you have suitable software before purchasing.

WHY I CREATED IT

Last Christmas, I saw a woman in the supermarket with a printed spreadsheet shopping list attached to a clipboard.

Honestly? I aspired to that level of Christmas organisation.

My mum has always written notes in a notebook to help us remember what we bought and what we should change the following year. The only problem is that, by next Christmas, nobody can remember which notebook it was in—or where the notebook has gone.

So I created the Christmas Dinner Planner I wanted us to have.

It can be updated whenever plans change or you suddenly remember something. As food is purchased, it can be ticked off. When it is time for the big Christmas shop, you can filter and print the shopping list and take exactly what you need around the store.

After Christmas, record what ran out, what was wasted and anything new that worked particularly well. Next year’s plan then begins with useful information instead of guesswork.

No more searching for last year’s notebook.

No more trying to remember how many bags of vegetables you bought.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Digital product only
• Food and drink planning only
• Gifts, budgets and decorations are not included
• Suggested quantities are starting points
• Adjust all quantities for individual requirements and appetites
• Cooking times are planning suggestions, not guarantees
• Always follow the instructions supplied with the food
• For personal use only

PERSONAL-USE LICENCE

You may edit and print the workbook for your own household and share your own filtered shopping lists with people helping with your Christmas.

The original workbook files may not be copied, shared, redistributed, resold or used to create another product.

If you experience a problem opening the supplied files, please contact Designs by Clarole for assistance.