I’m a thrifty mother – here’s how I made a three-course Christmas dinner for my family of four for less than £20

• Nikki, 35, from Yorkshire, took her TikTok followers along on a shopping trip 
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A thrifty mother has revealed how she made a three-course Christmas meal for her family of four for under £20.

Money savvy Nikki, 35 – who has two sons with her husband – shares saving and meal-planning tips on her TikTok account @dylandfyn, where she has more than 102,200 followers.

She took viewers along with her on a shopping trip to Aldi, managing to snag 20 items for £19.98.

‘I think when it comes to Christmas, everybody has their own traditions but this is just what my family would eat and hopefully this appeals to a lot of you as well,’ she said in the video from earlier this month.

Nikki, who lives in Yorkshire, added that she’s confident the meal could feed up to six people as ‘there was so much left over’.  

A thrifty mother has revealed how she made a three-course Christmas meal for her family of four for under £20, including a large chicken, which cost £4.49 from Aldi 

For starters, the mother-of-two spooned prawn cocktail into lettuce cups, served along with pate on crispy baguettes. She also left some of the bread plain, to butter.

The main meal consisted of a whole chicken served with seasoned roast potatoes, mash, vegetables, stuffing and pigs in blankets.

‘For staples we used gravy,’ she added. ‘I don’t like to put too much stress on cooking the Christmas dinner and we like to just stick to what we know and what we usually would eat. 

‘My husband usually makes Christmas dinner anyway so I don’t have to do this.’

For dessert, Nikki decided to make her ‘take on a trifle’. 

She cut the raspberry Swiss rolls into pieces, and layered them with double cream, which was then topped with custard, jelly and melted chocolate.

The influencer finished the dish off with ‘a bit of icing sugar and grated choc on top’ – calling the final result ‘absolutely gorgeous’.

She also believes the dessert ‘would feed up to 8 people’. 

Nikki bought two raspberry Swiss rolls to make dessert with.

Nikkie added cream, custard, jelly and melted chocolate to her slices of Swiss roll for an alternative to Christmas pudding 

The main meal consisted of a whole chicken served with seasoned roast potatoes, mash, vegetables, stuffing and pigs in blankets

Commenters were full of praise for the video – which has more than 420,300 views – and rushed to share their delight with the recipe during such an expensive time for families, especially during a cost of living crisis

Commenters were full of praise for the video – which has more than 420,300 views – and rushed to share their delight with the recipe during such an expensive time for families, especially during a cost of living crisis.

‘So many families are on such tight budgets so whilst it might not be a “traditional Christmas dinner” it’s brilliant what you’ve done with £20,’ one gushed. 

‘I was thinking how to do Christmas dinner on my budget that dessert looks amazing can you do some more lunches and evening meals pretty please,’ another penned.

Nikki’s shopping list for Christmas dinner 

Prawn cocktail – £1.99

Brussels pate – 69p

Little gem lettuce – 75p

Part baked baguettes – 85p

Large chicken – £.4.49

4 large loose potatoes – 92p

500g bag of carrots – 33p

Bag of Brussel sprouts – £1.09

Roast potato seasoning – 59p

Stuffing – 49p

Pigs in Blankets – £1.99

2 Raspberry Swiss rolls –  £2.70 (£1.35 each) 

Double cream – £1.05

Ready made custard – 75p

Block of strawberry jelly – 85p

Essentials bar of chocolate – 45p

This is class, a lot of people spend so much on Christmas Dinner but this shows you don’t need to for it to be good,’ a third added. ‘Cheers.’

‘This is awesome,’ one comment praised. 

Elsewhere a poster wrote: ‘This is so helpful for many families this Christmas. Well done for sharing this.’

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