Christmas Starters
Christmas Starters
The best thing about Christmas starters? They set the tone before the main event has even arrived. People tend to have their favourite starters for Christmas dinner and if you haven’t had to cook everything from scratch yourself, it’s a bit easier to offer up a couple of different options to keep everyone happy. If you’re catering for specific dietary requirements, we’ve got vegetarian Christmas food, vegan Christmas food as well as gluten free Christmas food. If you’re not entirely sure about people’s preferences, one of the great things about our frozen Christmas food to order is that it only needs to come out of the freezer if it’s needed. If you have leftover lunch or Christmas dinner starters, they can just stay there for another occasion … with nothing being wasted.
“The freezer was stocked to the brim with an amazing selection of mains, starters and puddings. I did a meal plan for the festive period and everything went so smoothly.” - Sandra 5* Trustpilot
If you are stocking up, it might be easier to buy online and have all your Christmas Day starters delivered to your door. Like you, we get busy at this time of year, so if a delivery is better for you, it’s a good idea to organise it in plenty of time as the 2026 slots get booked up quickly. You can always amend your basket nearer the time, just be sure to make a note of the last date for doing this. If you’re not already on our mailing list, now’s a good time to sign up as we’ll let you know when these slots become available and the deadline for making any changes. You can sign up here.
“COOK offer a great variety of delicious meals - starters, mains and desserts - so there is something for everyone; and no reason to tire of the same dishes.” - Sue 5* Trustpilot
If you’re not hosting this year, but have been invited somewhere, Christmas dinner starters are a good contribution to take along, as are Christmas canapés, Christmas desserts and our Christmas buffet food. With all our frozen Xmas starters, just don’t forget to check the cooking instructions as they’ll flag whether or not a dish needs defrosting first. We do send out defrost reminder emails for some of our big ticket items (including our Christmas turkeys), but you can also pop an alert in your phone.
When it comes to planning the rest of the feast, you can pair your traditional Christmas starters with our Christmas mains, Christmas meat, Christmas side dishes and Christmas vegetables. Or leave all the decision making to us and try one of our Christmas Food Boxes where we’ll choose your starters for Christmas dinner, a main, sides and pud. It doesn’t get much easier than that.
Whatever form your Christmas starters and the rest of the feast takes this year, we hope you enjoy it. Have a fantastic Christmas and we look forward to seeing you very soon.
