Reuters.co.uk, in its December 22, 2011 article, reports that High inflation pushes up cost of Christmas dinners.
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Shopping for a Christmas
dinner will cost on average over seven pounds more this year than it did last
year because of high inflation, official UK data showed on Thursday.
As the price of most
foods used in making a turkey dinner shoots up, shoppers preparing for a big
feed on December 25 will have to splash out more than 100 pounds.
Data compiled by the
Office for National Statistics, shows some foods will cost up to 50 percent
more this year than last year based on a basket of goods including vegetables,
potatoes, ice cream and alcohol.
The average cost of a
Christmas dinner is 107.32 pounds, up from 99.82 pounds last year, a greater
increase than the rate of inflation which was 4.8 percent in November
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