A mother has defended charging her family £150 each for Christmas Day dinner. Blogger Carla Bellucci admitted she will make a £400 profit for charging 15 members of her family £150 as she cooks up a festive feast for Christmas Day. Ms Bellucci revealed this is the first year she will charge her family for Christmas dinner. Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Thursday (21 December), she defended her decision and said: “Something has to change. Times are and you have got to make cutbacks.” Ms Bellucci’s menu includes champagne, smoked salmon, caviar and turkey.
If you can’t afford to host, don’t host.
Or do a potluck.
You could certainly argue that everyone agreeing to just pay one family member to cook and “host” is a kind of a potluck, if she didn’t admit to making a tidy profit off of it and wasn’t clearly pressuring her family into it.
Spending almost two grand for a dinner for 15 people isn’t just hosting, though. That’s a really extravagant meal.
Depends on the family. Perhaps she is the best cook of them all and everyone wants to eat there instead of at the house of the family member who is wealthier but a terrible cook and lives in a small apartment.