The Spanish will have the most expensive Christmas dinner in history tomorrow, with a rise in typical products of 12.4% in the last year.

However, this inflationary escalation has peaked, last-minute increases, those of the days prior to December 24, have been limited.

ELMUNDO has monitored the price of a total of 14 products in four different supermarkets in the last three weeks, of which 11 have become more expensive this month, but with much smaller increases than in previous years.

The other four remaining have dropped in price.

On average, this basket of Christmas products barely rises 0.1%.

In the first two weeks of December there had hardly been any increases compared to October.

Most of the increases were detected in the last price check, carried out yesterday.

For comparison, last year the Association of Consumers and Users, which monitors the prices of these typical products every year, registered increases of more than 30% in some in the last weeks prior to the dinners.

Christmas basket December 2022. Variation

In this follow-up, hake is the one that has risen the most, 18%.

It cost 14 euros at the beginning of December and now almost 17 euros (the average of the four supermarkets).

They are followed by grapes, which increased by almost 9%.

Whiskey (7.7%), lamb shoulder (5.3% more expensive) and red cabbage (recorded an increase of 3.15%) are also more expensive.

Not everything is increases.

There are also typical foods for dinner on these dates that drop in price, although they are punctual.

This is the case of fresh cooked shrimp, which fell by 4%;

Norwegian salmon, which is also 4% cheaper;

and Iberian ham, which costs 3.27% less.

The Iberian loin also fell in price by 2.16%.

Christmas basket December 2022. Prices

With less accentuated increases were products such as cava (2.8%) and Manchego cheese (2%).

Wine, nougat and potatoes remain at the price at the beginning of December.

The total amount of this typical dinner was 283 euros at the beginning of December and yesterday it cost 283.9, just one euro more expensive.

The Nielsen consultancy, which has calculated a basket of packaged products and excluding fresh ones, detects a rise in this typical basket of 2.4% in value compared to last year, with a drop of 3.1% in volume. .

That is, we are buying fewer products, but more expensive.

"The volumes of the Christmas basket are falling, as is the case with the total consumer market, but with a more contained average price rise," explains Ignacio Biedma, expert in consumer goods and distribution at the consultancy.

Nielsen includes nougat, cavas, frozen fish, smoked food, chocolates, for example, in his dinner.

excludes all fresh produce.

In addition, this basket, recalls Biedma, does not include the foods that have become more expensive this year, such as oil, milk, flour, pasta...

Food inflation was at 15.7% in November.

The typical Christmas basket includes products that are very seasonal, such as nougats, whose sales are made almost entirely on these dates.

Hence the rises are somewhat minor.

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