{"id":54584,"date":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54584\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:19:05","slug":"uk-mom-whitney-ainscough-charging-family-members-for-christmas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54584\/","title":{"rendered":"UK mom Whitney Ainscough charging family members for Christmas dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A savvy mom is charging her family $23 per head for their Christmas dinner and insists her cooking is \u201cworth every penny\u201d.<\/p>\n

Whitney Ainscough, 32, already charges her extended family of 12 people $11 each for their normal Sunday roasts, but is upping the ante for the big day.<\/p>\n

Charging a further $11 per child Whitney is set to make a combined $220 this year to cover the price of buying the food \u2013 with a spare $11 if she is \u201clucky\u201d.<\/p>\n

She first began adding a charge for her cooking after she stopped working her job as a pharmacy advisor and was on Universal Credit \u2013 unable to afford to cook for her family as often.<\/p>\n

UK mom Whitney Ainscough, 32, revealed she is charging her family members per person for their Christmas dinner. Whitney Ainscough \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

For her Christmas Day feast, she plans to buy turkey, pork and beef as well as festive add-ons like crackers.<\/p>\n

Her family are happy to pay the fee for their dinner, and see the price as \u201cfair\u201d according to Whitney.<\/p>\n

Whitney, a social media influencer from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said: \u201cI\u2019ll be honest it started when I stopped working where I used to work and went on Universal Credit and everyone loved my dinners.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I couldn\u2019t afford to cook dinners anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of did it from there and it\u2019s worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI literally just thought they\u2019re using my gas, electric and watching television and stuff as well as having their dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought $11 each was a nice simple number.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they [Whitney\u2019s family] thought, \u2018what a bargain\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ainscough, a social media influencer, insists her cooking is \u201cworth every penny.\u201d Whitney Ainscough \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they saw it as fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Christmas I\u2019m doubling it to $23 \u2013 at Christmas you make a lot more things.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will all be out in the middle of the table so they can get what they want.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s double the amount of food, and normally I\u2019d buy normal pigs in blankets but it\u2019s going to be more luxurious expensive stuff\u201d.<\/p>\n

Whitney often cooks Sunday lunch for her family, with younger members doing the washing up afterwards to \u201cearn their chip-ins\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cIt is an amazing Sunday lunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s worth every penny, that\u2019s why they come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally it\u2019s roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, pigs in blankets, chicken or beef, pork crackling, Yorkshire puddings, air-fried sprouts, honey-glazed carrots and parsnips, peas and broccoli.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whitney Ainscough is upping the ante for the big day after charging her extended family of 12 people for her normal Sunday roast. Whitney Ainscough \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

Whitney is hosting Christmas this year for 12 people \u2013 and says it costs her $220 to feed everyone.<\/p>\n

This is the second year she\u2019s charging for Christmas, having hosted in 2023.<\/p>\n

She has decided to charge $23 per adult and $11 per child to help cover the costs \u2013 which she says her family are happy to do as \u201cit\u2019s nicer than having to cook one at home on your own\u201d.<\/p>\n

Whitney said: \u201cIt\u2019s just everyone chipping in \u2013 I\u2019m cooking and everyone prefers my cooking.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone sees it as a win win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having shared her plans to charge for Christmas dinner on social media, commentators online have had \u201cmixed\u201d reactions.<\/p>\n

Ainscough plans to buy turkey, pork and beef as well as festive add-ons like crackers as part of her holiday feast. Whitney Ainscough \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cA lot of people are like, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t charge for my family\u2019, or, \u2018we take it in turns\u2019, but everyone likes my cooking that\u2019s why I do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am actually buying everything for Christmas dinner but I\u2019m taking it all down to my mom\u2019s house and cooking it because she\u2019s got a bigger house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know whether I\u2019ll get turkey instead and probably more meats as well as pork and beef, stuff like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll get luxury crackers and whatever else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A savvy mom is charging her family $23 per head for their Christmas dinner and insists her cooking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12565,4683,232,8486,9,11,10,233],"class_list":["post-54584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-lifestyle","tag-lunch","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}