The Italians do not give up good food. Image: Paolo Bona – Shutterstock
This Christmas Italians have saved on gifts but they spent more for food. These are the findings of two surveys of Coldiretti .
shopping for gifts has this year amounted to 3.9 billion, down 5 % compared to last year. The survey of Coldiretti underlines that Italians have preferred to cut the cost of the single prize rather than reduce the number of beneficiaries. In this way has decreased the average expenditure for each gift.
8 percent of Italians have given up this year to make gifts. One in three has spent less than one hundred euro in gifts, about half (45 percent) among the one hundred and two hundred euro while a minority of 21 percent over two hundred euro. The crisis has been felt in the strong tendency to recycle. As many as 24 percent of Italians gave an object that already possessed and that he had not used.
spending on food and drink consumed between Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas lunch this year grew by 2% to 2.35 billion euro. Just 8% of Italians went to the restaurant while 3% preferred the cottages, an increase compared to last year.
The estimated expenditure by Coldiretti and ‘of 900 million euro for fish and meats including salami, 400 million euro for champagne, wine and other beverages, 400 million euro for sweets with the inevitable Panettone and Pandoro, 350 million euro for vegetables, canned, fresh and dried fruit, 200 for pasta and bread and 100 million euro for cheese and eggs.
Nine out of ten Italians (87 percent) have spent the holiday at home with relatives or friends and have prevailed on the table menu n ‘based products or ingredients national.
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