Don't come dine with me: Britons shun dinner parties as costs soar

Four in ten adults have turned their backs on hosting dinner parties because they cost too much money and take up too much time, a survey has found.

In a demonstration of how the economic downturn is changing people’s living habits, the equivalent of almost 19 million people are shunning throwing dinner parties because of the time and expense involved.

This is equivalent to almost 40 per cent of the adult population.

The survey, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Very Lazy cooking ingredients brand, found that people are not hosting dinner parties very often because of the soaring cost of food and the effort required to cook for friends.

Meanwhile a quarter of people avoid having dinner parties because of the high levels of stress involved in entertaining other people.

The cost of the average dinner party in the UK is around £60 and most households host around six dinner parties a year.

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