Christmas Eve dinner is a tradition that Dominicans share with family and friends every year. Reporters for N Digital estimate that a simple Christmas dinner of a lower middle income six-person household will cost around RD$7,000.
N Digital reports that the traditional fare for Christmas is rice with green pigeon peas, Russian salad (with beets, eggs and potatoes), roasted pork, paddies, telera bread, Christmas sweets and dried fruits, cider and alcoholic beverages.
Diario Libre reporters say the cost of Christmas dinner is up around 28%, and there are wide variations in prices from one supermarket to another. Diario Libre’s Christmas dinner story reports dinner could cost RD$5,000 for a family of five.
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Diario Libre
21 December 2022