The phrase "dinner basket" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a basket or container used to hold food for a meal, specifically for dinner. Example: As they set up for the picnic, Hannah unpacked the dinner basket and began laying out plates, cups, and utensils.
To coincide with the offering, a series of meals called the Dinner baskets were introduced.
Out of 20 items included by the ONS in the "Christmas dinner" inflation basket, only four – sponge cake, ice-cream, ground coffee and a box of chocolates – are more expensive than a year ago.
The reduced cost of groceries at Aldi and Lidl was the main contributor to the fall in the overall price of the Christmas dinner shopping basket compared to 2015, according to Good Housekeeping.
He suggested that his producer, who was also at the dinner, pass around baskets for donations to finish the movie.
— Patrick Farrell Bloomberg Businessweek: The bottom line on cutthroat retailers' battle to hawk those Thanksgiving dinners: A market basket of 18 meal items — from turkey to cranberries — costs $45.48 at Target, $52.31 at Wal-Mart and $70.18 at Whole Foods.
Tuberous begonias with blossoms the size of dinner plates fill baskets and window boxes, and a few petals are plucked each day to flavor the mignonette sauce served with freshly opened local oysters.
The package includes a night's lodging, a bottle of sparkling wine, a fruit basket, and dinner for two with wine in the El Tovar dining room.
I often go there to pick up a £1 bottle of milk for my mother, and notice many shoppers base their basket on dinner components that add up to £1 a head: four frozen lasagnes or microwaveable cheeseburgers.
Perhaps that's because, like my mother's influence on my own cooking, much of Delia's impact on all our dinner plates and shopping baskets is as unnoticed as it is significant.
Local activists busied themselves talking to the crowd, so I took the opportunity to ask the bemused customers – those who hadn't come down for the love-in, but were just filling their baskets with dinner bits – for their thoughts.
