How to make Christmas dinner cheaper and save £30 off your food shop

Christmas is an expensive time of year, but simple swaps can slash your festive dinner bill.

Christmas proves to be an expensive time of year, with costs mounting rapidly between gifts, festive outings, and naturally, the grocery bill.

Worse still, ONS figures reveal that food and non-alcoholic beverage costs have stayed persistently high this year, showing annual inflation rates fluctuating between 3% in March and peaking at 5.1% in August. It makes discovering a supermarket bargain feel like stumbling upon a genuine Christmas miracle.

Fortunately, for those finding it tough to balance the books this festive period, Capital One UK has examined where consumers can achieve substantial savings, reports the Express .

Ricky Attenborrow, senior manager at Capital One UK, said: "Food