Consumer Corner: Five tips to save money on your Christmas food shop

These days there are many ways to help ease the Christmas shop pressure and also save money while doing so

Sarah Rigney from Bonkers.ie: “To avoid buying too much food, make a list of what you need and stick to it." Picture: iStock.

The Christmas food shop has taken on a life of its own in recent years. 

Texts fly around about long queues in Dunnes and how people can’t get down the aisles because they are packed with people waiting to go to the till.