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Pod Bites: Christmas on a shoestring

Pod Bites: Christmas on a shoestring

Update: 2025-12-19

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Alicia Weston, CEO of Bags of Taste explains why rising prices and food inflation can make a traditional Christmas unaffordable and inaccessible for too many people in the UK.

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Pod Bites: Christmas on a shoestring

Pod Bites: Christmas on a shoestring