Living in the United Kingdom can be expensive especially if you live in London.
However, dining out and other leisure activities does not have to leave you out of pocket.
Using the following tried and tested tips can save you a lot of money and even get you free meals and days out.

• Book restaurants at Toptable.
  com - If you dine out a lot then you can save by booking through Toptable.
  Toptable is a website that allows you to make reservations at hundreds of different restaurants in the UK.
  It always has 2 for 1, 50% off the bill and plenty of other offers available for different restaurants so you could potentially save a lot of money eating out.
  Also, every time you make a booking through toptable you are awarded 200 points if you rate the restaurant on the Toptable website after dining there.
  Once you have collected 1400 points you can get a free 2 or 3 course meal at certain restaurants.
  
• Cheap cinema tickets - Vue cinema offers standby cinema vouchers for £4.
  25 plus 50 pence booking fee on Mondays to Thursdays from lastminute.
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  A standby cinema voucher can be used to see the latest movies in any Vue cinema which means that you can make a huge saving as Vue cinema tickets can be up to £11.
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  Another cheap cinema ticket offer is "Orange Wednesday".
  Every Wednesday you can buy 2 cinema tickets for the price of 1 at practically all cinemas in the UK by texting "film" to 241 from your orange mobile and you will then receive a text message with the 2 for 1 voucher that you can use at the cinema.
  
• Collect Tesco Clubcard Points - If you have not already, then join the Tesco Clubcard scheme which gives you 1 point for every pound you spend at Tesco.
  Each point is worth 1p and when you have collected £2.
  50 you can either use it to spend on groceries at Tesco or you can exchange it for £10 worth of Clubcard Deals vouchers.
  These vouchers can then be used for dining out, theme park tickets, magazine subscriptions and plenty of other deals.
  For example, if you collect £5 worth of Clubcard points, you can exchange this for a £20 Clubcard Deals voucher which could be used for a meal for two.
  So you are in fact only paying £5 for the meal which is a far better offer than getting £5 off your groceries.
  Joining the Tesco Clubcard scheme can also save you money on groceries as they will sometimes send you money off vouchers or vouchers for extra points.
  There are over 2000 Tesco stores in the UK so finding one near to you should not be a problem.
  
• Shop online - Shopping online is usually cheaper than shopping on the high street.
  A lot of online retailers also release monthly discount codes which can be used for online purchases to save you even more money on their already discounted prices.
  Supermarkets online usually award bonus store card points if you purchase online rather than in store and these store card points can then be used for free dinners, movies, etc.
  so you can save money when going out as well.
  
• Collect beans tokens with Nescafe - If you like to have your daily caffeine fix, you can collect beans tokens on jars of Nescafe instant coffee.
  These tokens can then be exchanged for free days out as well as other offers.
  There are a lot of free days out available throughout the UK including museums, ice-skating, bowling and paintballing.
  
• Get a BMI Baby or Ryanair credit card - If you get a BMI Baby or Ryanair credit card and spend any amount on the card after receiving it, you will get a free flight to anywhere in Europe.
  Ryanair also have an offer that if you buy five Ryanair flights using the credit card, you will get a free flight.
  As long as you make sure that you pay off your credit card bill fully, you will not incur any expenses.
  
• Free mobile, free contract and free calls - Many companies offer packages where you get a free mobile, free 12 month line rental for a 12 month contract and free cross network minutes and texts.
  You would be required to pay the line rental each month but you can then claim it back (usually by sending them copies of your phone bills) at certain periods in the year as cashback.
  So as long as you remember to claim your cashback, you will get everything for free.