I bought some of the 650 Tesco items now price matched with Aldi - here's the full list

The cost of living is on the rise and we're all spending more at the supermarket checkout.

But with customers shopping around to find the best prices, retailers are competing to offer the best discounts and deals where they possibly can.

One of them is Tesco, which has now expanded its Aldi Price Match scheme to cover 650 products.

The range expansion - which comes as Sainsbury's also launched a similar scheme - started in January and Tesco says it will be growing it throughout the rest of the year.

The move follows research from Tesco, which found that cost conscious adults who shop around are collectively spending 1.5 billion hours more each year grocery shopping than those who shop in one store.

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That's despite many of them admitting they'd rather swap the time spent grocery shopping for spending time with family and friends.

A spokesperson for Tesco said: "We know that saving money is really important to customers, but that searching out the best deals can also be very time consuming. That’s why we’re pleased to expand the Aldi Price Match range, with dozens more products added to the hundreds of products already available.

"The Aldi Price Match range means customers can be confident they will find their basket staples and must-have brands at great low prices in one place at Tesco, saving themselves unnecessary extra trips. And the less time spent shopping, the more time there is for doing the things we enjoy with the people we love.”

As well as the price match scheme, Tesco says it is 'committed to giving our customers everyday great value' through everyday low prices to more than 1,600 items and Clubcard prices, which are