I made big savings with a Tesco bulk buy of toilet rolls, tea bags and more

If there's one thing we know about supermarket shopping it's that everyone has their own way of doing it. Whether you're a fill a basket every few days type, or you opt for the big shop each week, everyone is different.

But with prices rising rapidly amid the cost of living crisis, more and more people are changing how they shop - and looking for any way they can to make things a bit cheaper. One way the budget experts swear by for keeping costs down is to bulk buy.

Obviously you need the space to store things and the extra cash to buy more than you'd typically need, but if you are able to, there are some big savings to be made by stocking up on those essentials. I took a trip to Tesco's bulk buy aisle to find out just how big those savings can be - and it was way more than I anticipated.

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You obviously can't buy everything in bulk, but there's a pretty wide range of products, at least there was in Walkden's Tesco Extra when I visited late on Wednesday evening. One whole side of the aisle was filled with laundry products - softeners, detergents and capsules - as well as kitchen rolls, toilet rolls and dishwasher tablets.

Elsewhere was everything from coffee and tea bags to cans of pop, Fruit Shoots, cereals, Jaffa Cakes and more. I bulk bought a number of products and checked the prices of smaller packs in store to work out exactly how much I'd saved.

Of the seven items I bought, only two of the savings came in at less than £1 - a 72p saving on Tetley tea bags and an 85p saving on Fairy Non Bio. The biggest saving was a rather impressive £4.28, on the dishwasher tablets, followed by a £3.35 saving on the Cushelle toilet rolls. Overall I saved