Buying in Bulk

CathA

Once there was an offer on in Waitrose for fairy and ariel washing tablets. With partner discount and Waitrose card deal, plus they were on a buy 3 deal, they worked out at £2.50 a tub. I bought enough to last 9 months!

Callie22

I don't bulk buy as such but I will stock up on things like toiletries and cleaning products when I see brands we like on offer. I often buy these online so it makes sense to do a bigger order when the offers are available to get bogof/multibuy discounts and free postage (and cashback!) Ditto cat food and litter. We don't really have the room to store bulk food and with it just being two of us I can't think of anything that we'd use that much of, but I will buy an extra one or two of something if I see something we use frequently and it's a good deal.

Slinky

Just remembered, we bought a quarter deer at Christmas! Lots of venison in the freezer, some lovely slow cooked meals in the weeks ahead.

hilstep2000

I sometimes do, but as I live behind a Poundstretcher, most things are so cheap anyway I don't have too. The best offer they have at the moment is three bottles of bleach for £1. My cleaner uses loads, so it's value for money. (I have a cleaner because I have MS)
Their shower gel and shampoo of all sorts are usually £1 too.

JIL

I bought a load of washing powder of eBay, but it came in a massive sack, every time I refill the container I get it everywhere. I'm not sure I will do that again.

Spirit_2

The local agricutural merchants used to sell very large packs of branded dishwasher tabs (96 in a bag) at a fair price so I would buy a years worth, 4 bags. Have not seen the promotion since it changed hands.

We used to drive to France to buy several cases of wine that would last us for a time. The problem was if we bought in bulk we drank in bulk, so stopped doing this for the sake of our livers.

I have a pantry and usually have a multiple units of regular staples.
Currently running down the pantry though, pleased that I havent found anything out of date but a bit puzzled why there are several tins of grapefruit. I have never knowingly bought tinned grapefruit. OH and DD were in charge of shopping for a time. They must be the culprits

Dustyblinds

I don't do much of the shopping in our household, the oh does the lions share. We don't bulk buy but we do stock up on items if they're a bargain. Like coffee, when the supermarkets have our brand on for £3 a jar, we usually get £30 worth, as we go through a lot it usually lasts until the next promotion.
If the oh goes to makro, he usually gets whatever toilet rolls are on bogof, also, cat food pouches, but our 2 are quite fussy so it can only be when certain ones are cheap.our local independent pet shop have James wellbeloved promotions as well so we stock up on sacks of cat and dog food for promotional points as well as £5 off a sack. Save the points and at the end of they year we have enough points for a couple of sacks of pet food.

kboss2010

I stockpile things that have a long shelf life - original source mint shower gel (OH goes through tons) when it's on offer and the double up points offer is on at Sainsbobs (£2.20 for 500mls is effectively reduced to 50p of points when they're on special offer for £1)

I buy 5L catering washing up liquid to refill my small bottle - £2.99 for 5L instead of Aldi's 89p 1L bottle.

I also bought a 5L bottle of catering concentration fabric softener and it lasted me over a year!

Pound stretcher often sell them as do small hardware/junk-type shops like Nickel & Dime (think they're just in Scotland/N-E though?)

I also buy Branston beans and Heinz ketchup when they're on offer.

I'm not loyal to many brands tbh.

I'm sure there was a poster here once who told me he had stockpiled 10 years' worth of staples (pasta, rice, oats, shower gel, etc.) and he reckoned he'd saved himself thousands of ££ by beating inflation. Great idea if you can do it but I just wouldn't have the space for that kind of bulk-buying!

AnnieO1234

I've been bulk buying for the last couple of months after binning the meal plan by realising it was costing us more money!

Off the top of my head, I bulk buy the following; eggs (144), milk (12 litres), flour (3.5kg each), bread mix (4kg), chicken breast (20kg), steak mince (8kg), chickens (6), potatoes (25kg), carrots (5kg), onions (5kg).

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pigpen

approved foods is great for stocking up on handwash/loo rolls/etc... I bought 24 bottles about 18 months ago and we are still trotting through them merrily. loo rolls i got 3 months worth.. i have a pic of it all piled up somewhere. I do buy bulk loads of loo roll and kitchen roll from Iceland too.. i use loads of kitchen roll..

If it is a preferred brand I buy in bulk when on a decent off.. the £14 bags of fairy dishwasher tablets are sometimes reduced to £5.. so I will buy loads... I had 13 months worth at one point.. I think I have 5 bags left from my last bulk buy in December.

Most other stuff is either on offer toooften to make it worth the effort.. nappies and wipes for example.. pointless to 'stock up' as they are always on offer somewhere and they are so bulky to store.


dried foods like pasta and rice, if you can keep it dry are worth buying in bulk they are so much cheaper than tiny packets.

It depends on how much storage you actually have though really I guess.


LOL Annie.. that list looks like my weekly shop.. that isn't bulk buying in here..

I buy a 25kg bag of potatoes every 1-2 months, 42 eggs every 2 weeks, 20kg of chicken breast whenever I have the money (my BIL is a butcher do does me a nice deal)