Do you have a secret trick?

joedenise

JIL said:

joedenise said:

I just use red or white stock pots when I want the flavour for stew (red) or risotto (white); also saves on calories!

But you cant secretly drink the leftovers with stockpots 🙂. 

I do have some stock pots as well and they are very good.

Very true but then if I open a bottle of wine there are no leftovers!!!

MrsStepford

I buy plain (organic) yogurt in the 450g or 500G size and then husband can spoon out however much he likes. I buy him organic no added sugar baby food fruit pûrée (one pouch does two breakfasts) which he stirs in to the yogurt. Proper food, no added sugar, no additives. I stock up at Aldi every so often, which keeps the cost down. 

London_1

YoungBlueEyes said:

    

I use big hair clips to hold the top of the duvet in place while I’m shaking it about. It kinda works but I’m gonna practise the California roll cos it looks better. Or it will be, if I can crack the practise bit

  

I keep a couple of pegs in one of my drawers in the bedside cabinet and use them to peg a corner of the duvet to each side then just shake it until its fully filled the cover 

YoungBlueEyes

I'm still doing my duvet the old way. I can't crack the roll thing for love nor money

bouicca21

@YoungBlueEyes. Glad I’m not the only one!

kboss2010

I use wooden magazine holders to store all of my cleaning stuff, foil/baking paper rolls/food bags under the sink so you can just slide them out and not have to dig in the cupboard to get at the stuff in the back!

-taff

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm still doing my duvet the old way. I can't crack the roll thing for love nor money

Took me a few goes too. You put the duvet cover inside out on the bed, with the closed end at the top of the bed, then put your duvet on top, then roll from the top closed end to the bottom open. Tuck the completed roll inside the opening at the bottom, it does look wrong and it does feel like it won't work, but once it's all tucked in, unroll.

YoungBlueEyes

It sounds so easy when you put it like that @-taff, I don’t know how I manage to balls it up every time. I’ll have (yet another) go on Monday when I change the bed again 🤞🏻 Monday’s my domestic nonsense day.  

P.S. I like your sig  

kboss2010

YoungBlueEyes said:

Someone needs to write a book about all the things you can do with tea, like the vinegar and baking soda ones…. 

My mum (and her mum) always added a good slug of lemonade and a 2p to flower water, for the sugar and minerals etc. Works for me but some of my friends don’t do it and their flowers are all lovely looking and long lasting 🤷‍♀️

If you add a drop of bleach or Milton to the water, it’ll stop the water from getting mouldy and the flowers will last longer.

Green_hopeful

Not a secret skill but something I didn’t know. How to calculate alcohol units. Millilitres x percentage alcohol divided by 1000.