I recommend pan fried mackerel. Very nutritious and cooks in minutes. Also still cheap to buy. Very nice with a simple salad and a squeeze of lemon.
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Refill spray bottles using your own mix (plenty of recipes online which use stuff you might already have around the house), or if you’ve got a big bottle of eg flash, dilute this down for a general surface spray cleaner.
Judging by recent purchases, supermarket suppliers have already taken this idea to heart.
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I use soapnuts for things like laundry, dishes, and general cleaning. A mixture of this and lemon juice in an empty schooshy bottle does the job and smells lovely. Kitchen and bathroom floors get a going over with diluted bleach, and windows get done with vinegar.
Oh absolutely…they come with two little zip up bags so you don’t get nuts in everything. They have Saponin in their shells which is a natural cleaning detergent. I just get a handful and put in some water, shake it up, empty it into the dispenser I’m using, then add a scoosh of lemon juice.
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Excellent. Any recommended supplier/shop, or do you Amazon them?
I “Amazoned” them
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We’ve had a Santander account for ages. No doubt there’ll be better ones out there, but they’ve informed us tgat they’ll be giving us 4% cashback on our utility bills for a couple of months (instead of the usual 2%).
There may be other banks tgat do this sort of thing, so might be worth having a look round.
I bought a laundry egg earlier this year but there’s just as much cost in replacing beads and you still need fabric conditioner unless you like clothes and towels like sackcloth.
I do they dry better and exfoliate at the same time 
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I have one of those dry skin brushes for that.
I did wonder about laundry eggs as they are on offer at Sainsburys
I wasn’t terribly impressed but some people swear by them. I just swear at them because it cost £11 and I don’t use it!
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I have one but haven’t used it much I always forget it’s there but they are ok
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Hi
Bleach Tablets, really cheap and really effective.
An example is here
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Late this afternoon was my first trip out shopping in 29 days.
It was just a quick trip to Lidl, for the absolute basics, I had spent 3 weeks literally in bed.
It was painful in more than just the legs.
Empty shelves and price rises.
It was quite shocking, especially the price rises on what could be considered absolute essentials, nothing flash or fancy.
There was no cheap butter or spreads, empty shelves and what was left had shot up, and not by pennies.
This is not going to be a good winter, for anyone.
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Can you use them in a cold water wash, Pixie?
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The lowest temps I have tried them at is 30° wash at 15 mins, so I can’t answer for an actual cold wash. It cleans at that temp. Also, with the scooshy bottles, that’s room temp and it cleaned up a mark on my white coffee table, so…
All you can do is try, no harm done. They don’t lather up though, just sayin’ if you expect to see bubbles, you won’t.