Many of us are now eating less meat, but do lentils and other pulses sometimes leave you bloated and, frankly, full of wind? A good way to counter this is to include fennel seeds (whole or crushed) in your cooking – they’re a great digestion aid.

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I helped my friend move house recently. She’s efficient…but also a secret hoarder. What a job! Every cupboard was stuffed, and the kitchen spice drawer rammed with Safeway jars (the brand disappeared in 2004!). A lesson: it’s never too early to start decluttering…

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Feel instantly organised with the Tool Hanger from www.creativeproducts.ltd.uk (£3.99) to stop your brush, mop and dusters falling towards you each time you open your cleaning cupboard door.

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The EazzyPress Quick Iron could make it redundant. The super-light EazzyPress is like a pair of Teflon-coated tongs: hang your garment, pull on the fabric with one hand and iron both sides at once with the other. £39.99 from Lakeland.co.uk.

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Place a few drops of your favourite essential oil onto the cardboard tube of the loo roll.

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If you suffer from allergies, things can get pretty miserable if you’re not on top of the dust around the house.

Carpet care specialists Rug Doctor did a survey that discovered that while three-quarters of us think our home is clean, around half of us have never deep- cleaned our carpets. And did you know that an average family of four sheds over 3lb of skin a year!

So just walking around a carpeted house will cause dust and dust mite droppings to become airborne, which could trigger an asthma attack.

Vacuuming will go only so far…so hire a deep cleaning machine and get those carpets done soon!

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How my new home became a ‘House of Horror’ – in today’s Sun

I needed breadcrumbs for bread sauce and the processor left big chunks, no matter how much I tried. I made the sauce with the lumpy bread, and at the last moment smoothed it out with my stick blender. Perfect!

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Presents often come in boxes that get thrown away. Why not make packaging part of the gift and put it into a storage container? As plain or as fancy as you wish!

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