Cleaning

Nana, It must be hard after months that no one is doing the jobs that need doing, I would dread to think what my place would look like without the floors cleaned and vacuumed. Are you able to change bedding? It is really worrying that disabled people are having to cope alone anyway and essential chores are not being done for them, I think what you are doing now is suffice to keep Covid out of your home. We all wash our hands after handling post and shopping but I go over door handles and phone and remote with cloth wrung out in disinfectant. Probably not required but it makes me feel better. All the best.

Alexa

Tesco has discontinued bottled CLO which I prefer to capsules. I will ring the chemist and see if they can send me a bottle of CLO with my next meds delivery.

Boots often has 3 for 2 on vitamins, Alexa

I've never mixed it with orange juice, I wouldn't think it would mix (oil and water)

However, the Seven Seas brand orange flavour one is actually very nice.
If I am allowed to advertise? Other makes may be available.

Oopsadaisy your post makes a lot of sense and is going to be my reason for continuing to wipe stuff coming into my home.

As someone who gets asthmatic complications with any cold or flu it’s important to keep well.
I’m on the Vit. D since I try not to sit in full sun for more than 10 mins a day as I have fair skin.

Puzzler me too, I had a problem this week with my Asthma, can’t sit out as I get heat rash, so the last thing I need to worry about is the shopping.
We take a multi Vit. Which says it has 100% of daily recommended dose of Vit.D.We’ve been taking them for years.

The special cleaning techniques we have all learned in our several ways are going to be good for not spreading or getting illnesses like summer diarrhoea .

I posted yesterday that I would not disinfect my grocery delivery, but I am not ashamed to say I did a U-turn.
It just doesn’t feel right to be casual.

Puzzler61, most of it can be left for three days or (like frozen food) have outer packaging removed. I do wash or wipe the fridge stuff with diluted bleach, wait five minutes and rinse.

The best I can do with salads is a Milton wash - but I'm going right off salads now - had too many lately.

It's similar to when travelling abroad, really. Peel fruit and choose well cooked food, avoid anything raw.

Hetty I read salad leaves are washed many times in bleach water before they are packaged for sale in the supermarkets.
It quite put me off - and now most salads I make don’t have lettuce in but I mix beetroot with avocado, diced peppers, cucumber, salad onions, sweetcorn and shredded carrot.

We wash it all and have a variety of colander sizes to drain it in.

I wipe the shopping over with wipes and wash my hands regularly but nothing major. My mam always washed fruit when it came into the house as she said she didn’t know who had handled it in the past. I have always done the same. My DH always laughs at me when I wash bananas but I have always done that.

Just read an article in the Times about a researcher in nutrition science at UCLwho says that fruit and vegetables should only be washed in water, not soap or detergent, in fact it is potentially poisonous to do so, I've been doing it right all along!