What to do at home in quarantine - Many of us these days do not have the possibility to leave the house due to the limitations imposed by the authorities or because we are in quarantine for having come into contact with a person who tested positive or because we ourselves have symptoms similar to those of the Coronavirus Covid-19.

Vacuum storage is a technique that can be used at home using special tools. Raw and cooked food can be vacuum packed. The shelf life of vacuum-packed food (raw or cooked) increases both when packed in the fridge and when placed in the freezer. Vacuum storage consists of eliminating oxygen from the bag so as to reduce oxidation and deterioration of the raw food or cooked.

Zucchini pancakes are quick and easy to make. Very few ingredients are needed and the total cost of the recipe does not exceed three euros. The main ingredient is courgette and its flower preferably locally sourced or organically grown. Among other things, it is a particularly sustainable recipe since it does not contain animal derivatives, therefore very suitable for those who follow a vegan style.

Mannite is also used as a sweetener in slimming treatments and we also find it often proposed, online and in the store, as a food supplement being a substance particularly rich in mineral salts. It is a sugar that however has many other properties including digestive, mildly laxative, refreshing and regularizing intestinal motility.

In Italy, people are still too reluctant to start poolsharing or carpooling programs on their own. Every citizen, in his own small way, can share the car with neighbors and acquaintances; but when is a community to propose a sustainable mobility philosophy? This is the case with the roadsharing portal.

Plants with winter flowering must be taken care of especially so that the flowers remain on the plant as long as possible. Even if the period has just passed, we reveal a trick that will make you have, perhaps next year, a poinsettia ready in time for the holidays. Starting in autumn, for 8 weeks in a row, put the plant in a black polyethylene wrapper for 16 hours, from sunset to early morning, then expose it in full light by keeping it in a room heated to 15-18 ° C.