When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

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Your bath tub will be a breeze to keep clean and you eliminate soap scum if you do this: Wipe the inside of the tub with the polish that is sold for countertops following the same directions. Be sure to buff it when it's dry. The hard finish it gives the tub not only keeps it clean and resists soap scum from sticking but you can clean the tub by just rinsing with clear water...no more scouring. You will have to re-apply the polish 2-3 times a year but that's better than having to scour and deep clean the tub every week. You can also do this to the walls of the shower stall. It doesn't work so good on glass though.

By Monica from Nevada

Cleaning Shower doors? Get extra fine steel wool and wipe down. The steel wool will not scratch the glass and will give it an extra shine. Use EXTRA FINE steel wool on all glass, mirrors and stainless steel. Does a wonderful job of cleaning and you don't even have to use any cleaning liquids or sprays.

By Sandra from Texas

Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up. 

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Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works. 

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Even though I have to make myself do it, exercise, any kind, is great for helping with problems because it can calm you down and give you a different aspect to your problem when you are cooling down.

By Tracy from Nebraska

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!!  Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm! 

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I spent 2 hours trying to clean a disgusting shower floor after a tenant. What finally worked was "20 mule team borax" on a damp sponge. It is now my cleaner of choice for that type of cleaning. Easy and NO FUMES

By Paulette from Florida

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic. 

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For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt  Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting. 

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To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up. 

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Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.  Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

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Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.  It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

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Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.  If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster. 

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Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it. 

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When playing with Legos/Playmobil or anything with little parts that can fall all over the place, put the pieces on a rimmed cookie sheet and have your child play with those toys on the sheet to insure a less likely disaster all over the floor!

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I use used fabric softener sheets to get dust bunnies from under beds!!They work great and dont cost extra!!

By Tina from Ohio

I never would have believed that it worked, but it is like magic. After cutting onions or garlic rub your hands with any large grained salt, like koshier or sea salt, with a little water. Rinse and repeat. Your hands will be totally free of any odor. This is an old Julia Child trick that my mother taught me.

By Julianna from New Hampshire

The quickest and most delicious way to prepare potatoes is to quarter five to seven red skinned washed ataers skin on and lay in a foil covered pan then sprinkle with olive oil and seasonings and choppes green onions, gently toss and close up foil to create a tight seal and bake @ 350 degrees till tender or about thirty minutes, they come out tender and buttery and need no excess butter, Great for left over fried ataters in the am too !! Tess Vero Beach, FL

By Tess from Florida

Protein, Calcium, sweetness, and so easy. Take any jello product, and when you get to the part about add clear cold water, substitute plain non-fat yogurt. Stir slightly, and then once again before it sets up. Its refreshing, tastes good, healthy, and easy.

By Barbara from California

With the downturn of the economy, my family has cut back on eating out. Now for lunch I make sandwiches and also pack chips, fruit and drinks. We all go to the park to eat for a lot less than going out and my son gets to play on the slides and swings.

By Jerel from Nevada

I like to keep chopped peppers for cooking. Instead of buying frozen ones at the store, I chop my own, put in a ziploc bag and pop in the freezer - way more frozen chopped pepper for lots less money. Same applies to onions

By Diane from New Hampshire

Another health tip. I have taught my grandchildren that when they sneeze or cough to do it into the top of the shirt they have on. Just pull out the neckline and cough into their shirt. No germs get spread around and no hands get dirty and germy. Of course if you have a tissue handy that would be first choice this tip is in case nothing is available. The kids are taught at school to cough into their elbow but I fail to see the benefit of this as it goes right past the elbow and into the air???

By Patti from Kansas