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Vegetable and fruit peels, seeds and coffee grounds all too often end up in the organic waste – although you can still use them all.

Each year throws in the trash about 80 kilograms of food. In addition, in the organic waste container, the least attention is paid to proper separation. It’s time to take a closer look at what we’re throwing into organic waste, and it’s really the least ough least ough.

Just eat the shell

With many types of fruit and vegetables you can eat the peel without hesitation. Apples and pears are no surprise candidates, but many people don’t know that the peels should even be eaten here, as they contain up to two-thirds of the vitamins.

Beetroot, kiwi, khaki, carrot and fig – with all these varieties you can save yourself the peeling. The peels of oranges are not poisonous, but due to their thickness they are not particularly digestible either. Hokkaido pumpkins also do not need to be peeled. And even the mango can be eaten with its skin.

However, you should definitely make sure that it is organic vegetables and fruit. Because conventional fruit is often contaminated with pesticides – up to 100 times more than organic, with kiwis the values ​​were even up to 3000 times higher.

Pull plantlets from shoots

If potatoes, onions, garlic and ginger are stored for a longer period of time, they form small sprouts that are all too often cut off and end up in organic waste. Instead of throwing them away, you can easily grow new plants from them: To do this, cover the white end piece in a container with about 1/3 of water and place it on the windowsill. After just a few days you will have a little seedling.

You can either chop it up and eat it in a salad, for example, or plant it properly. There will probably not be an onion harvest, but at least a beautiful, white onion blossom. However, be careful: If the sprouts of a sprouted potato are already very large, then eat neither the sprouts nor the potato – they form the toxic substance solanine. Garlic and sprouted onions, on the other hand, are harmless.

Plant or eat avocado seeds

Also not really productive, but at least nice to look at: A self-grown avocado tree. To do this, either plant the core of the avocado directly in the ground or first put it in a glass of water. With the second method, the core should be about halfway into the water. In a sunny spot with regular water, it will start to germinate after a few weeks. When a long root has developed, you can transplant the core into a flower pot.

What many do not know: the avocado seed in particular contains numerous healthy nutrients, valuable fiber and amino acids. They help fight high cholesterol. Nevertheless, the core ends up in the garbage far too often. You can also easily make tea from it or use it as a topping for salads and smoothies: Wash the core well, dry it, chop it up with a grater and roast it on a low level.

Coffee grounds: face mask, fertilizer, shampoo

This is how easy it is to make a nourishing peeling mask from coffee grounds: Mix five teaspoons of cooled coffee grounds, one teaspoon of honey and one teaspoon of olive oil. Apply the face mask and leave it on for 30 minutes. For an additional peeling effect, rub the mask with warm water when washing it off.

Fertilizing with coffee grounds is also known: enrich the potting soil with one or two tablespoons before planting, so the soil gains additional nutrients. Of course, this also works with plants that have already been used or in larger quantities in your own garden.

But even apart from its use as a face mask and fertiliser, the coffee grounds can do a number of things: for example, neutralize the smell of the refrigerator because it absorbs ambient odours. Or make your hair shiny. Simply leave the coffee grounds in your hair for ten minutes and then rinse them out thoroughly. You can also use leftover coffee grounds to dye fabric or Easter eggs, or use them as a grill cleaner with a sponge.

You can let the yeast dough rise and store in the fridge overnight. This reduces the effort for fresh rolls or yeast buns in the morning. Here we show you what you should consider.

Many recipes with yeast dough state: the ingredients should not come cold out of the refrigerator, the yeast should be dissolved in lukewarm liquid and the dough must rise in a warm place. These clues are there because yeast is a leavening agent and consists of yeast fungi. These yeasts die off when the yeast is processed too hot and do not become active when it is too cold.

But the last aspect is not entirely correct. Yeast fungi also work in the cold, but much more slowly. Some recipes take advantage of this and let yeast dough rise in the fridge rather than in the heat. This has many advantages that you can take advantage of when baking with yeast.

Leaving yeast dough in the fridge has advantages

If you let the yeast dough rise in the fridge, you benefit from a number of advantages:

You can prepare the yeast dough the night before, let it rise in the fridge overnight and use the risen dough straight away in the morning. So you can look forward to fresh, homemade cinnamon rolls, rolls and more for breakfast. Doing it yourself is particularly worthwhile for pastries, as you can do without many of the additives. You can find out more about this in the article: This is why many people can no longer tolerate bread.
If you have made more yeast dough than you can handle at once, you can store the rest in the fridge for up to a day and don’t have to throw it away. Alternatively, you can also freeze it. It lasts like this for several months.
In addition, you only need half the yeast for refrigerator yeast dough.
The refrigerator dough is prepared with cold liquid. This avoids the risk of your yeast dying from water that is too hot.
Yeast dough from the refrigerator is often looser later. Because he has enough time to rise. Pastries made from frozen and thawed yeast dough are in no way inferior to fresh yeast pastries. The taste does not change when stored in the cold.

Yeast dough in the fridge: you have to pay attention to this

You can let yeast dough rise in the fridge overnight and store it there for up to a day. Pay attention to the following:

Prepare the yeast dough with cold liquid so that it doesn’t puff up too much.
You don’t need a pre-dough and you shouldn’t let the yeast dough rise in a warm place first.
Immediately after kneading, dust the yeast dough all over with flour and put it in a reusable and sealable bag or tin. This should be large enough for the yeast dough to spread out.
Now put the yeast dough in the fridge and let it rise overnight. The ideal duration for this is 12 to 18 hours. You can use the dough first thing in the morning or keep it in the fridge. However, it should not be left in the fridge for more than 24 hours, otherwise it could ferment.

Tips for the yeast dough in the fridge

You can form the yeast dough into balls, snails or braids before you even leave it. If you have formed small balls or pastries, you can store them in a bag that you blow open after filling. This creates more space in it and the yeast pieces do not hit the bag and deform when they rise.
Alternatively, place the yeast pieces on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or on a floured board. Pay attention to the distance between the individual pieces of dough. You then slide the baking sheet or board into a large bag, which you seal and put in the fridge.
The bag or tin should always be closed tightly so that the dough does not dry out.
After rising: The yeast dough has risen well in the fridge overnight. If you want to bake it now, shape it as you like (if you haven’t already done so) and let the shaped pieces of dough rise again at room temperature for 20 minutes. This makes the pastry particularly fluffy.

Freezing yeast dough: What you have to consider

If you don’t want to use your yeast dough immediately after rising, you can store it longer. To do this, you put it in the freezer. There it stays at minus 18 degrees Celsius for up to six months. You can store yeast dough in the freezer as follows:

Shape the dough into a ball or patty before freezing. Then flour the dough.
Place the dough in freezer bowls or freezer bags and place in the freezer.
If you want to bake the dough later, let it thaw thoroughly beforehand.
After thawing, you can process it like conventional yeast dough. So he has to rise first. Give the yeast dough enough time to do this. Defrosted yeast dough takes about twice as long to rise as fresh dough.
Once the dough has risen, you can process it like conventional dough.

Pumpkin seeds, carrot peels or radish greens do not normally end up on our plates, but in the bin. But does it have to be? We show creative ways to use leftover food.

We are all to blame for food waste: the producer throws away what is not nice enough, middlemen and supermarkets sort it out again and last but not least, each of us consumers throws away what is “no longer good” – or what we consider unusable keep.

Changing the way producers and retailers treat food is not easy. Some countries – for example the Czech Republic and France – are trying to ban supermarkets from throwing away edible food by law. But for us consumers, there are many ways to be more conscious about food and ensure that we throw less food away.

In addition to dealing with the best-before date in a relaxed manner and storing it correctly, the following question in particular helps to reduce waste at home: does it really have to go or can I still use it somehow?

We throw a lot of things in the trash because we don’t even know that they could be edible and even tasty: radish greens, potato peelings, melon seeds or cauliflower stalks – many leftovers from healthy cooking can still be used creatively. Here are some ideas for using up leftovers.

Use leftover vegetables as broth or soup

You can make tasty vegetable broth yourself from leftovers from slicing vegetables: For example, from carrot, cucumber, asparagus and even onion skins, the outer leaves of cabbage and leeks, cauliflower leaves and stalks, broccoli stalks, herb stalks or the trimmed ends of celery and zucchini.

Simply simmer leftover vegetables in hot water with a few herbs, some pepper and salt for about an hour, then pour the cooking water through a very fine sieve or clean kitchen towel – done. Filled directly into clean screw-top jars and stored in the dark, the broth will keep for a few weeks.

To use leftover vegetables, you can also cook simple soups – for example, from cauliflower leaves and cauliflower stalks or stalks of broccoli. Asparagus shells also make a very tasty cream of asparagus soup.

Vegetable leftovers in the smoothie

You can easily process leftover vegetables that can be eaten raw into healthy and delicious (green) smoothies: Simply put them in the blender, add some water and, depending on your taste, puree with fruit, herbs, spices or ginger.

For example, the leaves of radishes, carrots, kohlrabi, beetroot or radishes, wilted lettuce leaves and herbs (stalks), cucumber peels, etc. are suitable for this. It is also possible to use fruit that is no longer quite fresh: bananas that have turned brown or slightly wrinkled apples. Smoothies make a small snack rich in vitamins – and if you make them yourself from leftovers, they are usually healthier and significantly cheaper than smoothies bought in (usually deposit-free) glass bottles.

Use of leftovers: chips from vegetable peelings

The cleaned skins of organic(!) potatoes can easily be fried, pan-fried or roasted in the oven. With a little salt and spices, you get delicious chips to nibble on. Attention: In order to avoid the dangerous solanine you should only use fresh potatoes and make sure that there are neither germs nor green spots on the skin!

You can also easily make vegetable chips from the skins of sweet potatoes, beetroot, parsnips and radishes as well as from savoy cabbage and kale leaves. To be sure that the peels are pesticide-free, it is best to only use organic vegetables

Broccoli and cauliflower stalk puree

Vegetable leftovers such as the stalk of cauliflower, broccoli or cabbage (and the leaves of cauliflower as well) can be easily made into a puree: cook until soft, puree, season, done. Can also be combined very well with potatoes.

Pesto made from radish greens, carrot greens, radish leaves, kohlrabi leaves

The leaves of radishes, radishes, kohlrabi and carrots do not have to be thrown away – they are safe to eat and very tasty. These leftovers can be used in soups, as leafy greens, as a filling for ravioli or lasagne and even as pesto.

Findings from a new study by researchers from Bristol, London, Würzburg and Munster question the much-touted effects of caffeine. According to the research, coffee (or tea) does not provide consumers with an energy boost or a caffeine hit. Strictly speaking, coffee consumption in regular coffee drinkers only prevents the tiredness and listlessness that would result from caffeine withdrawal.

Does coffee really wake you up? The study was conducted with 379 participants, including both non-coffee drinkers and regular coffee consumers. After a 16-hour caffeine abstinence, participants were given either caffeine pills or placebo pills. Subsequently, the self-assessed attention and performance of the subjects were determined. Some of the regular coffee drinkers who had taken a placebo complained of headaches and felt tired. People who rarely or never drink coffee, on the other hand, had no problems after taking a placebo. Coffee drinkers who received a dose of caffeine felt normal afterwards, their levels were normal. Overall, none of the test groups’ performance values ​​were higher than those of the non-coffee drinkers with placebo. Accordingly, it can be concluded that there are no benefits for activity or performance from caffeine consumption.

Anyone who cannot start the day without coffee has made a mistake about the effects of caffeine. In principle, caffeine can wake you up because it docks onto receptors for the body’s own tiredness molecules called adenosine and blocks them. However, coffee no longer has a really stimulating effect, especially for regular coffee drinkers. On the contrary: a body that is used to regular caffeine consumption reacts to withdrawal with symptoms of fatigue, headaches or a feeling of reduced performance. So the caffeine only has a balancing effect on the symptoms that arise from “caffeine addiction” or habituation. The effect of caffeine on people who drink coffee regularly or a lot is reversed, the stimulation that coffee drinkers feel is felt. The scientists have thus reduced the illusion of coffee as a stimulant. However, this will hardly affect the popularity of the drink…

The sowing of a coffee plant is possible all year round. Cultivation works best with fresh seeds, which ideally can be taken from the ripe coffee berries. After they have been separated from their somewhat harder shell and the silver skin that encloses them, they can then be planted about a centimeter deep in the ground. It makes sense to plant each bean in its own pot. Head cuttings can be obtained from a coffee bush and planted directly in soil. A sufficiently warm location is important in both cases. If the plant is large enough and has adequate root development, it can be transplanted into a larger pot.

Now a mixture of soil and substrate is good for you, as constant moisture should be guaranteed. Further repotting is usually required at most every two to three years. Soft rainwater is best for watering. A slightly acidic soil, which favors growth, can be achieved by occasionally adding lemon juice. Tropical and subtropical plants such as the coffee plant from Ethiopia should also be sprayed with water every day if possible, as this allows them to absorb moisture through their leaves. Warm summer rains are good care for the shrub, which otherwise cannot tolerate outdoor temperatures. In the colder months, you should water your Coffea less, but keep the humidity as high as possible.

The coffee plant likes temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees, making it the ideal houseplant. In winter, it also tolerates slightly cooler temperatures of around 12 to 15 degrees. A significantly colder environment or drafts should be avoided. It does well in a light location, not exposed to direct or blazing sun or cramped by other plants. You can prune your coffee plant irregularly if a bushier growth is desired.

It can take a few years for the plant to flower for the first time. A brush can be used to help pollinate the flowers so that pollination occurs evenly. But then coffee cherries, the fruits of the coffee plant, also grow. The green berries turn red within 8 to 12 months and can finally be harvested. If you do not want to roast the coffee beans obtained in this way or if the yield is too low, you can of course use them as new seeds and thus increase your local plantation.

If you dry rose hips, you can also enjoy the delicious vitamin bombs out of season. We will show you some methods and also tell you what is important when collecting rose hips.

Collecting rosehips: That’s what matters

Before you can dry rosehips, you must first collect them; The fresh fruit is usually not available for purchase. You can harvest rose hips from October. At this point, the small fruits are ripe enough and you can dry them easily. They will not lose quality in the coming weeks either. However, from December they can begin to ferment.

You can collect rose hips either in your garden or in nature. To be on the safe side, you should wear gloves when harvesting. You may remember school pranks and the itch a crushed rosehip leaves on your skin. With gloves you are on the safe side. Also, to avoid stains, don’t wear your best clothes.

Depending on where you collect the rose hips, you can also make sure to pick closer to the top of the bush. The lower berries are significantly more dirt and exposed to the odd dog. Never pick all the rosehips from a bush, as they are an important food source for birds in winter.

You should wash the collected rose hips thoroughly. If you like, you can cut the berries lengthways and scrape out the seeds. But that is not absolutely necessary: ​​rosehip seeds also provide many vitamins as well as valuable omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

Drying rose hips: In the oven or in the dehydrator

You can dry rose hips either in the oven or in the dehydrator. This is the best way to go about it:

Place the washed rose hips on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or on a rack in the dehydrator. Make sure that the berries are not too close together: otherwise they will only give off the moisture to each other and it cannot escape properly. If you plan to dry a large batch of rose hips, it’s better to use multiple trays.
Set the oven or dehydrator to 40 degrees Celsius. If you’re drying the rose hips in the oven, you should also place a wooden spoon between the oven door and the oven. This will remove the moisture from the oven.
Once in the oven or dehydrator, the rose hips take about eight to twelve hours to dry, depending on their size. This time is reduced if you have already air-dried them a little beforehand.
The following applies to this method: the hotter, the faster. However, if you set the devices to more than 40 degrees Celsius, the rose hips lose valuable vitamins during drying.

Unfortunately, the energy consumption is very high due to the long time in the oven or in the vending machine. It is more sustainable to dry the fruit in the sun or on a heater. So you don’t use any additional electricity when drying. This method is also gentler on the rose hips, which means you retain more vitamins.

Drying rose hips: In the sun or on a heater

If you dry rosehips in the sun, you should choose a sheltered place – otherwise birds may snatch the fruit. You can place a fine sieve or discarded curtain over the hips to protect them, or place a fruit bonnet over them.

If you store rose hips on the heater, you have a lot less to worry about. During the autumn rosehip season, your heating is probably on anyway – and birds won’t get in your way in the apartment either. If you have pets, you should still be careful and maybe choose a high-level heater for drying. While rose hips are not harmful to dogs and cats, you want some of the fruit yourself. A nice side effect of this method is the fruity scent that develops when the rose hips dry.

Rose hips dry without an oven: Further information

If you want to air dry rose hips, it is best to place them on some newspaper or a kitchen towel on an oven rack. In this way, warm air also reaches the berries from below. With the heating method, it is sufficient if you dry the rose hips on newspaper or a cloth. The same applies here: it is better to leave a little more space between the fruits so that the moisture can really escape. Also, if the fruit touches, mold can form in those places.

The rose hips need several days to dry both on the heater and in the sun. You should turn them regularly so that they dry evenly on all sides. If in doubt, it is better to dry the rose hips a little longer. This reduces the risk of them still being damp on the inside and mold forming later.

After drying, it is best to store the rose hips in an airtight container. Store the jar in a cool, dark place, for example in a storage room or in the basement. The dried rose hips will keep for several months.

Use of dried rose hips

You can enjoy dried rose hips, for example, as a tea, as a topping for muesli or as a small snack in between. You can also make rosehip powder yourself from the dried fruit. In addition, dried rose hips are suitable as a special ingredient for smoothies or sauces. They add a great fruity component to savory dishes in particular.

In small amounts, dried rose hips are also suitable as an addition to dog food and provide your four-legged friend with important vitamins. And of course you can also simply use dried rose hips to decorate autumn or winter arrangements, Advent wreaths and the like.

The gourd is a real eye-catcher in the garden because of its special shape. We will show you how to plant and use the bottle gourd.

The calabash belongs to the climbing plants and is also called bottle gourd because of its unusual shape. This shape is mainly created when the pumpkin grows hanging down. The gourd originally came from North and South America. There, the pumpkin species is not only used in various recipes. The dried skin of the gourd is good for making various vessels and even musical instruments.

Planting calabash: this is how you do it right

The bottle gourd thrives primarily in countries with a Mediterranean climate. If you want to plant gourds in your own garden, it is best to prefer seeds to plants indoors. You will find a large selection of organic seeds for the calabash in well-stocked gardening shops.

Preparing calabash from seeds: From April you can germinate bottle gourd seeds in small flower pots with a diameter of about ten centimeters. You should only plant the early seeds in the garden when there is no longer any danger of night frosts, which is usually the case at the beginning of May.

Fill the flower pots with plenty of potting soil. Make sure the soil is peat-free to protect the bogs.
Put one seed in the center of each pot and cover it with a thin layer of soil.
Then place the growing pots in a bright and warm place, for example on the windowsill. Always keep the soil slightly moist for the next few days.
After a week you should be able to see the first cotyledons. Now move the calabash seedlings to a slightly cooler spot where the temperature should be between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius.
Before you plant the little bottle gourds in the garden, you should harden them off a bit. To do this, place the pots outside on warmer days.

Before you plant the calabash in the natural garden or vegetable garden, you should observe the following information:

The right location: A sunny and warm location is a must if you want to successfully establish the bottle gourd in your garden. For example, a garden bed in front of a hedge or a stable fence is best. Especially the latter can be a practical climbing aid for climbing plants.
The right soil: gourds need a lot of nutrients to develop their fruit. You should therefore dig up the soil at the location one to two weeks beforehand and dig up plenty of compost under the soil.
Planting calabash in the garden:

First dig sufficiently large planting holes for the young gourds. Leave at least 40 centimeters between each hole.
Lay a drainage layer of pebbles at the bottom of the holes so that the irrigation water runs off better later.
Now place the pumpkin plants that you have brought forward in the holes and fill everything back up with soil.
Finally, water the gourds with plenty of rainwater.

Proper care for the gourd

The bottle gourd is quite undemanding in its care and therefore also well suited for gardening beginners: inside. So that you can bring in the first successful pumpkin harvest from the end of August, you should consider the following tips:

Watering: Even if the gourd needs a lot of water, you should definitely avoid waterlogging. Especially on hot summer days you have to water the pumpkin plant, preferably in the cooler evening hours. Always aim the water jet directly at the roots, because wet leaves and flowers can quickly become moldy. You can also mulch calabashes from mid to late June so that the soil at the location retains moisture better.
Fertilizer: In order to be able to develop its flowers and fruits properly, the bottle gourd needs many additional nutrients. Therefore, enrich the soil at the site with compost every two weeks if possible. Horn shavings or plant manure are just as suitable as fertilizer.
Climbing aids: Even though gourds are climbing plants, they need some support to climb up. Therefore, put a stable climbing aid in the ground shortly after the harvest, to which you can tie the pumpkin plant.
Be stingy: The fewer flowers there are on your pumpkin plant, the larger the fruits that will later develop from them. So if you want to grow particularly large bottle gourds, you should remove some flowers. Concentrate on the first flowers at the ends of the shoots.
Harvesting: When the annual pumpkin plant slowly begins to wither at the end of August, you can harvest the bottle gourds. If you want to be on the safe side, you can tap the pumpkin’s skin lightly. If the tone sounds dull and hollow, the calabash is ripe. In the last few weeks before harvest, you should protect the pumpkins from the blazing sun with a damp cloth. This will prevent the shell from getting unsightly cracks.

You can use the bottle gourd in so many different ways

In their countries of origin, the calabash has long been used as a container for liquids or even as a musical instrument. If you want to paint and carve the gourds, the first thing to do after harvest is to dry them.

Drying and processing bottle gourd:

Find a warm, dry place for the gourds where they can air dry. Do not use additional heat sources such as fan heaters.
Place pumpkins that will stand on their own on a firm cloth-lined surface.
All other gourds should be hung up by tying some gardening raffia around the neck.
As soon as the seeds rattle loudly when you shake them, the pumpkin is dry.

You can process the dried bottle gourd into various items:

drinking bottles
vases
lamps
Musical instruments for children, for example rattles

We usually consume coffee beans in ground and brewed form – namely as a coffee drink. But is it safe to eat the beans?

Roasted coffee beans to eat instead of drinking.

Most coffee lovers use coffee beans to brew their beloved coffee. The coffee beans are ground and mixed with water. But can you eat coffee beans? We do not find the question surprising. Something that is used to prepare one of our favorite drinks must also be used differently and, above all, enjoyed. Finally, time brings more and more offers of edible coffee beans.

Of course, roasted coffee beans can be consumed without hesitation. Despite the energizing effect, they are not toxic or harmful in any way. However, the same rule applies here as with all foods: you should eat them in moderation and not in bulk.

You can imagine that there is not only a lot of caffeine in the brewed coffee, but also in the coffee beans. For comparison, a cup of espresso has the same caffeine content as 15 to 25 coffee beans. Hence our advice: do not eat too many coffee beans at once. It is better to enjoy a small amount and in peace. About 30 minutes after consumption, the caffeine in the coffee beans begins to take effect. The effect usually wears off after about two to four hours. In rare cases, however, it lasts up to ten hours. It also makes a difference whether you are a smoker or a non-smoker, because the effects of caffeine last longer in non-smokers.

Of course, depending on the composition of the beans, they taste a little different. Some taste a bit sour, others rather bitter or mild. Some even find the taste of coffee beans hearty. You just have to try it out there and find your own favourite. In any case, the full aroma of the coffee beans tastes good when they are crushed and thus quasi ground. Fortunately, with this type of coffee enjoyment, you cannot burn your tongue or spill it in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Coffee beans are now part of many drinks and dishes. Whether alcoholic, as with sambuca or in a vinaigrette for the salad or in desserts such as cake, pudding and quark – the brown bean must not be missing.

If you haven’t tried it yet, give it a try! It is worth a try. Afterwards you can always treat yourself to a liquid coffee specialty.

Tips for domestic help and cleaning lady can be found on the Internet. Because with the right sites and providers, you can quickly and easily find a reliable cleaning lady. You can also find domestic help online who will help you with various tasks and make your everyday life easier.

Finding a household or cleaning help is now easy on the Internet. Because cleaning staff can offer their services on various portals. Some things run through an agency and others are offered privately. So you have the free choice.

Find and search tips for domestic help

There are many activities in the household that recur every day. If you are still working and taking care of your family, there is hardly any time for personal household or interests. It, therefore, makes sense to hand over certain tasks to domestic help or professional cleaning companies. This gives you more freedom again. In addition, note valuable tips for finding jobs on the Internet.

Find home help online

Finding domestic help online is now very easy. Because many providers on the Internet, such as domestic staff agencies, offer the opportunity to look at various domestic help with a photo and introductory text from your own area. These are mostly platforms that serve to provide household-related services. Here you can find gardeners, qualified cleaners, or childcare online throughout Germany. So start your search on the following pages:

  • Find household helpers at sucht.de
  • 24-hour care for the elderly at promedicaplus.de
  • You can find childcare at sucht.de
  • Find animal care at tierhelden.de
  • Find craftsmen at blauarbeit.de
  • Find helping people with various tasks at agenturmarypoppins.de
  • Cleaning lady search on the internet

If you want to search specifically for a cleaning lady, there are also special pages where you can find a cleaning lady online. The range is often large and unmanageable. Consequently, the question arises as to how to find a good cleaner or domestic help to entrust the house and yard too. Therefore, here are the best providers of cleaning aids on the Internet. Also, note tips on finding household help for seniors.

  • Find a cleaning lady with bookatiger.com
  • Looking for a cleaning lady at helpling.de
  • Cleaning ladies for part-time jobs can be found on eBay-kleinwerbung.de
  • Cleaning ladies at putzchecker.de
  • Hire cleaning staff at maideasy.de
  • Find reliable cleaners at putzperle.de
  • Publish an individual job application

With some providers, such as Betreut.de, there is also the option of publishing your own individual job offer for domestic help. The domestic staff agency will then give you recommendations on suitable domestic help, nannies, cleaners, and gardeners in your area. They can also apply to your job offer. Also, note how you can find free tutoring on the internet.

How often should a cleaner help around the house?

Depending on which work and tasks you want to hand over, cleaning help can come once or twice a week. If she just needs to tidy up, vacuum and mop the floor, then once a week is enough. If you also want to have a household help do the laundry, clean the windows, and other things, she can also help twice a week. You can decide that individually. Also, you should keep in mind that she will be employed longer for more work. And that has to be rewarded accordingly.

Bread intolerance does not always have to have something to do with gluten or wheat. According to a study, the resting time of the bread dough has an impact on how digestible bread is.

Flatulence, diarrhea or abdominal pain – many people have these and other unpleasant symptoms when they eat bread. Many of those affected assume that they have gluten intolerance and therefore avoid gluten-containing foods, especially wheat. It’s not always the wheat itself. According to a study by the University of Hohenheim, the rising time of bread plays a particularly important role.

Types of sugar in bread dough

The background: There are certain types of sugar called “FODMAPS” in the grain of wheat. The abbreviation stands for “fermentable oligo-, di- and monosaccharides and polyols”. However, the substances are difficult to digest – and therefore cause many people stomach problems.

However, the proportion of FODMAPS in the bread can be reduced: if the bread dough rests longer, the types of sugar are broken down. The researchers of the study found this out in an experiment. They let different bread doughs rest for different lengths of time and then analyzed the FODMAPS content.

After one hour of resting time, all types of dough contained the most FODMAPS. After four hours, there were only ten percent of the types of sugar originally contained.

The rising time is shorter for cheap industrial bread

The explanation: the yeast in the dough ferments during the rest period and feeds on the sugars. It kind of pre-digests the dough. The longer the dough rests, the more FODMAPS the yeast can convert.

For people with bread intolerance, this means that it is better to avoid industrially produced bread. With cheap bread from discounters and bakery shops, the dough has little time to rise, and the ready-made baking mixes are also enriched with artificial enzymes and additives.

Buy good bread or bake it yourself

Local artisan bakers and especially organic bakeries are better: they use organically certified ingredients and traditional production methods and give the bread dough enough time to rise. High-quality bread may cost a little more than in discounters or bakery shops, but it is more digestible and not an assembly line product.