💡 ZONE 2 INSPIRATION…ERRANDS, SELF-CARE, GARDEN!

FLYLADY ZONE 2, THE KITCHEN

Thank you for all your wonderful suggestions on YouTube and Instagram for things we can focus on in Flylady zone 2 (the kitchen) for shopping, self-care and working in the garden! 😄 I shall keep adding to the list as more ideas come in…

Here’s my “self-preservation” bingo card for this week. You can click the photo, save and print. Or if you’d like to customise, here’s a link

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ERRANDS – SHOPPING LIST

• Washing up liquid
• Rubber gloves
• Dishwasher detergent/tabs
• Rinse aid
• Dishwasher salt
• Coffee/tea
• Baking parchment/wrap
• Kitchen roll
• Cleaning liquid

SELF-CARE, PAMPER

• Homemade face mask, lip or hand scrub, bath salts/bombs, homemade foot cream. Use herbs or flowers from your garden or pantry items (honey, sugar exfoliating scrub, olive oil egg yolk hair treatment, vanilla bath salts).
• Keep a tube of hand cream by the sink.
• Additional hand-care with some lotion or a mini-manicure.Make one day this week a “detox” day, with juicing and relaxation.
• Search online for a new recipe to try, or reread a favourite cookbook.
• Write down your favourite family recipe and make a copy for your children.
• Have a go at that recipe you saved and never got round to.
• Try making a new healthy snack, biscuit or cake.
• Prepare a ‘new’ or ‘special’ snack to enjoy later on with a cup of tea!
• Tidy and/or discard old recipes.
• Tweak your diet, research healthier eating ideas and add one to your menu plan this week.
• Add some fresh mint or a slice of lemon to your water.
• Make homemade chocolates, truffles or fudge (for Zone 4 stash 😊).
• Sit outside with your morning tea or coffee and listen to the birds.
• Candlelight dinner with your best china, alone or with your significant other, on the balcony or in your garden.
• Put together a pamper snack basket for the week, something special each day to enjoy.
• Add your favourite meal to this week’s menu plan.
• Sit at the dinner table, add candles, background music, serviettes, eat outside weather-permitting.
• Enjoy the light in the kitchen for reading or doing a crossword.
• Try a new type of tea or coffee or savour a cup of your favourite brew. Use the one you have been saving “for a special occasion”.
• Indulge yourself and enjoy your favourite dessert, or a new ice-cream flavour.
• Use one of your china teacups/saucers that you only keep for guests, or drink water/juice from a crystal wine glass.
• Put together different salads, trying new combinations of veggies and fruits you’ve never tried, use a variety of lettuces and greens.
• Add something which makes you smile while you’re cooking/doing the dishes: a bloom from the garden, a pot plant, a candle, a photo frame.
• Make paper flowers to put on your windowsill or table.
• Take a couple of pieces of the “good china” you save for special occasions out and have lunch or a snack, a cup of tea. Take a photo and invite a friend to do the same for a “separate but together” teatime, or eat “together” via FaceTime or Skype.
• Hang a beautiful crystal in the window to make sparkles and rainbows.
• Attach a perspex bird feeder to the kitchen window. You can see our one here…

GARDEN/YARD

• Sow vegetable or herb seeds, plant up tender vegetables in a greenhouse, sow cress or micro seeds for quick fresh greens.
• Watch the birds at the feeder.
• Read outside in the garden, make a reading spot for yourself.
• Use a special cuticle and hand cream after you’ve been working outside.
• Sit outside and “just be”.
• Rub your hands in the thyme, lavender, basil or mint bush.
• Prepare the area for the vegetable garden.
• Clean and check outside furniture.
• Clean/prepare the barbecue and implements. Gas/charcoal.
• Wipe down the parasol.
• Take care of fruit trees or bushes. Swap excess garden produce with friends or neighbours.
• Light a small bonfire.
• Toast marshmallows.
• Have a go at growing herbs in containers or recycled tin cans or plastic pot.
• Water plants, set up a rainwater collector.

MY EASY RECIPES AND CRAFTS PLAYLIST!