Home tips and reader questions on cleaning and cooking habits
A collage of reader queries and advice from a weekly advice column. Topics include keeping sugar on cookies with egg white glue, cleaning aluminum blinds with shampoo and a vacuum or damp cloth, removing melted residue from a smooth top stove with a razor blade tool or grapefruit and baking soda, using Get The Odor Out product for hockey bags, and growing lettuce from romaine cores.
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Egg substitute tips using flax and water
A reader shares a vegan friendly substitution for eggs using one quarter cup flax seed mixed with three quarter cup water, blended for five minutes and refrigerated. The tip claims to replace one egg and suits cookies cakes and muffins for egg allergies.
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Recognize and report scams warned by FCAC official
Ursula Menke FCAC Commissioner outlines common scam pitches and fraud signs warning Canadians. She cites 2012 Centre data showing mass marketing fraud costs and identity theft losses, then offers practical steps to protect personal information, secure devices, monitor credit reports, report fraud, and stay vigilant against too good to be true offers.
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