General Cleaning

A little soap and water goes a long way. Not only does it work best for keeping your hands clean, but it works for your house as well.

Get some warm water and soap together and wipe get into the routine of cleaning the frequently touched areas of your home. Be extra vigilant about cleaning areas, such as tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets and sinks.

Soft Surfaces

Your furniture, carpet floors, rugs and drapes tend to hold onto anything that gets near them, including germs. Launder what you can, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, using the warmest water setting and dry the items completely before putting them back up.

For what doesn’t fit in the washing machine, you can grab your handy soap and water again. Depending on the material you’re cleaning you can use a cloth or a light scrub brush to clean the surfaces.

Try to be a germ-buster

After you clean the surfaces in your home, you want to disinfect them to ensure that everything is squeaky clean. If using an EPA-registered household disinfectant, make sure you follow the instructions to avoid any damage.

You can also use a diluted bleach solution on most surfaces. Follow manufacturer’s instructions for specific items or surfaces, and ventilate the area you’re cleaning well. After mixing the bleach solution, 1/3^rd cup of bleach per gallon of water, you want to leave the solution on a surface for at last 1 minute before wiping it away.

Electronics:  A Hotbed for germs

One of those things you might forget to consider when cleaning are the electronics in your house. Tablets, phones, keyboards and remote controls get plenty of contact with messy fingers (if you have kids) and are probably due for a good wipe down as well. 

Alcohol-based wipes, containing at least 70% alcohol, work great for wiping down devices. Follow instructions so you don’t damage any of the components.

Remember to stay safe and wash your hands regularly during your daily activities. With these routine cleaning techniques, it will help ensure your home stays clean and you can stay healthy.

Remember, we’re all in this together, so a cleaning regimen, coupled with social distancing and handwashing, is a great formula for stopping the spread of COVID-19.

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Grocery Delivery

Grocery delivery services have been popping up and some of the most widely available ones include Peapod, Instacart, Walmart, and Shipt. Currently, these services are all in high-demand, so getting a time slot for a grocery delivery can be tough. There are other services that offer delivery as well as some of your small local stores have adapted as well. Be sure to check to see what is available nearest you. Some sites like GroceryDelivery.org can show you local delivery and pick-up options.

Grocery Pick-up

In the last few years, many stores have added a way for you to pick out your groceries online, and you are able to drive to the local location and pick them up at curbside. This is a wildly used and convenient form of shopping that allows you to mostly stay in the safety of your vehicle.

Subscription Boxes

Food subscription boxes deliver fresh produce, meat, dairy, and other groceries, even complete meals to your doorstep by mail each week. This won’t completely replace your shopping trips, but it is a great way to supplement your core grocery shopping and limit your trips to the store as much as possible.

There are a number of difference subscription services that can bring you a variety of different foods.  Farmbox Direct, Misfits Market, Imperfect Foods, ButcherBox are a few such services that can bring you fresh food directly to your door.

Meal delivery kit companies like Hello Fresh, and Blue Apron will mail you a number of complete recipes each week, with the exact ingredients you’ll need to make them. Generally setting you up for at least a few nights of meals a week, you can customize which recipes you receive. Many companies will allow you to add a few extra products as well, if you want a snack or even a staple item, like ground beef.

Remember: Local Business

Many local businesses are adapting to the new environment created with the current situation. Be sure to ask around or look at the local Facebook groups, word of mouth is how many of these small companies are able to stay afloat in times like this. Many of them have adapted with phone ordering, online ordering with safe pick-up options in convenient locations.

The food itself isn’t going anywhere, trust the supply chains put in place. Many websites and services have become overloaded due to a surge in use; but its not for a lack of product. There is no need to panic and hoard items.

There are more than enough ways to either limit your shopping trips or have them come to you; so that we may all stay safe while we wait for this all to pass. At least we can rest assured knowing that we won’t go hungry.

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