How do you judge when you kitchen floor is clean? What about the counter top? Is it by sight? Is it by smell?

All the possible places in a kitchen that can make your family sick is quite scary. In fact more scary than any group of Zombies that may be outside your door on Halloween. If you don’t believe me read the detail report from the University of Florida on Food Processing and Handling.

Did you know that most household kitchens would fail the basic test of a hygiene monitor that is used in food processing plants? Then what can we do to protect our families when we eat at home? Should we be using stronger cleaners? Should we change the way we handle our food?

One of the given expectations from life, beside death and taxes is cleaning. When I was growing up I fought it tooth and nail, but it didn’t stop me from having to cleaning the bathroom.

You know those sponge scrub pads. They are great for cleaning. It does not matter if it is wiping finger prints off the light switch or scrubbing a dirty pan from cooking French Toast. A scrub pad with sponge on the back works great.

A walk down the cleaning section of my local grocery store, found pretty scrub pads for $1.78 ea. There was packages of 3 from a brand name for only 1.98. So if I bought the 3 pack it would be only 66 per sponge/scrub pad. That is a $1.12 difference per pad.

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Winco Foods offered me about 6 different options for cleaning sponges with scrub pads attached to them. Most all of them were sold as individuals. I found only one offering where Icould buy more than one sponge, that was from  Scotch-Brite. It cost 1.98 for a pack of 3.

Albertson on the other hand, had on their shelves the same Scotch-Brite 3 pack for $2.99. Yes, they had others, but they want more money. The money I did not want to spend.

Now if I wanted to buy online from Amazon.com I would have to pay $3.89 for the 3 pack. I could get an 18 pack for $21.50. That would break it down to $1.20 per scrub/sponge.

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