Why buy expenisve mossie spray when you can make it yourself very cheaply. I make may own homemade mosquito repellant and it keeps the mossies, sand flies, and flies away.

I am one of those people that always get bitten by insects, when everyone else can’t feel a thing. Here I am scratching and slapping myself while other people are just standing there watching.

I seriously thought that this homemade recipe for mosquito spray would not work…But I am telling you that it really works.

Here is the recipe for the homemade mosquito spray:

1. 1 part Dettol
2. 3 parts Baby oil

Shake the bottle and away you go. I usually put mine in an empty pump spray bottle. Actualy an old aeroguard one. This stuff goes a long way too. It seems to last forever.

I will never go back to paying $5 or more for a chemical ridden can of mossie spray.

Don’t throw out your old bananas! You can freeze them to make smoothies with or make banana muffins with your rotten bananas!

Banana Muffins

2 cups Self raising flour

2 large bananas (ripened) 3 small

1/2 cup brown sugar (less if you like)

1 egg

1/3 cup butter, melted( if unsalted add 1/4 tsp salt)

A few drops of Vanilla

Preheat oven to 400F or 180C. Add dry ingredients together. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together. Mix the eggs, bananas, and butter; add to dry ingredients, stirring only until the all ingredients are combined. Spoon into well-greased muffin tins. Bake for 20 minutes.

• I usually touch the top of the muffin to see if it is ready. If it is it will spring back.
• The less you stir the mixture the softer the muffin
• You can add choc chips, walnuts, or coconut to the mixture.
• I like throwing nuts on the top for decoration.

You can use other fruits besides the bananas but they may not have as much liquid and you will have to add a bit of milk to compensate.

For example I would use two apples sliced up and maybe a 1/4 of a cup of milk. I would also add some cinamon and walnuts… Yummm