We asked you to share your best tips for making your family more eco-aware and environmentally friendly and you rose to the challenge. Here are the fifty best tips given to us by Raisingkids' members.

1. Hot water. We don't have a combi boiler so there is a bit of a wait for hot water when the tap is first turned on. We save the cool water that comes out before the hot water starts for watering plants.

2. Feeling fruity. If your fruit is going off, don't chuck it. Most fruit can be turned into something yummy, apple cake, banana bread, peach cobbler etc.

3. Ready, steady, cook. If the oven has to be on for any length of time, shove something else in with it. I do cakes when I'm roasting a chicken. Or I cook 2 chickens at once so one of them is cold for the next day's dinner or lunchbox.

4. Thirty-something. Turn the temperature down on the water, the heating & washing machine, saving energy & pennies. Wash most things at 30 degrees.

5. Cold corners. Have thermostatic controlled radiators so any rooms that are not in regular use get turned down to minimum.

6. Baby bottoms. I'm making my own baby wipes - bits of a fleece blanket cut down and hemmed. I'm also making wipe solution using a cup of water, a couple of drops of baby wash, 1 drop lavender oil and 1 drop tea tree oil and keep in an old refillable spray bottle! Much better than the wipes that you can buy, many of which contain lots of chemical products in them.

7. Car-share. Don't make a special trip to the bottle bank – if a friend or neighbour is going there, ask them to take yours as well and return the favour.

8. Re-use water. Certain supermarkets are now also doing their own version of environmentally friendly cleaning products which do not affect the water table. Not only are they kinder to the environment but if you use one of these or Ecover products for washing up then you can re-use your washing up water on the garden.

9. Boiling point. We bought an Eco kettle so we are knowingly only boiling the amount of water we need any excess is popped into a bottle in the fridge for drinking.

10. Plugged in. Make sure your stereo, PC or television isn't left on standby and that no mobile chargers are left plugged in (my kids need constant reminding!)

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Our thanks for all their handy hints go to the following RK members; Spinningplates, kruse79, kismet, pixiepixie, brandie, mumofjr, catnip, AmieT, ionab, tolton4, flighty1, gazzalw, alisoncox2, tlband, bettybetty, marymod, babyx1uk3, mithril, runragged, volvomum, mumoftwiglet, spacehopper, marg1, AnnieBaker, Ursula, sarajayne.

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