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For a while, mayo was back to being background noise in my cooking.

Because the kitchen is unusable, Blanca has to wash her dishes in the bathtub, and she has improvised a cooking area with a gas camping stove in a corner of her living room.

Even though cooking and storing food might seem like a necessity in order to live in any kind of housing situation, legally the appliances are categorized as amenities.

"If you buy fish and chips it's usually £10," he says - adding that cooking yourself is not much cheaper.

It wasn’t that I stopped cooking — I still loved it.