After you’ve brewed your morning coffee, what do you do with the
grounds. If you usually toss them, then you’ll want to take a look at
these ideas for inspiration.
- Help Your Garden Grow:
Coffee grounds mixed in soil
can help make flowers and plants, like roses, in your garden grow and
flourish. They can also make your compost much more productive.
- Buff Out Dings on Wooden Furniture:
If you’ve got dings or scratches in your wood furniture or floors,
grab some coffee grounds and a q-tip. Just apply the grounds straight
to the problem areas, then let it sit for about 5-10 minutes before you
buff the area with a cotton rag.
- Treat Cellulite:
Mix in some coffee grounds with your normal moisturizer. Then once
you’ve washed your body in the shower, massage in your scrub, then rinse
skin with warm water. Over time, this should help to reduce the
appearance of cellulite.
- Enhance Your Hair Color:
Brunettes and redheads – simply add 2 tablespoons of coffee grounds
to your shampoo to enhance the color of your hair. If you want more
dramatic results, you can also saturate your dry hair with brewed coffee
or espresso and cover your hair with a plastic shower cap for 20
minutes before washing.
- Eliminate Odors in the Fridge:
Use coffee grounds just like you would baking soda in the fridge. The
grounds will absorb odors and keep your fridge smelling fresh.
- Dye Fabrics:
Just boil a pot of water and pour coffee grounds in and steep. Now you have a base for dye. You can also give paper an antique feeling with coffee grounds!
- Clean Your Fireplace:
Tossing some coffee grounds into your fireplace will actually help to clean it. According to Real Simple, just sprinkle a handful of grounds onto the ashes to prevent flyaways.
Onions are a key superfood in the kitchen – they’re usually cheap to
get a hold, are rich in antioxidants, and are used in tons of recipes.
But onions have a lot of other uses apart from cooking with them.
- Soothe a Sore Throat: here’s another sore throat remedy for
you. Boil about a cup of water with the peels of half an onion. Once
boiling, remove the onion and serve for relief.
- Ease the Pain of Burns: if you’ve sustained a mild burn, just rub some onion onto it to soothe the pain.
- Remove Splinters:
Have a splinter that just won’t budge? Try taping (yes,
with tape, or a adhesive bandage) a piece of raw onion to it. Hold tight
for about an hour before removing the onion.
- Polish Metal: slice up an onion, then crush it. Combine the
crushed onion with some water and use a cloth to dab this on the metal
surface. Rub the metal until it’s clean.
- Make Burned Rice Edible Again: accidentally let your rice
burn? You don’t have to throw it away. Just place a half an onion on top
of the rice to absorb the burned taste.
- Preserve Avocados:
Prevent your avocados from browning by storing them in a
plastic airtight container with red onions. Place half of an onion in
the container first, skin side up, and then place the avocado. You can
use red onion to store guacamole, too: Place some slices on top of the
guac’ in a plastic container.
Did You Know: Onions have anti-bacterial properties.
That’s why you find onions called for more in meat recipes the closer
you get to the equator.
