So don't waste it
Do you think you throw them away? Certainly not: here is nothing fruit thrown away, not even the skins!
Twenty tips to learn how to reuse them, having fun and making them become daily gestures, to do good for the planet and to live naturally.
Peels for cleaning, eating, nourishing the skin and the garden!
1. Degrease the surfaces. Before taking out the degreasing spray for the kitchen, try the lemon. Sprinkle the affected part with salt or baking soda and the remaining half of the squeezed lemon. Rub, pass the sponge and finish by polishing with apple vinegar.
2. Make the coffee maker shine. To make the coffee maker shine opaque with limestone, just make a vacuum coffee using water and lemon peel; put a couple of skins in the water and a pair in the filter and bring to a boil. Turn off and leave for about half an hour, rub and rinse everything.
3. Make the glasses or glasses glazed by the dishwasher shine. With ice, salt and lemon peel, turn the whole thing over for a couple of minutes, throw away and rinse well. The squeezed lemon halves can also be put in the dishwasher washes, between the shelves, to scent and polish.
4. Dye the fabrics. The pomegranate peels color the fabrics red. Take a large bowl, fill it with hot water and pomegranate peel, leaving it to rest for a whole night. The next day, boil the skins and water in a stainless steel container, remove them and add the previously wet fabrics. Simmer gently for an hour and leave to rest one night, with the tissues in it. Remove them the next day and rinse with fresh water. Also other peels, like those of onions, serve the same purpose.
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5. Prepare the citrus powder. Remove the citrus peel (lemon, lime, orange, mandarin, orange or grapefruit), taking care not to use the white fibrous part, and let it dry for about three or four days, then blend with a blender or a millstone, making it a dust. Store a clean glass jar, use to flavor sweets, desserts, but not only.
6. Flavoring citrus sugar or lemon pepper. After preparing the powder for the citrus fruits described above, add a teaspoon in a jar of sugar and let the essential oils released from the skins make it aromatic. Mix the lemon powder, made as the citrus powder described above, and add to freshly ground black pepper powder.
7. Store the peels. If you have pressed citrus fruit, but you don't need it immediately, you can store it in a jar, after drying it, or you can keep it frozen for future use.
8. Make olive oil with lemon. Crush the lemon peels, without the white part, in a mortar with a little extra virgin olive oil added. Leave to rest in a jar for another six hours with more oil added. Finally pour it filtering with a colander, and keep in a bottle still adding oil.
9. Flavoring honey and vinegar. Leave the citrus fruit peels with honey or vinegar to infuse cold. After a few hours, strain and store in a clean jar.
10. To keep the whole cane sugar soft . Often this sugar hardens and tends to form lumps. If you add lemon peels in the jar where it is preserved, without the white part, it will keep you more moist and soft.
11. Make the broth. After having washed and cleaned them well, the potato and carrot skins, the green part of the leek, the stems and the leaves of kitchen herbs such as celery can be used for the preparation of the broth, simply by boiling them together.
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12. Scrub with banana peels. Sprinkle the inside of the banana bccia with sugar, massage on the copo as if it were an exfoliating sponge of loofa, gently rubbing the skin and then rinsing in the shower.
13. Tone and refresh the face. Simply rub the peels of the orange or grapefruit on the face, avoiding the eyes, and rinse with warm water.
14. Nourish the face. Rub the inside of the avocado peel on the face to give it a rich nourishment, rinse gently with warm water.
15. Reduce bags and dark circles. The banana peels help to reduce bags and dark circles, just place them on the affected part, from the fresh side, under and around the eyes, and leave for about fifteen minutes.
16. Make the compost . Apple peels, fruit in general and vegetables, but also egg shells: they are not thrown away, but alternate with layers of soil, in an airtight container, to produce a rich compost for the garden or the garden. Pay attention: if some seeds fall, you will find the container full of sprouts or seedlings! The lemon and orange peels, cut into wedges and placed around your fruit trees, will keep away pests and ants.
17. Prepare natural pot pourri. Cut the peels of various citrus fruits (lemon, orange, mandarins) into cubes, put them in a metal box or in a glass jar, chiding tightly. After a couple of days pour the pot pourri into a basket and put it in the room to be perfumed. Alternatively, you can also add apple and spice peels, such as cloves.
18. Cheese skins to flavor soups and soups. As our grandparents did, grate Parmesan to the last, but keep the peel. Turn it over and with a kitchen knife scrape off the surface of the crust, to clean it. Boil together with soups or soups. It can also be grilled, for a tasty aperitif.
18. Make the vanilla sugar. The "peel" of the fresh vanilla should be carved vertically, so that the seeds are also used, and the pod can be placed in the sugar jar to perfume it.
19. Make special chips. Wash the potatoes well with the appropriate brush and mix the skins with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil. Put the potato skins in a baking pan with baking paper and bake in the oven for about 10 minutes at 200 degrees. Salt and enjoy while still hot.
20. And again: fruit and vegetable skins can be used to decorate dishes, to make delicious caramelized snacks, to make earrings, necklaces, jewelry and even candles, working with imagination and dexterity.
