To Do with Coffee Grounds
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-Before you clean the ashes out of your fireplace, sprinkle them with wet coffee grounds. They’ll be easier to remove, and the ash and dust won’t pollute the atmosphere of the room.
-Get rid of the smell of spoiled food after a freezer failure. Fill a couple of bowls with used or fresh coffee grounds and place them in the freezer overnight. For a flavoured-coffee scent, add a couple of drops of vanilla to the grounds.
-Don’t throw out those old coffee grounds. They’re chock-full o’ nutrients that your acidic-loving plants crave. Save them to fertilize rosebushes, azaleas, rhododendrons, evergreens, and camellias. It’s better to use grounds from a drip coffeemaker than the boiled grounds from a percolator. The drip grounds are richer in nitrogen.
-Kitty won’t think of your garden as a latrine anymore if you spread a pungent mixture of orange peels and used coffee grounds around your plants. The mix acts as great fertilizer too.
-The secret ingredient in high-priced cellulite cream is coffee. So save money and make your own. Mix 1/4 cup warm, used coffee grounds with 1 tablespoon of oil (olive, almond, walnut or massage oil will due). Stand on newspaper in the bathtub and apply the mixture over your cellulite zones. Then wrap yourself in plastic wrap and leave on for up to five minutes. Unwind the plastic wrap, then brush off the loose grounds. Remove the newspaper and take a warm shower using a exfoliating brush. Repeat twice a week.
-Get rid of the smell of spoiled food after a freezer failure. Fill a couple of bowls with used or fresh coffee grounds and place them in the freezer overnight. For a flavoured-coffee scent, add a couple of drops of vanilla to the grounds.
-Don’t throw out those old coffee grounds. They’re chock-full o’ nutrients that your acidic-loving plants crave. Save them to fertilize rosebushes, azaleas, rhododendrons, evergreens, and camellias. It’s better to use grounds from a drip coffeemaker than the boiled grounds from a percolator. The drip grounds are richer in nitrogen.
-Kitty won’t think of your garden as a latrine anymore if you spread a pungent mixture of orange peels and used coffee grounds around your plants. The mix acts as great fertilizer too.
-The secret ingredient in high-priced cellulite cream is coffee. So save money and make your own. Mix 1/4 cup warm, used coffee grounds with 1 tablespoon of oil (olive, almond, walnut or massage oil will due). Stand on newspaper in the bathtub and apply the mixture over your cellulite zones. Then wrap yourself in plastic wrap and leave on for up to five minutes. Unwind the plastic wrap, then brush off the loose grounds. Remove the newspaper and take a warm shower using a exfoliating brush. Repeat twice a week.
-Used coffee grounds add an array of nutrients to the soil, and will help repel snails and slugs from your garden beds. Before planting your next crop, work into the soil all the used coffee grounds you've been saving for the last week or so. This works well on plants that thrive in acidic soil.Some say coffee grounds will increase your carrot or radish harvest by mixing dry grounds with the seeds prior to planting. Roses also benefit from used coffee grounds.
-Coffee filter sachets are great for freezers, ice chests, and other places that tend to smell musty or fishy. If you have access to a sewing machine, try this fast and easy recycling craft: Take two 8-12 cup basket style coffee filters, flatten into circles,lay one on top of the other and sew them together (leaving a 2- inch hole at the top to create a pocket.) Now fill the filter "sachet" halfway with dry coffee grounds, and sew it shut. These easy sachets can be thrown into the freezer or ice chests to help remove strong odors, or can be hung on the wall in a closet, basement, or attic.
-To prevent cats from using your flower beds as a litter box, sprinkle coffee grounds throughout the beds, taking care not to dump the grounds on the actual flowers.
-Keep your bait worms alive till your next fishing trip by putting them in a container filled with coffee grounds and soil.
-Recycled coffee grounds can also be used to repel fleas from your dog's coat. After shampooing your dog, rub in the grounds and let dry. This works great on outdoor dogs, but I would caution using coffee grounds on dogs that are going to be indoors immediately after their bath, as the grounds can get into your carpet and furniture.
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It's amazing that people fuss over what kind of hot or cold cereal to eat for breakfast when some of the most powerful nutrients on Earth can be found in that coffee pot you seldom use.
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The big secret is not in your brewed cup of coffee, but in the coffee berry itself. Yep! It's the bright red fruit that covers up the coffee bean that does the trick; although the bean carries the load of goodies.Fact is, that little berry has more health-protecting, age-reversing nutrients than blueberries, raspberries,
green tea and broccoli combined.The big secret is not in your brewed cup of coffee, but in the coffee berry itself. Yep! It's the bright red fruit that covers up the coffee bean that does the trick; although the bean carries the load of goodies.Fact is, that little berry has more health-protecting, age-reversing nutrients than blueberries, raspberries,
It protects your heart, brain and your immune system.
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Until recently, no one thought the coffee bean was anything special, in fact, coffee growers were throwing tons of it in the garbage. They found out in a hurry that the bean has been proven to: help maintain healthy glucose levels; help keep the bad cholesterol (LDL) at a healthy level; help protect your colon and liver.
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Pour yourself several cups for morning breakfast, and have a couple more later on.
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