Ways To Use Leftovers

Add functionality to common breakfast items by repurposing them to meet your healing, cleaning and gardening needs. Here are a few examples:

The Halved Lemon

• Take the lemon from your tea, chop the peel, add sugar and oil, then mix together a facial scrub.
• Take the other half of your unused lemon and run it along your metal furniture as a polish.

The Coffee Grounds

• Remove half of the coffee grounds from the filter and apply them to your hair, either to steep your strands to a darker hue or to add an extra element to your conditioning.
• Consider using the other half of the grounds to clean the grease from the pan of last night's dinner creation.

The Leftover Banana

• If you are only adding half of a banana to your cereal or steel cut oats, take the other half, mash into a paste and give your forearms a workout by using it to scrub your hardwood floors.
• Then take the peel you left on the counter and swab it along your teeth for a whitening effect.

The Remains

Add all leftovers of your repurposed breakfast — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency encourages adding the coffee filter as well — to your compost pile.

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