Artistic and Sensible Makes use of For Junk Meals

Once I made the change to consuming entire meals over a decade in the past, I spotted I had a number of meals I now not wished to eat lurking within the pantry. Should you’re making the change or want to scrub issues out, listed here are some artistic makes use of for junk meals!

I compiled an inventory of the way to make use of these for different family functions. I hate to waste as a lot as the subsequent particular person, however I lastly needed to notice that my physique shouldn’t be a rubbish can. And I refused to make use of issues simply to complete what’s in the home.

After we switched to an actual meals food regimen, I donated all the unopened non-perishables. That also left all the opened packages of flour, sugar, oil, and many others. to take care of. As an alternative of simply pitching it, we used it for some enjoyable tasks and round the home.

The children had a blast (and I acquired pampered) whereas we used up the remainder of our “junk meals.” I’ve divided them up by classes, however among the recipes burn up a number of completely different components. These have been my options:

1. All-Function Enriched Flour

I’ve definitely modified my stance and outlook on issues through the years, particularly in terms of grains. I prevented them utterly for a few years whereas I used to be therapeutic my autoimmune illness. Now I’ll eat sure grains, like white rice and natural flour (particularly sourdough) moderately.

One factor you’re not going to search out in my pantry although (not less than not anymore!) is bleached, enriched, white flour. Listed here are some methods to make use of it up.

Make Play Dough

A win-win scenario. You get to spend high quality time together with your youngsters and burn up the leftover flour in your pantry. Should you don’t have youngsters, this might be enjoyable for grown-ups too… think about it stress aid. And in case you want a gluten-free playdough model, I’ve one right here.

This playdough makes use of up flour, vegetable oil, Koolaid or meals dye, and iodized desk salt.

Have some extra meals dye you wish to burn up? Combine it with some yogurt for finger paint. Simply make sure to take an image of your child’s artwork venture earlier than throwing it away!

Paper Mache Paste With Flour

Combine equal components of white flour and water to make a glue-like paste. Let your youngsters use their fingers and a few outdated items of newspaper to make creations. As soon as it dries, it’s very like a sculpture.

As youngsters, we used to explode balloons and put paper mache over them. Once they dried, we popped the balloons, reduce them in half and painted them to make masks.

Polish Stainless Metal

Oh the fingerprints! Chrome steel reveals smudges… lots. After regular cleansing, pour or rub some all-purpose flour onto the stainless to make it shine and take away fingerprints or water spots.

The oils and fiber within the flour buffs the tiny grooves within the metal. It additionally helps pull out grime and dirt {that a} common cleansing fabric can’t.

2. Sugar

I’ve written lots about sugar through the years and why I ditched it. Whereas I’ll nonetheless have pure sweeteners moderately, I stop bleached, white sugar. Sugar is a humectant that makes for an amazing pores and skin scrub although! Listed here are a number of completely different sugar scrub recipes to strive.

You may even use a sugar syrup to wax physique hair. Listed here are directions for the way to make and use a sugar wax.

Kill Undesirable Ants

For many people, hotter seasons can imply ants in the home. As an alternative of utilizing noxious pesticides, you may simply sort out the issue with somewhat sweetness. People and ants alike each love sugar.

To make a easy ant entice:

• Combine 2 components sugar with 1 half borax (which is nice to have available for cleansing).
• Put it in somewhat container or jar that ants can crawl out and in of. Be sure your youngsters can’t get to it.

Borax is toxic to ants, however they’ll’t resist sugar. It received’t kill them instantly, however they’ll take it again to their nest the place it should ultimately kill all of them. I’ve used this twice to do away with ants in our home. Killing ants=good use for sugar!

3. Vegetable Oil

You might need observed extra conversations round seed oils and vegetable oils recently, even from mainstream sources. Vegetable oils are excessive in inflammatory omega-6 fat and are linked with an entire host of well being points. These embrace corn, canola, and soy.

Listed here are some methods to make use of up the remainder of the vegetable oil in your house.

Clear Your Wooden Naturally

There are pure methods to scrub any sort of flooring, and that vegetable oil lurking in your pantry makes an superior hardwood flooring cleaner.  Relatively than letting it skew your Omega-3 and 6 ratios, use it to make your flooring shine.

Combine 1 cup of vinegar OR lemon juice with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Use this combination to scrub your flooring. Make sure you patch check an space first. You’ll have much less irritation, and your flooring may have a pleasant shine!

You may also combine vegetable oil with vinegar to make a DIY dusting spray for picket furnishings.

Canola Oil within the Backyard

Some sources say canola oil can work effectively as an insecticide and fungicide within the backyard. It kills bugs by suffocating them and helps forestall powdery mildew by offering a barrier between the plant and fungi.

To make use of it, add 1 tablespoon of canola oil and 1 tablespoon liquid cleaning soap to 1 gallon of water. Spray on crops to kill bugs and stop powdery mildew. Simply make sure to attempt to keep away from the nice bugs!

4. Use Up Rice

Rice is among the meals that I ditched for years that I’m now fantastic with occasionally. You may be shocked to listen to that I go for white rice as an alternative of brown rice although and right here’s why. When you’ve got non-organic enriched rice or are avoiding it for intestine therapeutic functions, listed here are some methods to make use of it up.

Dry Out Moist Electronics

Electronics and water don’t combine, or not less than they’re not presupposed to! My youngsters dropped 3 of our cell telephones in water by mistake (and one I dropped myself). Three out of the 4 have been saved by rice.

Preserve a jar of rice available and when an digital will get moist, put it within the jar and shut the lid tightly. The rice will soak up the moisture and pull it out of the gadget. Until there’s structural harm, this often works. It could take a couple of days or perhaps a couple weeks, so be affected person.

Rice Water For More healthy Hair

Asian cultures have used rice water for luxurious locks for a few years. Rice is stuffed with amino acids, antioxidants, nutritional vitamins, protein, and different vitamins which can be nice for hair well being. Right here’s the way to make and use rice water for softer, stronger, and shinier hair.

5. Oatmeal For Pores and skin Well being

Oatmeal could cause blood sugar spikes for a lot of, and it’s typically contaminated with glyphosate. Right here’s the way to burn up a few of that additional standard rolled oats in your pantry.

For a calming facial, powder oatmeal in a blender or meals processor and add heat milk to make a paste. Rub it in your face, let it dry, then wash off. It tightens pores, removes blackheads and moisturizes.

6. Coke For Severe Cleansing

I swapped out my coke and different sodas for more healthy (and tastier for my part) fermented drinks. When you’ve got some nonetheless sitting round, coke makes an amazing cleaner for robust messes. It comprises phosphoric acid that breaks down rust and onerous water and softens burnt meals. And the citric acid is nice for cleaning soap scum and grease.

It could even take the rust off of a automotive bumper. Think about what it does to the intestines??

Clear Your Bathroom

Bathroom soiled? I’m positive yours isn’t, however mine typically is. Pour a can of coke in a bathroom and let it sit for an hour. Use a brush to take away the stains and flush for a shiny clear.

I even tried this on a 30-40 12 months outdated rest room in a home I reworked. It labored (and that rest room in all probability hadn’t been cleaned in 30-40 years). Listed here are some extra methods to make use of coke for cleansing.

• Take away gum from hair- Soak hair in it for 10 minutes and gum comes proper out.
• Unclog drains –  simply pour within the coke and wait.
• Clear automotive batteries – Pour coke on a gunky automotive battery or use a fabric soaked in coke to scrub it with.
• Clear grout – soak a sponge in it and use to scrub grout stains.
• Take away grease stains – Soak grease-stained garments in coke, then wash as regular.
• Oil stains on flooring – Take away oil stains out of your storage flooring or concrete driveways.
• Clear pots and pans – Soak burnt pans in coke to dissolve caught on meals.
• Shine metallic jewellery – Soak metallic jewellery briefly in coke to scrub. Don’t do that for jewellery with treasured stones.
• Banish rust – Coke removes rust from all the things from toilet fixtures to automotive components.

7. Desk Salt

I’m truly a huge fan of salt and eat a number of it on a regular basis. I’m not a giant fan of standard, iodized desk salt although for a number of causes. When you’ve got desk salt that wants used, listed here are some methods to do this.

Weed Killer

Make a weed killer for driveways and sidewalk areas. For each 1 gallon of white vinegar add 1 cup of salt and 1 tablespoon of dish cleaning soap. Fill a sprig bottle or pump sprayer to make use of on weeds. Watch out to not spray in areas (like a backyard) the place you need some crops to develop.

Salt Cleansing Hacks

Salt additionally makes an amazing pure cleansing scrub.

• Use salt to scrub forged iron skillets, pots, and pans (double verify the producer cleansing directions for any non-stick pans)
• Add salt to a espresso stained mug to assist take away the darkish stains
• Therapeutic massage salt and lemon juice right into a picket chopping board to freshen it. Rinse and air dry.

And for a enjoyable venture with the children, strive these 3 ingredient salt dough ornaments! The recipe is just like play-dough, however they dry onerous and you’ll paint the completed creations.

Closing Ideas

I hope this gave you some alternate concepts for that junk meals which may nonetheless be lurking in your pantry. Should you haven’t already, think about swapping them out for entire meals. Components like natural flour, grain-free flours (like almond and coconut), grass-fed butter, olive oil, uncooked honey, and pure maple syrup are some scrumptious alternate options.

Do you will have some other concepts for components like these? Inform us about them beneath!