Most of the time after consuming the food, we throw away the food scrap like peels, skin, shells.
I will show you how these food scraps can be used in other things.
Do flowers in your homes would sometime wilt?
Add soda or sprite to the vase. It will revive the flower and it will look fresh.
Sugar in the soda helps in this revival.
Take egg shells in a mixer, add flour, water and food colour to it and grind it.
Take an empty lipstick container. Pour the paste into the container through a plastic bag.
After it dries, it can be used as a pink chalk to write on a blackboard.
When you buy bread from market, after few days it becomes moldy.
Do not throw away the bread. Remove the moldy part and take the clean part.
Use this part to remove dirt marks from the wall and make it clean.
If you have rusted spoon or forks which inspite of cleaning does not become clean.
Put them in a pan with sour milk and leave it for sometime.
Lactic acid in the milk dissolves the rust.
Remove the spoon or fork and wash. They will look new.
Do not throw the orange peel. Take the whole orange peel.
Add olive oil and a wick. Use it as a candle.
It can be used a candles of citrus scents that last for long hours.
Washbasins and sinks have a lot of grime which is difficult to remove.
Rub the grapefruit in salt.
Rub this salted grapefruit to the sink.
Citric acid dissolves grime in the sink. Wash the sink with water. It will shine again.
Take apple peels and waste parts of the apple and water in a pot. Bring it to a boil.
Remove peels and other parts of apple. Add 1 cup of sugar to the water.
Let it thicken, pour it in a jar and chill it.
You can use this as apple jam for your breakfast.
These points will help in using the food waste in different ways.