21+ Creative and Practical Uses For Junk Food

[ad_1] Once I made the change to consuming complete meals over a decade in the past, I noticed I had a number of meals I not wished to eat lurking within the pantry. Should you’re making the change or want to scrub issues out, listed below are some artistic makes use of for junk meals!

I compiled a listing of how to make use of these for different family functions. I hate to waste as a lot as the following individual, however I lastly needed to understand 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 weight loss program, I donated the entire unopened non-perishables. That also left the entire opened packages of flour, sugar, oil, and so on. 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 a number of the recipes dissipate a number of totally different components. These had been my options:

1. All-Objective Enriched Flour

I’ve actually modified my stance and outlook on issues through the years, particularly in relation to grains. I prevented them fully 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) carefully.

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

Make Play Dough

A win-win scenario. You get to spend high quality time along with your youngsters and dissipate the leftover flour in your pantry. Should you don’t have youngsters, this could possibly be enjoyable for grown-ups too… contemplate it stress aid. And if you happen to 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.

Playdough Recipe

A fundamental playdough recipe that makes use of components out of your pantry for limitless enjoyable.

Writer: Katie Wells

Mix water and salt in a big pot and warmth over low warmth till the salt is dissolved.

Stir within the flour till effectively mixed.

Add the vegetable oil and cream of tartar, mixing effectively.

Hold stirring over low warmth till it thickens and pulls away from the edges right into a ball. If it’s too sticky, hold stirring over low warmth till it thickens.

Take away from the warmth and let it cool till you possibly can deal with it.

Add the Kool-aid or meals dye for colour.

You may as well add some important oils to provide your dough a pleasant scent and a few aromatherapy advantages.

Have some extra meals dye you wish to dissipate? Combine it with some yogurt for finger paint. Simply be sure you take an image of your child’s artwork undertaking 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 similar to a sculpture.

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

Polish Stainless Metal

Oh the fingerprints! Chrome steel reveals smudges… so much. 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 so much about sugar through the years and why I ditched it. Whereas I’ll nonetheless have pure sweeteners carefully, I stop bleached, white sugar. Sugar is a humectant that makes for an amazing pores and skin scrub although! Listed below are a number of totally different sugar scrub recipes to attempt.

You'll be able to even use a sugar syrup to wax physique hair. Listed below are directions for the right 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 possibly can simply deal with the issue with slightly sweetness. People and ants alike each love sugar.

To make a easy ant lure:

Combine 2 components sugar with 1 half borax (which is nice to have available for cleansing).

Put it in slightly container or jar that ants can crawl out and in of. Ensure your youngsters can’t get to it.

Borax is toxic to ants, however they will’t resist sugar. It received’t kill them instantly, however they’ll take it again to their nest the place it is going to 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 may need observed extra conversations round seed oils and vegetable oils currently, 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 below 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 ground, and that vegetable oil lurking in your pantry makes an superior hardwood ground cleaner. Quite 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 to patch check an space first. You’ll have much less irritation, and your flooring could have a pleasant shine!

You may as well 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 vegetation to kill bugs and stop powdery mildew. Simply be sure you attempt to keep away from the great bugs!

4. Use Up Rice

Rice is likely one of the meals that I ditched for years that I’m now positive with occasionally. You is likely to be shocked to listen to that I go for white rice as a substitute of brown rice although and right here’s why. In case you have non-organic enriched rice or are avoiding it for intestine therapeutic functions, listed below are some methods to make use of it up.

Dry Out Moist Electronics

Electronics and water don’t combine, or a minimum of 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 had been saved by rice.

Hold 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 take in the moisture and pull it out of the gadget. Until there’s structural injury, this normally works. It may well take a number 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 filled with amino acids, antioxidants, nutritional vitamins, protein, and different vitamins which can be nice for hair well being. Right here’s the right way to make and use rice water for softer, stronger, and shinier hair.

5. Oatmeal For Pores and skin Well being

Oatmeal may cause blood sugar spikes for a lot of, and it’s typically contaminated with glyphosate. Right here’s the right way to dissipate a few of that additional typical 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 Critical Cleansing

I swapped out my coke and different sodas for more healthy (and tastier in my view) fermented drinks. In case you have some nonetheless sitting round, coke makes an amazing cleaner for powerful 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 may well even take the rust off of a automobile bumper. Think about what it does to the intestines??

Clear Your Rest room

Rest room 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 bathroom in a home I reworked. It labored (and that bathroom most likely hadn’t been cleaned in 30-40 years). Listed below 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 automobile batteries – Pour coke on a gunky automobile 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 ordinary.

Oil stains on ground – Take away oil stains out of your storage ground 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 lavatory fixtures to automobile components.

7. Desk Salt

I’m truly a giant fan of salt and devour a number of it on a regular basis. I’m not a giant fan of normal, iodized desk salt although for a number of causes. In case you have desk salt that wants used, listed below are some methods to try 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 vegetation to develop.

Salt Cleansing Hacks

Salt additionally makes an amazing pure cleansing scrub.

Use salt to scrub forged iron skillets, pots, and pans (double examine 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 undertaking with the children, attempt these 3 ingredient salt dough ornaments! The recipe is just like play-dough, however they dry onerous and you'll paint the completed creations.

Ultimate Ideas

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