"Hey!!!Don't waste this"!!! These are the words I tend to tell my husband, my kids and my friends when it comes to certain things. I make sure that leftover water and leftover tea are poured on plants and when it comes to coffee it's no exception. So, I just I wanted to take some time to share some of my simple ideas for re-using coffee and hope to learn something from you guys in return!
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| Picture taken at a local Starbuck! |
As a plant lover I learned that coffee and leftover tea, are good plant food!,
Simply pour your leftover coffee on your indoor or outdoor plants. The coffee grounds can also be used as compost. I always make sure to get some extra leftover coffee grounds from the coffee shop. It's great nutrition for acid loving plants and I must say it also seems to do some good to all my indoor tropical plants.
In the kitchen I found that rubbing some coffee on my fingers with ground coffee work as a good odor remover, especially if I had handle fish, garlic or anything smelly. It works well too in the garbage disposal to deodorize and disinfect. The leftover coffee can also be used as a fridge deodorizer, simply place a small bowl filled with fresh coffee grounds in your fridge.
I love the smell of coffee so much that it's my room deodorizer of choice during the winter months. I simply brew some fresh coffee when I need to fill the house with a pleasant aroma! You can actually put some leftover coffee grounds on a cooking sheet and place it in a warm over, but I just prefer brewing.
Leftover coffee can also be used to:
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| Picture taken at a local Starbuck. |
- Make some frappucino
- Marinate your meat
- Replace red wine when cooking meat in recipes calling for wine!
- Flavor cake or waffle recipes ( replacing milk or water for coffee)
- Mix with condensed milk and freeze as popsicle.
Make ice cubes. Why wait on a super hot coffee to cool down when you can just throw a coffee cube in?!
Well there must be many other ways to use leftover cofee in the kicthen but that's my little tried and true repertoire here!
It's also possible to use leftover coffee as a dye! You can use your leftover coffee to dye paper or fabric to give it an aged look.
Did you know you can also add it to the wash water when you wash your dark color clothes?! It's also a good dye as beauty hair treatment if you have dark hair. Apply about 5-6 cups of leftover coffee to your wet hair and cover and leave it on your hair from about 15-20 mns before rinsing! But it's only a temporary dye I can not claim that it will work like Garnier!
Since I love hanging at perfumes counters and shopping for candles I also learned to use it to trick my olfactory senses. Carry along some leftover coffee beans or grounds and inhale them after smelling a perfume! It neutralizes the scent of the fragrance you smelled previously and help you to better sense the following fragrance.
And as to my favorite use of leftover coffee grounds, a little messy I should admit but very rewarding, I use it as a scrub! Yep! I love to use leftover coffee grounds as a facial scrub or a body scrub in the shower.
MAKING COFFEE SCRUB
2 cups coarse coffee. I prefer to just recycle the one I freshly brewed
1/2 sea salt or brown sugar. I skip that step most times
3 tbsp. oil such as olive, coconut, sweet almond, jojoba etc
A drop of scented oil of choices. Totally optional!
The only inconvenience is having the grounds over the shower floor and in...well...let's say that I advise wearing a swim suit bikini when you decide to use it as a full body scrub! I don't know if it's the pleasure of rubbing something totally organic on my body, or feeling like I am giving myself what could have been an expensive spa treatment from the comfort of my home, but I love love love the way my skin feels afterward! It's best to use fresh ground coffee as it still have many of it's antioxidant property when it's fresh. Like 20-30 minutes after you have brewed some since it will need time to cool some.
So before you think it's a messy idea ( I am making a face)give it a try because you might love the way your skin feel afterward, it's worth trying!
So... no need to let that leftover coffee go to waste right?
What do you tend to do with your leftover coffee? If you tried or try to use is as a facial or body scrub please let me know what you think of it as a scrub! Have you heard that it's claimed to remove cellulite when used as a scrub on thighs and legs?
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- N'na
OMG...what an interesting post. I had no clue coffee could do so much. Thanks a lot for sharing and teaching us about this valuable tips. I am not a coffee drinker so at least now I know how to join in the "coffee addiction" lol
ReplyDeleteJust like you many people are surprise to see that there is more that can be done with their coffee than just drinking it. There is so much that "nature" has blessed us with and that we don't take advantage of.
ReplyDeleteActually, coffee DOES help cellulite! Rub the grounds on your thighs. The caffeine and theobromine are better than most concoctions you can get in a store and less toxic too! It makes an amazing body scrub too!! Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteWow! Coffee to reduce cellulite...I better start brewing!!! LOL!! I am definitely going to try this!
ReplyDeleteI don't drink coffee, but I have been using it for a coffee enema. Great way to get the liver/gallbladder back into shape.
ReplyDeleteDo not look at this post unless you have a really strong stomach. I got rid of all kinds of parasites with the coffee enema.
http://myjourneywithcandida.blogspot.com/2011/03/detoxify-your-livergallbladder-with.html
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