10 surprising ways to get creative with food waste

Food peelings, seeds, spoilt foodstuff, and other food waste can be repurposed for more health and financial benefits.

Let us explore ten of them.

Turn a white t-shirt, scarf, and other white fabric pink with avocado peelings and seeds.

Avocado has an acid called tannin which turns fabric pink or peach. Tannin helps the dye stick to fabric fibres.

Put the cloth in a basin of water and add the peels and seeds. Let them sit for a while until the fabric turns pink.

You can save wilting roses by pouring soda into the vase they are standing in. The sugar in the soda replenishes the roses. Use sprite as it looks like water.

You can get homemade chalk by blending egg shells, flour, water, and food colouring. If you have an empty lip balm tube, fill it with the mixture and use it as needed.

Don't throw away moldy bread so fast if you have a scuff on your wall. Scuff is grazing or scrape marks on walls. The gluten in bread absorbs scuff like a champ leaving your walls spotless.

Pour leftover bacon grease into a small glass tin. Add cloves, cinnamon, and a wick, and let them harden in the tin. Cinnamon and cloves will mask the smell of grease. Light the wick and get your candlelit dinner started.

Pistachio nuts are very nutritious. They are powerhouses of protein, magnesium, and Vitamin E, they boost cardiovascular health and help with swollen legs. Their shells also make great decor. Use glue to stick them together in the shape of a lotus flower. Paint them to your taste.

Spoiled milk is a great rust remover. Pour into a bowl and put rusted utensil to soak. The lactic acid in the milk acts on the rust melting it off the item.

You can give your house a citrus scent for hours using orange fruit peel and olive oil. Make sure there's a stick-like peel at the bottom of the orange. Pour olive oil into the peel and light the stick.

Make potato skin chips from potato peels. Wash the peelings and put them on an oven baking slate. Add salt, pepper, and oil and mix to season. Bake them at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Serve with ketchup.

Boil apple peelings and core in a pan of water on medium heat. Remove the peels and add a lumpsum of sugar. Boil the sugar in apple peel water until it foams and the sugar dissolves. Pour the solution into a tin and leave it to cool. Refrigeration is also okay. 

Use your homemade jam on bread for breakfast.