Kitchen Scraps Uses

Here is how you can be productive with produce:

• Use the inside of a banana peel to shine shoes
• Add a banana peel to a roasting pan to help tenderize meat
• Put cucumber peels in spots to repel household insects
• Put cucumber peels in a bath to soften skin
• Rub a cut potato over mud stained clothing before laundering
• Use lemon peels to polish chrome
• Add lemon peels to the kindling in your fireplace for a pleasant scent

Source: AARP Bulletin March 2013