CUCUMBERS
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WOW WHAT A LITTLE GEM THE CUCUMBER IS, I WILL LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY NOW.
1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.
3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.
4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few cucumber slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
5 Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!
6.. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!
7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.
8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.
9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!
10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber will react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.
11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.
12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but it won't leave streaks and won't harm your fingers or fingernails while you clean.
13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!
Pass this along to everybody you know who is looking for better and safer ways to solve life's everyday problems..
Cucumbers: Wow!
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A mere 13 uses for cucumbers.
When it come to versatile vegetables a potato's what you need
1) Anti ageing effect - Wash face in potato juice or potato water.
2) For puffy tired eyes - Place round slices on your eyes to reduce the tiredness of your eyes.
3) Medicine for skin burn - Take a raw sliced potato and make it as a paste by mixing water. Apply the paste on minor skin burns to relieve pain.
4) Medicine for headache - Take a half sliced raw potato, and rub it on your temples to get relief from headache.
5) Helps you sleep - Potato prevents the action of acids in our stomach that disturb our sleep. Take a boiled and mashed potato with milk before sleeping.
6) Cure warts - Rub the cut edge of a potato on a wart daily and it will go away. The potato is very high in potassium and vitamin C which promotes healing. This should be done every day until the wart has gone.
7) Cold or Hot Compress - Potatoes hold the heat and the cold very well, so they make good compresses. Heat a potato, wrap it in a cloth and use as a hot compress. Do the same with a cold one that has been in the freezer.
8- Face Mask - Take a little mashed potato and add lemon juice and a teaspoon of milk. Put on, leave for twenty minutes and then rinse off.
9) Cure toothache - A peeled potato in the pocket was assumed to cure a toothache.
10) Help rheumatism - A dried potato worn around the neck was assumed to help rheumatism.
11) Remove glue on hands
12) As a shoe polish - Rub a raw potato on your old, dirty shoes before polishing them.
13) As a polish on silverware - Boil potatoes in some water and remove the potato from water. Place your silver ware in the water for an hour. Silver ware will glaze.
14) Extract salt from oversalted soups and pottages - Toss in some large sliced potatoes while still on the stove. In about 5 to 10 minutes the potato slices absorb the excess salt. Then remove them from the pot or bowl.
15) Keep glasses clear - Rubbing a potato on the glasses can prevent them from fogging up in the early morning.
16) Root geraniums - Just take a potato and cut a hole down through it but not all the way through. Push a geranium stem into the potato and plant the whole thing in potting soil. Soon you will have a new geranium.
17) Remove Berry Stains - A piece of raw potato rubbed onstains will take them off. If the problem is really bad, dip the cut potato into lemon juice before using it.
18) Remove stains on hands - Just rub your hands with a potato.
19) Clean rusty knives - Use a raw potato dipped in brick dust.
20) Clean carpets - Grate a raw potato and rub over the surface of the carpet and finish off with a clean cloth, wrung out with warm water.
21) Clean dresses - Grate two raw potatoes into a pint of cold water; strain through a sieve; add another pint of water and let it settle; then pour the clean part into a bottle. Dip a sponge into the water and rub the soiled garment carefully, afterward rinsing with clear water.
Twenty-one uses. Beat that you other veg!
When it come to versatile vegetables a potato's what you need
1) Anti ageing effect - Wash face in potato juice or potato water.
2) For puffy tired eyes - Place round slices on your eyes to reduce the tiredness of your eyes.
3) Medicine for skin burn - Take a raw sliced potato and make it as a paste by mixing water. Apply the paste on minor skin burns to relieve pain.
4) Medicine for headache - Take a half sliced raw potato, and rub it on your temples to get relief from headache.
5) Helps you sleep - Potato prevents the action of acids in our stomach that disturb our sleep. Take a boiled and mashed potato with milk before sleeping.
6) Cure warts - Rub the cut edge of a potato on a wart daily and it will go away. The potato is very high in potassium and vitamin C which promotes healing. This should be done every day until the wart has gone.
7) Cold or Hot Compress - Potatoes hold the heat and the cold very well, so they make good compresses. Heat a potato, wrap it in a cloth and use as a hot compress. Do the same with a cold one that has been in the freezer.
8- Face Mask - Take a little mashed potato and add lemon juice and a teaspoon of milk. Put on, leave for twenty minutes and then rinse off.
9) Cure toothache - A peeled potato in the pocket was assumed to cure a toothache.
10) Help rheumatism - A dried potato worn around the neck was assumed to help rheumatism.
11) Remove glue on hands
12) As a shoe polish - Rub a raw potato on your old, dirty shoes before polishing them.
13) As a polish on silverware - Boil potatoes in some water and remove the potato from water. Place your silver ware in the water for an hour. Silver ware will glaze.
14) Extract salt from oversalted soups and pottages - Toss in some large sliced potatoes while still on the stove. In about 5 to 10 minutes the potato slices absorb the excess salt. Then remove them from the pot or bowl.
15) Keep glasses clear - Rubbing a potato on the glasses can prevent them from fogging up in the early morning.
16) Root geraniums - Just take a potato and cut a hole down through it but not all the way through. Push a geranium stem into the potato and plant the whole thing in potting soil. Soon you will have a new geranium.
17) Remove Berry Stains - A piece of raw potato rubbed onstains will take them off. If the problem is really bad, dip the cut potato into lemon juice before using it.
18) Remove stains on hands - Just rub your hands with a potato.
19) Clean rusty knives - Use a raw potato dipped in brick dust.
20) Clean carpets - Grate a raw potato and rub over the surface of the carpet and finish off with a clean cloth, wrung out with warm water.
21) Clean dresses - Grate two raw potatoes into a pint of cold water; strain through a sieve; add another pint of water and let it settle; then pour the clean part into a bottle. Dip a sponge into the water and rub the soiled garment carefully, afterward rinsing with clear water.
Twenty-one uses. Beat that you other veg!
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Let's experiment: use a cucumber and a potato for the same jobs as listed here and see which works best.
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