Aimless Tangents

No actual recipe this week as it was a crazy week and I stuck with mostly easy to fix meals that aren’t truly blog worthy.

But this morning when I noticed yet again how many coffee grounds I was tossing after brewing my coffee I wondered if there was anything better to do with them other than toss them on my potted plants. So I googled and came up with some interesting things that I will be trying. There are more options out there these are just ones that I would be comfortable doing in my own home.

• Toss them in your compost (I am saving them in the freezer in a ziploc bag until I have enough to make it worth trekking out to the compost pile).
• Use the grounds as an exfoliant when washing your face.
• Work into the soil around your garden plants, said to help repel some pests.
• Rumored to help repel cats from scratching in your garden as well.
• Also rumored to help repel fleas if you rub onto your pet.  (I can just imagine my dog with a coffee buzz, will probably pass on this one.)
• Use as a deodorizer in a sachet, in a bowl, or rub directly onto hands.
• As a dye/stain.
• Soap additive.
• Some have used dried grounds tied into paper bundles as fire starters.
• Dry grounds inside a pin cushion have been rumored to be better than the poly-fill for keeping needles sharp.

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