Life Hacks, Tips, Tricks

50 Life Hacks for Elevate Your Nutrition

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Eating healthy can be challenging, but with a few tips and tricks, it can also be enjoyable and sustainable.

From grocery shopping to meal planning and preparation, these 50 life hacks will help you elevate your nutrition and reach your health and wellness goals.

1. Reheat Pizza Perfectly with Foil and Skillet

Life Hacks - Best way to reheat pizza is to loosely cover it with aluminum foil and cook for about 5 minutes while placing the slices on a skillet set to medium heat.

2. Coffee into an ice cube

Life Hacks - Pour your cold coffee into an ice cube tray and leave it overnight. Start your day with a fun variant of cold coffee!

3. How to avoid having much sugar in coffee

Life Hacks - Here's how you can avoid having much sugar: Take a sip of coffee before adding sugar and you won't feel the need of sugar for it to taste sweet afterwards

4. Ketchup Hack: Use a Straw to Speed Up Flow

Life Hacks - To speed the flow of ketchup out of a glass bottle insert a drinking straw into it, and unclog it.

5. Keep Your Coffee Warm Longer: Use Cream!

Life Hacks - Wish your coffee stays warm for longer? Adding cream to it keeps it warm for 20% longer!

6. Make a strawberry dipped in chocolate

Life Hacks - Put a strawberry dipped in chocolate in an ice tray for a delicious treat!

7. Cut Bread Easier: Tips & Tricks

Life Hacks - Turn bread upside down when cutting it. This will save it from being squished and is also easier to cut.

8. Boost Your Chances of Having a Baby Boy: Eat Bananas at Conception!

Life Hacks - What women eat can influence the gender of your baby. Eating bananas at the time of conception increases the chances of having a baby boy!

9. The Perfect Summer Refresher: Blended Sweetened Passion Tea Lemonade

Life Hacks - The next time you go to Starbucks, order a blended sweetened passion tea lemonade to get the perfect summer drink.

10. Perfect Rice Serving: 1 Shot Glass of Rice and 3 of Water

Life Hacks - A perfect rice serving for a person is measured by 1 shot glass of rice along with 3 shot glasses of water.

11. DIY Brown Sugar in Minutes

Life Hacks - Make your own brown sugar by blending 1 cup of white sugar and 2 tablespoons of molasses.

12. Prevent Bacteria Growth: Never Wrap Meat in Foil

Life Hacks - Never wrap warm meat or poultry in aluminum foil and place in the fridge as the foil attracts bacteria and allows it to thrive.

13. Glow Up Your Drinks with Tonic Water!

Life Hacks - Add tonic water to your drink in a black-light setting to give it a cool glowing effect.

14. Bake Tacos for Perfect Shells: Life Hack

Life Hacks - Bake your tacos in the oven before serving so the shells won't crack when you bite into them!

15. Easy Life Hack: Brush Your Teeth!

Life Hacks - If you ever crave a dessert after a good meal but don't want to indulge in it, brush your teeth as nothing tastes good in a clean mouth.

16. 3 Simple Tips to Keep Your Sandwich From Going Soggy

Life Hacks - Packing a sandwich for lunch? Wrap it in a paper towel before placing it in a plastic bag. This will keep your sandwich from getting soggy.

17. Make Fries at Home!

Life Hacks - Make your own fries! Cut potatoes and pepper on top. Bake at 220C (425F) for 40 minutes. Voila!

18. Easily Peel Citrus Fruits in Seconds

Life Hacks - By gently pressing and rolling it on the table before peeling makes it easier to peel any citrus fruit like an orange, clementine, satsuma, grapefruit, etc.

19. How to make perfect toast

Life Hacks - To make a perfect sandwich which is toasty outside but stays soft and chewy inside, place 2 slices of bread in a single toaster slot.

20. Eat Peanuts with Shells: Life Hack

Life Hacks - Peanut shells are edible; you don't actually have to take them off to eat the peanut.

21. Make Homemade Pizza Dough in Minutes!

Life Hacks - The easiest way to make homemade pizza dough: mix 1.5 cups of self-raising flour with 1 cup of Greek Yoghurt and knead with more flour.

22. Maximize Your Meal Prep: Use a Pizza Cutter!

Life Hacks - If you need to cut really small ingredients for a dish, use a pizza cutter instead of a knife.

23. How to Reheat Pizza and Keep the Crust Crispy

Life Hacks - Use a frying pan for heating leftover pizza to keep the crust from getting soft.

24. Improve Your Comfort with the Big Spoon: Pillow Trick

Life Hacks - Does being the big spoon while cuddling suffocate you? Next time rest the edge of the pillow slightly on top. This makes it easier to breathe.

25. Create Cookie Bowls Using Muffin or Cupcake Pans

Life Hacks - You could make cookie bowls by simple turning your muffin or cupcake pan upside down.

26. The Perfect Hot Chocolate: Warming Up Milk with Nutella

Life Hacks - Warming up milk with Nutella is the best hot chocolate combination for any season!

27. How To Toast: A Guide to the Numbers on a Toaster

Life Hacks - The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes you want to toast for and not the degree of toastiness!

28. Reheat a Sandwich Perfectly: 3 Steps

Life Hacks - The best possible way to reheat a sandwich: 1. Open sandwich and microwave for 30 seconds 2. Close sandwich and place sandwich on its side to microwave it for 12 seconds 3. Flip sandwich to the opposite side and microwave for 10 seconds.

29. Delicious Microwave Cake in a Mug: Just 1 Minute!

Life Hacks - Microwave cake in a mug: Simply add Angel food cake mix with water and microwave for one minute. It's delicious and only 150 calories!

30. Make Homemade Apple Cider

Life Hacks - Make homemade apple cider by hollowing out an apple, pouring apple cider and adding lemon and cinnamon sticks. .

31. Perfect Bacon Every Time: A Life Hack

Life Hacks - The trick to getting perfect bacon every time is to place bacon strips on a tin foil lined tray, set the heated oven to 400 degrees, bake for 12 minutes and flip once after 6 minutes.

32. Delicious Ice Cream Bread: A Life Hack!

Life Hacks - Hungry for delicious ice cream bread? Put 2 cups of ice cream in a pan, mix in 1.5 cups of self-rising flour and bake for 45 minutes at 180 Celsius.

33. Cooking Meat for Perfect Juiciness

Life Hacks - The more you flip your meat while cooking it the more it loses its crispiness and natural juices.

34. Secrets of the Perfect Nature Valley Bar

Life Hacks - Microwave a Nature Valley bar for 30 seconds to prevent crumbs when you eat it.

35. Tips for Perfect Pizza Crusts

Life Hacks - When you microwave your pizza, to keep the crust from getting chewy keep a small amount of water in a glass next to the pizza.

36. How to destem strawberry easily and quickly

Life Hacks - Easiest and quickest way to remove the stems on a strawberry is to press a straw from bottom to top.

37. How to make bread soft again

Life Hacks - Put a slice of bread in a container of stale or hardened cookies to make them soft again!

38. Check Gum Sugar Content: Easy Life Hack

Life Hacks - Conscious about the sugar content in the gum offered to you? To check, fold it in half. Sugarless gum will break but normal gum will just bend.

39. Heating Up Leftovers Evenly: A Life Hack Guide

Life Hacks - Spacing out a circle in the middle will result in heating up leftovers more evenly.

40. Banana Peeling Hack: Easy & Effective!

Life Hacks - If you peel a banana from the bottom you won't have to pick the little stringy things off of it.

41. Life Hack: How to Keep Your Tacos Intact

Life Hacks - Nobody likes their tacos destroyed right? Put the cheese on before the meat. The cheese will melt and prevent the taco shell from breaking apart

42. Keep Apples Fresh: Life Hack

Life Hacks - To keep apple slices from getting brown put them in a lunch bag and secure them with a couple of rubber bands.

43. Easy Cake Cutting: Hot Knife Hack

Life Hacks - Tired of messy cake cutting? Next time, run your knife under hot water, dry it off then cut your cake for a neater slice.

44. Taco Life Hack: Lettuce Leaf Base

Life Hacks - Next time you make Tacos, give a lettuce leaf base to it. This contains fillings even if the shell breaks.

45. The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich: Easy and Delicious!

Life Hacks - Get the perfect sandwich by baking grilled cheese between two baking sheets. The bread ends up being crispy and gooey on the side plus you can make a bun at once.

46. 7 Life Hack Ideas: Balancing Your Tacos with a Fork

Life Hacks - Use a fork to balance your tacos while you fill them.

47. Ditch Sugary Drinks for Water - Life Hack

Life Hacks - Trying to cut out sugary temptations from your diet? Next time you crave for a soda, chug a glass of water instead.

48. Make your ice cream soft

Life Hacks - If you like your ice cream soft, put it in a Ziplock bag before freezing it.

49. Eating Healthier: Simple Life Hack

Life Hacks - Always eat the healthiest part of your plate first, so it will fill you up and you'll eat less of the unhealthy part too.

50. How to make delicious banana ice cream

Life Hacks - Make your own natural banana ice cream by adding sliced bananas frozen for an hour and peanut butter and mix it all up in a blender.

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