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. Get Crystal Clear Ice With Boiling Water

Life Hacks 1 in Food - Boiling water before freezing it will give you crystal clear ice.

2. Stuff Marshmallows with Delicious Toppings!

Life Hacks 2 in Food - Feasting over marshmallows? Stuff them before you roast them! Chocolate chips, peanut butter, strawberries and other endless possibilities

3. Cut Onions Without Tearing: 15 Minute Freeze Trick

Life Hacks 3 in Food - Before cutting onions next time, toss them into a freezer for 15 minutes. This prevents tearing up while cutting.

4. 7 Life Hacks: Boiled Eggs with No Shells

Life Hacks 4 in Food - Put a lemon wedge in the water while boiling eggs. The shells will fall off when the eggs are ready.

5. Unwrap Deliciousness: The Quesarito Hack at Chipotle!

Life Hacks 5 in Food - If you order a Quesarito at Chipotle, they wrap your burrito in a cheese quesadilla instead of the normal flour tortilla!

6. How to ripen your bananas with an oven

Life Hacks 6 in Food - You can instantly ripen bananas by putting them in the oven at 300F for 30 minutes.

7. Keep Brown Sugar Soft with Marshmallows

Life Hacks 7 in Food - Does your brown sugar get hard and clumpy often? Store them along with marshmallows next time to make them last much longer.

8. Transform Cake Mix into Delicious Cookies

Life Hacks 8 in Food - You could turn any cake mix into a cookie dough by adding 2 cups and 1/2 cup of oil.

9. Bake Perfect Bread with 8 Ice Cubes

Life Hacks 9 in Food - Baking bread in an oven? Put another pan with 8 ice cubes in it on the rack below to produce the steam required to make a perfect loaf.

10. Taste the Delicious Cake Batter Frappuccino!

Life Hacks 10 in Food - To have the secret Starbucks Cake Batter Frappuccino, ask for a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino base with one pump of almond syrup. It really tastes like cake batter!

11. Baking and Ran Out of Eggs?

Life Hacks 11 in Food - Baking and ran out of eggs? Half a banana (per egg) works as a good substitute.

12. How to Know Your Baking Powder Has Gone Bad

Life Hacks 12 in Food - Test your baking powder: Add a teaspoon to the water; if it doesn't fizz, discard it.

13. Make Fries at Home!

Life Hacks 13 in Food - Make your own fries! Cut potatoes and pepper on top. Bake at 220C (425F) for 40 minutes. Voila!

14. Make a Margarita You Can Eat Anywhere!

Life Hacks 14 in Food - Soak a Watermelon in tequila and dip it in coarse salt to make yourself a margarita you can eat anywhere!

15. Taco Life Hack: Lettuce Leaf Base

Life Hacks 15 in Food - Next time you make Tacos, give a lettuce leaf base to it. This contains fillings even if the shell breaks.

16. Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

Life Hacks 16 in Food - Place eggs in a muffin tin and add water to the rim. Cook at 325 degrees for 25 minutes and get perfect hard-boiled eggs.

17. Cut Onions Near an Open Flame

Life Hacks 17 in Food - Cut onions near an open flame, and the gaseous sulfur compounds they release into the air will burn off before they can irritate your eyes.

18. Brain Health Benefits of Eating Grapes

Life Hacks 18 in Food - Eating grapes improve your brain's ability to process new information.

19. Delicious Oreo Toppings: Quick and Easy!

Life Hacks 19 in Food - Crush up Oreo cookies and put them in a salt grinder for easy and tasty dessert toppings.

20. Reduce the Spicy Sensation

Life Hacks 20 in Food - Eating a teaspoon of sugar after eating something spicy will completely neutralize the heat sensation.

21. How to avoid oil from splattering

Life Hacks 21 in Food - Before frying something, put a little salt into your pan, which helps keep the oil from splattering.

22. How to grow your hair fast?

Life Hacks 22 in Food - Looking for ways to accelerate hair growth? Onions and garlic are both foods that help in doing so. Make sure you read all about how to apply them before you do.

23. Check Gum Sugar Content: Easy Life Hack

Life Hacks 23 in Food - 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.

24. Banana Peeling Hack: Easy & Effective!

Life Hacks 24 in Food - If you peel a banana from the bottom you won't have to pick the little stringy things off of it.

25. Make Crystal Clear Ice: Boil Water Before Freezing!

Life Hacks 25 in Food - Planning to make ice cubes? Boiling water before freezing it will give you crystal clear ice.

26. Make Homemade Apple Cider

Life Hacks 26 in Food - Make homemade apple cider by hollowing out an apple, pouring apple cider and adding lemon and cinnamon sticks. .

27. Websites for learning to cook

Life Hacks 27 in Food - Five websites for learning to cook:
CookpadAllrecipesTastySerious EatsFood Network

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

Life Hacks 28 in Food - 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!

29. Healthy Butter Substitute: Coconut Oil

Life Hacks 29 in Food - Replace the butter in almost every recipe with coconut oil. It has a rich lightly sweet taste and its super healthy.

30. Double the Shelf Life: Cottage Cheese and Sour Cream

Life Hacks 30 in Food - Cottage cheese and sour cream will last twice as long if you turn the container upside-down.

31. Keep salad fresh longer by tissue

Life Hacks 31 in Food - You could make a salad fresh longer if you put a tissue over the top and cover it with a plastic wrap.

32. Make your ice cream soft

Life Hacks 32 in Food - If you like your ice cream soft, put it in a Ziplock bag before freezing it.

33. Tips to Grab Eggshell Pieces

Life Hacks 33 in Food - Trying to grab those pesky eggshell pieces that fell in? Wet your fingers, and the pieces will stick to them.

34. Prevent Soggy Bread When Freezing

Life Hacks 34 in Food - Prevent soggy bread when freezing: Add a paper towel before freezing to absorb moisture.

35. Healthy Apple Caramel Dessert Recipe

Life Hacks 35 in Food - Fan of apples and caramel? Hollow out half an apple, pour caramel in and freeze it. Cut into slices and there is a perfect dessert for you!

36. Solve Messy Eating: Microwave Nature Valley Bars

Life Hacks 36 in Food - Want to avoid messing the place while you eat a Nature Valley bar? Microwave for 30 seconds to prevent crumbs dropping.

37. How to make perfect toast

Life Hacks 37 in Food - 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.

38. Test an Egg: Spinning Tells if it's Cooked or Raw

Life Hacks 38 in Food - You can tell if an egg is fully cooked or not by spinning it. If it wobbles, it's still raw and if it easily spins it's fully cooked.

39. Make Starbucks Lids Work Double as Coasters!

Life Hacks 39 in Food - Starbucks lids are designed to be used as coasters too!

40. Eating Healthier: Simple Life Hack

Life Hacks 40 in Food - 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.

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

Life Hacks 41 in Food - The numbers on a toaster are the number of minutes you want to toast for and not the degree of toastiness!

42. Get Your Daily Dose of Calcium with Eggshells!

Life Hacks 42 in Food - Save your eggshells in the fridge and bake at 300 degrees for 20 minutes. Throw them in a blender until they become a very fine powder. Now use 1/4 teaspoon of this when cooking meals to get your daily dose of calcium!

43. How to "reset" used cooking oil

Life Hacks 43 in Food - If you want to reuse used cooking oil, add a 1/4 piece of ginger into it in order to remove any previous flavors or odors.

44. Ripen Avocados Quickly

Life Hacks 44 in Food - Place avocados in a lunch bag with bananas for 24 hours to ripen them quickly.

45. How to drive away fruit flies

Life Hacks 45 in Food - Fill a bowl with apple cider vinegar mixing soap which will attract and kill them!

46. How to make bread soft again

Life Hacks 46 in Food - Put a slice of bread in a container of stale or hardened cookies to make them soft again!

47. How to Reheat Pizza and Keep the Crust Crispy

Life Hacks 47 in Food - Use a frying pan for heating leftover pizza to keep the crust from getting soft.

48. 5 Simple Ways to Prevent Splattering Oil

Life Hacks 48 in Food - You could prevent oil from splattering by sprinkling a little salt in your pan before cooking.

49. Cook Perfect Rice in Seconds with Lemon Juice

Life Hacks 49 in Food - Add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the boiling water before you put the rice in the pot to get fluffier whiter rice.

50. Cutting onions without tearing up

Life Hacks 50 in Food - Cutting onions? Just rub Canola/Olive oil on your knife before cutting them. It will prevent your eyes from tearing up.

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