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50 Life Hacks to Make You Eat Smarter and Healthier

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Eating smart and healthy is essential for a happy and fulfilling life. However, it's not always easy to make the right choices when it comes to food.

With these 50 life hacks, you can make small changes to your daily routine that will help you eat smarter and healthier.

1. Stop Tears: Chew Gum When Cutting Onions

Life Hacks: - Chew gum to avoid crying when cutting onions.


2. Banana can replace eggs when making cookies·

Life Hacks: - If you run out of eggs while making cookies, just substitute it with half a banana (per egg).


3. How to cool a drink ASAP

Life Hacks: - Need to cool a drink in under 15 minutes? Wrap it in a wet towel and put it in the freezer. This works because a wet towel is a better conductor compared to the air.


4. How to make water boil faster

Life Hacks: - How to make water boil faster?
Saltwater will heat up faster than pure water and will win the speed race to the boiling point.


5. Feel like you need to eat something

Life Hacks: - When you feel like you need to eat something but you can't figure out what it is its water. It's always water.
Just keep in mind that your body constantly confuses thirst for hunger.


6. Create Delicious Meals with Supercook!

Life Hacks: - Go to supercook.com and enter whatever ingredients you have available and let it tell you what meals you can make out of them and how!


7. Crispy Pizza: Reheat Leftovers in a Frying Pan

Life Hacks: - Reheat leftover pizza in a frying pan. It will keep the crust from getting soft.


8. Revive Stale Cookies in 8 Words

Life Hacks: - Put stale cookies in a plastic bag with a piece of bread and leave it overnight to make them soft and as good as new


9. Make a strawberry dipped in chocolate

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


10. 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.


11. Clean Microwave Easily with Vinegar

Life Hacks: - Clean your microwave with no effort at all. Place a bowl of hot water with equal parts of vinegar inside and heat for 3-7 minutes. Remove the bowl with oven mitts. Clean as new!


12. 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!


13. Cutting onions without tearing up

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


14. Taco Hack: The Ultimate Solution for Wrapping Soft Tortillas

Life Hacks: - Taco hack: Wrap a soft tortilla around the crunchy one; it'!l hold everything way better, and you can put beans/cheese between them!


15. How to Dip Oreos Without the Mess!

Life Hacks: - To dip Oreo in milk without getting your fingers wet, you can just poke a fork through the creamy part


16. 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.


17. How to drive away fruit flies

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


18. How to grow your hair fast?

Life Hacks: - 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.


19. Apples better than caffeine in keeping you awake

Life Hacks: - How to stay awake late at night? Apples are more powerful than caffeine at keeping you awake.


20. 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!


21. Healthy Apple Caramel Dessert Recipe

Life Hacks: - 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!


22. 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.


23. 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.


24. How to avoid oil from splattering

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


25. 10 Life Hacks: Keep Potatoes From Budding

Life Hacks: - To keep potatoes from budding place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.


26. 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!


27. 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.


28. Stuff Marshmallows with Delicious Toppings!

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


29. How to make popcorns pop better

Life Hacks: - Popcorns will pop better when they are stored in cold places like the refrigerator.


30. 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.


31. 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


32. Make Fries at Home!

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


33. The Best Hot Chocolate: Add Nutella!

Life Hacks: - Recipe for the best hot chocolate ever: Just add Nutella in milk and put it in the microwave.


34. Quick Relief for Spicy Foods: Yogurt

Life Hacks: - Mouth on fire after eating spicy food? Eat some yogurt.


35. Delicious Nutella Cookies: 8-10 Minutes at 350°F!

Life Hacks: - Make delish Nutella cookies by mixing a cup of Nutella, a cup of flour, one whole egg and baking the mixture for 8-10 minutes at 350 deg.


36. Use avocado to make cookies? Have you tried?

Life Hacks: - Use avocado as a substitute for butter while making cookies. It tastes no different and makes the cookies surprisingly healthy for you.


37. Soothe Burnt Tongue with Sugar: Life Hack

Life Hacks: - Soothe a burnt tongue with sugar.


38. Cook Perfect Eggs at Home in Minutes!

Life Hacks: - Cook a dozen eggs at once! Put them in a muffin tin set oven to 350 and bake for 15-20 minutes. They come out the perfect size to put on an English Muffin.


39. Eat pizza at a discount price

Life Hacks: - Call any pizza store and ask the salesman if they had any orders that the buyer did not pick up, and they will let you have the same at a discount price.


40. Healthy Butter Substitute: Coconut Oil

Life Hacks: - Replace the butter in almost every recipe with coconut oil. It has a rich, lightly sweet taste, and it's super healthy.


41. 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.


42. Healthy Cauliflower Nuggets: A Tasty Alternative to Chicken Nuggets

Life Hacks: - You can eat cauliflower dipped in barbecue instead of chicken nuggets which almost taste the same and is much healthier.


43. Get Crystal Clear Ice With Boiling Water

Life Hacks: - Boiling water before freezing it will give you crystal clear ice.


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Life Hacks: - Put sprinkles in the bottom of the cone so ice cream doesn't leak out.


45. Make a Margarita You Can Eat Anywhere!

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


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

Life Hacks: - 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.


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

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


48. Keep Soda Fizzy for Weeks - Tips and Tricks

Life Hacks: - When you want to put a two-liter bottle of soda away, shake it up a little bit first as it will stay fizzy for weeks.


49. Double the Juice: Microwaving Lemons

Life Hacks: - Microwaving lemons and other fruits for 15 seconds can double the juice you get from them.


50. Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs with Baking Soda

Life Hacks: - While making hard-boiled eggs, throw in one teaspoon of baking soda to break the shell off easily.


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