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Week 4: Healthy Eating Contest: Scrap This For That
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Week 4: Healthy Eating Contest: Scrap This For That
Week 4: SCRAP THIS FOR THAT: Try regrowing one food from your scraps this week (June 22-30, 2020).
Some foods can be regrown in simply water and with exposure to sunlight. Try regrowing celery with the following easy steps:
- Cut off the end. Slice about 2 inches off the root end of a bunch of celery.
- Place the celery in a shallow glass bowl or jar of water.
- Watch it grow. After a few days, you should start to see small leaves emerging from the very center of the top.
- Replant in soil.
Share your experience and a photo here for a chance to win a $100 gift card!
Official Rules: https://community.aarp.org/t5/AARP-Rewards-Connect/AARP-Rewards-Healthy-Eating-Contest-Rules-June-20...
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For green scallion tops all year round, save the bottom of an onion, let it dry out a couple of days, then plant in a small pot, keep moist, and in sunlight. It won't be long before you have scallions, that will keep growing even after you snip some off to sprinkle over salads, omelets, chili, etc.
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Mint roots very easily in water and looks like a pretty little bouquet so I have this bunch in a guest bedroom! Every time I go by, I give it a little pinch to release that beautiful mint scent into the room. Once it’s rooted, I’ll plant it in a pot outdoors and look forward to mojitos or mint tea all year long!
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I was excited to see this topic as the healthy eating contest feature for this week. I have been using the scraps of several vegetables during the last couple of months to regrow them for reuse in my meals. I have celery, Romain lettuce, and cabbage. I am pleased with the results from each of those vegetables. I’ve also used the top of a pineapple and I’m waiting to see growth in that as well.
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I read on AARP that you could grow lettuce by cutting off the bottom of lettuce and letting it re-grow in water (and later plant). It works! My first two attempts were showing great promise but we're stolen by some sort of wildlife so now I am trying inside in a sunny window. I am amazed! The picture is after only 3 days!!!
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I had some particularly delicious cherry bomb tomatoes that were going bad and I was just about to toss them when I remembered I had a pot full of good soil with nothing planted in it. I scraped off the top couple of layers of dirt, squeezed the seeds out of the tomatoes and continued to water it daily. This is two weeks later. I can't wait so see where this goes from here.
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saw online how you could grow romaine from the stems of store bought, so I gave it a try. This is actually an older photo, they've gotten WAY taller, and I have 5 growing in that pot at the moment. Now, to keep the dratted bugs from chewing on it!
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The next time I shop I'm going to pick up celery, lettuce, and some herbs to try to root! Meanwhile, I'm experimenting with what I have on hand.
The ever-popular avocado! Alas, this one split, maybe it'll still root.
A potato, though I probably won't grow potatoes the plant is attractive.
Ginger. My neighbor claims you just put a knob in soil and it will root; not looking good so far, but....
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This salad is my go to when I'm too busy
to cook: Lettuce,chicken cubes, sesame seeds,Artisan Kraut & dressing & chips
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