A few posts back I posted my embroidery with the saying "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" and I want to demonstrate one way I am trying to apply that to my daily life. In my effort to make strawberry lemonade, I had a ton of excess lemon peels. At first I was throwing them away. Then I got to thinking how wasteful that is, and surely I could do something with the peels. I hopped on the internet and found more than one way to use up the peels. I made two batches of candied lemon peels and could have kept going. However, its no good to gain 100 pounds by eating candied lemon peels just because I didn't want to throw out the peels, right? Back to the internet I went... Fortunately I found more than one non-edible way to use up peels. I always use vinegar water to clean- its green and frugal. I now have 2 big mason jars of lemon peels in vinegar to use as a household cleaner (that smells like lemons). I sliced up the rest of the lemon peels, added some quartered small lemons from our tree, and topped it off with vinegar. Ill let them sit for 2 weeks and then strain the vinegar out to use for cleaning. I love being able to use things that would otherwise be thrown out. Especially if it saves me money by not having to buy a commercial version! Ill post a picture of the lemon rinds later, as right now they are drying. I love how happy lemons are!
