Coffee drinkers warned to stop throwing away your used granules
When you've made your coffee, the norm is to throw away the used granules - however, did you know there are many uses for them around your house?
Coffee drinkers have been urged not to throw away their granules once used as they can actually incorporate them into daily use. Some of the ways are actually quite creative!
In a video posted on ZOE YouTube, experts Carleigh Bodrug & Dr. Will Bulsiewicz explained that coffee granules are edible and you can actually use them in your cooking.
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Vegan cooking author Carleigh said: "What I love to do is bake with them, coffee grounds really enhance just like coffee chocolate flavour. So I have a great recipe for something called calming ground granola.
"Basically you take some oats, you take a couple of tablespoons of those spent coffee grounds, a little bit of coffee, tahini, cocoa powder, toss it all up and bake it."
She went on to explain that people even bake cookies with them and use them in all sorts of ways. Not only that, coffee grounds are also a natural deodoriser so you can place them in a bowl and put in your fridge.
The grounds can also work magic in the garden and in a variety of ways. So rather than chucking them in the food waste, start saving so you can use them this winter.
Firstly, coffee grounds are an excellent compost ingredient and are fine to apply directly onto the soil around most garden plants if used with care and moderation.
They also contain nutrients that plants use for growth. The grounds are relatively high in nitrogen and also contain potassium and phosphorus, as well as being a source of organic matter.
According to Gardenersworld.com: "The safest way to use coffee grounds in the garden is to add them to compost containers or worm bins. Used grounds rot down well, and homemade compost is superb for improving soil and growing healthy plants.
"While applying coffee grounds directly onto the soil around most plants is usually fine, this should be done with care and moderation as using grounds in this way is never a one-method-fits-all approach.
"The chief potential problem is that if applied in quantity to the soil surface, the fine particles clog together to form a barrier that prevents water and air from reaching plant roots."
