DID YOU KNOW? Some good tips here!

Thanks April ;)

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from thestore. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and
better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on thebottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. Itwill help pull the grease away from the meat whilecooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add acouple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, orheavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed.Melt Andes mints in double broiler and p our overwarm brownies. Let set for a wonderful mintyfrosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want alight taste of garlic and at the end of the recipeif your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make adelicious dessert. Simple chop them up with the foodchopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Placethem in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candybars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!!Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream.

Reheat Pizza: Heat up leftover pizza in anonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat tomed-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crustcrispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on thecooking channel and it really works

Easy Deviled Eggs<>Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of in gredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of thebaggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bagaway when done easy clean up.

Expanding Frosting: When you buy a container ofcake frosting from the store, whip it with yourmixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size.You get to frost morecake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eatless sugar and calories per serving.

Reheating refrigerated bread: To warm biscuits,
pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, placethem in a microwave with a cup of water. Theincreased moisture will keep the food moist and helpit reheat faster.

Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlappingas you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get throughsome gardening plastic they will not get through wetnewspapers.

Broken Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip topick up the small shards of glass you can't see
easily.

No More Mosquitoes: Place a dryer sheet in yourpocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

Squirrel Away: To keep squirrels from eating yourplants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. Thecayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and thesquirrels won'tcome near it.

Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heatregister or under the fridge add an empty papertowel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum.It can be bent orflattened to get in narrow openings.

Reducing Static Cling: Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks thatcling when wearingpanty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- TADA! -- static is gone.

Measuring Cups: Before you pour stickysubstances into a measuring cup, fill with hotwater. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup.Next, add your ingredient, suchas peanut butter, and watch how easily it comesright out.

Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy achalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box ofyour car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope: If you seal an envelope andthen realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer foran hour or two.Voila! It unseals easily.

Conditioner: Use your hair conditioner to shaveyour legs. It's a lot cheaper than shaving cream andleaves your legs really smooth. It's also a greatway touse up the conditioner you bought but didn't likewhen you tried it in your hair...

Goodbye Fruit Flies: To get rid of pesky fruitflies, take a small glass fill it 1/2' with Apple Cider Vinegar and2 drops of dish washing liquid,mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants: Put small piles of cornmealwhere you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,'can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a weekor so, especially if itrains, but it works & you don't have the worry aboutpets or small children being harmed!

INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS: The heating unit wentout on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted toshow us something and he went over to the dryer and pull ed out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every load of clothes.) He took the filter over to the sink, ranhot water over it. The lint filter is made of a meshmaterial - I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like. Well,...the hot water just sat ontop of the mesh! It didn't go through itat all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a filmover that mesh that's what burns out the heatingunit. You can't SEE the film, but it's there. It'swhat is in the dryer sheets to ma ke your clothessoft and static free -- that nice fragrance too, youknow how they can feel waxy when you take them outof the box, well this stuff builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units tocatch fire & potentially burn your house down withit! He said the best way to keep your dryer workingfor a very long time (& to keep your electric billlower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hotsoapy water & an old toothbrush (or other brush) atleast every six months. He said that makes the lifeof the dryerat least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share!

Note: I went to my dryer & tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran through a littlebit but mostly collected all the water in the meshscreen. I washed it with warm soapy water & a nylonbrush & I had it done in 30 second s. Then when I rinsed it the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about! (I checked this on snopes.com and it is true)

PLEASE PASS THIS ON, NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.