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Cucumber drink – healthy

25 Tuesday Jun 2013

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When we were younger, my mum used to grate a jar of cucumber and leave it in the fridge for us during the hazy season. She claims that it will help to detox and re-hydrates our body, keeping us healthy. If you Google the health benefit of cucumber, you’ll be quite surprise how good this humble vegetable is for us.

So last weekend, I decided to make myself a jar of the cucumber. It took me only 10 mins to finish grating 3 large cucumbers (the local variety). Use the thickess grating setting you have and store it in a clean jar. Remember to keep the juice you got during grating. I think this jar can easily last me and hub for a week!

Jar of grated CucumberLast night going home after work was scary. The visibility was quite bad. Even in my car, I felt as if dust were clogging my throat up… I saw some people even wearing mask inside their car. I did thought of wearing one but I get a bit dizzy wearing mask for more than 30mins. No choice. The only alternative solution is to make sure I keep myself as healthy as possible.

Reaching home, I made myself a large glass of cucumber juice.

  • 2 large spoon of the grated cucumber
  • 1 spoon of the cucumber juice
  • some sugar syrup for taste
  • fill it up with nice cold water.

Quite refreshing and yummy too.

Refreshing drinkCucumber pieces Sometimes, I use honey instead of the sugar syrup. But, hubby hates honey (weird guy)… It’s really good for children too (I think), as we drank this stuff since we are wee lass… And, we are still healthy alive and kicking. LOL.

Please keep well everyone. Drink plentiful water…

The humble Cucumber…

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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When hub forwarded this to me, I was wandering if I should bother reading it as it was a really LONG chain mail. But, curiosity got the better of me.

I have no idea where this come from so, I’m sorry if I didn’t do a proper acknowledgement. Some of these facts about cucumber really intrigued me. So, here I am sharing it with you guys… ;p

1) Cucumber contains most of the vitamins you need everyday.(so, maybe they should change it to a cucumber a day, keeps the doctor away)

2) Cucumber provides that quick energy boost that can last for hours ! (bye bye coffee, bye bye red bull, bye bye livita)

3) Rub cucumber slices along the mirror to eliminate fogging up.  (WOW.. serious? this I got to try…)

4) Chemical from cucumber reacting with aluminum drives pests crazy and make them flee (place cucumber in tin around your garden – Natural insecticide. Wahh… this also I must try).

5) Cucumber works great on wrinkles and reducing visibility of cellulite. (Women out there don’t need to spend hundreds and thousands anymore!!! the humble cucumber probably only cost RM 1 in the market)

6) Chew on cucumber before and after bed to avoid hangover and headache. (hmm.. might need some guinea pig to try this and let me know if it works or not… any volunteer?)

7) Chemical from cucumber provides quick and durable shine on your leather shoe. Repels water too. (Hmm… will it attract ants or insects in return?? Interesting…but, not so sure I want to take the risk on my shoe. Wonder if I can sneakily experiment on hub’s without him knowing. Muahahaha… )

8) Out of WD 40, Rub cucumber slice on squeaky hinges. (Serious??! WAHH…I would have tot it might be a temporary solution. Won’t the hinges gets rusty later from the cucumber juice? O_o)

9) Cucumber kills bad breath. (This I believe. I always feel that my mouth is fresher after eating cucumber. That’s why they always give you a few slices of cucumber when you eat satay or nasi lemak)

10) Cucumber skin as eraser to take out pencil / pen / crayon on walls (I am not so sure about trying this on our white wall. Anyway, we use Dulux easyclean paint on our wall. So far, most marking can be easily wipes off with cloth and water .. phew)

11) Cucumber to clean sinks or taps. Remove years of tarnish and brings back shine. (very tempted to try this…)

Have fun trying it. 😉