Banana Peels

Nope, you don’t want to throw these out. After all, someone could slip and fall, right?

1. Banana peels are a great source of nutrition for your garden, especially your flower garden! Simply break them down into smaller pieces so that you can work them a few inches deep into the surrounding soil. Aphids hate these, so bananas are ideal for your tomatoes, trees, and roses.
2. You can dry banana peels out and then grind them down as a great potassium-rich fertilizer, or you can simply add them to your compost pile.
3. They will also attract bees, butterflies, and birds. Simply put the small pieces of banana peel below your bird seed and your bird viewing will be heightened, as will the fertilization of your plants and trees by the bees.
4. A banana peel also serves as a great shoe polisher or silver polisher (dry it out a bit first). Simply use the inside of the peel, and buff away. This also works GREAT for shining up your plant leaves and it feeds the leaves nutrients as well.
5. If your teeth are getting a bit yellow, use the inside of the banana peel to rub your teeth in a circular motion. After 2 weeks you will indeed notice a difference. (Although, I would use a fresh peel for this, not an old one. Yuck! So, just think, "Eat a banana, shine my teeth").
6. Most horses like banana peels as an occasional treat.
7. Believe it or not, many nations wrap their meat in a banana peel when roasting it, resulting in a more tender meat when it's done. Somehow the food avoids tasting "tropical."
8. Lastly, you can use the inside of a banana peel to ease a mosquito bite, even an ant bite..

If you ever slip on a banana peel and hurt your back, you can always make a paste of meat tenderizer and water and add some warm heat to the “owie.” Really. It works!

[This list is from: Preparedness Pro ]