【推荐1】There are only a few people who don’t like bananas. But what about the banana peels(皮)?    1    ? There are, however, many ways to use their peels that can avoid environmental damage.

Cover for grilled (烤) chicken

Chicken baked on the grill is very tasty. Without skin, however, the meat remains unprotected over the heat and fire and can dry out easily.    2     , you can cover the skinned chicken with banana peels to keep the meat from drying out.

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All you will need is a large yogurt cup, banana skin, a hammer and a nail. Make holes at the bottom of the yogurt cup with the hammer and nail, place the banana peels inside, turn it over, and place it near the food that you are trying to protect. Flies will be attracted by the sweet smell into the holes, but there is no way out of the yogurt cup.

Remove the aphids (蚜虫) and ants

Dig a hole about 2.5cm deep under the plants. Then put 2~3 banana peels in it. Aphids and ants will sense the smell of the banana and eat them instead of the plants.    4    

Relieve the insect bites

With the good weather approaching, various bugs, insects and mosquitoes multiply. If you want to relieve the bites of these insects naturally, banana peels can help.    5    .Then chemicals from the peels can get into your skin and relieve the bites.

【推荐2】Friends are incredibly important people in our lives. Some are with us for decades.     1     Here are some tips to remember if you’re processing the loss of a friend.

Sometimes things just don’t work out.

    2     In fact, people, on average, lose about half of their friends every seven years. One of the most common reasons those relationships end is that they just fell through the cracks. Things didn’t work out. Nobody really wanted the friendship to end, but people got busy and didn’t intentionally maintain the friendship.

Make the unsaid said.

Sometimes, in friendship, people don’t make the unsaid said.     3     And because they’re never directly addressed, people get to a point where they want to end the friendship before actually addressing the problem. Actually, if they had intervened sooner, they might have been able to save the friendship.

It’s normal to feel grief.

When a friendship ends, there is a grieving process. Allow yourself to feel those emotions and be patient. Instead of pushing yourself to cheer up, try thinking like this, “Of course I’m upset. This is a natural part of intimacy (亲密关系) and loss. I lost someone I’m very close to.     4    

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It’s important not to blame yourself and be mean to yourself for not getting over the loss of a friendship. Just because this happened like this doesn’t mean more friendships will happen like this. Allow yourself to have a fresh perspective when you enter new friendships. You don’t want to go into a new connection fearfully.