11 Ways To Use Cucumbers

Cucumbers are super plentiful in the summer. You may have an overload of them in your garden, find huge ones at cheap prices in farmers markets, or see them everywhere in grocery stores.

The challenge is – what to do with so many cucumbers? Here are 11 things you can try, plus 77 recipes…      1. Add them to salads. They especially go well with lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots.

2. Use them in green smoothies – with kale, celery, green apples, and whatever else you’d like to throw in. You can also add protein powder or a spoonful of almond butter.

3. Make a marinated cucumber salad. Peel and cut up cucumbers, add some onion powder, dill weed, salt and pepper, wine vinegar, and olive oil. Best if marinated a few hours before eating.

4. Add them to sandwiches.

5. Add a few slices to your water for a cooling drink.

6. Pickle them.

7. Add them to gazbacho.

8. Eat them with a dip.

9. Grate or slice fine and mix with yogurt, salt, and pepper.

10. Use with other veggies in fresh vegetable juices.

11. Put slices over your eyes, lie down and relax for a while. They soothe tired eyes.

Check out 77 cucumber recipes from Bon Appetit

In addition to using up your cucumbers, you will get these health benefits:

1. They hydrate the body due to their high water content

2. They are cooling

3. They flush toxins from the body

4. They are rich in vitamins, especially Vitamins A, B, C, and K

5. They are rich in minerals, especially magnesium, potassium, and manganese

6. They aid weight loss due to their low calorie count