I bought celery today at TJs before I ever came home and read all this. I feel like a traitor to half of you and a goddamn hero to the other half. (I like celery with hummus and also peanut butter. NOT TOGETHER OH GOD)

I will sidestep the celery war! Peanut butter is only acceptable on toast, with honey. Or on its own in a small dish. With honey. And fancy salt.

I like the salty CRONCH of celery, and will eat it plain (but prefer it with hummus).

Mmmm celery. As a delivery device for hummus, peanut butter, egg salad, soft cheese, other stuff. I get to eat it with blue cheese when the guys get wings too!

Theoretically working this morning. Really wanted to sleep in but the dog wasn't allowing that to happen.

Buying celery was actually part of my new plan to shift my diet toward a lower carb one. When I got my flu shot last week, I had blood drawn for cholesterol, etc., tests. But I hadn't planned on it, so I didn't fast. My total cholesterol didn't really change much (it's at 220, which my doctor is fine with), my HDL went up to 48 (which is good), and my LDL went down to 120 (which is also good). But my triglycerides went up to 260, and the upper limit of normal is 150 (dang).

I assume the results are partly affected by me not fasting before the test, but not fasting wouldn't throw off the results by 100 points. My doctor said too many starches and sugars make triglycerides go up, so he recommended shifting some things away from starchy carbs and sugars. So one of the things I did was buy hummus and celery and bell pepper for snacks. And eggs for breakfast (which is definitely not a hardship, because I love me some eggs.)

Celery is bitter and the stringy texture is gross.

You can scoop peanut butter into your mouth with a spoon. Neither the spoon nor the celery are edible, but the spoon can be reused.

I don't want it to be Monday.

Celery is bitter and the stringy texture is gross.

What she said. Humanity must have been desperate when it decided building material was food. They're even called ribs.

You can scoop peanut butter into your mouth with a spoon.

Always a good plan. My love for peanut butter is neverending. My mother expressed concerns to the doctor about my peanut butter consumption levels when I was a toddler. He told her it was fine. I've been reading the Stephanie Plum series and she is constantly eating peanut butter sandwiches, with potato chips, olives, marshmallow fluff, plain. Each time her eating peanut butter is mentioned I want some. I am so suggestable.

How interesting! I get no bitterness whatsoever from celery, I'd even describe it as sweet.

I like celery too.