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.

Celery has evil anise flavor. I can't stand it in anything.

Fennel has an anise flavor (and looks like celery), but I have never noticed an anise flavor in celery.

I like celery plain with just a little salt, or as a cream cheese delivery system. I also like it cooked in chicken soup, use it when I'm making stock, and this one chicken dish I make. I will take Beverly's cooked celery.

I love peanut butter, but I do not like putting it on things like celery and apples. I put it on bread and on chocolate, or bake it into cookies, as God intended.

You may have my cooked celery, Cindy. I pick out the solids, once the dish is finished. Cooked celery "solids" are...um. Off-putting. The flavor, though, is wonderful. We do the same with onion solids. H either purees onion before he adds it to things--actually I prefer he halves the onion if possible and then removes the solids from my serving. I react horribly to onion solids, though I can get away with foods flavored with onion. Celery doesn't provoke a physical reaction but it's still very unpleasant cooked.

I don't particularly mind celery, but iceberg lettuce is a styrofoam abomination, and should be banished.