Use it up! Don't throw it in the bin!

dawnylou

Any ideas for bendy celery??

Sian_the_Green

dawnylou wrote: »

Any ideas for bendy celery??

Have you thought about Yoga?

recovering_spendaholic

dawnylou wrote: »

Any ideas for bendy celery??

years ago a friend of mine's brother who was a doctor told me that wilting celery was a carcinogen, like stale peanuts. I don't know whether this is true or not (does anyone on here know?) but I try and use it before it goes really bendy. At most I would keep it in the fridge for about 10 days.

I use celery in loads of things though - I even use the leaves as they have a lovely flavour. I put it in bolognaise, chilli, scouse, braised steak, hotpot, tuna concoction (tuna, diced spring onion, diced celery, diced cucumber, chopped hard boiled eggs, chopped tomatoes - all mixed up with a bit of salad cream), welsh rarebit and other stuff which I can't think of ATM.

dawnylou

Oh... I don't know if I dare use it at all now!!

queen_of_string

trim a tiny slice off the base. Put it in a glass of iced water, hey presto, non bendy LOL. Soups, stews, salads all good for celery. Thought of chilled soups whilst it's sunny?

Hardup_Hester

We had a quiz night at school & it included a ploughmans. I bought all the leftover bread home, made it into bread pudding & took it back to school where it all got eaten, so no waste there.

dawnylou

Chilled soup just seems wrong to me. lol

But I'll try your trick tonight! Thanks

BigMummaF

If you don't fancy eating the celery & have youngsters around, put some food colouring in the water. It's amazing to watch the colour seep up the stalk!

Ok.......I know......simple things=simple minds, but at least I'm easily pleased:p

mummysaver

munchki wrote: »

I used to be horrible about cooking too much rice or pasta and not knowing what to do with the leftovers. I still cook to much nearly everytime but what I do now is put the cooked pasta in some cold water and pop in the fridge to be turned into a yummy pasta salad for lunches or tea, I do the same with the rice. No more waste here with them and the DOH loves having cold salads for lunch instead of sarnies!

Hope this helps a little bit :j

I always seem to cook twice as much as we need when I'm doing rice! Now I freeze the other half, means that next time i actually have the right amount . Sometimes I do use mine up for salads, kids love rice and pasta salads in their lunch boxes, also if I leave a huge bowl in the fridge they can help themselves instead of keep telling me they're hungry :rolleyes: At least I know that they're snacking on something healthy!

Chris25

newlywed wrote: »

Ugh no - mum used to make that continually in summer when we were young - all that soggy white bread - no ta!! (And yet I like hot bread and butter pudding and bread pudding )

I'm exactly the same - love bread and butter pudding but really can't stand summer pudding at all - perhaps because b&b pud is a hot, cooked pudding?