Celery

Yum yum, celery. Its one of Gods great gifts to man especially if you're on an extreme diet and only want to eat if you can cut down the calories during the meal. I usually buy it from the local deli so its fresh it's healthy and it's tasty. Though hard to say tasty seeing as it is mainly a sold water mineral tube. Each sick is around 30cm long and at the bass is around 3 inches thick but gets gradually thinner towards the top to about a mere half inch. The shape is a crescent like moon shape and you can see veins up and down the sticks. I usually get around 11 sticks in each bunch and if you keep them in the fridge they are fine for around 10 days. They do ...  Read the complete review

Celery is a green vegetable of which we eat the root or stem. The stalk is crunchy, whereas the root is fleshy. I first got interested in celery when it showed up on a list of so-called 'speed foods' on the Slimming World diet. This basically meant that it is a low fat, high fibre food that burns more calories to be ingested than are consumed from eating it. At just 18 calories per 100 grams eaten, it actually burns more than that to digest, so is ideal in a diet. There is no fat in it, and it's just one of those amazing foods nutritionally. For me, the love of celery was killed when my mum used to put it in food cut into little bits. ...  Read the complete review

Sitting eating our evening meal yesterday which was salad based due to some nice weather I decided that I would write about one item that is always in my salad but has a love / hate relationship with most people - good old celery. What a really boring thing to write about some may think but celery is actually an extremely versatile vegetable with many uses and is good for you also so lets have a look at my friend celery in a bit more detail. Most people seem to associate eating celery as being on a diet as it is very low in calories only 6 calories for every 3 sticks you eat approx and apparently you consume more calories eating it than it ...  Read the complete review

Celery is a fantastic vegetable that's great in snacks and has been eaten for years by people trying to lose weight and those who just like to eat it for it's taste. It's great as a snack and not at all bad for you. Here's some fun facts. * Celery is part of the same family as carrots, parsley, dill and hemlock which is a deadly poison ~ It contains a pheromone which is also in men's sweat glands and attracts women * The first record of it was in 1623 in France ~ It only takes an ounce of celery seeds to make an acre of celery * There is a town in Ohio called Celeryville ~ One stalk of celery only contains 10 calories * It is ...  Read the complete review

Celery is grown as a vegetable. It is actually a plant, called Apium graveolens. Just as a curiosity, on the island of Minorca, in the Balearic island, there is a local variety which is now down to 72 plants at the past count! Going back tot he celery you find at your local supermarket, as I said, we normally eat the plant, but the seeds are also used in the perfume and pharmaceutical industry. Within the French cuisine, celery is meant to go together with 2 other vegetables, Onions and carrots, in the preparation of many sauces. I like to eat celery raw with olive oil. It is important to know that celery should not be eaten by pregnant ...  Read the complete review