Quick Easy Cheap Meals: Why celery is a winner

Today's focus on Celery:

• an oft neglected affordable fresh vegetable
• crisp, sweet, juicy, delicious
• low in calories
• naturally reduces high blood pressure
• eat raw or cooked
• very versatile
• widely available
• quick easy snack to grab on the go
• packs well in lunch bags
  

Tips for storing celery:

• Cut off root end, split into separate stalks
• Wash celery well
  
• Package clean stalks in aluminum foil, 3-5 stalks per foil bundle
• Keeps well in fridge several weeks this way

Tips for using celery:

• Eat raw as a stand-alone or add to salad
• Use to scoop up hummus
  
• Fill stalks with cheese or nut butter
• Chop and saute and add to meatloaf or lasagna
• Chop and add to favorite cole slaw recipe
• Saute celery and onions and add to omelet or quiche