I think the title of the thread says it all

Ideas needed brilliant people

My vote is hummus. I love making garlicky hummus and dipping celery into it.

I have never had hummus either. Seems I have lived a very tight and bad food life. Time to expand maybe?

Hummus or peanut butter or low fat laughing cow cheese

I still have deeply ingrained issues with celery as "diet food", and have trouble with celery sticks. I have found that really crisp celery (especially the more green stalks), thinly sliced, is almost a different vegetable. It works in any low fat slaw as extra crunch. Toss into stir fries before serving. IT makes its own salad that keeps for a few days with lemon juice, mustard and a touch a good oil. I like to keep difference salads like that in the fridge so I can throw together a plate for lunch or dinner quickly with variety.

Thanks ya'll!!

Definitely hummus! Babaganoush (eggplant dip) would be good, bean dip, peanut butter, tehina (with garlic, lemon juice, cilantro), chopped into egg salad

I love celery dipped in salsa! I also like it with cream cheese (non-fat or low fat, of course).

I make a lightened "Waldorf Salad" with celery: 4 oz diced celery, 6 oz peeled and diced oz apple, 4 oz halved grapes, 2 tbsp non-fat yogurt, 2 tbsp fat free mayonnaise, 1-2 tsp SF Torani or other sweetener, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper, and 1 oz chopped cashews. Mix it all together and it makes four servings about about 100 calories per serving. I eat it on whole wheat bread with turkey.


If you have a lot of celery that you need to use up, you can add it to all sorts of recipes--tuna salad, egg salad, soups, casseroles, stir fry, etc. At only 4 calories per ounce, it adds a lot of volume and hardly any calories to any recipe.

Tonight I am making pasta with diced ham, blanched green beans, blanched celery, cream cheese and a little milk, dijon mustard, and blue cheese.

Thanks Beck and Barbara

I just had fried celery. It was fantastic, a little bit of oil goes along way. The recipe was 4 stalks of celery cut up into useable slices then, shred them, the thinner the slice the less it taste like celery. 1 tbsp of oil, a small red pepper, and 2 tbsp of soy sauce.

I think you can use the whole head of celery i cut each stalk into 3's and then turned it cup side down and shredded it. I used red pepper flakes because that is all i had, i used a tsp and then towards the end i shook some more over it, as i like spicy stuff. It was not spicy at all. I liked it more brown as well too.

Here is the link if i've confused anyone..I made it last week for the first time...it was soooo good!

http://www.recipezaar.com/Spicy-Fried-Celery-23818

Oh yeah, i left out the sugar too.

Just a fyi - the past few days I have been eating a few celery stalks with 1/2 can tuna mixed with a spoon of mustard and I like it so thanks for the tip