Wednesday 13 January 2021

Rediscovering My Love Of Celery.

 How come it's been so long?


For some reason and thankfully so, the supermarket chains are now cottoning on to the fact that getting their clients healthy is the name of the game and an assured future revenue source. Or maybe they managed to get a special deal and passed it along to us.

Certain fruits and vegetables have been marked down considerably and of course I couldn't resist. As you might have guessed, celery was one of the vegetables in question. Stick celery previously only enjoyed by dieters around the world from Mondays to Fridays in lieu of chocolate, chips or bread. Why is it that going on a diet was mostly equated to filling up on celery sticks, although somehow it may have been a correlation to  those endless adverts in magazines of  thin women munching happily on sticks of celery.

Regardless, I like celery and the only reason I haven't been eating more of it recently is that it is jolly expensive. Shouldn't be but there you are. Strange how fruit and vegetables seem to be more expensive than meat, dairy and eggs. Sadly the very affordable vegetables ( ie. cheap & full of chemicals ) are often the blandest tasting of all. Tomatoes being a case in point. Doesn't pay to buy the cheap ones as they tasted like cardboard with a dash of food colouring thrown in for optics. The good ones on the other hand are often priced like gold.

Anyway, yesterday I bought my celery ( I say mine because Bob doesn't like it ) and have been happily munching on it. Organic too. Wow, what nice flavours it has. Raw or cooked. Somehow it adds an extra dash of taste and flavour to most dishes while being ultra healthy too.

I hope that from now on fruit and vegetables are going to be as cheap as can be because the more people eat from that genre, the more healthy they become. And healthy is what we need to all be right now. Imagine if collectively we could reduce the underlying health conditions of nations as much as possible thus denying the corona virus a fertile hunting ground....

Biggi

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