Simple Recipes to Use Up Leftover Celery

Bought a bunch of celery sticks, eaten a couple, and don’t know what to do with the rest? Here are some great ideas to stop food waste, and enjoy a plant-based treat!

Before cooking, read our post on food safety for people and pets (many foods including leeks, onion, garlic, citrus and spices are unsafe near animal friends). It’s best to just bin allium scraps (leeks, onion, garlic, shallots, chives) as like tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps, acids could harm compost creatures. 

For tinned ingredients, pop lids inside cans (or pop ring-pulls back over holes) to avoid wildlife getting trapped).

This celery soup recipe (The Simple Veganista) is a soup that’s sure to inspire. In England, celery grows well but is usually confined to serving with carrot sticks and hummus! Instead, discover the real beauty of this low-calorie salad vegetable, in a delicious warming soup.

This soup cooks and blends up fresh celery with potato, leeks, fresh dill and parsley. You don’t need cream, the potatoes do all the work for you. You can add red pepper flakes for a more spicy version. You’ll need good vegan stock and vegan butter (Flora has no palm oil) to make this recipe.

Celery has been eaten for thousands of years. In Egyptian times, it was used for rheumatism and athletes. Most shops sell it in plastic wrap, so look in farm shops instead. Or if it comes in plastic wrap, just leave the plastic packaging at supermarket bag bins, and take home in your own produce bags.

If you make a lot of homemade soup, it’s worth investing in a good stick blender, to save the faff of washing blenders all the time. It’s UK law that whoever sells it to you, has to take your old appliance back for recycling.

You could also use Souper Cubes. Sold in Lakeland, these are like giant silicone ice-cube trays. Just pour in cooled leftovers and freeze. Then when you want soup, just pop a portion out and thaw overnight in the fridge, before cooking up to a safe temperature. That way, you can make bigger batches, even if you are only cooking for one or two, with no food waste.

Vegan Cheese and Celery Sandwich

This vegan cheese and celery sandwich (The Vegan Lunchbox) is a copycat version of the M & S version (and this one won’t cost you six quid!) This post is a revelation, for insider knowledge. The blogger suggests always buying blocks of vegan cheese and grating yourself (as grated cheese has a coating, to make it tasty funny).

Also the reason why supermarkets cut sandwiches into triangles is to show more filling (and you eat less crust). Which means they are less filling – more needed, more profits etc. Good reasons to make your own!

Old-Fashioned Potato Salad

This southern-style potato salad (The Simple Veganista) combines cooked baby potatoes and chopped celery, in a vegan mayo and mustard dressing.

Easy White Bean Soup

This easy white bean soup (The Simple Veganista) combines tinned white beans with celery, carrot and onions, along with garlic, thyme, rosemary and fresh lemon.