I Can't Get Him to Eat Vegetables Unless I Hide Them Under Peanut Butter -or- Need Referral to PB Annonymous:

Remember Rocky and Bullwinkle and how they would always offer a choice of two titles! Well, I'm in that sort of mood today!

My husband has a peanut butter addiction, but he hides it in celery! Nearly every night I find him in bed with a HUGE stalk of celery crammed FULL to overflowing with PEANUT BUTTER as he happily watches the O'Reilly Factor. He always seems very pleased with himself over his choice of snack, telling me, "It's HEALTHY." Yeah...right...HALF A JAR of PEANUT BUTTER ladened into one poor stalk of celery! (Well, actually it is always a HU-NORMOUS stalk of celery...don't know where he finds such LONG, wide celery stalks!) He tells me that celery is one of those negative calorie foods (takes more calories to digest than it contains), but what he won't admit is that that doesn't really count when you shovel half the jar of peanut butter onto it first! (Oh...and his latest remark, "Celery is so FILLING," was even funnier! No! The half a jar of PEANUT BUTTER you put into the celery is filling!)

And don't be fooled by the picture...USUALLY he has the peanut butter MOUNDED on his celery, but he knew I had written this post and would be on the look-out for his next stalk of celery to photograph! He begged me not to take this picture...but, I'm a little persistent once I pick up the camera (just ask Darcy!)...

All of which brings me to what prompted this post to begin with... Grant asked me to poll our readers and see if ANYONE ELSE out there has ever tasted Dr. Brown's Cel-ray Soda...and, if so, what did you think about it?



Even though my husband has lately professed such a love of celery (yeah, right!), his opinion of Dr. Brown's celery pop is that it tastes just like a newly mown lawn. (Actually, he IS dead-on there! That is EXACTLY what it tastes like. Beats me how they can stay in business bottling that stuff!)

Update: my husband, upon reading this post begs to differ. He insists he does NOT have a peanut butter addiction (denial, a sure sign!)...he says, "I don't eat the celery FOR the peanut butter. It's just that the peanut butter helps me eat the celery." (I think he thinks eating celery is equivalent to eating real VEGETABLES, which he avoids like the plague. And, therefore, eating celery is a new found virtue in his life! Maybe if I coat broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus, etc in peanut butter, I might be able to get him to eat them, too!)


So, back to the original question....Have you ever tried celery soda pop?...and, if so, what did YOU think about it?