How to Freeze Ready to Use Diced Celery.

End food waste and have convenience at your fingertips, all at the same time! Another frozen convenience to enjoy, How to Freeze Ready to Use Diced Celery! 

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We can't be the only family that has noticed the price of food inching up daily! Keeping food costs down is more important every day. A few minutes spent in the kitchen to process often used foods will make life easier and save money. I use my freezer to hold the basic ingredients I want and need available for preparing our meals. My daughter who is my co-cook in the kitchen and I call this frozen convenience. We love having prepared ingredients in the freezer, ready to go. 

Garlic was the first thing I began processing years ago to have ready to use. Since we use a lot of garlic, I/we tend to make large batches of Ready to Use Minced Garlic. This is especially handy when garlic harvest comes around...I can get a year's supply from the same source and get it processed. Later, I do not have to worry about short supplies at the market or garlic past its prime. Here recently I shared our Diced and Ready to Use Frozen Onions process as well. 

And now we also make Ready to Use Diced Celery. 

In our local area, organic celery is quite expensive. When it goes on sale, I usually purchase two or three full stalks. One for fresh eating, we love it with peanut butter or a homemade cheese spread. One is prepared and put into the freezer, and the third one goes in the food dryer. I love having dried celery for soup and stews. My daughter however prefers the frozen diced. So with two cooks in our combined household, we keep both around!

This kitchen practice saves a lot of money. How many times have you gone to use a stalk or two of celery only to find it has gotten soft, yellowed, and beyond use? Speaking for myself, this happened way too many times...and let's be honest, any vegetables not prepared and eaten, is money down the drain. You know it wasn't until I began growing my own food, that I realized I had not valued the food I had bought through the years. Growing my own food it turns out, was a great lesson in frugality!

Making Ready to Use Diced Celery is easy. You wash and dry the stalks, dice, and package for the freezer. Come and take a look...

Mark the bag with measured amounts, just like with frozen onions!

To make it easy to measure out the correct amount of celery needed, I wanted to document that one rib of celery equals approximately 1/2 cup. Having this info on the bag means no one will need to ask "so how much is a stalk of diced celery?" ever again...

To begin, prepare one or more freezer bags with contents, date, and measurement information for the diced celery. 

After preparing the freezer bag(s), separate the ribs of celery. 

Rinse in cool water to remove any dirt. 

Dry with a cotton towel. 

Trim the ends if desired.

Cut the rib into celery sticks, then stack and cut crosswise into diced pieces. 

I generally do not put the leaves into the freezer. They are used for soup making or veggie stock. 

Because the celery was wiped dry before being diced, it will not freeze together in one lump...I do like to lay the filled bag in the freezer on a tray or directly on a shelf to keep the contents in a thin layer before freezing. 

Storage options for Ready to Use Diced Celery. The diced celery will keep up to six months in a sealed freezer bag or container. 

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