broccoli

Have always used broccoli stalks, mainly for soups, but good thinly sliced in a stir fry. Use mushroom stalks, sometimes use well washed potato and carrot peelings for soup. The green part of leeks has the most flavour (I think), suppose they are trimmed to make them tidier on the shelves.

Since I got a NutriBullet, the stalks go in there. I've always heard they're the healthiest bit .

I have a plastic container in freezer and cauliflower and broccoli stalks are chopped and added along with green leaves from leeks then added when I am making soup

I always use the stalks, thinly sliced and steamed, lovely, I try not to waste anything useful.

More stalk eaters in this house. I also quite like the stalk/ribs of cauliflower leaves. When I was small and went to the greengrocers, he used to sell mushroom stalks separately, cheaper than mushrooms, but every bit as tasty

I love broccoli, but didn't realise you can eat the stalks... Stumps, I call them, and deeply resent paying for them!

When I'm preparing broccoli I eat the raw stems, though the thickest ones are something of a challenge!

anya I have visions of them marching round their cages with placards reading "hands off our broccoli stalks!"

I'm another who thinks the stalks are the best bit! Lots of flavour, but I do peel the tougher outer skin with my potato peeler.

I've been educated too nina - usually I save them for GS1's guinea pigs, who love them above all else.

Well I've been educated by this thread I bin the stalks because that's what DM did.
Next time I will chop and add.

DM used to persuade me to eat the stalks of cabbage and cauliflower by telling me that 'all the goodness and sunshine is in there'

I do eat some of the stalk of broccoli but not the very thick large one. Although I like raw cabbage stalk.

Another stalk eater here,bugbear of mine is "trimmed leeks" the green bit is every bit as good as the white,why they cut it off is a mystery to me.

I am not a big fan of broccoli, but I think the thick stem, peeled and eaten raw, is the best bit. Considering it makes up so much of the weight you are paying for, it's a bit silly to bin it. If it weren't a super food, I probably wouldn't eat it at all. I never throw away mushroom stalks, either. My big vegetable bug bear is celery. Why can you rarely buy celery with a full head of leaves? They are full of flavour and brilliant for chopping into soups and stews. All you get are the stalks and a few leaves if you're lucky.

Have always eaten the stalks, I didn't know you were supposed to chuck them in the compost bin

Luckygirl, I know someone who throws away mushroom stalks because she says they're 'too fibrous'!

I use the thicker stalks in soup and cook the thinner ones. Waste not, want not

I peel the stalks and cut them into batons, and cook with the rest. They are the best bit!

I always eat the stalks! - amazed to hear that some people cut them off - never heard of that idea before.

If I'm making soup I add the chopped up fatter stalks to it. Quite happy to cook and eat the thinner ones though.

I discard the big fat stalks, but I certainly do cook and eat the thinner ones!

Do you slice the horizontally or vertically or is it personal preference?

I also eat the stalks

I've never tried the stalks, I thought they would be stringy and chewy