No! No! No! No carrots and celery in with chicken and dumplings. Look on the SIDE of the box for the recipe. Just follow the timing of lid on and off and you can't go wrong.
Any questions, I can ask my husband, he's the cook around here.
My box does not have a recipe for chicken and dumplings, I just checked. It has easy chicken pot pie, strawberry shortcakes, velvet crumb cake, Impossible Cheeseburger Pie and oven-baked chicken(where bisquick is the coating).
I am going with the Better Homes cookbook recipe.