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    Eating Mashed Potatoes out of a Box

    Posts: 4,710 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    Is this healthy?

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    • Posts: 1,895 Member
      What is "healthy"?
    • Posts: 10,129 Member
      Forget healthy. It's sad.
      Peel potatoes. Boil. Drain. Add butter, if desired. Mash with manual (non-electric) potato masher (for the workout ;) ). Add milk/yogurt/sour cream/what-you-will, salt, pepper, chives, garlic, as desired. Eat. Savor how much better this is than reconstituted dried potato flakes.
    • Posts: 4,535 Member
      It's not healthy or unhealthy. It's kinda gross though. Homemade mashed taters are so good.
    • Posts: 1,895 Member
      lynn_glenmont wrote: »
      Forget healthy. It's sad.
      Peel potatoes. Boil. Drain. Add butter, if desired. Mash with manual (non-electric) potato masher (for the workout ;) ). Add milk/yogurt/sour cream/what-you-will, salt, pepper, chives, garlic, as desired. Eat. Savor how much better this is than reconstituted dried potato flakes.

      Sad is a good way to put it. Making proper mashed potatoes is so easy.

      I much prefer the texture of "hand-mashed" potatoes over machine whipped. I like getting the occasional small lump. Means someone made this by hand!

      I would suggest adding a little Creme Fraiche if you happen to have access to some. Decadent.


    • Posts: 18,749 Member
      They're good as binding for tuna patties?
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
      Wait, are you eating them straight out of the box or asking if eating them in general (after you've prepared them) is good?
    • Posts: 26 Member
      I'm pretty sure it's not natural. I prefer baked potatoes
    • Posts: 6,212 Member
      Like...straight out of the box??

      Unhealthy...meh maybe, maybe not. But definitely weird.
    • Posts: 10,129 Member
      Alatariel75 wrote: »
      They're good as binding for tuna patties?
      OK. I guess I can accept that. I think I have lots of other things in my kitchen that would work equally well as binder (such as crackers, oats, bread crumbs...), and that I might use for other stuff as well, but if potato flakes float your boat...
    • Posts: 10,129 Member
      ceoverturf wrote: »
      Like...straight out of the box??

      Unhealthy...meh maybe, maybe not. But definitely weird.

      Wow, I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm imagining dry, then kind of glue-like as your saliva goes to work.
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
      lynn_glenmont wrote: »
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      Wow, I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm imagining dry, then kind of glue-like as your saliva goes to work.

      I like boxed mash potatoes just fine...but prepared. I'd probably end up like the people that do the cinnamon powder challenge if I tried to eat straight from the box :sick:
    • Posts: 19,251 Member
      It's... Sad. It's not potatoes. It's just calories.
    • Posts: 5
      they taste so good, but i never eat them. fresh sweet potatoes is better.
    • Posts: 26 Member
      Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
      It's... Sad. It's not potatoes. It's just calories.

      This.
    • Posts: 1,895 Member
      I don't understand why certain things have shortcuts. Making real mashed potatoes is so easy, having a shortcut in a box makes no sense.
    • Posts: 5,585 Member
      only healthy if you eat the box as well
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
      glevinso wrote: »
      I don't understand why certain things have shortcuts. Making real mashed potatoes is so easy, having a shortcut in a box makes no sense.

      Because they are easier to store/last longer and not all places have fresh/good veggies (even potatoes) consistently.

    • Posts: 3,440 Member
      It's not healthy to eat them out of the box... you gotta prepare them first...
    • Posts: 5,623 Member
      It's disgusting. Boxed potatoes are gross. Just eat actual potatoes that taste good.
    • Posts: 3,198 Member
      It's astronaut food, man!
    • Posts: 4,710 Member
      salembambi wrote: »
      only healthy if you eat the box as well

      Thanks, I'll try this next time

    • Posts: 5,623 Member
      jennifershoo wrote: »
      It's astronaut food, man!

      it's butt food
    • Posts: 5,966 Member
      Ew
    • Posts: 1,704 Member
      Whyyyy. Proper potatoes are much tastier. I can only see boxed being OK if it's literally the only food option left in the house. I've experienced those scrounging days before.
    • Posts: 1,535 Member
      After decades upon decades of peeling, boiling, baking, cooking, etc etc yada yada yada spuds, I have a box in the cupboard. Don't get ate very often cuz am not a spud eater, more of a yam eater, but when I wants a mashed tator, they get cooked up and ate.

      Carry on.
    • Posts: 459 Member
      I really like the Idahoan mashed potatoes that come in the foil pack. They don't taste at all like the nasty "instant potatoes" I remember having as a kid. I discovered them accidentally when I had an abscess tooth last year and was at the grocery store purchasing anything and everything that was soft enough for me to eat. They're fairly low calorie & so easy to make. Obviously the real thing is better but regardless of how much I love mashed potatoes, I don't think they're worth making from scratch most of the time, especially for a single person. Whatever works for you. Haters gonna hate!
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    • Posts: 198 Member
      They're great for thickening soups. :grinning:
    • Posts: 77 Member
      Not healthy and gross.
    • Posts: 6,208 Member
      ZebsterBC wrote: »
      They're great for thickening soups. :grinning:
      Yup. One time I made my potato leek soup too thin and had ran out of taters. This stuff worked amazingly.
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