Potatos
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RedheadedPrincess14 wrote: »100g potato is about 100 calories, I think it's about the same for avacados. They may be a calorie dense food, but they're a good source of potassium and vitamin c.
They're 72 calories per 100g, where as avocados are 160. Makes a pretty big difference if youre having 300g of one or the other. Avacados are good for you but super high in fat so therefore more calorically dense.
See, this is why you can never trust food entries in the database. Ugh.1 -
Potatoes are actually really good for you. Where they become a problem is when you fry them in a bunch of oil and cover them in a layer of salt. Or when you load a baked potato down with stuff. I love roasted potatoes. I'll put oven on 375, cut up a potato, sprinkle it with rosemary from my garden, add a little oil or butter, and cook it for about 50 minutes.3
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It depends on how you prepare them. I can't eat mashed potatoes when trying to lose weight because I would go overboard on them (too much butter, salt and milk). I will eat baked potatoes both white and sweet potatoes and keeping it within my goal for the day. I do love red roasted potatoes in the oven with a little EVOO, salt/pepper and parsley.1
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I do a kind of mashed potato, after they're cooked I take a fork and smash them up, add a little cheese or grated parmesan, and tasty.perkymommy wrote: »It depends on how you prepare them. I can't eat mashed potatoes when trying to lose weight because I would go overboard on them (too much butter, salt and milk). I will eat baked potatoes both white and sweet potatoes and keeping it within my goal for the day. I do love red roasted potatoes in the oven with a little EVOO, salt/pepper and parsley.
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i eat 10-20 pounds of potatoes a week, Love them. Their bad rep is from people piling cheese butter and sauces on top
My favorite meal is just potatoes, Tuna, Onion/garlic and a little cream of mushroom soup for a sauce or some cottage cheese 1 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »i eat 10-20 pounds of potatoes a week, Love them. Their bad rep is from people piling cheese butter and sauces on top My favorite meal is just potatoes, Tuna, Onion/garlic and a little cream of mushroom soup for a sauce or some cottage cheese
Damn, that actually sounds pretty amazing. Admittedly, I love all of those individual items, so that helps.0 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »i eat 10-20 pounds of potatoes a week, Love them. Their bad rep is from people piling cheese butter and sauces on top My favorite meal is just potatoes, Tuna, Onion/garlic and a little cream of mushroom soup for a sauce or some cottage cheese
Damn, that actually sounds pretty amazing. Admittedly, I love all of those individual items, so that helps.
haha i hated tuna but its a good mix just microwav the potatoes up and spoon the tuna/onion mix over them with a little pepper. Yummy Im lazy and i needed more protein so it helps xD quick and simplistic since i keep all the onions/garlic precut in fridge since i eat so often
https://gyazo.com/6738a88f50ca987fc5b9cb1b1b7be118 This i my recent favorite I take away some potatoes and cottage cheese sometimes because it makes a huge plateful XD Just be sure to add the cottage cheese to the pan at the end of cooking just to warm it slightly or half gets watsted stickign XD
Eating soem with a little siracha right now actually XD its dark in here tho.0 -
Fantastic. I actually "bake" my potatoes in the microwave as well, using the old wet paper towel method. When you eat as many as I do on refeeds, ain't nobody got time to oven bake that many.0
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you must share this magical method with me. I love baking up potato discs..Season them up and they get all puffed up and delicious, Dip in a little ketchup. Yummy. Or potato waffles. Potatoes are literally atleast 50% of my diet lol0
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I am another potato lover. Tonight I had a huge 520g (Raw) sweet potato which I baked and had a spicy chicken stir fry to accompany it. Yum yum yum.0
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JaydedMiss wrote: »you must share this magical method with me. I love baking up potato discs..Season them up and they get all puffed up and delicious, Dip in a little ketchup. Yummy. Or potato waffles. Potatoes are literally atleast 50% of my diet lol
Not sure that it would work for discs. I just stab each potato about eight times with a fork (prevents possible explosion), wrap each in a wet paper towel, and zap the lot for 6-10 minutes, depending upon total mass.1 -
This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.0
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GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?0 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?0 -
GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?
I'm mostly Scottish/Irish. One does not simply peel a potato. I tend to eat mine like an apple (just pick it up and bite), though baked, obviously. Raw potatoes are a taste that even I can't acquire.
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?
I'm mostly Scottish/Irish. One does not simply peel a potato. I tend to eat mine like an apple (just pick it up and bite), though baked, obviously. Raw potatoes are a taste that even I can't acquire.
Ah of course. I dunno man, you need some variety in your life.0 -
GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?
I'm mostly Scottish/Irish. One does not simply peel a potato. I tend to eat mine like an apple (just pick it up and bite), though baked, obviously. Raw potatoes are a taste that even I can't acquire.
Ah of course. I dunno man, you need some variety in your life.
Nah, I'm a creature of habit, and function best in extremes. My eating is borderline robotic in nature. I feed the machine, not an inner child or emotion that probably never really existed anyway.0 -
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?
I'm mostly Scottish/Irish. One does not simply peel a potato. I tend to eat mine like an apple (just pick it up and bite), though baked, obviously. Raw potatoes are a taste that even I can't acquire.
Ha. This is the Scottish conflict. I peel my potatoes. Boiled tatties (never my favourite, my mum bought cheap waxy potatoes, never have worked out what they're good for) or roast tatties par boiled before throwing in the oven with fat. Oh and mashed potatoes have to be peeled. And chips/fries. Lots of reasons to peel!
I didn't have a "proper" baked potato at home ever I don't think. Done in the microwave mostly. But then my mother was particularly crap at parenting so.......0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?
I'm mostly Scottish/Irish. One does not simply peel a potato. I tend to eat mine like an apple (just pick it up and bite), though baked, obviously. Raw potatoes are a taste that even I can't acquire.
Ha. This is the Scottish conflict. I peel my potatoes. Boiled tatties (never my favourite, my mum bought cheap waxy potatoes, never have worked out what they're good for) or roast tatties par boiled before throwing in the oven with fat. Oh and mashed potatoes have to be peeled. And chips/fries. Lots of reasons to peel!
I didn't have a "proper" baked potato at home ever I don't think. Done in the microwave mostly. But then my mother was particularly crap at parenting so.......
Casually throwing the Mother under the bus there. Should've made your own damn baked potato.0 -
GaveYouPower wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »Gallowmere1984 wrote: »GaveYouPower wrote: »This is how you enjoy em'; peel em', fill the pot with water till you're just covering them (depending how many you're boiling of course, I'm assuming just a portion), add 2 tablespoons of Oil (preferably Extra Virgin Olive Oil), and finally a very generous sprinkle of salt. The aim is to cook them so the potatoes soak up all the water so no draining is needed. Takes about 35 mins or just a tad more. They're divine I tell ya.
Peel potatoes? Are you mad?
Lol. Are boiled potatoes foreign to you?
I'm mostly Scottish/Irish. One does not simply peel a potato. I tend to eat mine like an apple (just pick it up and bite), though baked, obviously. Raw potatoes are a taste that even I can't acquire.
Ha. This is the Scottish conflict. I peel my potatoes. Boiled tatties (never my favourite, my mum bought cheap waxy potatoes, never have worked out what they're good for) or roast tatties par boiled before throwing in the oven with fat. Oh and mashed potatoes have to be peeled. And chips/fries. Lots of reasons to peel!
I didn't have a "proper" baked potato at home ever I don't think. Done in the microwave mostly. But then my mother was particularly crap at parenting so.......
Casually throwing the Mother under the bus there. Should've made your own damn baked potato.
Without getting too deep and miserable on a fitness forum. Baked potatoes are the least of her parenting fails.3 -
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »I had 423 grams (raw) of baked potatoes (292 cals) as part of my dinner last night, topped with black bean dip (76 cals) and plain yogurt (74 cals) -- delicious and filling.
That sounds so so so tasty0 -
A great source of potassium!0
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The fact that it is my primary refeed day reminded me of this thread.
Time to eat 5 lbs. of potatoes today, between the red skins and sweets.1 -
I looove potatoes, and we grew so many I am still eating last years crop yummy0
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potatoes are yum! I love them.
its what you put in/with/on them that knock up the cals and frankly wreck a good spud lol.
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Potatoes have a bad reputation because of their glycemic index. I eat them with herb quark or fried eggs. Very filling together with protein.0
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bienemajamfp wrote: »Potatoes have a bad reputation because of their glycemic index. I eat them with herb quark or fried eggs. Very filling together with protein.
Honestly, I find them absurdly filling without anything else. I just microwave bake, and eat it with my hands. Seriously, putting in 500 kcals of plain potato at once can be a challenge.0
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