How often do you have baked potato?

Why aren't potatoes great for you? Do you have actual evidence or studies corroborating this, or are you just saying what you heard someone who read a Cosmo article that one time say?

I have always heard that. So I tried switching to sweet potato and I just cant do it. Now, if your about to tell me potatoes are good for me.... Your my new bff! Lol

http://www.potatogoodness.com/nutrition/

Not as often as I should. Potatoes have awesome potassium levels.

i dont eat them nearly as much as i should (i aint got time for that!)....but when i do i like them with sour cream, bacon, cheddar or pepperjack, butter, and chives.

http://www.potatogoodness.com/all-about-potatoes/microwave-cooking-basics/

we dont have a microwave

and now that i think about it....i DO have time for that. if i pop a couple spuds in the oven before i leave for the gym...by the time i get home, i should have some piping hot deliciousness waiting for me when i return. now i gotta pick up some potatoes. :drinker:

About the only time I eat a baked potato anymore is when we go out for dinner. It's not that I have anything against them. I've just come to enjoy sweet potatoes more. With a sweet potato, it's good as is with nothing on it, but with a baked potato I have to dress it with something (I used to dress it with a 1/4 cup of butter, lots of sour cream and cheese and it would be at least 800 calories by the time I was through with it!). When I do eat a baked potato, I've usually set aside half of my salad and use that as my potato topping.

My favorite potato is the small red potatoes roasted with a little olive oil and lemon juice. I love mashed potatotes too, but for some reason my stomach yells at me when I eat them now.

I never eat baked potatoes, but I eat roasted potatoes with the skin (sometimes mashed instead) once or twice a week. Nothing against baked, I just prefer the others and they are faster IME. I don't add anything to mashed (I mix them with my meat, yum), and the roasted are generally just roasted with a bit of olive oil and salt.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with potatoes unless you are eating too much and blowing your calorie budget. You can actually eat quite a lot (enough to satisfy me) without them being that high in calories. They are probably the maligned "white food" that I always want to defend most.

I love potatoes but don't eat them that often, mainly because I mix up what I eat quite a bit and they fall into the rotation maybe once every two to three weeks.

My favorite way to cook them is to throw them on the charcoal grill for about an hour (throughout the grilling of all the other foods). I then use a little butter, salt, pepper, and sour cream (if I have some, otherwise plain Greek yogurt). Sometimes I grill two extra potatoes and make hash browns the next morning with breakfast.

I never eat a baked potato.

The main reason is I cannot stand potatoes, I hate even having to touch them, slimy things. And they smell disgusting when cooking.

But that is my personal preference

I am concerned about the fact you have slimy potatoes. That's seriously not right. I wouldn't eat them either.

But the OP can totally eat her potatoes.

I should mention they get slimy when you wash and peel them, necessary for making mashed or scalloped potatoes.
Sometimes I decide to be an awesome wife and make them for the husband since it is not often he gets potatoes anymore

Are you sure you don't have potatoes mixed up with okra? Common mistake.

I eat potatoes in one form or another most days of the week, usually sweet potato or baby new potatoes with a herb and butter dressing. I find them filling, tasty, natural and nutritious, moreso than rice, pasta and bread. I have always eaten them and sure has not done me any harm. I honestly do not understand this false mythos surrounding potatoes.

I never eat a baked potato.

The main reason is I cannot stand potatoes, I hate even having to touch them, slimy things. And they smell disgusting when cooking.

But that is my personal preference

I am concerned about the fact you have slimy potatoes. That's seriously not right. I wouldn't eat them either.

But the OP can totally eat her potatoes.

I should mention they get slimy when you wash and peel them, necessary for making mashed or scalloped potatoes.
Sometimes I decide to be an awesome wife and make them for the husband since it is not often he gets potatoes anymore

Are you sure you don't have potatoes mixed up with okra? Common mistake.

Nope I cook with okra occasionally, its mostly when you have the potatoes in the water to rinse, before I put them in the water they aren't slimy. I still hate the texture of peeled potatoes though.

I eat at least one a day. Cheap. Filling. As long as I don't add butter or sour cream or cheese or whatever...not terrible on calories.