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Potatoes might not be so bad!

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  • Jesslan_Rose
    Jesslan_Rose Posts: 137 Member
    Well, I certainly won't feel as guilty everytime I have a red potato anymore. (About 1-2x/week.)
  • SteampunkSongbird
    SteampunkSongbird Posts: 826 Member
    I really want potatoes after reading this thread. I mean, deep down I always want potatoes, but even more so at this moment.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    i eat potatoes everyday so thats cool...im going to go make mashed potatoes now
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    roasted potatoes with rosemary, garlic, onion, and olive oil = da bomb yo!

    With chicken in there, this is one of my favorite meals.

    Though a lot of people did think potatoes were bad, because so many people think carbs are bad.
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  • DaveTimeKeeper
    DaveTimeKeeper Posts: 103 Member
    potatoes have more vitamins and minerals than most foods in the same category,
    along with sweet potato/yam you could do very well
    fiber, minerals, vitamins,

    I have lived for months on nothing but potatoes before,
  • Tedebearduff
    Tedebearduff Posts: 1,155 Member
    gle8442 wrote: »
    As someone who loves potatoes, this made me happy.

    grubstreet.com/2014/12/potatoes-obesity.html

    Curious if you even read the article or just the title...

    Study is on mice... and using a serum derived from potatoes that equates to 30 potatoes per day (not sure how this would work either as a couldn't see a mouse eating a full potato in a day)

    Anyways potatoes aren't "bad for you" they're even better for you with the skins on. How you cook them matters as does what you put on them.
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    gle8442 wrote: »
    As someone who loves potatoes, this made me happy.

    grubstreet.com/2014/12/potatoes-obesity.html

    My problem is potatoes go so well with butter and sour cream, or fried with ketchup.
  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    Elsie_Brownraisin wrote: »
    missiontofitness wrote: »
    Laurend224 wrote: »
    Coming to MFP in 2015.... the all potato diet. ;)

    Or the potato cleanse!

    At which end does the spud go for this cleanse you speak of?

    Well, I wouldn't recommend using a potato as a suppository...
  • Icandoityayme
    Icandoityayme Posts: 312 Member
    I never gave up potatoes and I have lost 37 lbs since June. If I had to give them up I would be one unhappy individual. They are cheap and there are a ton of things you can do with potatoes. Soups, fries, baked, roasted, mashed, ect. Very versatile and a medium potato is only about 110 calories. Bake in a microwave 5-6 minutes, add reduced fat sour cream and some green onions and that is a very low cal lunch or snack.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    If you like sweet potatoes, those are even more nutritious and low cal, very filling. Put some cinnamon on there too. :D
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    I believe the actual pamphlet by Patrick Henry during the american revolutions was "give me potatoes or give me death" it later got revised, because revisionism...
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    .... WIC may not cover the taters, but if you get SNAP benefits, that will definitely pay for them. Potatoes are great when you need to pinch pennies!
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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Pffft I love potatoes. Very filling for the calories. It's too many French fries or mashed potatoes with a ton of butter that makes people fat :p
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Pffft I love potatoes. Very filling for the calories. It's too many French fries or mashed potatoes with a ton of butter that makes people fat :p
    AGREE.
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    JesslanRose wrote: »
    Well, I certainly won't feel as guilty everytime I have a red potato anymore. (About 1-2x/week.)


    You shouldn't feel guilty eating food ever
  • baldnavywife
    baldnavywife Posts: 36 Member
    YAY! ♡♡ I literally eat multiple potatoes everyday
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  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    Potatoes aren't bad. It's the junk people add to them - the butter, sour cream, etc. Thats the stuff that'll do you in. A little potato is great. If it's your only veggie, though, time to find some new ones! :)
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    Well duh, look at Irish people.
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  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,150 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Potatoes aren't bad. It's the junk people add to them - the butter, sour cream, etc. Thats the stuff that'll do you in. A little potato is great. If it's your only veggie, though, time to find some new ones! :)

    Butter and sour cream are junk now?
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  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Potatoes aren't bad. It's the junk people add to them - the butter, sour cream, etc.

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  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    emily_stew wrote: »
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Potatoes aren't bad. It's the junk people add to them - the butter, sour cream, etc. Thats the stuff that'll do you in. A little potato is great. If it's your only veggie, though, time to find some new ones! :)

    You call butter or sour cream "junk', I call it "helping to meet a fat or protein macro."

    +1
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    zyxst wrote: »
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Potatoes aren't bad. It's the junk people add to them - the butter, sour cream, etc. Thats the stuff that'll do you in. A little potato is great. If it's your only veggie, though, time to find some new ones! :)

    Butter and sour cream are junk now?
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    I call them junk. Make fun if it makes you happy.

    I'm not suggesting you limit them. Eat all the butter you want. Soak the potato until it's yellow. Take a stick of butter out and it eat plain. I couldn't care less. To each, his own. :)
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