alternative for mash potatoes.

As always, that depends on your goal. If your goal is simply calorie reduction, try a lower calorie variety of mashed potatoes.
If you're trying to moderate your starchy carbohydrates, consider mashed cauliflower.
Hubs and I love mashed cauliflower with feta, garlic, and a little butter, but my aim is usually to blunt the effects of starchy carbs. I used a more glycemic load (SLOW carb) approach to weight loss.

Whatever you do, it should taste awesome!

jonesm97 wrote: »

Great idea. My goal is weight loss. I need to try different foods. thank you very much.

Then either might work. It's experiment time!

dklibert wrote: »

This is the recipe I have been using for mashed cauliflower.



soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/2014/02/microwave-garlic-mashed-cauliflower.html

That looks delicious!

jennifer_417 wrote: »

Don't mind me, I'll just be quietly collecting all the mashed potatoes no one's gonna eat....

LMFAOOOOOOOOO OW!!! MY FREAKIN SIDES!!!

Half a cup of boiled potato with skin is like 70 calories. I know because I just logged this Cut one up into quarters, leave the skin on (for fiber), boil 20-30 minutes. Take 1/2 a cup. Put some butter on there (3/4 of a tablespoon, 75 calories) plus some Greek yogurt (60 grams of 0% yogurt is ~34 calories), and only vaguely mash it with your fork. Add salt. Yum.

I sometimes boil 2 potatoes one day, and store them like that in a glasslock container so I can have mashed potatoes like this with a few meals. I just nuke the potatoes and add the butter & yogurt when it's dinner time.

Wow, it's been forever since I've had mashed potatoes. Does the cauliflower have a really...um...apple-sauce like texture? I like cauliflower, but I don't think I could do with that kind of texture.

Potato isn't unhealthy. If you want mashed potato, make it fit your macros /cals! Perhaps skip adding loads of butter or cream? We have lower carb potatoes available here, they would reduce the amount of cals

I like cauliflower puree, but it tastes like cauliflower.

JacquiH73 wrote: »

Potatoes are actually very healthy. Not only does it contain complex carbohydrates, but it also supplies protein and ample vitamins and minerals.

We only make potato dishes unhealthy by adding lots of sodium and fats to our potato. Try a potato dish that is fresh and doesn't include butter and oil and just a little bit of salt and seasoning.

But fats are not unhealthy...Perhaps adding too much could make my dinner too high in calories, and put me in the red for the day, but the fat itself is good for me. Mmm.

Delilahhhhhh wrote: »

Carrots and parsnips mash nicely

mmmm parsnips!

There's nothing else that will taste like mashed potatoes.

I love mashed cauliflower but if you expect it to taste like mashed potatoes, you're going to be disappointed. Parsnips might work though but I haven't tried (adding that to my list though!).

You can just make mashed potatoes with less butter, cream etc. I just make mine with a bit of butter and some 1% milk, and it's good enough. Potatoes actually fill me up quite well for the calories so I can't imagine giving them up.