Eating Mashed Potatoes out of a Box

Chief_Rocka
Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
edited November 13 in Food and Nutrition
Is this healthy?
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  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    What is "healthy"?
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 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.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    It's not healthy or unhealthy. It's kinda gross though. Homemade mashed taters are so good.
  • glevinso
    glevinso 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.


  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,329 Member
    They're good as binding for tuna patties?
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight 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?
  • AllAboutThatSpace
    AllAboutThatSpace Posts: 26 Member
    I'm pretty sure it's not natural. I prefer baked potatoes
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Like...straight out of the box??

    Unhealthy...meh maybe, maybe not. But definitely weird.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 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...
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 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.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    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.

    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:
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    It's... Sad. It's not potatoes. It's just calories.
  • SarahAzura
    SarahAzura Posts: 5
    they taste so good, but i never eat them. fresh sweet potatoes is better.
  • AllAboutThatSpace
    AllAboutThatSpace Posts: 26 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    It's... Sad. It's not potatoes. It's just calories.

    This.
  • glevinso
    glevinso 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.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    only healthy if you eat the box as well
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight 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.

  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    It's not healthy to eat them out of the box... you gotta prepare them first...
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    It's disgusting. Boxed potatoes are gross. Just eat actual potatoes that taste good.
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
    It's astronaut food, man!
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    salembambi wrote: »
    only healthy if you eat the box as well

    Thanks, I'll try this next time

  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    jennifershoo wrote: »
    It's astronaut food, man!

    it's butt food
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Ew
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe 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.
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake 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.
  • daw0518
    daw0518 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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  • ZebsterBC
    ZebsterBC Posts: 198 Member
    They're great for thickening soups. :grinning:
  • midnight419
    midnight419 Posts: 77 Member
    Not healthy and gross.
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati 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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