Potatoes?

izabella813
izabella813 Posts: 20 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Completely random question here guys, is a jacket potato with beans on healthy?

Thankyou

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  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited August 2017
    I eat potatoes and beans daily. of course its healthy...?
    I make potato up with mushrooms onions beans garlic spinach and tuna as my 2nd dinner daily lol
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Beans and potatoes can be part of a healthy diet, sure.

  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    #wholefoods
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Yes, I consider a baked potato with beans, especially if served with some salad, a very balanced meal.
  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    Sounds healthy to me and I find them very filling, just a tip though to weigh that potato before you cook it, those suckers vary by a good few hundred calories depending on their weight, there is no such thing as a "medium" potato ;)
  • descene
    descene Posts: 97 Member
    edited August 2017
    Potatoes themselves are a healthy food in moderation. It's what you do to them/put on them that makes them an unhealthy food.
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    It depends... McAllister's serves a potato which is the size of a shoe. No one needs to eat that in one sitting! But in moderation, potatoes and beans are both healthy foods.
  • rednote49
    rednote49 Posts: 124 Member
    Potatoes with chinese long beans are my go to lunch
  • DamieBird
    DamieBird Posts: 651 Member
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    It depends... McAllister's serves a potato which is the size of a shoe. No one needs to eat that in one sitting! But in moderation, potatoes and beans are both healthy foods.

    Oooh, but they're SOOOOOOO good! They last three days and I'm sure the toppings are at least an extra 1k calories (I haven't been near a McAllister's since I started losing), but man-oh-man are they tasty :9
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    I pretty much lived on that for dinner for a few years in primary school - with grated cheese in between the potato and beans... Yum!

    Context matters though...

  • ktekc
    ktekc Posts: 879 Member
    im jealous the only potato we ever saw in school was tater tots ... While i love them baked potato with cheese is awesome.
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    Potatoes = yum = yes
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    edited August 2017
    As i said, I eat them daily as one of my 2 dinners :D super delicious huge plate of food ^_^ Tuna potatoes with blackbeans, Mushrooms, Onions and garlic, Seasoned with black pepper and served with some ketchup :3 Mmmmm
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  • fjmartini
    fjmartini Posts: 1,149 Member
    Never go full potato
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    Beans and potatoes can be part of a healthy diet, sure.

    This. Why wouldn't that be so?
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Sure, it contains nutrients.
    http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2770/2

    I don't know what health benefits you want from a food other than that. Eating a potato with beans as far as I know won't cure cancer or make you able to lift a car. A healthy diet usually includes a variety of foods not just potatoes and beans for every meal. It can be part of a healthy diet though.
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    Weigh the potato, weigh the beans, count the calories, stay below your goal. If you add anything else (butter, other sauces, etc) be sure to count them.

    The potato is full of vitamins and fiber, the beans have protein, vitamins, and fiber. If you're trying to hit a specific protein goal, you might want to add meat instead of beans. And if you're trying to reduce added sugars then using canned baked means will mean you'll need to read your labels carefully and keep track of the sugars.

    But there's nothing inherently "Unhealthy" about it. Depends on how much of it you eat.
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