How do you like your potatoes?

[kathys.clown14]

I like them mashed

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

Hello, potato is carbohydrate.

That's why one should eat them in moderation, unless you're an athlete in training.

As far as empty calories, they have more vitamin C and Iron than bananas.............

[wilk1149]

That makes total sense. Comparing bananas to potatoes. Isn't it like comparing apples and oranges. I have yet to see a huge lard butt walking around a food court with a banana.

[wilk1149]

You eat what you want and I'll eat what I want. I lost twenty five kilos and have kept it off for four years. No potatoes for me ever.

[softail-joanie]

It depends, am i eating them by themselves or with meat foods like pot roast or turkey, chicken, beef, ect.

mashed potatoes goes well with other foods, but bater dipped fries or seasoned potato wedges are good by themselves.. so sayith the fly one

[fourandsixpants]

a potato a couple of times a week is far better than bread for you. Bread has sugar and fat and preservatives....which a potato does not.

A potato is full of vitamins and trace elements as ment'd already.

Sure, eat in moderation as potatoes are a source of carbs.....but in order for the body to BURN FAT you must eat carbohydrates as carb foods assist in burning fat......you cannnot effectively burn fat without carbs!! *Doh!

 You need carbs and my choice is to eat a potato instead of processed carb foods like bread or white rice or pasta.

[wilk1149]

Fat people eat potatoes. It is that simple. Why doesn't anyone get it. We have all been fooled into thinking we must eat more carb. You will not die if you eat no carb. Your body is built on proteins. Protein is the best food to create the.proteins we need. I have this argument with my dietitian all the time. Unfortunately she thinks that a book knows everything and I know nothing. I was testing my blood about twenty times a day when first diagnosed as a diabetic. I found even a small amount of potato stuffed my blood sugar. Eliminated them all together and four years later I'm still not on a medication to control my blood sugar I do it with food alone

[fiestas*girl]

I USED to like Poatoes, I used to have that Mr Potato head game as a kid

I have kicked potatoes in all forms to the kerb very recently, i describe posatoes as 'frenemies' you think they are ok, but they are not

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Mashed, baked, deep fried.... potatoe bake in cheese sauce....... oh.... and baked sweet potato......mmmmmmmmmm.

I think I like potatoes every way they come.

[katymatey*]

Just wondering about the Irish poor. Prior to the potato famine potatoes were the major part of their diet. I never heard that they were fatties.

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@katymatey* wrote:

Just wondering about the Irish poor. Prior to the potato famine potatoes were the major part of their diet. I never heard that they were fatties.

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All the fatties went to NY.

The famine had an effect.

Spent some lovely time in Eire in the early 70s - don't remember an overload of fatties.