Made the lasagna without the lasagna

Oh my God, gnocchi is an abomination! Our hotel on Lake Garda served it and there was a mutiny and four people were kicked out that evening. They only got back in because the hotel owner's son was dating our rep so they smoothed things over. We didn't protest but we didn't eat the horrible gnocchi either. Got it served at a conference in Nov and couldn't even swallow it!

All vegetables are carbs

I cant eat potatoes unfortunately, a spoonfull or so is just about it. I do potatoes for others by crushing them after boiling and drenching them in very very good olive oil, salt and parsley and just a bit of that is really filling.

Ive never had any complaints about them!!!

And one of the most joyless, I’m sure.

In a study on satiety, boiled potatoes were found to be one of the most filling foods.

Potatoes are very very good for you, not just with the skin on

Your last paragraph is why politically they didnt make the grade, excluded from the '5 a day' club

But they are a good food.

They’re only really decent with the skin on if you’re talking nutrients, and they are far too starch dense to replace non starch vegetables which are much more nutrient dense.

If we start saying “potatoes count as a vegetable” then kids will be even more unhealthy as lazy parents will just serve mash with every meal instead of trying to feed their children multi coloured, nutrient dense actual vegetables.

They dont count politically

They do count nutritionally.

Bean, lentils, chickpeas etc all count as a vegetable when you’re talking about dietary nutrition and categories.
Potatoes do not count, they’re a carb and good in their own way but they do not replace vegetables.

Potatoes are a veg but are deemed not a veg for the 5 a day thing. They are full of goodness and nutrients. Beans are also a veg but someone will moan about them being in a tin with tomato sauce.

Love FF chips and beans, top meal.

Beans count as one of your 5 a day.

Baked beans are legumes (and generally considered UPF because they’re high in salt and sugar).

This really is the thread that keeps on giving.

I love your commitment to buttery potatoes.

I’ll just copy/paste:

By what possible logic? Beans are legumes. Do you think lentils are vegetables? Chickpeas? Peanuts?

Going by your last two dinners, your diet is a bit depressing, OP. The thread is wonderful, but the way you eat makes me sad. 😔

By what possible logic? Beans are legumes. Do you think lentils are vegetables? Chickpeas? Peanuts?

Unless you were joking? In which case, my apologies. 🤣

Honestly, this has to be one of my favourite threads in a long time, thanks so much for the laughs 😄

Where are the greens??

I know I keep banging on about it but the UK diet is, generally, really lacking in greens and it does have a link to increase in stomach cancer.

You should be having leafy greens every day, or every second day at least.

*The reason I bang on about it is that my parents barely ever served me anything green, or a lot of veg tbh. It caused me so many issues when I became a young adult/adult and had to change my whole diet and learn what I should be eating. And I’m trying so hard to make sure my kids have everything they should and a varied, colourful diet because my parents messed me up so much. You need to serve greens!

That sounds perfect!

Beans are vegetables!

what a shame to do that to them when they came out of the ground with such potential.

Thanks for that - I'm going to use it 😂

Me too, but lets be honest in a world of potatoey deliciousness, boiled potatoes?! Surely on almost every occasion there's a nicer option? Chips, roast, sauteed, mash, jacket? Boiled potatoes are clearly an inferior version. I'll give it to the OP that butter raises them a little though, but still, what a shame to do that to them when they came out of the ground with such potential.

Are you frightened of vegetables, OP? Allergic? Politically opposed?

Just when this thread couldnt get any more ludicrous, someone declares that they would be just 'dying for a heap of broccoli'

Peak MN as they say.

You sure love potatoes.
No hate, I do too 😁