I've bought too many potatoes. Send help, please.

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I'm not sure how this has happend, but I've ended up with too many potatoes. I bought a kilo of baby pots on Sunday, and last night bought an absolutely massive pack from the Waitrose clearance shelf. For 10p.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

For context, there are two people living in this house. Myself and 11 yr old ds.

I need urgent help dealing with these potatoes. Please, send help. Or, at the very least, easy recipes to help me use them up.

TIA.

PS. Tales of over enthusiastic food buying also most welcome.

Cook, freeze. Unless your freezer is small, in which case you’re screwed! Just have potatoes with everything for the next week, or let them go liquid like me.

I enthusiastically bought all the on sale bread in the supermarket last week. Why?! I’m an idiot. It’s only 3 or 4 loaves, but it’s OTT.

I also totally filled the freezer with reduced offal one day, I was like fighting an ancient Chinese lady who was taking it out of my trolley. Why did she want so many tubs of kidney?? My dogs needed it! 😂🐶

I once impulse bought 2kg of reduced fresh ginger. Turns out you can grate and freeze it. Also turns out that there are limits to how much grated ginger one family needs. Crystallised most of it which was lovely if time consuming.

Are all the potatoes baby potatoes? You could just put them somewhere dark or in the fridge and they’d keep a while? Or make gnocchi? Or make crushed potatoes or mash and freeze it?

You can cook, mash and freeze them.
Allotment owner who has this "problem" every autumn.

I know someone that accidentally bought a tonne of salt. They were online shopping and thought they’d ordered 100g. They actually ordered 100 bags... and got it delivered to work

Wait for people you don't like to walk past your house chuck them at their heads...that should get rid of a few depending on how many enemies you have obviously.

They’re great in curry.

Potato soup?

If you actually enjoy cooking then make gnocchi with them (assuming the big bag is the sort that makes nice fluffy mash). Very therapeutic. Then freeze it in portions and you'll have gnocchi on demand.

Just put them in a cool dark place and use them up over the next few weeks.

I harvested all mine for the next 6+ months, they are in a big [huge] garden bag covered in shredded paper - these will last us probably until March.

😂 YABU. There is no such thing as too many potatoes!

In the advent of the food shortages Brexit will bring in a few short weeks you should sprout and grow them. Then you can sell them to the masses who did not stockpile food and make a killing and emigate.
Or make a fuckload of mash and sag aloo and freeze it.

Saag aloo curry!

Some years ago I bought 6 x 2kg bags of pears instead of 6 pears (the early days of online shopping). I think we had a lot of crumble.

Could you make hash browns or rosti and freeze them?

There's no such thing as too many potatoes.

HTH

@IDontDrinkTea

That did make me laugh 😂 especially at work!

Potato salad.

Potato printing with the kiddo.

Make a potato clock ?

Keep them in the fridge. Potatoes last ages

@formerbabe don’t keep
Potatoes in the fridge www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/health-advice/amp566422/why-you-should-never-store-potatoes-in-the-fridge/

Cook mash and freeze Rostis are also good cooked and frozen defrost and warm through in the oven

Not possible to have too many potatoes. Peel, boil, mash, freeze.

Hasselback potatoes, potato salad, corned beef hash, potato curry, leek and potato soup, sag aloo, meat and potato pie, cottage/shepherd's pie, rosti/hash browns, potato scones, fishcakes, raclette, bubble and squeak...you'll never be able to look at another potato again come Christmas!

When at Uni we used to buy sacks of potatoes at a time (getting them home on the bus was fun) - and eat them over about 6+ weeks.

My friend once bought online, 200 mushrooms instead of 200 grams.

To be honest though I'd probably just think, fuck it, and have chips with everything for a month!

Donate them to a Sikh temple? They make vegetarian Curries every day for worshippers including non-Sikh homeless people. They would definitely appreciate and make use of surplus potatoes