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.

When DS was about 10, I sent him to the local shop for 5lb of potatoes and he came home with £5 of potatoes. Ranging in size from pebble to small melon because he thought I'd like a variety.

Back to your dilemma OP - my favourite comfort food is mashed potato with cheese and peas mixed into it.

Download OLIO app - you can share your unused food with local people and vice versa.

Just today I had an online delivery with 4kg of carrots, when I normally use less than 500g in a week.

I'm not sure what happened, I was very tired when I placed the order.

You can have them to go with your spuds if you like.

Weigh yourself now and after 6 weeks and com back and if difference! As a social experiment if the carbs story carries any weight!

Bake a batch of the larger ones and freeze.

I boil new potatoes ,and spray them with light fry and stick them oven for about 50 mins they are lovely like a cross between roast and mini baked potatoes,also you could make a lot of mash and freeze .

Mash and freeze.

Then when you want a recipe with mashed potatoes, defrost in the microwave and there you go! I had to do it before as my potatoes started to sprout. No difference in taste IMO.

I used to work for a supermarket’s home shopping department in Glasgow and had to phone customers to check whether they wanted the 6kg of carrots they ordered or just 6 carrots.

you have a perfect excuse to live off Spanish omlette for weeks

(thinks about parking threads & cars being parked on pavement - evil thought - exhaust pipes for the use of)

I've done the opposite, instead of expecting 100g of button mushrooms to arrive with my online shop, one tiny, single little mushroom arrived in a giant paper bag. That was embarrassing...

Another online shop one, friend bought 8 bananas. Except of course she didn’t, she bought 8 kilos. I think that’s officially enough bananas to kill you.

My cousin ordered one packet of sprouts, or so she thought, and they delivered one lone sprout.

My Mum sent me out for 1/2 lb of mushrooms. I came back with 2 lb of mushrooms.

My friend put a case of expensive champagne in her online to save her (Christmas) delivery slot and completely forgot. She kept it

Buy a potato gun & defend potato mountain 👀

There’s no such thing as too many spuds . We buy them in half hundred weight bags . Put them somewhere dark and they’ll keep perfectly.

Ooh a lot of things, for example:

Creamy mashed potato
Fish pie
Shepherd’s pie/cottage pie
Roasted potatoes
Potato wedges
Mini jacket potatoes
Potato salad
Potato and cheese fondue
Potato gratin
Potato balls
Cheesy hasselbacks
Potato cakes
Fish cakes
Frittata
Spinach and potato curry
Lamb and potato curry

I'd just make piles and piles of chips

Plant the 10p ones in the ground. Make a massive casserole with others and freeze it.

Mash, add loads of icing sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice then coat in chocolate and toasted coconut.

Mash add flour and a tiny drop of water to boil, cook with fry up

Mash and make sculptures and leave on neighbours doorsteps.

You can never have too much potato. Never!

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.

Same here - except no bus required, our flat was above a greengrocers.

Spuds should keep pretty well if they're kept dark and reasonable cool.

When DS was about 10, I sent him to the local shop for 5lb of potatoes and he came home with £5 of potatoes. Ranging in size from pebble to small melon because he thought I'd like a variety

@KurriKurri aw bless, that's cute, made me smile

Make Boxty with them, served with a soft fried egg, or beans, sausages or rashers. Or all together. Or just hot with loads of real butter.
Best eaten straight from the pan while you're waiting for the next one to cook.

Potatoes are ace. My suggestion was going to be making mash and freezing it, because it's not something I manage to make generally because of my hands. Doing one huge batch would be OK because I could then not use my poor stumpy painful hands for ages while still eating mash. Ahh, sausage with mash and gravy

Potato Eaters. Van Gogh

Mash with a beef stew, use the left over mash to make potato cakes for a fry up, then make a potato salad and give remaining potatoes to your neighbour.