To feed my family potatoes for nearly every meal!!?

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Now I have to say I am a fan of the humble spud.. and I'm making a lot more meals than usual.. but every meal seems to involve bloody potato!!

On top of this the kids (3 and 4) have decided they REALLY like a jacket with cheese and beans for lunch, so have been having that most days too!

Do you think it matters if most meals have spuds as the carb part? Should I make sure I mix it up or are lots of potatoes actually fine in a balanced diet?

You can cook a batch of baked potatoes in the oven, then keep leftovers in the fridge for two or three days and heat up in the microwave. After that stick any still left in the freezer.

German potato salad - lovely with sausages or a barbecue:

Roughly cubed boiled potatoes mixed with mayonnaise and chopped tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, onion and German salami. Scrumptious.

Potatoes are great as part of a soup - chicken / cabbage / chorizo / bean / veg any kind of soup benefits from tatoe as a thickener; but it can aso be the mainstay; especially if you have good stock (just Boullion). We are going to be eating more of them so lets get into it...

Really want a sack of potatoes now!

Thanks, former : slapdash I can get along with!

Roughly cubed boiled potatoes mixed with mayonnaise and chopped tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, onion and German salami. Scrumptious.

This sounds yum.. I'm going to try it

Fwiw we eat potatoes all the times - mash, baked, roast. I put leftover mash in quiche and soups to thicken. Love sweet potato too.

More vitamin C in a plate of chips than in an orange.

I'm especially fond of mash.

If anyone has a waffle maker I discovered this week that you can make hash browns on it

I made a cheese sauce to put on yesterdays left over veggies from a roast. I was going to do it with potatoes but DH said we'd had too many potatoes and I should put pasta in instead. I think it would have been fine either way. Ds makes himself a JP for lunch most days with cheese, beans or tuna, or sometimes just with butter.

DH brought 2 sacks of potatoes as we went into lockdown so we've had potatoes lots of days. Easter Sunday we had mash, roast and chips as the potato choice 😁Does anyone have a good simple potato salad recipe?

I grew up on potatoes and bread and butter. I suspect lots of Brits did.
I've always been very healthy.

If anyone has a waffle maker I discovered this week that you can make hash browns on it

I've got a George Forman Grill! How do i do this?

DP and I are Irish and Scottish and can't physically eat a meal without potatoes. And bread.

It really is a mystery why I can't lose weight.

@SleeptightDaisy yes!

Boil til they're soft and mix with mayo, spring onion, red onion, garlic powder and salt & pepper. Then eat the whole bowl.

Sounds good @JorisBonson will give it a try plus the German potato salad recipe

Joris

do you mash them? break up with a fork?

@PigletJohn I just cut them up small. It actually works best with new potatoes cut in half.

Our go to dish in this house if anyone is off their food is steamed potatoes whipped up with hot milk, loads of butter and black pepper.

Very soothing.

Sounds like my childhood
And mine.

unlimiteddilutingjuice, not sure it would work in a George foreman but worth a try! Grate a couple of potatoes and squeeze out the water, mix in some spring knikn, cheddar, an egg and season. Stick on waffle maker until crispy (about twenty mins). We had them with poached eggs it was lovely.

potato and pea curry with rice here tonight.Adding chopped hard boiled eggs would be nice,but...

IMO potatoes are the best carbs for you (obvs not chips). You don’t get better nutrition from pasta or bread.
This thread has inspired me to do more potatoes.

I bloody love potatoes

As a child in the 70s/80s this was standard. I don't think I ate pasta or rice until I was at university!

There are only really three carbs anyway - potatoes, rice and flour.

Beans and lentils too. Buckwheat is also great instead of potatoes or rice.