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?

Potato is a complete food. It has everything you need.

All my meals growing up in the 70s and 80’s had potatoes or bread. No rice or pasta in our house!

Enjoy!

loads of meals that don't have carbs in them. too many spuds will make them fat unless they are getting loads of excerise.

We've only had roast potatoes,potato salad and wedges this week though DD had some frozen mash with her lunch yesterday too.
No potato today!
Sweet potato chilli tomorrow.

Spuds are fab, couldn't understand the run on pasta, potatoes are so much more versatile and more nutritious. Love potato in curry and don't forget potato cakes - with lashings of butter.

My favourite is well garliced potato dauphinoise with a little chilli.

Love potatoes we use for mash roasted chips baked hassel back wedges stuffed potato skins. Love the sweet potato just as much as the white.

I'm enjoying reading the potato praises it's the only carb apart from bread which my youngest will eat! Luckily he does eat rye bread and spelt bread and wholemeal seeded breads because they are standard breads where we live, but he won't eat pasta or rice so we eat them less often and potatoes very often!

At the beginning of this mess DH got a 25kg sack of potatoes from the fish&chip shop. Damn right we've been having spuds with everything.

Hasslebacks are DDs' favourites and I could eat a jacket potato everyday.

I also have 3 types chitting to put in the garden next week. An early, a 'salad' and a main crop. Plant biology is one of the easiest things to do as 'science' here.

Potatoes have vitamins, minerals, fibre, loads of good stuff, plus they keep you fuller for longer than other carbs, so they're all good as far as I'm concerned!

We have home made chips which are really wedges (skin still on) at least once per week, often twice, with lots of different things.

Jacket size potatoes are reallyhard to buy where I live I buy them when I see them, but it's rare and nowhere reliably stocks them.

Loving all the potato based meal ideas! We don't tend to have a lot of potatoes but my mum gave me a bag of red ones. I roasted them cubed yesterday on high heat for about 30 mins. I had some cold in a salad with whatever was in fridge. Then my DS13 had some fried with chorizo and a fried egg for breakfast.

Dont know if this has already been mentioned, and I cant believe I only just remembered but a meat pie made with potato pastry is declicious!

There are some good recipes on line but I use the BBC good food one.

Particularly partial to a spud. Also love the tinned ones but probably on my own there...

Tinned spuds make the quickest roasties ever. Brush them with oil and bung in for about 20 minutes, they are lovely! Slight problem is that I can eat about twice the amount of those as I do normal roasties which is not good when you are a carb lover trying to low carb :o

I also use them for lazy chicken stew. Fry off chicken, chuck in couple of tins of spuds and a bag of frozen veg with stock and its done in under half an hour.

Where I am, Grostl is the standard dish for using up leftover boiled potatoes.

Roughly chop some cold, boiled potatoes and fry with bacon bits/lardons, diced onion, add a pinch of caraway seeds and some paprika. I've had this with diced corned beef, ham or chopped German sausage/salami as variations. The crowning glory is a fried egg (or two) on top and some chives or parsley for garnish.

Currently working our way through 25 kg. I’m so sick of potatoes already! It’s a good cheap starch though.

Try making Hasselback potatoes.

Loads of different ways you can flavour them - garlic, rosemary, paprika.

Amazing

Potatoes have kept most of Northern Europe alive and well for a good couple of centuries and did similar for American Civilisations for thousands before that.

They've got everything except Vitamin A, D and Calcium, so add a bit of dairy and greenery and you've got everything you need - OK, you're going to want to add more things in than that for flavour/variety if nothing else, but in themselves, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having potatoes every single day - and with 20,400,000 results for a search on 'Potato Recipes', you could have a different meal every single day for over 54,000 years, so they are somewhat versatile.

In any case, your DC wanting jacket potato, beans and cheese is a lot healthier than pestering for Dairylea Lunchables or Teddy Bear Ham and a Frube, after all. To make it slightly easier for you, you could make jackets in advance and then reheat them daily, which would save you some of the spud fatigue.

We have potatoes in the majority of our evening meals - it's nice to have pasta or rice for a change, and I also like cooking with things like barley, but when it comes down to it, I would go without those if I could still have potatoes.

I would actually die without potatoes.

Can I introduce you to the concept of 'lazy mash'? Don't bother peeling them. Just boil the bollocks out of them, and then add butter/mayo/oil according to taste, mash roughly, serve.

DC prefer it to 'real' mash these days, which makes my life easier.

Also, have we had any votes for tortilla yet? You can bung anything in with that, but crucially you have to have potatoes first...

OOh yeah, havent made tortilla for ages!

Much better for you than rice or pasta . We buy them in 25 kg bags . A dinner isn’t a dinner here without spuds .

Try using left over mashed potato to make potato bread . I’ll post a recipe

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/39491/irish-potato-bread.aspx

Oh we love a potato in this house! As it's getting towards summer we have rolled out the classic potato salad recipe - boiled potato cubes cooled and then mixed with half mayo/half Greek yogurt, lots of snipped chives from the garden and a good grinding of salt and pepper.
Food of the gods!