How often do you eat Potatoes?

[Hopes]

We have potatoes way too much. Anytime my husband cooks any meal, there's a potato. I love potatoes but he goes overboard. It can get boring. If I cook rice two nights in a row he complains. Or pasta. He'll never complain if there are potatoes every day of the week.

[ebbe]

Maybe once every 10 days.
Baked, mashed, Alexa fries...love those mini tots but I don't eat them very often.

When I think of tots I think of Napoleon Dynamite.

[Naturen]

I usually have potatoes a couple of times a week. My all time favorite is a simple boiled potato with a tiny bit of butter, salt and pepper.

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by chiroptera

If you include sweet potatoes, maybe 1-2 times per week.

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This, pretty much.

Of course, I am not a big fan of both regular potatoes and sweet potatoes if they are prepared in certain ways.

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by no kudzu

as a diabetic I'm not supposed to eat potatoes very often. They are high in carbs. So I TRY to limit myself to once a week and never fried. But it's hard cause they taste so good and are so cheap, I also have to limit rice but man do we love it here in this house. That's one reason why we eat broccoli at least 2-3 times a week.

You can get away with potatoes more often if you add beans -- like filling your baked potato with black-bean chili. The fiber in the beans slows the entry of the crabs into your system so you can eat the potato without it hitting your system like a freight train. I have some diabetic friends who swear by this technique.

[geniusss]

Are potatoes a bad idea if you're trying to lose weight? Is twice a week ok?

[weltschmerz]

Originally Posted by geniusss

Are potatoes a bad idea if you're trying to lose weight? Is twice a week ok?

A potato in and of itself is not a bad idea. A potato has roughly the same calories as an apple.
It's what you put ON the potato.

[Pikantari]

Maybe once a week. Probably no more than three times a month. I used to eat them quite a bit more but I have cut back a lot on them. I am trying to cut back on things white. Potatoes, flour, sugar.

[Dennis P]

Once or twice a week for me.