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EVERYONE WHO IS IRISH: HOW DO YOU DO IT? I watched a cooking show on TV tonight about the food of Ireland. Lovely show. Then they stated a fact. The average (key word AVERAGE) person in Ireland eats 300 lbs of potatos per year. I get there probably isnt a big call for rice or pasta but 300 lbs! I think we buy for the two to four of us (depends on the week) 50 lbs a year period. So.. are you eating 300 lbs of potatos a year and if so HOW??
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Let's see. Mashed potatoes with roast beef is my hubby's favorite Sunday dinner. I love scalloped and make them whenever we have company. I buy about 10# each month. (we're empty nesters)
I remember once when we lived in WY, but our neighbors from Idaho brought us home a 100# bag of potatoes just dug, for $2. We were poor and I couldn't turn that town. I used the majority of them before they went bad. You name it, I found a recipe to fix 'em different almost every day! |
Well, someone is eating a lot of my share of potatoes. I don't eat French Fries any more, my husband and I split a baking potato if we are having steak (not very often) and maybe once a month we will have mashed potatoes. I only buy loose red potatoes because if I buy a bag they rot before we eat them.
We do not eat rice or pasta often either--maybe 2 or 3 times a month. We eat lots of salads and fresh vegetables instead. You would think I would be a lot skinnier with this healthy diet!! :) |
I eat about 4 sweet potatoes a month and just love white potatoes...potato salad, baked,mashed, fried...Dang girl, it's making me hungry just thinking about it...
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Mashed, fried, french fries, scalloped, potato soup, potato pancakes,
boiled, baked you can run a clock off of them, potato battery, play hot potato then have dinner. I guess the uses are endless. :) |
We use about ten pds a month. I used to fix potatos every day for supper, but now I have cut back to once maybe twice a week. After all, what good is a potato without LOTS of butter or very fattening gravy.
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I'm not Irish (in this life, anyway; maybe next time around), but I can totally see eating 300 pounds of potatoes a year. Basically, that's a pound a day 6 days a week.
If a pound a day seems like a lot, go get one of those big baking potatoes at the supermarket and weigh it. It'll be about a pound, give or take a bit. So anyone who has a baked potato 6 out of every 7 days a week would do it right there. Of course, it could be mashed, scalloped, boiled, fried, or potato salad. It could be potatoes and onions or hashed browns for breakfast. Potato chips, too. Roasted, in stews, in soups... How many do I eat? Not as many as I used to, I've noticed. Maybe only a couple times a week nowadays. In the past week I've had one large baked potato, one serving of potato salad and most of a bag of potato chips. There are weeks on end when I have none at all. But I bet I ate 300 pounds a year of them in my younger years (and, yeah, it shows). |
I go through almost 20lbs a month and there is just me LOL I love my potatoes :D:D:D They are great on my diet...baked or mashed with gravy made out of beef/chicken broth, very low cal :wink: Or I cut them into chunks, pour a tbls of olive oil on them and sprinkle on different herbs/seasonings and bake them in the microwave in a covered casserole dish... sometimes I add scrambled egg and ham for a breakfast casserole, or veggies and meat for dinner. I have them atleast once a day :D:D:D
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My husband will eat how ever many potatoes you will peel and mash for him at any time any day. 5 pounds just for him is not unusual. He LOVES them.
And, by the way, he is skinny. Life aint fair! |
With just 3 of us we eat about 15 pounds a week. More in the summer we have baked potatoes a lot, mashed, scalloped, augratin, fries, fried potatoes, hash browns. In soups being country folks we do eat a lot of them.
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WOW I am wondering now if you eat so many potato's do you eat pasta or perhaps rice on other times? Maybe it all adds up the same? I was gifted 10lbs of potatos on the first of Feb. I tried SO hard to use them up for the two of us. I am not one to waste food at all and if it can be used it will be used but still there was 1/3 left and that was potato overkill (they died). I dont fry much and my sweetie wont eat potato soup or other fun things like that so half a potato small for dinner cool.. maybe about 3 latkes with a meal and that is it for two days .. I saw how reasonable they are now that ST. Pats is on its way..shoot! Still 300 lbs a year sounds like a lot of spuds! Obviously clueless in CA.
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Sounds like you're just not big potato eaters. HALF a small potato? I could never just have half.
Actually, I go on jags. Sometimes it's rice for days on end, usually 1/4 - 1/3 cup cooked per serving. Sometimes it's pasta, rarely measured. Usually it's a mix of all three (over the course of a few days, not all together at one meal), with the balance favoring one or another. Sometimes it's none of the above. |
I love potatoes but I can't imagine eating that many. Of course I'm German not Irish. That explains it. Right? :lol: :lol:
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Originally Posted by littlehud
I love potatoes but I can't imagine eating that many. Of course I'm German not Irish. That explains it. Right? :lol: :lol:
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Is it only a regional thing to put homemade chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes? And what about potatoes in a foil pouch (sliced with onions) on the grill? Guess that I grew up using potatoes for just about every meal. Mashed, fried leftover mashed, french fries, boiled with parsley and butter, baked, cubed with olive oil and ranch dressing baked in the oven, scalloped with lots of cheese, etc....can go on and on and on... LOL...Guess that this is from having a garden and digging lots of potatoes. (dug 200 lbs the day I went into labor with DS # 2 ) Some one had to do it or go hungry for the winter. LOL
Did I mention cubed potatoes in vegetable soup or stews? LOL....Made myself hungry even at this hour. :D |
Originally Posted by Rhonda
Originally Posted by littlehud
I love potatoes but I can't imagine eating that many. Of course I'm German not Irish. That explains it. Right? :lol: :lol:
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Originally Posted by tigger5464
Is it only a regional thing to put homemade chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes? And what about potatoes in a foil pouch (sliced with onions) on the grill? Guess that I grew up using potatoes for just about every meal. Mashed, fried leftover mashed, french fries, boiled with parsley and butter, baked, cubed with olive oil and ranch dressing baked in the oven, scalloped with lots of cheese, etc....can go on and on and on... LOL...Guess that this is from having a garden and digging lots of potatoes. (dug 200 lbs the day I went into labor with DS # 2 ) Some one had to do it or go hungry for the winter. LOL
My exMIL got me started on homemade chicken and noodles over potatoes... I had never heard of that until we moved to NE and she served it... That is the only way my kids and I eat them now LOL I still try to convert others, too :D:D:D Did I mention cubed potatoes in vegetable soup or stews? LOL....Made myself hungry even at this hour. :D |
forgot to mention that my sons and I will peel and slice and eat them raw too. :D And potatoe doughnuts? MMMMMMM best ever in the world. :D
I know that in a year we probably go thru at least that many lbs or more. And yes, we have rice and pasta all the time. Not just stuck on potatoes :D Potatoes cubed cooked in the same roaster as the beef roast and carrots.....:D |
Originally Posted by Rhonda
Originally Posted by littlehud
I love potatoes but I can't imagine eating that many. Of course I'm German not Irish. That explains it. Right? :lol: :lol:
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Originally Posted by tigger5464
Is it only a regional thing to put homemade chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes? And what about potatoes in a foil pouch (sliced with onions) on the grill? Guess that I grew up using potatoes for just about every meal. Mashed, fried leftover mashed, french fries, boiled with parsley and butter, baked, cubed with olive oil and ranch dressing baked in the oven, scalloped with lots of cheese, etc....can go on and on and on... LOL...Guess that this is from having a garden and digging lots of potatoes. (dug 200 lbs the day I went into labor with DS # 2 ) Some one had to do it or go hungry for the winter. LOL
Did I mention cubed potatoes in vegetable soup or stews? LOL....Made myself hungry even at this hour. :D |
I never saw chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes except in Kansas and Nebraska. I was so surprised when I was given a starch over a starch for dinner! That WAS the vegetable!
My dd loves them, can't get enough. I have no doubt her family eats 300 lbs of potatoes a year. My dh and I eat 2 baked potatoes a week, a few fries, sometimes hashbrowns, probably mashed once a week. We rarely eat pasta, we eat rice once to twice a week. Bread we eat every day, though. |
Dieting here, so don't eat many potatoes, Love sweet potatoes, twice backed potatoes, 'smashed' potatoes are great too. Oh, and raw fries that my mother used to make. And string potato pancakes. You're making me hungry and I need to go quilt.
I actually went a full year WITHOUT eating a potato! |
Originally Posted by purplemem
I never saw chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes except in Kansas and Nebraska. I was so surprised when I was given a starch over a starch for dinner! That WAS the vegetable!
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Originally Posted by Honey
We use about ten pds a month. I used to fix potatos every day for supper, but now I have cut back to once maybe twice a week. After all, what good is a potato without LOTS of butter or very fattening gravy.
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Potatoes...YEAH!!! Love 'em just about any way I can get 'em! Can't handle sweet potatoes, though.
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i always thought that it isn't the potato that was fattening, but the stuff you cook it with or put on it. not true? anyway, for a quick lunch, i bake one in the microwave and top it with salsa. works for me. 8-)
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We eat MORE than 300 pounds a year. We are from IDAHO. I have never met a potato I didn't like. Our mascot at our high school is even a potato (we are the Russets). Potatoes are cheap here and we eat them 5 to 6 times a week All different ways. We Love them!!!
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Baked potatoes with cottage cheese on them are great! No butter! Just a little salt and pepper! YUM! I've also been known to eat a small can of tuna on a baked potato when on a diet! My Polish ex-MIL made chicken and noodles on mashed taters! Oh, my! I do miss her cooking!
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We eat chicken and noodles or beef and noodles over mashed potatoes, always. In fact, my girls won't even eat noodles without mashed potatoes. When all the kids come home, I mash 10 pounds just for that day's dinner. We LOVE our taties.
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Originally Posted by SaraSewing
My friend who grew up in New Orleans liked to invite me to supper where she fixed white rice with black beans and big sausages. That is what I wondered, starch with starch? But it was yummy.
By the way, rice & beans is a classic combination, especially in vegetarian dishes.
Originally Posted by butterflywing
i always thought that it isn't the potato that was fattening, but the stuff you cook it with or put on it. not true?
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Potatoes are a starch food but actually turn to sugar if you are a diabetic. I'm not personally, but learned that because my Dad was. Any starch turns to sugar so diabetics really have to watch their intake.
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david had oven roasted potatoes, cornbread stuffing and corn as part of his dinner last night. the only thing not a starch was the salad, the chicken and then the applesauce. i had the salad, the chicken and asparagus. guess which one is overweight.
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
david had oven roasted potatoes, cornbread stuffing and corn as part of his dinner last night. the only thing not a starch was the salad, the chicken and then the applesauce. i had the salad, the chicken and asparagus. guess which one is overweight.
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Cruel! I'm going to have to stop at the grocery store on the way home & get some potatoes now!! LOL
I don't eat a lot of potatoes, even tho' I do love them. But if I eat them too often, my joints hurt, especially my knuckles - something to do with them being in the nightshade family, I believe. The only time I ate LOTS of potatoes, was the 1st time I went to Idaho to meet my penpal. I ended up staying with their family all summer long, and we did have potatoes with EVERY meal, and boy were they all yummy!!! :D |
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