Potatoes everyday?

lamoss

I was out today and went into my local shop and saw a woman struggling to carry out a 10 kg bag of spuds. I would normally not take a bit of notice of this, but then I noticed how many bags of potatoes their was in the shop.
Surely we are still not a nation of potatoe heads ? I was bought up and raised on potatoes , everyday I would have some sort of potatoe, mashed ,bolied , chipped, baked . I hated the boiled potatoes which were boiled to a "pappy" mush. I now only have spuds about 2 days a week if that and look forward to the new spuds when in season.

I knew a someone who would have potatoes with speggeti bolonanase and would have spuds with every meal.

Do you have spuds every day, or only a few days a week?

emeraldstar

Never, unless I'm home at my parents' house. I think I cooked one baked potato in the past five years.

Slunk

I'd have them most days. Somehow I feel my dinner is not complete without them unless I was having pasta or fish. Have to agree with boiled to mush potatoes. I normally have buttery mash,crispy roast, gratin, sweet potatoes or roast herb baby potatoes. There's so much you can do with the oul spud I don't know why anyone would eat plain old boiled

aujopimur

I love all kind of spuds, none of that foreign muck for me.

phormium

I only eat them about twice a week but buy the 10kg bag because it's way cheaper. I can buy 10kg bag of roosters for €3 but a 2.5kg bag will cost me 2.50. I threw out the last 10 or so in the bag yesterday as they had sprouted, still substantially cheaper than buying small bags.

Cardinal Richelieu

aujopimur wrote: »

I love all kind of spuds, none of that foreign muck for me.

Yeah a know a few people who say this then pick up a bag of Israeli or Cyprus potatoes:D

ElleEm

I have potatoes about three times a week. I love spuds but we had them every day as kids so I'm happy enough with rice, noodles and pasta on the other evenings!

mikemac1

The mammy gave us potatoes every day
Lashing of butter through the mash

Or you could boil them, slice them and then have a slice of butter every time

None of your foreign stuff, leave the pasta to them eye-talians

the beer revolu

It amazes that as a country that consumes so many potatoes, so many of us can't even spell the word correctly.

There is no e in potato.
There is an e in potatoes.

I would have had potatoes every day growing up.
Now, around twice a week on average, I'd say.
I also buy 10kg bags.
I do love me spuds, though.

huskerdu

I love potatoes. Steamed, baked, fried, mashed - I have never met a potato I didn't like.
I eat them about 3 times a week, sometimes 4. They are a much healthier form of carbs than pasta.

My parents still consider a meal without potatoes to be a travasty.

There was an article in the Irish Times recently about a big potato farm called Keoghs. Here is an interesting quote from it.

"About 70 per cent of the carbohydrates in our diet are still being supplied by the potato, and those aged 55 and over still have potatoes five or six times a week. We remain one of the highest consumers of potatoes in the world, eating about 85kg per head of population, when both fresh and processed spuds are taken into account. But 20 years ago, that figure was 140kg per head."

The average person eats 1.6kg of potatoes a week. If you were doing the shopping for a family of 5, a 10kg bag wouldn't be unusual.

Faith

I love potatoes, in pretty much every form. But I have to walk a mile or so to the supermarket, so I can't carry them home. They're a treat these days.

Tom Dunne

Dear God, no.

Potatoes once, maybe twice a week.

Rice, pasta and noodles the rest of the week. I think it is a symptom of having them every day when I was younger.

NewFrockTuesday

the beer revolu wrote: »

It amazes that as a country that consumes so many potatoes, so many of us can't even spell the word correctly.

There is no e in potato.
There is an e in potatoes.

I would have had potatoes every day growing up.
Now, around twice a week on average, I'd say.
I also buy 10kg bags.
I do love me spuds, though.

theirs always somrthing! your so pedantic

Id say 5 days out of 7. Very good for you spuds so they are!

Cardinal Richelieu

7 days a week in one form or other.

carolinespring

I would say we have potatoes once or twice most weeks. The rest of the time its pasta, rice, couscous or a mixed bean dish of some kind.

Growing up it was always potatoes everyday, boilled in jackets or mashed mainly.

the beer revolu

NewFrockTuesday wrote: »

theirs always somrthing! your so pedantic

My so pedantic what?
Or did you mean "you're so pedantic" ?

NewFrockTuesday

the beer revolu wrote: »

My so pedantic what?
Or did you mean "you're so pedantic" ?

G'wan and have a few beans with youre fry

trashcan

the beer revolu wrote: »

My so pedantic what?
Or did you mean "you're so pedantic" ?

So, you spotted that, but missed "theirs" instead of "there's" ?

the beer revolu

trashcan wrote: »

So, you spotted that, but missed "theirs" instead of "there's" ?

I specialise in apostrophes;)

emeraldstar

trashcan wrote: »

So, you spotted that, but missed "theirs" instead of "there's" ?

I spotted both :cool:


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JONJO THE MISER

I actually have spuds everyday, a dinner is not a dinner for me without spuds.

Fart

I haven't eaten them in a while. Being a lazy student, it takes times to peel them when I want roasters.

I love roast potatoes. Yum! Butter, mustard and some gravy... along with the rest of the "Sunday roast".

psychward

I have them all the time. They have to be a lot healthier for you than pasta . What exactly is pasta anyway apart from carbs ? Theres fibre, vitamins and minerals in a potato in fact most of what your body needs whereas pasta is just empty calories as far as I can tell. Similarly I think rice is inferior to a good spud. Then theres so many ways to prepare them you'd never get bored. I love them Baked and Roasted. There would rarely be a week in which I did not bake or roast them especially roasted with a chicken. A chicken seems wasted if theres no roasted spuds to accompany it.
Then of course theres plenty of potatoes grown here. Theres very little excuse not to turn your back on the foreign grown spuds and buy a potato grown in Ireland. So thats one way you can help reduce the flow of money out of the country as well as reducing the sheer waste of energy and oil involved in flying food into a country where everything grows. No idea where the money goes after I spend it but at least the outflow didn't start with me! The downside of spuds is I can't get them to store well in a closet etc but I have a huge fridge and keep a lot of them cool inside there and once in there they last a relatively long time.

Mellor

huskerdu wrote: »

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"About 70 per cent of the carbohydrates in our diet are still being supplied by the potato, ...

I doubt thats true given the amount of bread and sugar people consume.
Potatoes rarely feature at beakfast or lunch, but these meals are still pretty carb heavy for the general population.

huskerdu

Mellor wrote: »

I doubt thats true given the amount of bread and sugar people consume.
Potatoes rarely feature at beakfast or lunch, but these meals are still pretty carb heavy for the general population.

You are right. It can't be true, if you consider the entire daily intake. They might have only be talking about the carb source in the main meal of the day ( or maybe they just made it up).

lamoss

The poor old spud gets the blame from people who put on weight, but there is no fat at all in spuds. As the previous poster mentioned, they are full of vitamins and minerals and are very versatile for many types of preparation.

It is the way they are cooked and what is put on them that makes them fattening. Chips fried in lard in the chipper, tons of butter put over them with you dinner, spuds with rich creamy sauces etc.

doctor evil

I love Irish spuds, I've grown them in the garden in the last two years (lil'vague about tending to them so not a mega success).

I like to have mine mashed or baked in the oven.

Tefral

I cooked my first spud in 5 months on Sunday. I don't eat any Carbs after 5 if possible just protein based dinners or at a push some broccoli and spinach

Tar.Aldarion

I would eat them at every meal every day for the rest of my life if that was healthy

Mr_Spaceman

I would find it almost impossible to trust an Irish person who didn't like spuds

Mashed spuds with butter to accompany a pork chop, plus roasted carrots and tomatoes is a hit in my house.

Spuds with everything!

al28283

I never eat potatoes, except chips, or roast potatoes at christmas