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potato portion?
Little_Vics
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How many is a portion of potatoes?!
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Little_Vics wrote: »How many is a portion of potatoes?!
Depends on type, boiled, mashed etc. size and what else is on the plate.
A big bowl of small new potatoes to accompany a baked Camembert and you can easily get through half a dozen.
Mashed - half a tennis ball size.
Boiled - 3
Baked - 1 (or 2 little ones)0 -
How big are your potatoes?0
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Will it not depend on who you are cooking for and individual appetites? For instance my elder son (15) will eat six medium sized potatoes without a thought. Younger son (9) will eat two at most.
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agree with pinkwinged...a few potato lovers in this family that would gobble them up if we had loads!
if you find you have extra keep for next day...mash could become a pancake/fritter by mixing in some beaten egg seasoning, warm up a frying pan with some oil and place spoonfuls in and gently fry them.
boiled potatoes - fried potatoes, topping for a pie, potato salad are a few ideas.0 -
Agree with Debtmuncher -leftover potatoes are always worth having around. It's even a good idea to deliberately cook more than you need;)0
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Do you know, I'm 45 years old and have never once ended up with a leftover roast potato... That could explain why I'm considerably larger than I should be :rotfl:I'm always looking at ways of using up leftover roasties but no matter how many I cook, they always disappear.... usually into my mouth...0
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Per adult, mashed potato should be 2 tablespoons for a portion, or two ice cream scoops. For a child, it would be half that.
So then you just have to decide how many portions you want to eat
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thriftlady wrote: »How big are your potatoes?
:eek: I always think of SouthernScouser when I hear about large potatoes.
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....just remember potatoes do not count towards your five-a-day so, contrary to other people here, I would cook less than necessary and make up for it by filling the plate with actual vegetables. Just my two pence
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