I have been playing with potato diet things for the past few months, not with any intensity. In all the natural experiments about what I can digest (almost nothing, it seems), potatoes have been a godsend in calming things down. I like them and it seems almost no one is sensitive to them. As a bonus, they are filling and even seem to contribute to weight loss. I haven't gone at this with the intensity of Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame (he lost 100 lbs on the all-potato diet), but I have lost weight and I still like potatoes. Win-win. Bsking has been doing something with adding potato starch to her daily meals - maybe that's better, I have no idea.
It occurred to me today that there are no potato cereals. How is there no Potato Chex?
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"...even seem to contribute to weight loss."
Potatoes? I have been wildly misled, perhaps by French fries and poutine, but nevertheless misled.
An old Irish professor of Irish History I used to have asserted that potatoes and milk were almost all a grown man needed to eat, even one who worked hard for a living like his ancestors.
Would high-surface-area items made from potato flour hold up in milk?
Anticipating the question, we do not have poutine per se here. We do have Waffle House hash browns all-the-way, which in addition to everything else are topped one half with chili, one half with gravy. I was deeply suspicious of the gravy half until I tasted it. It’s better even than the chili (which, Waffle House “Bert’s” chili is far from the best chili).
I used to take my 2 oldest granddaughters to Waffle House and order the All Star breakfast with a side of bacon. I got the hash browns, toast, maybe a slice of bacon, and maybe a bite of egg. Before the pandemic pandemonium hit, a road closure/construction project made this somewhat convenient Waffle House 10 miles further away. The pandemic put the nail in the coffin for this enjoyable outing for us. We still have the same basic menu for occasional Sunday night suppers, but it's at home and homemade now.
"'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly. But you won't find any, so you needn't look. But be good Sméagol and fetch me some herbs, and I'll think better of you. What's more, if you turn over a new leaf, and keep it turned, I'll cook you some taters one of these days. I will: fried fish and chips served by S. Gamgee. You couldn't say no to that.'"
-- The Two Towers
I've replaced my stash of sweet-snacks at work with single-serve bowls of instant mashed potatoes -- which seem to be as effectively reconstituted by pouring in boiling water as by following the microwave directions. The wife doesn't like that they contain coconut oil.
There's also a variety of crinkle-fries which comes in a single-serving box that doubles as microwave browning device. I suspect that the freezer hash-brown patties might be effective as a breakfast food.
Weight and waistline are down, not that I'm keeping stats. My physician was pretty happy with my labs a few weeks ago.
I have a very rough estimate that a potato-heavy diet works for at least 30% of the people who try it for weight loss. I think the varied-gut-biome model is going to reveal that one size does not fit all, and we should stop even thinking that way. I also think that genetics are going to turn out to influence gut biome as much as environmental exposures, including food processing.
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