Posted on 08/13/2025 7:42:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
TWICE BAKED POTATOES ARE EVEN BETTER
“This points to what the fries are cooked in, instead of the potato being the issue.”
Bingo.
I’ve heard you only have to refrigerate them. I wonder what the truth is. Neither? Both?
Fries 3x per week. Yeah, that would be a glucose load. Did they correlate that study with drinking soda at the same meal?
Berberine. I’m not sure if it helps, but I’m trying it, with other supplements, too. Only because I want to lose a few pounds. My numbers are all great. I attribute that, in part, to walking 30-45 minutes EVERY DAY, and eating mostly healthy foods, though sometimes I break down and treat myself.
very badly designed study because it assumes all frying oils are the same, with no distinction between healthy animal fat oils like tallow or olive or avocado oil and total garbage oils like cottonseed oil and soybean oil ... i mean, whoever thought that cottonseed oil is something that would be fit for human consumption?
they haven’t proved whether the unhealthiness is from the cooking method or the cooking ingredients ...
I can eat a baked potato any time of day...
Except the skin... Grew up being warned that you “must” eat the skin...
IAC, a long time ago, potatoes were the principal driving force in humanity’s recovery from the black death...
At least that’s what my grandparents told me back in the 1930s & 1940s...
I buy small organic potatoes, scrub and cut in half. no need to peel them. I steam them. Steaming is the easiest way to cook them and preserves the most nutrients. Smash them up a bit on my plate, pour on evoo and sprinkle organic parsely on top. No salt. Very yum, not many calories.
All the stores in my neighborhood have organic potatoes. Natural Grocer sometimes has purple potatoes. They have anti-cancer properties.
BTW, I weigh 116. Eat really good and often organic food. Far cheaper than doctor bills.
I use an air fryer. It’s a miracle tool I use quite a bit
Great little cooking recipe. :)
Tanks everyone. I need to get these numbers down. Too close.
Yep, the best french fries I ever had were fried in duck fat. I got them from a food truck.
Where do you get duck fat, though? Can you buy it at the store?
What about hash browns? Asking for a friend, er... I mean my stomach.
Nothing wrong with the potato.
Reevaluate.
Easy:
Stop eating junk, stop eating restaurants.
Cook, enjoy food, end T2D.
Now I’m suddenly dreaming of French fries. 😉
Yes, we got ours through Walmart vendor online. Pure duck fat, doesn’t need refrigerating until opened. The name of it was “good vittles” duck fat. Walmart isn’t carrying it anymore evidently, but they do,have other smaller options- but Amazon has it, and several online vendors carry it.
This is what we bought- 2 gallons, five lbs.
https://www.amazon.com/Antibiotic-Free-Duck-Fat-Gallons/dp/B01M1LON19
It’s expensive, but, you can strain the duc, fat after frying fries or potatoes or whatever really. And reuse it several times. We use a cheese cloth to strain it. Plop it in fridge, and scoop out what we need next time. Once it starts losing its flavor somewhat, we use it then for cooking eggs till it’s gone.
I enjoy my potatoes distilled.
Also, cook fingerling potatoes in the fat, stirring often to coat all the potatoes. Throw on some dill. Salt pepper and wow! Good eats!
I’d also imagine that hashbrowns would be really good cooked in it too.
I gotta try to find goose fat somewhere too. We also use beef tallow, though I don’t really taste much flavor with it like I do with duck fat.
I don’t but thanks. The elevated A1C is from prednisone. Therefore asking help. But thanks, not a junkie and never eat out.
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