[ewing]

Potatoes don't go away, I have lost the craving for bread but a potoato with sour cream (shivers)

[Maven]

Potatoes don't go away, I have lost the craving for bread but a potoato with sour cream (shivers)

Here's a moderately low carb way around that:

Bake the potatoes, then cut in half and scoop out all the innards until you have just the potato skins. Fill the skins with whatever low carb filling you want (sour cream is fine).

The skin from one moderately-sized baked potato nets just over 21 carbs (and that's actually two servings). A whole baked potato is well over 50 carbs.

Maven

[Mamzelle]

How I handle the potato--at home, I make potato soup with lots of cream and whatever green veggies I have, and just one potato. That way, you get your mealy-potato fix with a very small portion. (Other people in my family eat this soup, too, and just get a quarter of a tater).

In the restaurant, I pile butter and sour cream on top of the potato. Generally, by the time I work my way to the actual potato, I don't want but a few bites.

I also need for other people to order dessert so I can have a bite or two.

But this sort of thing is the only time I have to control portions--I can have as big a steak as I want.