The best way to prepare potatoes for a healthy diet is a way that is low in fat and full of flavor. I totally admit to having a weakness for potatoes but when I’m watching my weight, I want to make sure I know the best way to prepare potatoes for a healthy diet. Potatoes are one of the least expensive items in the whole produce department of your grocery store. They are also one of the most nutritious. Those reasons alone are enough to convince me I should add some to my cart each week.
Best Way to Prepare Potatoes for a Healthy Diet
Potatoes make a great, inexpensive base for a meal. It’s easy to add a little excitement to your potatoes by choosing one of these healthy, low cost options:
- Top a baked potato with chili or salsa or try adding a low fat cheese and shredded chicken.
- Top mashed potatoes with ratatouille or sauteed or stewed seasonal vegetables like zucchini or summer squash with onions.
- Add olive oil and garlic seasoned roasted potatoes to a green salad.
Potatoes are a very healthy vegetable to add to your diet. One medium sized potato contains only 110 calories and has nearly half of the daily value of Vitamin C. It has more potassium than a banana plus it has fiber and antioxidants as well. Potatoes are naturally fat free, sodium free, and cholesterol free. Plus, they are gluten free which is always a good thing in our home.
To help your potatoes last as long as possible, store them at a temperature between 45F and 55F. Storing them in the refrigerator can cause them to be discolored when cooked. We store ours in our back hallway which is on the cold side since the heat doesn’t reach that part of the house well.
One of the best ways to prepare potatoes for a healthy diet is this delicious Lightened Up Loaded Baked Potato Soup. There are only 159 calories in a cup!
I hope you will join me for a live chat on the US Potato Board’s Potatoes, Taters & Spuds Facebook page (details here: http://www.facebook.com/events/107161616123368/) on January 16th at 5pm PST/8pm EST with Registered Dietitian & Author Tara Gidus to learn more. In the chat you’ll be able to ask Tara questions and learn more about potatoes and how to include them in a healthy diet.
One of my readers will win a prize package containing:
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LOVE spuds… Thanks.
I especially love to make a creamy potato soup with lots of white cheddar.
My favorite has to be the tradtional baked potato.
My family adores potato soup
loaded baked potato with sour cream, chives, and butter
I love to chop up potatoes and toss them in some EVOO and Cumin and roast them, healthy and tasty fries!
Mashed potatoes is a favorite at our house!
I love making mashed potatoes or potato soup
i love rosemary baked poatoes
i love baked potato with some salt pepper and sour cream
We had Crock Pot Potato Soup for supper last night and I’m about to have some of it for lunch now. I like Potatos every single way there is.
I really love potatoes basically any way but love mashed the best. Bakes is great also but I tend to do everything wrong with them such as lots of sour cream, etc.
I like them baked and slathered in butter and sour cream
I love hashbrown potatoes with eggs and bacon.
baked & stuffed!!
I love a pan of fried potatoes.
I love potato soup.
Well, that looks very reasonable – balancing food is awesome. I have field guilty for so long for ruining my diet with potato
I found a recipe for Greek style potatoes that we really like
I Love Love Love serving (and eating) roasted small red potatoes!
Sliced & baked with garlic & olive oil.
This is like a million calories but oh so good! I take baked potatoes from a earlier meal and cut them up in cubes and fry them, then put on a plate on top of ranch dressing , cover with cut up apple smoked bacon and several types of cheese. Heat to melt cheese and enjoy. It is so so so good.
I love real baked with a little olive oil and salt on the skins
baked with lots of butter
I perfer mashed
in a dish called a kugel
Mashed potatoes!
i like french fries
Au Gratin!
My favorite is Baked Potatoes.
i like them creamed, mashed or in a baked potato soup
I like to make scalloped potatoes
We love potato salad at our house.
I like my potatoes scalloped with baked beans on top.
One of my families favorites is Twice Baked Potatoes.
I love to slice them up and drizzle with olive oil and seasoned salt and bake them in the oven!
I love to make oven roasted potatoes!
I love twice baked potatoes.
I love fried potatoes in olive oil with salt pepper and chives
I love potato soup.
I like Mashed potatoes.
I loved mashed potatoes.
mashed with garlic and bread!
I love potato soup of all kinds. The more cheese the better
I love sweet potato fries!
I love mashed potatoes
I love baked p otatoes with cheese and spinich
We love potatoes cooked anyway!
I have a wonderful potato recipe with sour cream, dill. olives and green onions.
I like mashed potatoes with some of the skin left on – thank you!
i like a little baked potato with my butter and sour cream
I like mashed potatoes with garlic
baked potato
I like it cooked with sour creme, cheese, and bacon crumbles. I know that is not the most healthy thing to do though
Loaded baked potatoes are my favorite!
I can’t pick a favorite when it comes to potatoes, I love fries, baked, mashed and potato salad.
I love them baked.
roasted in the oven with a bit of olive oil and herbes de provence sprinkled on.
I make the best loaded twiced baked potatoes and everyone loves them!
Homemade potato chips with seasoned salt
i like to make potato salad
i love mashed potatoes
Mashed potatoes.
baked potatoes loaded with toppings
I love a baked potato with butter.
We love to bake potatoes in the crockpot and top with cheese, bacon, and sour cream! So good to come home to on a cold winter day!
I love fried and baked potatos
I love mashed potatoes and gravy.
We love baked with all the trimmings and roasted! My husband loves them mashed!
I love potato soup. In fact, Im making some right now!
Mashedf!
Steamed and seasoned.
Thanks for the chance.
We like baked potatoes.
My favorite way is really French Fries, but since I know those aren’t the healthiest way to eat them, I try to either bake them (top them with sauteed onions!) or oven roast them with some olive oil and lots of spices.
I love making baked potato soup…and homemade hashed browns, too!
I love them mashed
I love making scalloped potatoes.
Au gratin potatoes are my favorite
potato soup is the best!
potato tacos
I love potatoes fixed any way.
Baked is my favorite.
I like scalloped potatoes.
Scalloped or baked are my favorites, but I also eat them raw as a snack.
My favorite is the baked potato with chili and cheese!
I like baked potatoes or mashed potatoes. thank you!
I like them with a fox
I like them in a box
I like them here and there
I like them EVERYWHERE!!
Except mashed (because I had to eat them EVERY day for the first 18 years of my life)
mashed potatoes
I like mashed potatoes, but I usually eat boring steamed potatoes, which are just not as exciting as mashed.
I like baked potatoes.
baked potatoes are my favorite! you can dress them up any way that you want to. plus they are fun for the kids to create.
I love diced potatoes with rosemary! My husband makes the best.
I love grilled cheese and bacon potatoes!
Thank You
My favorite would be mashed potatoes.
Baked in the oven…sprinkled with salt and pepper and a squeeze of lime
I bake a bunch at a time – I use the extras for hash browns, German potato salad.. you name it!
Potatoes gratin!
I love twice-baked potatoes
mashed potatoes are my favorite
Probably mashed with brown gravy!
I love baked potatoes with bacon, cheese and ranch dressing.
Mmmm, potatoes made any way are great with me! However, if i have to choose, i’d say that mashed potatoes with the skins on are my fave.
I usually like potatoes when I have them, but I never think of them on my own – I’m a rice person! But if it’s a potato – baked is my favorite.
i love potato skins!
I love my potatoes turned into french fries.
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Stuffed with broc, cheddar cheese and ham!
I love scalloped potatoes and potato soup
I love crispy baked potato wedges.
I love mashed potatoes with skin combined with butter and sour cream. Yum!
I also love hamburger casserole topped with mashed potatoes.
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I love making oven roasted potatoes!
I love a baked potato with hummus, spinach and salsa
baked
Thanks for the giveaway! Janna Johnson jannajanna@hotmail.com Janna@feedyourpig on gfc
baked
I love them fried!
I like potatoes au gratin!
i love garlic mashed potatoes!
We like potatoes roasted in the oven with butter & onion salt.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love them mashed and topped with gravy!
I like to make my grandma’s scalloped potatoes and ham recipe
i love baked potatoes with sour cream & chives
Mashed potatoes with gravy or the all-time famous French Fries!
I love twice baked potatoes and mashed potatoes with a bit of sour cream mixed in to them.
cheesy potato salad
I loved baked potatoes
My favorite is the old-fashioned riced potatoes.. love them!!!!!
I love Mashed potatoes
I love mashed potatoes with the skins on.
fried potatoes… not very healthy but I love them!
Love potatoes!!! Still have some fresh ones from my garden!
I love baked potatoes and french fries
Hashbrowns
I like twice baked potatoes with sour cream and cheese.
Mashed potatoes.
Baked with sour cream.
Roasted parslied potatoes
I love making potato pancakes!
baked with butter:)
jmatek AT wi DOT rr DOT com
My favorite potatoes are mashed.
twice baked potatoes are my favorite
I love a fully loaded baked potato!
oven baked with olive oil & rosemary.
Thanks for the contest.
I love making homemade french fries
I like loaded baked potatoes.
We like our potatoes roasted with a little olive oil and garlic.
Mashed, baked, roasted, just about any way you cook em.
I love hash browns and baked potatoes.
I love fried breakfast potatos!
Last night I double baked them packed with cheese
My favorite way is mashed potatoes
I like baked potatoes with butter.
Baked are the best!
I like stuffed potatoes
I like mashed potatoes =)
I load my potato with a dab or butter and fresh grilled veggies
Mashed potatoes!
I like twice baked potatoes
I love poattoes fried in olive oil!
good luck to me
i like them french fried with gravy
My favorite has to be a toss-up between twice-baked potatoes with cheese or regular old fries! Unfortunately, those are also not the *healthiest* ways to eat them haha.
I love mashed potatoes
Baked Potatoes with sour cream
mashed potatoes
My favorite is baked with lots of butter, sour cream, bacon, cheese. Now, I’m hungry.
I like baked potatoes
My favorite way to eat potatoes is chunked with ham and cheese.
jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com
french fries are my fav
Roasted with rosemary and black pepper
I love to toss potatoes in a crockpot with some chicken and chicken broth. They always come out tender and delicious and it’s so easy!
coriwestphal at msn dot com
I love potatoes in all forms, but I probably like them best mashed with garlic and butter.
I love mashed potatoes
We love them every way but I would pick baked
I like them fired
Bakes, scolloped, potato soup, fries, mashes the list can go on and on. I truly love potatoes.
My favorite is twice baked potatoes.
I love to make & serve salt potatoes with butter!
Dana / hazelfinn(at)ymail(dot)com
I love the baked twice potatoes with ham and cheese!
fried with onions
I love mashed potatoes
I like to slice my potatoes in thin medallions and roast them after I toss them in a little melted butter and lots of seasonings.
I love potatoes in curry
I like mashed potatoes.
I love mashed potatoes
Probably mashed, we also love homemade fries
I like them mashed
my favorite way to eat potatoes is baked with lots of topping!
My family loves my homemade mashed potatoes!!
jofo120 at yahoo dot com
My favorite is country fried potatoes.
I like to make twice baked potatoes.
mashed potatoes, potato salad and potato soup
Definitely mashed potatoes!
mashed
I love baked potatoes with butter!
Mmmm! Love potatoes of every kind! Lately, potato chowder has been my favorite, but I’ll never turn down a baked potato or order of fries!
I love potatoes! My favorite way has got to be french fries… soooo good!
I like them fried
I love baked potatoes
I love baked potatoes, they are so versatile.
Thanks for the giveaway… microwave yellow potatoes quartered, drizzled with a little olive oils, topped with freshly ground pepper.
I like to eat mine mashed with lots of butter.
I love Au Gratin potatoes.
I love fries.
My favorite is mashed potatoes
My favorite way to serve potatoes is baked with butter and sour cream.
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