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23. How my mom used to store our garden potatoes

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 04:39 PM

Mar 2015

is she had a big bin and put it in the cold storage in the basement (the cold storage was just a small room in the corner with concrete on 2 sides and no insulation on the outside walls, but insulation on the inside walls to keep the cool in. It was the size of a tiny closet).

The potatoes used to last nearly the whole winter. Yeah, the did sprout after 3-4 months but she would just cut those off. Closer to spring she would throw out the ones that were too soft and the sprouts were too big, and keep a few of the good ones for seed potatoes for the following year. We used to grow red potatoes, so a bit different than your typical russet. Plus, I think the freshness helped them last - the ones you buy in the store who knows how long they've been sitting already.

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white potatoes making up for 80% of vegetable consumption in the America [View all] Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 OP

I bet that figure would go down if the government classified ketchup and catsup a vegetable Brother Buzz Mar 2015 #1

Or better yet, salsa FrodosPet Mar 2015 #2

replacing sugar with salt. watch the sugar and salt content in these products Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #4

Works for me! Brother Buzz Mar 2015 #5

Michelle did an episode of Restaurant Impossible for the Food Network. AtomicKitten Mar 2015 #3

kids in documentary at link couldnt identify veggies either. were experts about processed chip Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #6

The price is diabetes and coronary artery disease. AtomicKitten Mar 2015 #9

Here's the thing, a lot of the delicious things you do to a potato you can do to a veggie>>> KittyWampus Mar 2015 #7

French fries and potato chips come ready made daredtowork Mar 2015 #15

most/all of the choices I listed can also come as ready mades. And 'convenience' KittyWampus Mar 2015 #22

I have a food processor daredtowork Mar 2015 #25

they make ittybitty processors that are simple to use and clean Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #40

or it could be about Dyedinthewoolliberal Mar 2015 #39

and time to learn how to do the cooking in a new way; and time and energy and motivation... ND-Dem Mar 2015 #31

I just bought 50 lbs of potatoes for less than $10. Trillo Mar 2015 #8

Almonds are one of those water-intensive crops Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #10

I know, but what does that have to do with so many poor people being Trillo Mar 2015 #11

Also, potatoes keep for longer laundry_queen Mar 2015 #16

I try to keep potatoes in a cool place. Trillo Mar 2015 #20

How do you preserve potatoes to last six months? panader0 Mar 2015 #19

See post #20. Trillo Mar 2015 #21

How my mom used to store our garden potatoes laundry_queen Mar 2015 #23

How so you store your potatoes? Iris Mar 2015 #26

Most veg are expensive, bulky, and spoil quickly, while people are working longer for less money Scootaloo Mar 2015 #12

So true laundry_queen Mar 2015 #24

I have a hard time finding untrimmed broccoli anymore -- which i hate, because you can tell ND-Dem Mar 2015 #32

Just stop with the guidelines daredtowork Mar 2015 #13

i think what we need is more time, more money, more peace. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #34

Local stores deli occasionally serves fried green beans... Lancero Mar 2015 #45

Can't buy from deli on food stamps. nt daredtowork Mar 2015 #48

Potatoes have saved not only the Irish, but the Andean indigenous people Cleita Mar 2015 #14

^this^ Iris Mar 2015 #27

true Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #38

They are very close to a 'complete food' marle35 Mar 2015 #41

Potatoes are not vegetables. no_hypocrisy Mar 2015 #17

Vegetable often refers to vegetative parts not flowers or products of flowering HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #30

The term "vegetable" is a non-biological one largely defined through culinary and cultural ND-Dem Mar 2015 #35

I think a more useful organizing principle LWolf Mar 2015 #49

As a potato lover and amateur potato grower, I have to put in a good word enough Mar 2015 #18

yes, but not when consumed as potato chips and fries Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 #37

would you like fries with that? magical thyme Mar 2015 #28

I wonder how much of that is french fries? Marr Mar 2015 #29

Probably half and the other half potato chips, both high in fat Cleita Mar 2015 #33

mcdonalds small fries have 9% of the rda for vitamin c & 12% of the rda for fiber. + some ND-Dem Mar 2015 #36

Potatoes, onions, carrots are all very cheap Marrah_G Mar 2015 #42

Depends on how you cook them... Lancero Mar 2015 #46

Not to mention that the deep water wells needed for potato farming are sucking the aquifers dry. Scuba Mar 2015 #43

Rice is cheaper Wellingtom Mar 2015 #44

It's a grain, not a vegetable. Lancero Mar 2015 #47