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Is a Potato Just a Potato?
Posted by Deb, Diet, Weight Loss and Fat Fighting Blogger! | Posted in Diet, Discovery, Food, Fried Wiki | Posted on 26-07-2008
With my caveman mentality, I believed a potato was just a potato.
“How big is your potato?” Danielle asked.
I laughed, it’s a potato…don’t they just come in one size. One potato is a serving size, and I’m having one potato. It’s not a special potato, it’s not a magic potato, it’s just a damn potato.
Guess what? A potato is NOT just a potato.
The red small potato on the left (this particular one) is 4 ounces. I get 3 ounces. The one on the right? In tiny print, where you get to squint to read it (yeah, I’m in my 40’s, maybe you younger kids don’t have to squint) it says 8 ounces. Guess what? I weighed it…it was ACTUALLY 12 ounces!!!!! OH MY GOSH, I’ve been having 4 servings of potatoes with that ONE potato. No fair!
I only had one potato, one serving, like I’d been told to.
Buying a scale and seeing for myself just how off I was has been eye opening. Guess who is back to trying again and this time weighing and measuring EVERYTHING? Yup, that would be me….the girl who almost gave up.
