20 potatoes per day

[ny biker]

This man is going to eat 20 potatoes per day for 60 days in order to promote the nutritional value of spuds.

I hope he gets combat pay.

http://20potatoesaday.com/index.html

[XMcShiftersonX]

Man... I'm vegan and I don't even like potatoes that much! I didn't think potatoes were that great nutritionally (?). Sweet potatoes are, but it looks like he's just going for the regular white ones. Suspicious. And he's from Washington. It'll be interesting though.

[Zen]

I can't say anything nice about this.

[marni]

we used to use the old "would you,could you, should you?" as an elvaluation of possible activities with the kids. Sounds like time to invoke this rule.My only question is WHY???

[ny biker]

For some reason it makes me think of Cool Hand Luke's hard boiled eggs.

[ny biker]

we used to use the old "would you,could you, should you?" as an elvaluation of possible activities with the kids. Sounds like time to invoke this rule.My only question is WHY???

Well, promoting potato consumption is his job. But like I said, I hope he's getting combat pay. And a nice vacation when it's over.

[malkin]

And I thought I had to do stupid stuff for my job!

[7rider]

This man is going to eat 20 potatoes per day for 60 days in order to promote the nutritional value of spuds.

I hope he gets combat pay.

http://20potatoesaday.com/index.html

When I was growing up, my folks used to have over for every holiday an elderly friend of my mom's parents. She was quite eccentric (but baked wonderful chocolate chip cookies!) and often repeated the same stories, over and over and over.....
One of them was how, as a child, she had to eat potatoes, 3 meals a day for some (now, sadly, forgotten) long period of time. Potatoes for breakfast. Potatoes for lunch. Potatoes for supper. Soon, she couldn't bare to LOOK at a potato for the rest of her life! Woe to my mother if she ever dared to prepare a meal with potatoes in it, as it would (re)trigger this story over and over (and over) again, and the table full of my sibs would all sit there and roll our eyes at Aunt Mae. :rolleyes::D
I suspect this guy will be foisting this tale on his grands at some point in the future, and they'll be rolling their eyes at him, too.

[malkin]

I want to show the world that the potato is so healthy, that you could live off them alone if you had to, without any negative impact to your health.

It's a pretty safe bet he's not talking about mental health.

[KnottedYet]

I love potatoes.

As a kid, I'd eat them raw like apples. I planted them, I nurtured them, I talked to them. I always felt that if there was a potato, there was hope. When I was pregnant, for a while all I could stomach was mashed potatoes. My child's first solid food was steamed potato.

But even I don't have a stomach big enough to eat 20 potatoes a day.

[Zen]

For some reason it makes me think of Cool Hand Luke's hard boiled eggs.

I can eat fifty eggs :D
Very appropriate.

[PamNY]

Maybe they are small potatoes.

[Atlas]

I can get all Forrest Gump on how much I love potatoes and their many forms, but 20 a day? No thanks. I don't think I could do more than 10. :)

[Catrin]

hmmmm I can see the potatoes getting smaller, and smaller and...

Eating NOTHING but potatoes for 60 days and he thinks there won't be an impact to his health? Who is advising this man that this marketing scheme is a good idea!?!

I noticed that he didn't include the total number of daily carbs in his nutritional summation - so he will be consuming 520 grams of carbs every day...

[Catrin]

well its better than eating only McDonald's for a month.... and I think his film did a lot to raise awareness, despite the adverse effects on his health.

Eating all potatoes is wacky, sure. I wouldnt do it, and I love potatoes. But they indeed get a bad rap, theyre far better than the processed surgary stuff most people eat every day...


I am not saying that potatoes are bad for you, it is just like anything else, the body requires more than one food for a balanced, healthy diet. However he has his reason for doing this, so hopefully it will have the results that he is hoping for.

[malkin]

It could become a trendy new spiritual discipline, The Potato Fast, distinguishable from the Potato Famine by the other activities of practitioners.

[nscrbug]

I love potatoes. I could probably eat them everyday without a problem...but certainly not 20 of 'em. At least I hope that I couldn't eat 20 potatoes in a day. :D

[OakLeaf]

Well don't forget that the potato famine happened because people were eating pretty much nothing but potatoes until the blight hit...

[malkin]

Well don't forget that the potato famine happened because people were eating pretty much nothing but potatoes until the blight hit...

...and after the blight they just went on with eating the pretty much nothing.

[sarahspins]

I noticed that he didn't include the total number of daily carbs in his nutritional summation - so he will be consuming 520 grams of carbs every day...

Yeah, this is the part I can't wrap my head around.. I would imagine that even for a normal person this would be a stress on their system... I couldn't (successfully) consume that much carbs in a day, even if I tried.

[kacie tri-ing]

This is way too funny. Did you watch the video from the shopping trip? He tried to leave without paying for the potatoes!!!! It was amazing!

[malkin]

re: shopping video
Certainly not the next food network star, and miles away from the take-home chef.

20 potatoes just seems like a lot for one day.

[OakLeaf]

so he will be consuming 520 grams of carbs every day...

Which just goes to show you what's wrong with a low-fat diet, since he'll be getting enough protein (enough complete protein for an adult, though not for a young child).

Actually close to enough of almost everything. He would need B12 and fats. Vitamin A if he doesn't eat the skins.

That's sort of an illustration of how traditional food pairings make foods nutritionally complete. Topping a potato with a bit of GRASS-FED dairy product would give vitamins A, B12 and healthy fats, and make the protein even better.

[7rider]

The guy is regretting his decision to go for 60 days (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39854988/ns/today-today_health/?gt1=43001).
Boy. There's a surprise. :rolleyes:

"The Washington state man who's on a 60-day all-potato diet wishes he had set a goal of one month instead of two. Chris Voigt told the Tri-City Herald that — as good and healthy as potatoes are — there's only so many ways they can be prepared. And, about halfway through his tuber diet, which began Oct. 1, he's had them boiled, baked, steamed, grilled, fried, marinated and mashed."

[OakLeaf]

A different take: http://www.alternet.org/food/148926/the_winter_i_had_to_live_almost_completely_on_potatoes_..._and_loved_it/?page=3

[smurfalicious]

I'm waiting for someone in the corn industry to try and best him. :p

[OakLeaf]

Just about everything most people eat is made from corn, anyway. :(

[kacie tri-ing]

I bet he is one happy person that it's over!

[jolie]

so many. unbelievable:)