Missing Potatoes

[Sweetfudge]

So, I've stopped eating potatoes b/c they seem to make me sick

What other nightshades do I need to be cautious of? I think I might also have a problem w/ onions. But only sometimes?

Anyway, w/ the holidays coming up, I'm trying to figure out what to do as far as a replacement for my favorite food. Any helpful hints/recipes? Are sweet potatoes ok to eat?

Thanks

[pele]

The most commonly eaten nightshades are tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and potatoes. Sweet potatotes do not appear on the lists. Here is a link to more info

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How about using winter squash or spicy lentils in some holiday dishes? It's fun to break tradition and experiment.

[Jestgar]

I haven't tried them, but I've been told that mashed turnips are really good.

[jerseyangel]

Try making mashed cauliflower. It's actually very good--boil or steam a head of cauliflower until very soft and then prepare it the same as you would for mashed potatoes.

[frec]

I can't have potatoes either. I eat sweet potatoes or yams. Neither are botanically related to real potatoes. I mash them, bake them, and put them in soups--great. I think the whitish ones are a bit more potatoey than the orange yams. Both are more nutritious than regular potatoes, which is nice.

Some people really like quinoa as well.

[sickchick]

If I don't want something as sweet as sweet potatoes I use golden yams.

they mash well (I mash em with sea salt, and roasted garlic-yum)

[lizard00]

I also suggest smashed cauliflower. I had it a few years ago when some restaurant was capitalizing on the no carb diet. But I've made them at home before, really quite delicious!

[AliB]

Mmm. Mashed cauli with a sprinkling of natural bouillon powder, a good knob of butter and a drizzle of cream if tolerated. Delish.

Roast chunky cut carrots, parsnips, zucchini and squash or sweet potato drizzled with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt - if you are tempted, throw in a few whole garlic corms too...........bake for 40 to 50 mins turning a couple of times.

Mashed carrot and swede with a knob of butter and a sprinkle of nutmeg.

Slice a squash in half and place cut side down on a baking dish. Roast for about an hour. Leave to cool a little then scrape the flesh out, mash it and add a little butter. Mmm Mmm.

Why worry about potato when you can have a double helping of green string beans instead - give me them anyday!

[julirama723]

I can't eat potatoes either, I get horrible stomach cramps.

Some good potato substitutes (though not dairy free):

Mashed cauliflower--I nuke it in the microwave, then throw it in the food processor with a bit of butter or sour cream (well I used to...) and add salt, pepper, chives, garlic, onion. They taste like really great mashed potatoes, and I like them better, knowing I'm eating my veggies!

Baked sweet potatoes--bake them in the oven in foil, or wrap in saran wrap and cook in the microwave for 5 minutes. Eat the skin!

Celeriac or turnip au gratin--on a mandolin, slice celeriac or turnip thinly. Layer in a baking dish with butter. Add salt, pepper, and cream over top, bake covered.

Butternut puree--bake butternut squash in the oven, puree in the food processor, eat as is, no seasoning necessary!

Acorn squash--bake in oven. You can add a meat/veggie mix (sausage and veggies with fennel seed and pepper is really good) or just add cinnamon and honey (or brown sugar) and scoop it out of the rind at eat it as is, or mash it.

[AliB]

It may not be the nightshade that is the problem, but the starch. Many of us cannot process carbs properly so instead of feeding us, the undigested carbs end up feeding rogue bacteria in the gut fomenting the vicious cycle of inflammation leading to things like leaky gut.

I found with having Candida overgrowth that foods like bread and potatoes and other high-starch foods would get stuck in my throat and be difficult to swallow.

Those of us on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet have cut the long-chain carbs in the form of grains and starches out of our diet and just include the simple carbs from fruit and non-starchy veg which is helping our bodies to heal. Finally we are getting answers to why we have problems with certain foods and it is such a relief.

Once the gut has healed we then should have little or no problems with any food.