Comments on: You say potato (Day 325)…

By: booga

booga — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:03:39 +0000

this is my new profile pic

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:41:55 +0000

random addition is that you can also use potato skins as a poultice for open wounds in a pinch…keeps infection at bay….one of those random facts picked up in my studies that i’ll probably never utilize

By: Chile

Chile — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:51:58 +0000

This site has a little more about produce codes. http://www.innvista.com/health/foods/organics/labeling.htm

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:14:21 +0000

i do always leave on my potato skins. but if you don’t want them, you can also throw them in your compost insetad of the garbage – or as i do, in a bag of food scraps in my freezer that i bring to a compost collection each week.

By: Hellcat13

Hellcat13 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:18:21 +0000

How many other people just ran and checked their bag o’ tates? What does my “3″ mean?

Anyway, this is easy. I love potato skins. Especially red skins in mashed potatoes….mmmm, yummy.

By: healthycookie

healthycookie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:55:09 +0000

don’t have much time to write as I am busy glowing in the st. lucia sun… but potato skins are super healthy and there is actually a recipe if you wish to look it up called Dr. Lau’s (I think) Alkaline broth made from potato skins. Super great for alkalanizing and remineralizing the systerm when nutritents are lost from sickness, or binge drinking… great replacement for bone broth. The skins are the best part- sort of goes for all root vegetables. The minerals lie just below the skin layer so when you peel them… it all gets lost. Just rub-adub-scrub and buy organic and do not, i repeat DO NOT buy potatoes if their sku number begins with an ’8′. 8 mean GMO, 9 mean organic.

By: gettinggreen

gettinggreen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:15:54 +0000

Yeah, I actually get a little worried about root veggies, limesarah — that’s why one of my green changes was to be strict about the organic thing when it comes to squash, potatoes, turnips, etc. Apparently they suck up a LOT of evil from the soil. Even if it’s an organic farm, if there was DDT sprayed on the land 40 years ago there can still be trace elements entering the root veggies and tubers. Scary stuff. But yeah, skins or no skins doesn’t make a diff in that case.

And yes, dad, the Little Shop of Horrors does come to mind!

By: limesarah

limesarah — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:56:08 +0000

I *love* potato skins Root vegetables should be one of the lower-pesticide veggies, since nothing is getting sprayed directly on them unless it’s after they’re harvested. They might absorb stuff, but then peeling them wouldn’t help anyway.

By: Daddypoo's

Daddypoo's — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:58:30 +0000

it reminds me of Audrey 2 (remember her/it?)

By: Lissa

Lissa — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:09:36 +0000

A tip for those who do use fridge and/or freezer units — if veggies are well scrubbed prior to peeling, the peelings, tops, and tails can all go into a sealed 1 qt container in the freezer. When the container is full, put the bits into a cheese cloth bag and dump the bag into a stock pot with 4 quarts of water and some seasoning. After 4 hours on low heat, they’ll make a great vegetable stock.