do you have to have potatoes with your dinner

[mccfluff]

slight argument at work, do you have to have potatoes with your meal to make it complete

for example (although i now want chicken tikka) i have chicken pie for dinner and will have that with carrots, broc, peas. I am being told that i have to have some form of potato with it or its not a meal. to me the pastry acts as my carbs and i don;t need anything else

whale will bring home chick curry and rice and chips - i don't get this???

[Quassia]

A small amount mccfluff, I suppose I wouldn't feel it was whole without.

[tiggerblue10]

I'm the same as you Fluffy. I either have potato, bread, pasta or rice. Just one type of carb per meal.

[Frank97]

Not in my opinion you don't! By that measure anything Indian, Chinese or Italian wouldn't be a proper meal, rubbish.

[coccinelle]

Well, it's a known thing in the tourist areas of France; when you see a family tucking into pizza and chips you know they're Brits!!

[mccfluff]

lol had pizza last night, whale phoned to see if i wanted him to stop and get chips!

but a roast dinner would not be a roast dinner without roasties

[chelle7272]

No same as you only one carb, my OH drives me mad with this as well

[craft1948]

If you're having pie you shouldn't have potato..........

[jackthehat]

Let's face it, fluff...........with your hips, you shouldn't even have pie!! :op

[mccfluff]

what about potato pie, does that have pastry i've never had it

is this a british thing?

[mccfluff]

but i can balance pie on my hips (and support a wine glass stem between my cleavage but thats another story)

[gingejbee]

Agree- never have potatoes with any sort of pie etc.

[ummmm]

McFluff....get SPUDS....you CANNOT call that a dinner without SPUDS.

I am going to phone you in a bit and tell you that ginger people are evil and dinners are not complete without SPUDS.....geddit???!!!!

Phew!! feel a bit better now..

[hc4361]

We often have mashed swede instead of potato, especially with chops and pies.

[jackthehat]

^Not that you're in the least bit biased, eh, spuddy o'murphy.....? :o)

[mccfluff]

ginger people are not evil, ginger pubes are evil and i'm not having frigging spuds with pie

[craft1948]

^ what she said...............

[mccfluff]

isn't mashed swede the same sort of thing tho, carbs and carbs or is swede not as carby as potato? (if that makes any sense)

[craft1948]

http://www.weightloss...drates-vegetables.htm

[LoftyLottie]

We don't have potatoes a lot Fluffy. Like you, one lot of carbs per meal is fine.

[hc4361]

Swede is a root veg full of fibre.
Potato is strictly not a vegetable, it is a tuber and is a carb. Potatoes don't count in your 5 a day, swede does.