Consuming
Thoughts
Fay Strickler
Penn State
Home Economist
Many of us were probably
brought up with the potato as the
centerpiece of our daily diet.
Then, in recent years, some people
got the idea tht the spud was
responsible for the extra bulges
and therefore not worth a second
glance in the supermarket.
Far too many of us have an
unreasonable fear of a perfectly
harmless vegetable the potato.
We pass up 100 calories worth of
potato for a second helping of
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steak. A smart consumer learns to
enjoy America’s favorite veget
able year-round and serves it in
versatile dishes at breakfast,
lunch, dinner, and snacks.
The potato, of course is a good
deal more than starch. Besides
being an appetite appeaser, the
potato is a low-fat, high-nutrition
vegetable that contributes only 80
calories to your dinner plate, and
30 percent of your vitamin C
requirement, a good deal less than
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most of the foods that might take
its place. (Another lamb chop or
second helping of roast beef could
cost you 300 calories or more.
Even your salad dressing is prob
ably higher in calories than the
potato.)
If potatoes are so harmless, why
the pound-provoking image? One
reason, of course, is that potatoes
arc seldom seen except in the
company of high calorie-high fat
companions butter, sour cream,
rich sauces, and gravies, shredded
cheese, or crumbled bacon. Like a
lot of other perfectly good foods,
potatoes are the victim of guilt by
association.
So, how do you keep a potato
virtuous? Become a creative low
calorie cook and strip away the
unnecded extra calories in the
most popular potato dishes. There
are lots of good companions you
can provide for everybody’s favo
rite vegetable, sinfully rich-tasting
loppings and sauces that only
seem fattening.
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Here are just a few examples of
low-calorie potato companions:
• Mock sour cream non
dairy flakes, averaging 25 calories
a tablespoon. Choose low-fat sour
dressings, with only a few calories
a tablespoon. Heart-smart dieters,
take note: Most “vegetable oil”
sour cream substitutes are made
with highly saturated coconut oil
and should be avoided by the
cholesterol-wary.
• Plain yogurt only eight
calories a tablespoon, with a taste
and'texture similar to sour cream.
Try it mixed with parsley or
chives.
• Low-fat cottage cheese
about IS calories a tablespoon.
Tangy style small curd cottage
cheese has a flavor similar to sour
cream. “Whipped” cottage cheese
is also available.
• Homemade “sour cream”
prepared by whipping equal
parts cottage cheese and butter
milk in your blender. About 10
calories a tablespoon.
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for ordinary margarine or butter.
(Note that regular margarine and
butter have the same caloric
count) One teaspoon (16 calories)
is enough.
• Diet salad dressing pick
blue cheese, cream Caesar,
French, or any flavor you favor.
Most are 10 to 24 calories a
tablespoon.
• Imitation bacon bits
smokey-flavored soy protein
chips at only 7 or 8 calories a teas
poon, a fraction of the calories or
real bacon.
• Low-calorie cream sauce
made by stirring 1 cup skim milk
gradually into 2 tablespoons flour.
Cook over low heat until thick
ened. Season it with onion flakes,
butter-flavored salt and pinch ol
cayenne. Nine calories a
tablespoon.
• Low-calorie gravy made
with fat-free pan juices left from a
roast. Chill the drippings until all
the fat congeals on the surface.
Strip off the fat (and calories) and
simmer each cupful with 2 tables
poons flour. Less than 10 calorics
a tablespoon. Canned beef or
chicken broth can be thickened the
same way.
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