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Baked potatoes – flesh and skin 136 Calories per 100 g/31/2 oz
– flesh only 77 Calories per 100g/31/2 oz

Not that many, but it depends on the potato's size. Anyway, any reduction in calories is a contribution!

Are there a lot of calories in potato?

To get rid of some of the calories, I usually scoop out some of the inside and put the filling in the shell. Cottage cheese with chives from the garden is a favourite or tuna mashed up with philly light and a spoonful of mayo.

The skin is the best bit!

And I eat the skin too!

And me!

The crisp skin is what 'makes' a jacket potato for me.

Eloethan I agree about microwaved jacket potatoes, although they can be crisped up by briefly baking in the oven, but lots of "jacket" potatoes on pub menus are neither baked nor microwaved. They are simply unpeeled large potatoes that have been boiled. Within the meaning of the act but not within the spirit, methinks.

I love potatoes too. But I don't like jacket potatoes done in the microwave, so I'll rarely order them when I'm out. For me they must be baked in the oven.

I'm having homemade tomato soup instead with some tomato and basil bread! May put a smidgen of grated Parmesan on top!

That is sad, Galen.

I need a jacket potato now and I haven't got one!

Hee hee - I have just had a salmon fillet, buttered carrots and some lovely boiled potatoes coated in butter, with pepper and garlic salt.

I'm beginning to wish I hadn't seen bags link, I can't stop singing it!!!

I agree, BAnanas - I don't crave anything sweet, but I would hate to give up potatoes (or bread).

Life without potatoes would almost be as bad as life without bananas! What sad lives the people of this country lived with their miserable selection of root vegetables before we discovered the Americas, not so good for them though cos we only gave them the common cold and a lot worse!

It's reminded me we still have to lift our second earlies but CBA syndrome seems to have set in today.

It's always jacket potato weather!

And chips!!

Just cobs of cheese and butter for me!

How could I forget the jacket potato - I fill mine with various things, such as shrimp or egg mayonnaise.

Great! Thank goodness it's jacket potato weather again!

I think it must be my Irish heritage because I love potatoes - any way at all really

The potato is much under-rated - those roasties made my mouth water! No to mention tiny new potatoes with butter, mashed potatoes with grated cheese, and Belgian style crisp brown chips. How long is to lunch time?