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FannyCornforth Fri 01-Jan-21 09:59:07

Carbohydrate that is.
If you could only eat one carb (you are allowed other food groups) which would it be?

Pasta, Potatoes, Rice or Bread?

I'd choose potatoes. I think I could live on potatoes and cheese.

Neilspurgeon0 Sat 02-Jan-21 11:52:08

Bread definitely although my OH would just as definitely choose potatoes and all three kids, pasta. Just show how different we all are eh !

harrigran Sat 02-Jan-21 11:59:12

Pasta, so versatile.

Taichinan Sat 02-Jan-21 12:13:32

I eat pasta and rice only very occasionally, so would have to be between bread and potatoes. However when I first read the question my instinct was for potatoes so I'll stick with them (and have some sneaky slices of bread when nobody's looking ??)

Mollygo Sat 02-Jan-21 12:17:13

Bread-with a side order of potatoes for me.

crazyH Sat 02-Jan-21 12:19:45

Rice

sodapop Sat 02-Jan-21 12:29:30

That sounds about right Mollygo not cheating at allsmile I don't eat pasta I really dislike the texture.

Puzzler61 Sat 02-Jan-21 12:32:21

That’s a hard one - can I alternate Fanny ? A different one each week? ?

GreyKnitter Sat 02-Jan-21 12:33:23

Potatoes as then I could have crisps! I like pasta but we don’t eat a lot, bread is ok but don’t eat it that often and rice - quite good sometimes but could live without it.

pinkjj27 Sat 02-Jan-21 12:47:58

Bread I just cant live with out it . Tea and bread and I am happy. Dont ask me to choose between tea and bread though.

Woodmouse Sat 02-Jan-21 12:56:20

Pasta for me! I love cooking and looking for new recipes - especially pasta ones! My DH would definitely go for rice.

icanhandthemback Sat 02-Jan-21 13:54:15

I like Jacket Potatoes enough to eat them for every meal so that would be my choice followed by Rice and Pasta, in that order. I love bread (lavished with butter, of course) but it doesn't love me. It gives me terrible heartburn and I bloat terribly. I thought it might be the butter but I could eat 1/2 a pound of that and not have the same reaction so it must be the bread.

Joesoap Sat 02-Jan-21 14:16:07

Bread every time

Blinko Sat 02-Jan-21 14:21:25

GagaJo

Bread. I LOVE it. It is the enemy though. I can only lose weight if I cut it out.

Same here.

HillyN Sat 02-Jan-21 14:27:42

It would have to be bread. I couldn't do without my toast for breakfast or sandwich for lunch.

moggie57 Sat 02-Jan-21 14:35:31

potatoes and cheese is lovely

Alioop Sat 02-Jan-21 15:40:40

Definitely bread. Loads of different types of bread now and I couldn't do without my toast. Also being from N.Ireland I adore pancakes, soda bread, potato bread, oh oh prob not allowed it cause it's using two carbs!

00mam00 Sat 02-Jan-21 16:01:24

Those of you who bloat after bread may just be gluten intolerant which I am. Potatoes would be my first choice with gluten free pasta second.

AlisonKF Sat 02-Jan-21 16:02:07

The Irish peasantry lived fairly successfuy on a diet of potates, kale and dairyprducts if theyhad a cow, and soda bread if theycould afford flour, up until the potato blight in 1845 when thousands died of famine. I would choose potatoes and cheese!

Catterygirl Sat 02-Jan-21 16:36:12

Not a big fan of bread. It's too filling. Like hot baguette with butter once in a while. Love curry and homemade vegetable rice with potato chunks and coriander. Potatoes are nice too. Love cottage pie.

albertina Sat 02-Jan-21 16:37:32

Potatoes. Preferably mashed !

Bluecat Sat 02-Jan-21 16:52:46

Spuds, I am afraid. My DH, who is Indian, loves rice but I can't share his enthusiasm. It's OK but unexciting, even when jazzed up in pilatus and biriyanis.

GrammarGrandma Sat 02-Jan-21 17:03:48

Potatoes. And they are lower in calories than the others.

AnotherLiz Sat 02-Jan-21 18:04:16

Rice for me. Due to IBS I’ve had to practically stop eating potatoes, can’t eat wheat, so I already eat a lot of rice.

Flicker Sat 02-Jan-21 18:10:39

Bread. I LOVE potatoes, but bread is so versatile?

Or, potatoes. Potatoes are very,,very versatile.

This is why I am fat ?

lizzypopbottle Sat 02-Jan-21 18:29:28

Another vote for bread ?