Gransnet forums

Chat

Which would you choose?

(88 Posts)
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.

Skweek1 Sat 02-Jan-21 10:46:14

Type 1 diabetic who controls with carb counting, so would find it hard to choose between bread and potatoes - love both and both give so much variety. Honestly not a great pasta lover and apart from rice pudding- make it with dried fruit and cinnamon!- yum - could live without rice

cupcake1 Sat 02-Jan-21 10:39:53

Potato girl here! Love bread but I bloat up then feel like a beached whale when I eat it so I avoid it - mostly! ?

pen50 Sat 02-Jan-21 10:39:49

Coeliac so easy to cut out bread and pasta. And actually don't like potato - something to do with the texture, hard egg yolks do it too. So I'd keep rice. But I don't eat a lot of carbs anyway, far too fattening and better for my type two tendencies, and partner's type one requirements, to just stay away.

Kim19 Sat 02-Jan-21 10:38:44

Potatoes every time for me. No contest.

Buffybee Fri 01-Jan-21 17:40:11

I don't eat potatoes, rice or pasta much at all, so it would have to be bread for me.

LauraNorder Fri 01-Jan-21 17:20:35

I was going to say pasta with lovely creamy sauces but then Nortsat mentioned baked potatoes with butter and black pepper, then chips, wedges, mashed. Bluebell said crisps and that clinched it, definitely potatoes.
Then Grannynannywanny mentioned soup with chunks of crusty bread.
So maybe I could leave out rice but that wasn’t the question, oh heck I can’t choose.

Baggs Fri 01-Jan-21 17:16:04

Hmm. Difficult one. I didn't miss bread, potatoes and pasta when I lived in Thailand and rice came with everything as is or in noodles (rice is life there!), but I don't miss rice now that I'm not eating it three times a day.

My macaroni cheese is to die for. My Camembert potatoes are to die for. My potato and other roasted carby root vegetables are to die for. And my homemade bread is so good you can eat it by itself without even butter.

So this is my choice: I'll keep eating any and all of them in moderation.

NanSue Fri 01-Jan-21 17:15:52

Bread.. Can’t beat a slice of toast and butter. Perfect comfort food.

dragonfly46 Fri 01-Jan-21 17:09:53

Definitely potatoes!

BBbevan Fri 01-Jan-21 17:08:49

Low GI Sorry

BBbevan Fri 01-Jan-21 17:08:30

Bred. Artisan for preference, sourdough . Since I eat low carb it is usually a slice of Lidl low

EllanVannin Fri 01-Jan-21 15:50:41

Oooh it has to be potatoes. What I can't do with a spud isn't worth knowing grin

SueDonim Fri 01-Jan-21 15:43:53

Rice for me. I’d probably quite happily live on home made rice pud!

I wouldn’t care if I never ate another potato.

Grannynannywanny Fri 01-Jan-21 14:06:43

I’d hate to be without bread. It’s versatile and cheap. Some foods would be just incomplete without bread.

A lunch bowl of hearty soup needs a chunk of bread for company.

And boiled eggs would be a non event without their toasty soldiers.

GrandmasueUK Fri 01-Jan-21 14:01:25

I was thinking bread but then kittylester mentioned Jersey Royals and I fell for them.

Smileless2012 Fri 01-Jan-21 13:55:54

It would have to be pasta for me.

NotTooOld Fri 01-Jan-21 13:54:57

Bread!

grannyactivist Fri 01-Jan-21 12:38:38

As both bread and potatoes induce me to use lashings of butter I should really do without both. Most of the pasta I eat has some form of cheese with it too, so I guess I need to give up the carbs altogether. grin

Riverwalk Fri 01-Jan-21 12:35:01

Bread, but like Gaga it is the enemy!

And like any normal person I love all Kitty's types of potatoes.

timetogo2016 Fri 01-Jan-21 12:32:02

Potatoes,so versatile.

kittylester Fri 01-Jan-21 12:29:41

Being gf I'd have to go for potatoes - roast, mashed, chips, fried, Jersey Royals dripping in butter........

Westcoaster Fri 01-Jan-21 11:51:55

Definitely potatoes, so versatile. Bread I like too, but can (and do most of the time) live without it.

BlueBelle Fri 01-Jan-21 11:39:47

Potatoes especially crisps

silverlining48 Fri 01-Jan-21 11:38:36

Potatoes for sure with bread next.

tanith Fri 01-Jan-21 11:35:58

I can’t choose ?