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A whimsical, hypothetical question off the back of the pasta thread....
A strange set of circumstances means that you are made to stop eating either pasta, rice or potato (in all of their various forms).
Which one do you give up?
Rice, then potato
Rice, then Pasta.
You can take my chips from my cold, dead hands.
Pasta every time,
Rice - curry / chinese / Thai would not be the same
Potatoes - I'm irish I'd starve!
Pasta obviously. It’s ****ing stupid when you think about it. Come the apocalypse, are you really going to have time to process your carbs into ****ty little shapes?
Edit: would’ve expected the filter to catch that 😀
Having done this 18 months ago (except I gave up all three - no point in doing just one) Pasta/bread at the top of the list, followed by rice then pots.
Recently a few spuds have come back but only as chips - I'd happily never eat pasta again.... and I used to eat a lot of it.
Cauliflower is a great replacement for many things.
Rice – curry / chinese / Thai would not be the same
This is a tricky one, chips make a good substitute with curry but not so with Chinese. But then you have noodles, soooo...….
Cauliflower is a great replacement for many things.
Like grief, disappointment and sorrow
You can take my chips from my cold, dead hands.
Mmmmmm, challenge accepted.
Cauliflower is a great replacement for many things.
Yes and no. Don't try and make mash out of it, or rice, or whatever. Mashed potatoes exist because potatoes are really good when mashed. You don't need something mashed - it's just a good way to serve potatoes. It isn't a good way to serve cauliflower though, IMO. If you want to remove foods from your diet it's a bad idea to try and use other foods to mimic them. You need to find other foods to fill the spot on your plate, but cooked in the way that suits those other foods. I eat lots of cauli but with a nice cheese sauce with a dash of mustard - far better than cauli mash imo which is either too wet or too bitty depending on how cooked the cauli is.
I'll go with removing Cauli from my diet.
I've got cauliflower in my salad for lunch, it's great raw, and as I've got a quite a bit to use up before going away tomorrow it'll be in a stir fry tonight as well.
Impossible really. But since Italian sauces go well with Gnocchi and curry can be eaten with bread, maybe I would want to hang onto potatoes in all their forms.
I've been following Thomas De Gendt's tweets recently and he's been posting "what we had for dinner tonight" after stages. Quite often the carbs are doubled uppitiest, e.g. rice AND pasta.
Potatoes go first, then pasta, then rice. But it is an impossible task! 😆
Cauliflower "cous cous" is a really good substitute for rice. I often add some dessicated coconut too. It will also make a good pizza base when mixed with almond flour.
Sweet potatoes rather than ordinary white ones.
I've tried some substitute pastas but they just don't cut it.
If I want something Italian pasta sauce based I usually get some tomato and chilli sauce, pour it on chicken breasts and bake - then add some bacon and parmesan if I feel like it. Then serve with broccoli and sweet pots.
I'd cut Rice it can be substituted with couscous but thats the lazy choice TBH.
Potato is probably my second most frequently eaten carb in it's various forms (after bread) so if I really wanted to reduce carb intake by simply cutting out one item it would probably have to be bread or spuds...
In order of giving-up-ness;
1. Pasta- I like it but not as much as
2. Rice- pudding, curries, chili but
3. Potatoes would win. I love chips, me.
Pasta first, then rice, then potato.
Pasta is just too dense.
Pasta definitely as I tend to favour Asian cuisine in general and you can do so many things with potato... Even make pasta out of it! Gnocchi anyone?
Pasta to go first, I'm not a fan anyway. Rice second. Potatoes for the win.
Did you know in terms of carbiness, potatoes lose carbs/are less available each time they are cool and reheated? Might have been said on the other thread? So cold tatties have a lot less GI affect than hot. Mmm.... Cold roasties and cold new boiled tatties, love' em.
Seems all 3 are affected by cooling to have more resistant starch, but tatties are still by far the top, then rice and failing to have any proper research is pasta/wheat.
Pasta first as I don’t really eat it any way. Then rice as it gets stuck in the beard occasionally. Potatoes make crisps and chips, truly two of the best foodstuffs mankind has ever come up with.
Have just started on Bulgar Wheat which is quite pleasant and high fibre.
Pasta, What's the point living without roast spuds.
Pasta goes first, then potatoes. Rice is my absolute favourite.
What about bread?
Pasta to go. There's much more variety with rice and potato.
Mussolini tried to ban pasta! Will the tories come for our tatties in some post Brexit deal with the Chinese?
Tatties are meh, I'd struggle without pasta.
Can I replace it with weird alternatives? If so, then pasta, because I already did give up pasta, and now I eat weird fake pasta made out of buckwheat and sawdust.
(OK, if that's not allowed you can totally sub out equivalents- you can make most pasta dishes with gnocchi, or eggplant, or noodles, or spiralise some veg...) But you can't really do that with rice or spuds in the same way)
Wow there's not a lot of pasta love in here. I could happily live without potatoes and rice, it wouldn't even be a particular hardship. But don't get between me and mah lasagne!