"Julie Bove" wrote:
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>Potatoes are no longer cheap here either. I buy far less of them than I
>used to. The cheapest place to get them is Costco but few families could
>eat as many as are in one of those huge bags. And I will no longer buy them
>there after getting those rotten ones.

There are many recipes that use up lots of spuds and freeze well;
latkes and potatonic are my favorites... now they are selling frozen
mashed potatoes at exhorbitant prices, easy to prepare your own, can
do a ten pound bag at once and takes very little freezer space.
Hashbrowns freeze well too. I usually buy those large bags of Green
Giant chef size potatoes, a seven pound bag contains 7-8 potatoes,
they are better quality than the no-name spuds and keep well at least
twice as long... a lot less labor to peel large spuds and less waste
too. They're good to make stuffed baked potatoes, which freeze well.
Potato peelings go into a bowl and then dumped in the yard for a deer
treat... I'm not sure which critters eat them but they're always gone
by morning.