Alternative to potatoes

Cauliflower.

Sweet potatoes? They really aren't potatoes.

I am also on a diet that doesn't include many carbs but a few boiled potatoes are ok. It is the things you have with them and how you cook them that ups the calories and carbs.

I don;t so without anything, just eat less and cook things differently.

Celeriac. Swede.

Just more overground growing vegetables. It’s the underground ones that are generally more carb laden.

I sometimes have the pre prepared chunks of Butternut squash. I add herbs,spices and garlic to add flavour and cook in my air fryer.

Basmati rice, low GI. Ebly (pre cooked wheat), great on its own or for stirfries or salads.

Sweet potatoes and cauliflower rice.

If you miss potatoes just have fewer, plain boiled, and make up the difference with other vegetables especially greens. I lost weight like this some years ago and also restricting my intake of bread and pasta. I could never, ever, give up any of them and if you deny yourself things you like you will be miserable and just put the weight on again because eventually you will go back to ea

… eating the forbidden things. Everything in moderation!

Potatoes are not the devil in disguise! The best way to lose weight is to eat less and move more (or even just eat normally and move a LOT more). End of. Demonising individual foods doesn't really help in the long run because, at some stage, you've got to stop losing weight and go back to an easier way of eating, and that's when the old habits come back.

When I’ve been cutting out carbs, or trying to, I’ve found a big helping of green beans fairly filling.
As pps have said, though, boiled or jacket potatoes on their own aren’t really a problem - it’s the butter, oil etc. we put on them or cook them in.

Chopped or chipped roasted butternut squash is almost as nice as roast potatoes, especially if you cook them till almost burnt.

Roasted cauliflower as steaks, 'couscous' or 'rice'. My air fryer cuts down on cooking time, but oven is fine.

Celeriac makes good chips, though not quite as crisp as potatoes.

Another vote for sweet potatoes .

Turn the potatoes into resistant starch

Thank you everyone.

A can of butter beans, mashed.

If you like a radishy flavour try Daikon. You could mash it or try slicing for chips.

I've been potato-less for so long I really don't bother about them anymore. While I still salivate at a mental image of a huge, fluffy baked potato loaded with butter and cheese it never crosses my mind when I prep dinner and I don't really miss them anymore. Same with bread. I've learnt to like other things.

Cauliflower rice ( cauliflower chopped up finely in a coffee grinder or blipped for a second or so in a liquidiser, fried) is low in carbohydrate. It can be a bit tasteless - herbs etc help- but works with tasty stews etc.

Halve the amount you’d usually eat, then you don’t have to cut anything out. My usual go to for an additional carb is 40g rice.

couscous, chickpeas, butter beans, kidney beans, lentils, quinoa

As a Diabetic, I can’t eat potato so I eat either celeriac or swede instead.

I have cut down the amount of potato and bread I eat - I like them too much to cut them out completely! I have lost some weight and hopefully it will stay off as I can stick to the following pretty easily.
No potatoes with evening meal and 2 slices of bread max per day.

May I suggest Paul Mckennas get control of your weight DVD? I have lost it in the moves but it hypnotises into realising that you can eat fried mars bars or similar and you won’t put weight. I eat and drink whatever I fancy and weight stays stable since reading Paul McKenna. I became so slim family were upset. Now I’m being encouraged to eat so much food I don’t want.

150 grams of basmati rice is equivalent to 10 teaspoons of sugar. Yup, that shocked me. Sweet potatoes will send your sugar levels soaring. I eat lots of above ground veg, but minimise spinach etc that are high in oxalates which is bad for you. Protein, small amount of good quality dairy. No grains as not as good for you as first thought. I am diabetic etc and very insulin resistant - so do intermittent fasting as well. A GP called Unwin created a teaspoon table to help his patients - link phcuk.org/sugar/