Geez, I love taters. I don’t know if there are many other people out there who adore potatoes like I do. I love them fried, baked, mashed, crinkled, shredded, covered in cheese, boiled and even raw. They are their own food group to me – a delicious food group of starchy perfection.
Which is why I’ve decided to give them up.
But only until Easter – and then it’s game on for Grandma Buzzard’s fried chicken and mashed taters for Easter dinner.
That’s right, I’m giving up potatoes for Lent and I think this may be an even harder challenge than when I gave up soda for Lent (a lack of Dr. Pepper almost killed me). So what will I be eating instead?
Well, I’m obviously not going to cut back on my meat consumption. I’ll continue to enjoy lean beef, tasty pork and lots of different forms of chicken. But to fill the gap on my plate where potatoes used to go……
That’s not an exaggeration, I generally am pretty strictly meat and potatoes…. and cottage cheese. I looooooooove cottage cheese. If you don’t believe me, ask the Ninja.
To fill this void I’ll likely be eating a lot more of the following things:
– Green beans – did you know one cup of green beans contains 30% of your daily Vitamin C req’s?
– Corn – One cup contains a pretty significant amount of Thiamin and Vitamic C
– Rice/pasta – I’ll try to eat whole grain options in this category. Whole grain foods are very heart healthy and by the way, so is lean beef!
– Cottage cheese – this obviously has a lot of calcium in it!
If you haven’t noticed, I’m not a big fan of vegetables. However, I like lots of different kinds of meats so maybe I’ll rotate some kangaroo or some other exotic meat in there to toss things up a bit!
Are you giving anything up for Lent? If so, what?!
Until next time,
~ Buzzard ~
