The Kenyan diet got me looking into some foods. The common potato, which has been a cursed food during the low carb days, is a powerhouse of nutrition for the endurance athlete. Carbs, protein, fiber, vitamins/minerals, potassium. Check this out
http://www.ida.net/users/potatoexpo/pages/nutrition.html
My new lunch meal is a Wendy’s spud, hold the toppings, and pour a small chili over it. A frosty on the side of course!
Back when I was really poor and rode a lot I used to buy a bag of new or red potatoes about egg size ones and boil them up in heavly salted water and put a couple few in a baggy. Way way cheaper than power bars or commercial supplements, ez to digest and actually taste pretty good.
I recall reading something somewhere that if you ate the following foods only and there were no other health complications you could live to be 100 years old:
Sweet Potatos/Yams
Spinich
Salmon
Blueberries
Brocoli
Indeed, diet does not need to be a complicated affair - but people do want to make it that way. It is intersting to note that some of the diets of some of the longest living people and healthiest on the planet are also the simplest and most straight forward.
Fleck
Now everyone knows why us Irish are such superior athletes.
When I did my first marathon, I came home and asked my wife to make me some boiled potatoes. That’s what my body was craving.
Did you make it an Irish 7-course meal? A boiled potato and a six-pack?
i read something similar; that you could survive for quite a long time on just potatoes and milk.
Don’t you mean “What, no puss?”
Edited for spelling:
Sorry, I meant pus. Puss, well, that’s a whole other tale (tail).
(insert massive smiley here)
Obviously, you’re not from the Old Sod. It’s usually a 9-course meal when you add the meat and the gravy.
mmm I love potatoes. Yesterday we had really good roasted potatoes, fresh corn on the cob, and salad for dinner … the potatoes were the best part. I washed it all down with a nice glass of pus 
Mrs. Last Tri does this:
quarter a potato
lather on olive oil
apply seasoning of your choice - garlic, salt, pepper, or BBQ seasoning
oven bake til tender.
Yummy & fairly healthy
mmm! sounds good. I’m now craving a good potato!
No wonder- it’s almost din din time!
we ate at 6:30 after my brother’s tennis game. But, it is about time for my bedtime snack
Obviously you didn’t check my last name on my profile. Second generation Irish-American.
Meat and gravy? You had meat and gravy? We were so poor, if we wanted gravy on our potatoes we had pour it off of the dog’s “Gravy Train” before he ate it.
“Obviously you didn’t check my last name on my profile. Second generation Irish-American.”
You fooled me. “Tri-bri” sounded Lithuanian. I’m 3rd generation Irish. That’s probably why we were abe to move up the food chain to meat and gravy with our potatoes:)