[Sca-cooks] Dieting

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:23:49 -0500, ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:
>>  I watch my diet, even at holidays, but don't follow Atkins.
>>  I don't see the point of avoiding a low calorie food like potatoes.
>>  To me, Thanksgiving has always been about the vegetables.
>>  And the cranberries. *S*

Avraham said
>For the record... potatoes are not a "low calorie food" any more than any
>other starchy vegetable - they still have 4 calories per gram of
>carbohydrate.

A plain baked potato has 100 calories... that is a VERY low calorie 
food and it is misinformation to say otherwise.  I did NOT say it was 
a low carbohydrate food.

Ranvaig