[Sca-cooks] Dieting

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

> 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.


Maybe if you're eating little baby red potatoes.  According to the 
Complete Book of Food Counts, a 4-3/4"x2-1/3" potato has 212 calories.  
That is a fairly small potato.  If you're eating one of the one-pound 
potatoes they advertise at some chain restaurants, I'd estimate they are 
about 7"x4".  You're looking at at least 500 calories for one of those 
behemoths, and probably 300-400 for a normal, large roasting potato.

-Magdalena

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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