Sounds good! Great fiber! Mix in some unlfavored protein, or not, and you are good to go!

That sounds so good I think I might try it. I really like sweet potatos.

Yes, you can in fact it is a better potato to eat!
It doesn't turn to sugar as fast like the white potato.(Not saying you can't have white potatoes). I also use the microwave to cook the sweet potatoes to get them done quickly.And if you haven't tried them baked on a grill,woo it is so good!
For regular potatoes, what I did in the early stages to up the protein was to use soup as the base of my potatoes. That way it gave it lots of flavor and some protein.I used a food processor to grind the soup then heated it up and then added mashed potatoes to it. Best tasting potatoes was bought at Sams club.!
Take Care and good luck in your weight loss!
Bonie Loiselle down 146 in 8 months and a 100 to go. ;-)

Sweet potatoes contain a very valuable carbohydrate not like the bad carbs in regular potatoes. They're actually pretty nutritional. It's not really an appropriate diet for WLS'ers, but check out the Carb Lover's Diet book sometime. It contains some very valuable information about certain carbs and how our body can use them in aiding our metabolism and other healthy benefits to certain carbs.

I think the sweet potatoe is the better choice... I am an Irish girl and love me some potatoes... they are out of my diet for the most part... but like Lcat said.... add some unflavored protein powder to them and pump up your protein... I do the sweet potatoe peeled cubed and a little olive oil with cinnamon and nutmeg in the oven... yummy!

Kim

one word: YUM!

I know that sweet potatoes are nutritionally more sound than a white potato, I just wanted to check because I have seen nothing on any of my documentation from my surgeon or my nut about sweet potatoes - mashed or otherwise. Maybe they are afraid I will load it up with sweetener? Honestly, after these protein shakes for so long, I could care less about sweet. It's all I can do to get a protein shake down twice a day because I'm so tired of the sweet. But I do enjoy my roasted sweet potato with cinnamon and a little bit of healthier butter spread....and mashed wouldn't bother me one bit.

@fatmans - I am aware of the differences in carbs, but what I find so confusing is that my nut is limiting my carb intake to 20g per meal, yet a lot of things that are approved for me to eat right now (like mashed up black beans or refried beans) have over 20g of carbs per serving. Yet, I am told those are ok because they are complex carbs vs. refined carbs. I totally get that, but I think that my nut has not done a good job really explaining this. If I didn't have that knowledge already, I think it would just confuse the heck out of me (more so than I am now).

I love to put several on a foil lined baking sheet and bake them for about 90 minutes at 350. They shrink down and get so sweet. They freeze very well, too!

oh, everyone is making me hungry! I use butter buds for potatoes and things like that. I like squash even more than sweet potatoes. But those sweet potatoes sound yummy. And the fresh ones cooked are the best! I use splenda instead of sugar if I want sweet...

oh,, and stevia for sweet also..

i have had them