Mashed Potatoes: No Peeling, No Draining, Minimal Clean-up, Prepared in Minutes

Let’s talk Mashed Potatoes

In fact let’s talk my favourite mashed potatoes

Every once in a while my mom would make some special potatoes. She used Idaho potatoes and, just a teaspoon short, of a ton of butter. Oh they were so good.

A few months back Helen discovered some potatoes that were really good; not as artery clogging but creamy, smooth, delicious and potatoey.

Best part is they are easy to make, you complete the job in minutes and have only 1 pot to clean up.
These are Idaho Potatoes, from Idaho, Packaged by a Company owned by Idaho potato farmers, and are available in a number of countries.

Technically they could be called instant potatoes but they are so superior to any that you have tasted. It would be doing the world a disservice to refer to them by that name. I prefer “Packaged Fresh Potatoes”

I’m talking about “All Natural Mashed Potatoes” produced and made by Honest Earth. These are all natural. Nothing but Idaho Potatoes, Butter and Sea Salt.*

Watch Grandpa unbox, and cook some up.

A Bit About Idaho Potatoes

The best tasting potatoes in the world come from Idaho, a constant supply of pure water from mountain snow melt and loose nutrient-rich volcanic soil allow potatoes to grow with proper drainage. This helps deliver the highest amount of solids per yield. Idaho also has the ideal climate for growing potatoes to full maturity, delivering a full balance of flavour in each one.

Honest Earth is part of Idahoan Food Company. A company that specializes in potatoes and has been in business since 1960.

Do yourself a favour. Watch the video to see how easy they are to make, and how good they look. Then try some.

The price in Australia, where I live is

$18.00 for a box.
The box contains 14 packets
Each Pack will have up to 8 servings. That’s what it says on the box.

Four people, per package,  get a good amount and with 2 big eaters there is always leftovers.

Why do I say these are my favourite mashed potato?

1. Taste delicious. Buttery, creamy, the great Idaho potato taste.
2. Easy to prepare: no peeling, not long boil time, no draining
3. Quick. Basically boil boil water and butter, add milk, add potato, mix, cover and wait TEN, that's 10 seconds, eat.
4. Natural, no add-ons, no preservatives. Just Potato, butter, sea salt, and the butter and milk you add*
5. My Grandson Josh, who loves potatoes and eats bowls of them said that "These are great, better than picking potatoes from Auntie Tara's garden and cooking right on the spot.

* the package says there could be trace amounts of wheat (gluten) soybean, and sulphites

Where do you get them:

Costco (many locations carry them)

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