How many potatoes do you eat in a year?

I bet few of us have worked it out. I'm currently a bit bored, so I did, and the answer is quite surprising.

In our house, a 25kg sack lasts about 6 weeks. 52/6 = 8.667. That's how many 25kg sacks we get through per year.

Ok, we'll discard the skins on these, lowering the number slightly, but then we also grow some of our own spuds, so I guess that makes up for it, so lets stick with 8.7 sacks per year.

A 25kg sack is 55lbs, multiplied by 8.7 (sacks per year) = 478.5 lbs of potatoes per year consumed in my house.

That's quite a lot

 

Go for it, I love spuds!

I reckon I eat an average of 10 potatoes a week.

 

Bit difficult to work out, as I usually only buy a sack during the hungry gap. The rest come from the garden.

 

I love potatoes particularly mashed up with chops and gravy I reckon I eat about half a pound per night which I think works out to about 180 lbs a year and I still can't put on any weight!!!!

Val

 

We harvested 10 sacks of spuds last year and they were all eaten before we even planted any seed spuds this year.

 

5,280 spuds, no more and no less. I keep a chart to make sure.

 

Ah but what size are they??

Val

 

Exactly 3 inches in circumferance and 5 inches long. As a women I think going longer that 5 inches might be more than I can bit off.

 

Is Spud American for something other than Potato?

 

So about 2 inches long then. Women are routinely told that things are bigger than they are. That's why women are no good at measuring.

 

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And that's why men exagerate

 

Does matter how big it is, as long as its big enough to fill a pram.

 

Just to clarify things before it gets naughty, in the early part of the 20th Century, a spud was a flange bolted to the wheel of a traction engine to give it better grip in a muddy field.

 

Too late