It’s true… I gave up bananas for breakfast years ago. It started as a way to reduce my ecological footprint. After all, bananas are flown in from halfway around the world. In my search to find another breakfast sweetie, I stumbled on an unlikely candidate. Check it out!
Please show us how to grow sweet potatoes- I think this is a great idea and I love sweet potatoes but have not been successful growing them. Thanks Stacey!
Loved your Sweet Potato post and I’m right there with you. I have it cooked in my fridge always. I know it’s nutritionally better for me, it tastes great and, thanks to your blog I’m going to plant it in my backyard
Cheers Marjorie
OOps I meant all “your” garden gems.
Dear Stacey,
I just love you. You have a big heart to share all you garden gems with us. My boyfriend is known to quote you when something comes up in the garden…”Well,” says he, “Stacey Murphy says to do it this way….”
So both of us have learned a lot from watching your garden videos. Thanks for this info about how great sweet potatoes are in your garden. I have never yet tried to grow them. You have convinced me to eat them more often whether I grow them or not!
I know my soil is good for watermelons, pumpkins and squash. They grow very well here. I have all kinds of greens and some herbs, and tomatoes, eggplant, and blackberries and a couple fruit trees. I have lots of flowers too…but no sweet potatoes.
Thanks for the info. I think I’ll be eating more sweet potatoes and trying to grow them too.
Sweet potatoes =)
Bananas are out of our family diet for years because of allergy/sensitivity issues (at last they made me difficult to breathe).
According to Dr. Tom O’Bryan’s information, bananas are most likely problematic for people with all kind of gluten intolerance (that’s us), along with other foods as milk, spinach, coffee, etc. It’s all because of the structural similarity in some protein chains or even just parts of them with those of gluten.
So =) the sweet potato is best!
Thank you, Stacey, and take care! The world is in need of more and more bright people like you!
I was so excited to grow my own sweet potatoes, but then I found out you have to cure them under very specific conditions before you can eat them – you can’t just pick and eat. 🙁 is that not true? Any tips for easy curing if your climate is too cool/dry to allow countertop curing? Thanks!
I will start trying it tomorrow.
The sweet potatoe!
I have trouble with bananas anyway, even though I like the taste and the “fillingness”😊 of them. But sweet potatoes are so very digestible (and your tummy and bowels really love them!).
The sweet potato. I baked them and freeze them for later use.
What variety of sweet potato do ypu grow?
Can they be planted in the fall?
How do you grow them?
Greetings, what a great idea. As one of the fortunate people I can grow both but have not had great success with either. Both like a lot of sun – I think that is the problem with the bananas. It needs more sun with moisture. My sweet potatoes were better from slips than chucks of potato. I’ll keep practicing and hope both get better
All good points.
Plus I find bananas ripen too fast and get icky or need to take up freezer space.
Besides being local or home-grown and not shipped long-distances, sweet potatoes store better.
Sweet potato hash with some other veggies and a legume is a great powerhouse breakfast. Need to put that on my list of “to grow.”
Thanks for the great videos!
Definitely the sweet potato. Way more nutrients than a banana, easier to grow and don’t go bad as fast as the banana.
Diabetics don’t get insulin spikes. What can happen is, that, especially with insulin dependent diabetics, we can get a ‘sugar spike’ if we eat something that has a lot of easily digestible carbohydrates in it. Most Type 1 diabetics don’t make insulin at all. We have to inject it or get it through a pump. Most of us who inject insulin have to carefully balance our insulin with what we eat and how much excercise we get in order to avoid sudden very high or very low blood sugars. Foods that have a lot of fiber don’t cause these rapid ups and downs. I just thought I would try to explain, because there is a lot of misinformation out there about diabetes. 🥦👍
Sweet potato ! I grow some in pots 🙂
Well, I’d still pick the banana hands down for breakfast…but…I’m going to try the sweet potato on cereal and if it works…
So where is the blog entry on superfoods?
I have type 2 diabetes. I love sweet potatoes. My super dessert: wash the potato, cut into half-inch thick rings, steam, but not until mushy. Remove from heat, detach the skin easily, arrange the slices flat on a plate and while still hot, drizzle (NOT POUR!) pure honey over them, then dust with cinnamon …. Can be eaten cold when the honey has been absorbed by the potato, but the flavours are so alive on the palate while hot…
Thank You! I will start using the sweet potato right away, that sounds just like what I was looking for. Something sweet and nutritious and healthy. As soon as I get this away to You I’m up and getting my sweet potato cooking. Have a great day and thanks again for sharing. Dorothy
Stacey, love the idea! Is a sweet potato the same as a yam? You said that it is easy to grow them. Please show us!