#potatoes

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods. ↗

— Cat Cora

#avoiding #bag #chicken #foods #full

While we’re at it, why don’t we add a third emotion to this list: lust. You are probably unaware that Linnaeus lumped the tomato into the same genus as the potato, a food with a reputation for its widespread availability and easy satisfaction of oral needs. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#lust #potatoes #tomatoes #food

I shut my eyes tight in the darkness. "I believe in Jesus Christ," I said. "With God all things are possible. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#food #potatoes #food

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#choose #eat #job #never #people

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. ↗

— David Grayson

#beef #better #bread #joy #may

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#aspect #band #day #eating #extra

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#cake #cameras #dinners #exists #frozen

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming